(19-07-2013) TV highlights 19/07/2013 H0us3

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(19-07-2013) TV highlights 19/07/2013 H0us3

TV highlights 19/07/2013 Jul 19th 2013, 06:00

Live Athletics: Diamond League, Monaco
7pm, BBC3

The 10th Diamond League meeting of the season, and with a month to go until the world championships in Moscow, a good opportunity for some athletes to get in competitive practice before the big event. Among those confirmed to attend are top Team GBers Mo Farah and Jessica Ennis-Hill, while US 100m star Tyson Gay and Russian high jump Olympic and world champion Anna Chicherova are among the international names due to compete. Gwilym Mumford

Proms On Four: Friday Night At The Proms
7.30pm, BBC4

And so to the Albert Hall for the pre-dad-rock classical slot, which tonight features the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Juanjo Mena. In highlights from a concert recorded on Tuesday, proceedings kick off with Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 2, with Japanese pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii on soloist duties. Next up is Danish composer Carl Nielsen's Fourth Symphony, Inextinguishable, composed at a time when the first world war was raging, which probably helps explain its timpani battle. Jonathan Wright

World's Busiest Airport
8pm, Channel 5

Everyone loves a behind-the-scenes documentary, and this, about Hong Kong international airport, fits the bill nicely. The airport itself seems a monument to man's arrogance: built on a man-made island in the middle of a typhoon zone, at peak times a plane takes off or lands every minute. A fifth of the world's air freight passes through it, as well as 53 million passengers a year. We see how things are kept ticking, from package-tracking devices in the airport's vast warehouse to the men and women of air traffic and ground control. Bim Adewunmi

Sherlock
8.30pm, BBC1

"I need a case!" shouts Sherlock as he impatiently paces his flat a scant few hours after harpooning a pig in a previous assignment. Enter rich and visibly losing-it client Henry Knight (Russell Tovey), and an update of Conan Doyle's most famous Holmes adventure, the one with the red-eyed beast that stalks Dartmoor. The twist here is that Baskerville is a Porton Down-style research establishment. What exactly is going on there? First shown last year, this is a masterclass in reworking a story without losing the spirit of the original. JW

The Mating Game – Natural World Special
9pm, BBC2

Doing forward rolls in the snow is one way of attracting a potential mate's attention, something the female polar bear is well aware of. From flamingos to lemurs, most animals have flirting techniques as a built-in feature, such as the six-plumed bird of paradise whose feathers puff out into a skirt during its special dance. But there's also consistency in this catalogue of mating rituals: the fighting of the males, for example, and the females' universal concern for the wellbeing of their children. Rachel Aroesti

Forensic Firsts
9pm, Yesterday

It's tough to know which is graver, the grave and grim events on screen or the grave and grim voiceover on Forensic Firsts. They certainly give each other a run for their money. Dissected this week are two particularly grisly fires, one in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1990, and another in 2007 in Glassboro, New Jersey. The latter finds a 16-year-old boy charged with the arson that killed his parents, while in Jacksonville, a fire that appeared to be arson revolutionises the theory of fire investigation. Ben Arnold

Maison Close
10pm, Sky Arts 1

Jeanne cannot accept her mother's profession and falls into a terminal sulk. With uncharacteristic generosity, Hortense goes to visit her to plead Vera's case. Meanwhile, the powers that be are planning a clean-up of Paris's whore-strewn streets in preparation for the expected Restoration. If things weren't bad enough, the brothel gets a visit from the Butcher. Bawdy reference is made to the erection of the Sacré Coeur and everyone bangs to anachronistic indie music. It's a winning formula, why change it? Classy stuff. Julia Raeside

PhoneShop
10.35pm, Channel 4

With the best little sales team in Sutton set to make a return to E4 imminently – officially making it E4's longest-running sitcom – here's another chance to catch the final two episodes of series two. Among other auspicious events, a "personality greeter" is added to the staff, and a busker has designs on Janine. Meanwhile, Christopher is headhunted for a new sales job, while Ashley and Jerwayne are drafted into Razz Prince's Elite Selling Krew. Could this be the end for PhoneShop?! Well, no. Obviously. Ali Catterall