Ripper Street (BBC1, 9pm)

EVEN the BBC can't kill off the ripper era it seems. Amazon Prime Instant Video (formerly known as LOVEFiLM) took over series three when "low audiences" accounted for the Victorian police drama in 2013 and began showing this eight-parter in November.

So back comes Matthew Macfadyen's Inspector Edmund Reid, Jerome Flynn's now Inspector Bennet Drake, who appears to have forsworn violence, Adam Rothenberg's even more drunken and incapable Homer Jackson and MyAnna Buring's former brothel madam Long Susan, who claims to be more at home running a nurses' training scheme.

We are four years on, but the streets of Whitechapel are just as dark and dangerous in 1894 when a train accident on a viaduct that runs over Leman Steet sees the 59 people killed as it jumps the track. At the scene of the incident Reid, Drake, Homer, Rose Erskine and Long Susan are reunited again. Reid investigates the derailment and discovers it was part of a heist. What he doesn't realise is that the robbery was organised by Long Susan and her attorney Mr Capshaw (John Heffernan) as part of a scheme to access bearer bonds to invest in their company Obsidian Estates as part of Susan's attempts to gentrify Whitechapel. Should have stuck to nursing.

I'm particularly pleased that Reid is to be reunited with his long-lost daughter Matilda, who was previously believed to have drowned.

Hopefully, enough viewers will be left over from Amazon to ensure that series four and five, which are both in the pipeline, will end up at the Beeb as well.

Would I Lie to You? (BBC1, 8.30pm)

IT'S repeated so often, it may feel like it's never really been away, but the return of this comedy panel show is still a cause for celebration. For any newcomers, it's hosted by Rob Brydon, and sees team captains David Mitchell and Lee Mack being joined by celebrity guests, who will read out some "facts" about themselves. It's up to the opposition to decide if the statements are true, or completely made up. If it's any help to the latest crop of contestants, on this show, fact is generally stranger than fiction.

BBQ Champ (ITV, 9pm)

FOR some people, a successful BBQ means that the burgers are only burnt on the outside and no one goes home with food poisoning. But this new series, which could also have been called the Great British Grill Off, sees presenter Myleene Klass inviting a group of contestants to combine raw meat and fire to make something truly spectacular in the hope of being declared King or Queen of the BBQ. Each week, the hopefuls will be given two chances to impress judges Adam Richman of Man vs Food fame, and British chef and restaurateur Mark Blatchford as they take part in one challenge at BBQ HQ before heading off to another on location. This week, that means rustling up a dish that shows off their personality, before working together to create a barbecue buffet. There's a cash prize of £25,000 and the title of BBQ Champ 2015 for the winner, and the reassuring news that Myleene hasn't got a clue what's she talking about when it comes to culinary genius.

“When I first went for a meeting about this show and they told me they would like me to host it, I told them I couldn’t cook,” she says.

Artsnight (BBC2, 11pm)

RICHARD Wilson presents a profile of Samuel Beckett, in the run-up to this summer's two festivals celebrating his writing. Wilson, who recently starred in a production of Krapp's Last Tape, heads for Enniskillen to visit the school the playwright once attended, and discusses Beckett's modern-day relevance with actor Hugo Weaving, who is about to appear in a Barbican production of Waiting for Godot. He also hears from actress Lisa Dwan, who recently performed Not I, and considers the playwright's relationship with the female voice.

Viv Hardwick