Global Citizen Festival Concert (BBC1, 10.35pm)

IF you can silence your inner voyeurist and ignore Sex Diaries on Channel 4 and the Most Shocking Moments in Pop on Channel 5, and haven't already dipped into the live streaming from Saturday, then you can bask in the glow of watching the highlights of top pop stars raising money for a good cause.

Admittedly, we do seem a long way from The Global Citizen Festival, a free-ticketed event on the Great Lawn in Central Park in New York City, but there are top Brits like Ed Sheeran and Coldplay performing with Beyonce and Pearl Jam.

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has signed up to curate this festival for the next 15 years – although some may not consider that more of a threat than a blessing.

Of course, there is price to pay. That involves also watching people like US media personality Stephen Colbert, actors Kerry Washington, Debra-Lee Furness and her husband Hugh Jackman, Connie Britton, Katie Holmes, Olivia Wilde and Salma Hayek getting out the message that the Global Poverty Project, created in 2012, is working towards a world where every child can survive and thrive. A world where every child has a chance to go to school, a world where women and girls are protected from violence, and where preventable diseases aren't holding people back.

The Global Citizen events are one result and the festival is celebrating the UN General Assembly announcing a renewed pledge to fight inequality, protect our planet and end extreme poverty by 2030. The worthy aim is that our generation can be the first to half world poverty and

Usher, Common, Tori Kelly, Laverne Cox and Sunidhi Chauhan are also on the bill, but might get squeezed out by the 55-minute running time.

Danger Mouse (CBBC, 6pm)

LET'S hope this remake is better than the animated effort to bring back Thunderbirds. The everyman of entertainment Alexander Armstrong replaces the wonderful David Jason in the title role and he must be hoping that at, in the future, his contribution doesn't become a winning response in his popular quiz show Pointless...

Doc Martin (ITV, 9pm)

LOUISA and Martin have their first therapy session together – though neither of them was expecting they would be given homework – while Morwenna is not happy about it when a teenager on work experience starts trying to boss her around in the surgery. Mrs Tishell is surprised when her husband Clive returns and tells her he wants to give things another go, and Louisa has to call Martin when one of her pupils collapses during a school excursion. Comedy drama, starring Martin Clunes and Caroline Catz.

Countdown to Life: The Extraordinary

Making of You (BBC2, 9pm)

MICHAEL Mosley explores the final months of foetal development – a time when infants grow strong and develop the vital survival tools they need to take their first breath. He meets a girl born with a rare disorder who was saved from the brink of death by a drug trial that made medical history by creating manufactured bone for the first time, examines the results of a study by Dr Suzanne King into whether unborn children can be affected by stress, and witnessed the critical moment of the first breath and the beginning of a new life.

A Syrian Love Story – Storyville (BBC4, 10pm)

SEAN McAllister's documentary filmed over five years tells the story of a family torn apart by the Assad regime. Palestinian Amer Daoud met Syrian Raghda Hassan in Syria during the 1990s, but when Hassan published a book about their relationship she was imprisoned, leaving Daoud to seek the help of film-maker McAllister to bring her plight to public attention. When Hassan was released, the family made the arduous journey to France to start a new life, but sadly, their problems were far from over.