Athletics: London Anniversary Games (BBC2, 8pm)

YES, we're getting ready for Rio as the fastest man in the world, Usain Bolt, aims to prove he's back to fitness after pulling out of the Jamaican athletics trial with a hamstring tear at the beginning of the month.

Bolt is keen to run the "triple triple" – gold in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay – in Brazil and will want a good send-off from London's Olympic Stadium crowd. Elsewhere on the track, Olympic and world heptathlon champion Jessica Ennis-Hill will be competing in the 100m hurdles. Offering stiff opposition will be Nia Ali, 2013 world champion Brianna Rollins and Britain's European champion Tiffany Porter.

Gabby Logan presents coverage of the opening day, which serves as the tenth meeting of the Diamond League campaign. Among the other events taking place tonight are the men's 100m, 200m and 800m, and women's 400m and 1500m, as the athletes involved look to find their top form ahead of the Olympics. Commentary by Steve Cram, Andrew Cotter and Steve Backley, with analysis from Denise Lewis, Colin Jackson and Paula Radcliffe, and reports from Phil Jones.

BBC Proms 2016: Strictly Prom (BBC4, 7.30pm)

THIS is bound to be a crowd pleaser because it features Proms queen Katie Derham bridging the gap between her regular TV job and last autumn's turns on the Strictly Come Dancing floor. She is joined by favourite professionals from that fleet-footed show who promise to transport viewers from Vienna to Latin America and back, with the assistance of the BBC Concert Orchestra and English National Ballet Music Director Gavin Sutherland. If you couldn't get tickets for the Albert Hall show yesterday (July 21), then this is the next best thing.

People's History of Pop (BBC4, 9.30pm)

DANNY Baker returns with the second in an occasional series charting the United Kingdom's pop music heritage. This time he will be celebrating the British public's love affair with pop music from 1966 to 1976. Aside from including a rare view of David Bowie, a Marc Bolan fan describes how the singer-songwriter's father gave him a pair of the star's trainers when he went to his home. There's also a woman who explains how her life was changed by The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album as Britain was treated to more musical styles than ever before.

Friday Night Dinner (C4, 10pm)

AFTER a break of almost two years, the Goodmans are back for the fourth series of this hit sitcom. So, what can we expect from the latest run? Lots of mayhem and family squabbles – no surprises there – but writer Robert Popper has hinted that Jonny will get serious with a "female"after being injured in an unfortunate incident thanks to Adam covering the kitchen floor in butter. Mum, who is usually as honest as the day is long, finds herself forced to pretend that her mother has died, while Dad invites a friend over who talks with his eyes closed. And, of course, Horrible Grandma will return to be increasingly horrible to her nearest and dearest. Tamsin Greig, Paul Ritter, Simon Bird and Tom Rosenthal star.

Artsnight: Val McDermid (BBC2, 11pm)

THE day before this programme airs, Val McDermid will have appeared at the opening of Harrogate's Theakstons Old Peculier annual crime-writing festival, an event she was instrumental in founding. Tonight she is booked for a conversation with comedian Susan Calman at the city's Old Swan Hotel, at 8.30pm, looking back at her long and successful career as an author as well as receiving the festival's Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction award. Some potential viewers of this programme may be unable to get to a screen to see the writer discuss the possible relationship between fiction, video games and real-life crime documentaries. Hopefully they will have remembered to record it, because McDermid delivers an impassioned argument in which she ponders whether fiction can be the best way to access the truth. The festival runs until Sunday.

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