TV tonight: a chance to fill the football-shaped hole in your life

The First Team

9.30pm, BBC Two

The creators of The Inbetweeners, Iain Morris and Damon Beesley, bring a new comedy to fill the football-shaped hole in our lives, centering on the mixed fortunes of three new signees to an ailing Premier League team. Starring Will Arnett as the club’s cynical chairman, this first episode sees American rookie Mattie (Jake Short) struggle to fit in with his teammates Benji (Shaquille Ali-Yebuah) and Jack (Jack McMullen) as training begins and the team try to salvage their reputation, all under the watchful eye of club hardman Petey. Ammar Kalia

Britain’s Brightest Celebrity Family

8pm, ITV

The Chase’s Anne Hegarty hosts another series of the quiz show where children regularly show up their parents – this time with added celebs. Shaun Williamson, AKA Barry from EastEnders, and his brood face off against the former Coronation Street actor Lucy Fallon and family for charity. Hannah J Davies

Football, Prince William and Our Mental Health

8.05pm, BBC One

Squad goals: after last year’s A Royal Team Talk, the Duke of Cambridge continues his efforts to shine a floodlight on men’s mental health via football. Pros such as Frank Lampard open up while HRH meets bereaved fathers whose team doubles as a support network. Graeme Virtue

Britain’s Best Parent?

8.05pm, Channel 4

Anita Rani hosts this new series asking that most contentious of questions: is there a right way to raise a child? The best way to decide: a live vote in front of a studio audience, of course. Each week, three families convinced of their skills take it in turns to look after each other’s kids before they face the vote. AK

The Man Who Tried to Feed the World

8.30pm, PBS America

This profile of Norman Borlaug, the agronomist who won the 1970 Nobel peace prize for bringing the mass farming of disease-resistant wheat to poor countries, is a sharp fable about how global poverty cannot easily be solved. His work had profound and mixed effects. Jack Seale

The UK’s Young Reoffenders

10.35pm, Vice

As youth reoffending rates rise, this doc follows a group of friends on the Saxton Road estate in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, all of whom have recently been in jail. With 20-year-old Coopz now facing a 10-year sentence for armed robbery, we examine how far the prison system is rehabilitating. AK

Film choice

Mike Bassett: England Manager (Steve Barron, 2001) 10.10pm, ITV4
Steve Barron’s comedy about a journeyman football manager (Ricky Tomlinson) who is unexpectedly called to international duty just might fill that void for match-deprived fans. Or it might not: this portrait of a man out of his depth and under pressure while his team flounders is at heart pretty grim. Paul Howlett