Tricked
7Mate, 7.30pm
Andy Samberg as Jake Peralta and Joe Lo Truglio as Charles Boyle in Brooklyn Nine Nine.Credit: FOX/Universal Television
Brit Mike Hanlin is a millennial magician, refreshing old magic tricks for a new generation of TV viewers. His show is one-part Punk*d and one-part Candid Camera, but perhaps the best gag of all is the modern-day gripes he homes in on; a supermarket cashier blabbing on the phone, takeaway drink sizes. A less deliberate gag is his seconding of D-grade celebrities (some may be unknown to local viewers, some, like Peter Andre, you'd prefer to forget) to provide the obligatory gotcha moments and the appalling disguises he wears which might be a flag to less naive victims he sucks in. Unsurprisingly, Hanlin got his start on YouTube, which, at any other time of year, would be the ideal destination for his featherweight, harmless yet underwhelming show. Paul Kalina
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
SBS Viceland, 8pm
Sitcoms don't come much goofier than this cop-shop parody, which, though it's never quite in the same league as, harks back to a golden era of comedy dominated by misfits like Bob Newhart. The ensemble here is a shambolic assortment of neurotics and eccentrics who – best to leave logic at the door – work the 99th precinct of the NYPD, invariably bumbling through bizarre set-ups of their creation rather than solving crime, such as tonight when Rosa (Stephanie Beatriz) and the demented Adrian (Jason Mantzoukas) decide to tie the knot, leaving their colleagues to arrange a suitable ceremony. Paul Kalina
pay Shannen Says
Style, 8.30pm
Turns out that Shannen Doherty made this slightly dreary reality series in 2011, so even a cursory glance at her Wikipedia page is an enormous spoiler for the main dramatic storyline. Said storyline concerns whether the former star of Charmed and Beverly Hills, 90210 will ever get married to her man-child photographer fiance, Kurt Iswarienko. As seen here, Iswarienko is the kind of dufus who would accidentally belch and swear at his mother on the phone while having champagne and soup for lunch. He also happens to have booked a job in Prague, which has left Doherty fuming about having to organise all the last-minute wedding stuff on her own. Oh, and he also has an awkward man-crush on celebrity wedding planner David Tutera, which leads to some awkwardly jokey gay innuendo. Doherty reveals a surprising amount of vulnerability but the show gets old quickly. Brad Newsome
movie Four Lions (2010)
SBS Viceland, 10.15pm
In his first feature film, the British television satirist Chris Morris uses a Sheffield cell of hopeful Muslim jihadists planning a terror attack in London to reveal the nightmarish detachment and ludicrous horror of extremism. The black humour in their plotting stems not only from their bumbling false starts, it's also in their misplaced motivations and the way that they're deeply integrated within the society they're seeking to damage. Aside from the dedicated Omar (Rogue One's Riz Ahmed), the group's members can barely articulate their motivations, and there's something both funny and tragic in their attempts to be authentic; they are never more British in their outlook than when trying to strike at Britain. The film is uncompromising and often hilarious, and it recognises that these suicide bombers are ordinary people who have drifted into extraordinary extremes. Whether tender or scalding, Four Lions is open to the humanity of its protagonists. Craig Mathieson