TV tonight: Steve Carell’s new sitcom is for Ted Lasso and Shrinking fans

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Steve Carell and Charly Clive walk through a tree-lined campus
Author Greg (Carell) visits his heartbroken professor daughter (Charly Clive) on campus. Photograph: © 2026 Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. or its subsidiaries and affiliates. All trademarks are the property of their respective own

He plays a novelist dad who helps his professor daughter navigate a nasty divorce. Plus: sweet adoption comedy Trying returns. Here’s what to watch this evening

Rooster

10pm, Sky One
Steve Carell stars in this college campus comedy about a novelist father and his heartbroken professor daughter. Greg (Carell) visits the college when Katie (Charly Clive) is going through a divorce from her fellow academic husband, who cheated on her with a student. Its co-creator is Bill Lawrence, who worked on Ted Lasso and Shrinking, and look out for Scrubs star John C McGinley, who chews up every scene. Hollie Richardson

Dom Chinea’s Cornish Workshop

8pm, U&Yesterday
A jovial lifestyle series sees the mechanic/engineer and The Repair Shop alumnus relocate from Kent to Cornwall, where his wife Maria and dog Wendy – both capable co-presenters – help with a huge farmhouse renovation project. First, though, Dom meets a man in a layby to buy a secondhand Land Rover. Jack Seale

Handcuffed: Last Pair Standing

9pm, Channel 4
Would you stay handcuffed to a stranger if it meant the chance to win £100,000? As Channel 4’s latest social experiment continues, it’s clear the contestants have been paired up to generate maximum friction: how else to explain countryside campaigner Claire being shackled to city-loving model Bambi? Continues Tuesday. Graeme Virtue

DTF St Louis

9pm, Sky Atlantic
Suburbia is swimming with innuendo as Clark seduces Carol in a flashback with a line about running a deep-sea demolition company (“They call me the Bang Master”). Meanwhile, in the present, Floyd’s secret online life is revealed – and detective Homer thinks he has an open-and-shut homicide. But all is not what it seems in Steve Conrad’s bone-dry black comedy. Ali Catterall

Small Prophets

10pm, BBC Two

More surreal comedy from Mackenzie Crook. It’s time for Michael and Kacey to dig up the homunculi to see if they really can predict the future. Before that, though, there are more strange goings-on: Michael’s dad appears to have received a letter from a dead friend. HR

Trying

10.40pm, BBC One
Series three of the sweet adoption sitcom starts, and we last saw Nikki and Jason bring home Princess on a temporary basis – but find her brother Tyler hiding in the boot of their car. Can the couple adopt them both? It’s not likely, so they give the kids a great day out before being separated again. HR