TV tonight: Love Life’s second season is even funnier than the first

A double bill focuses on ‘happily married’ Marcus, played by the brilliant William Jackson Harper. Plus, Jonny Cotsen, who was born deaf but raised as if he was hearing. Here’s what to watch this evening

Love Life

10.40pm, BBC One

The first season of this romcom, led by Anna Kendrick, was a surprise lockdown hit. This second offering, which focuses on the love life of Marcus Watkins (a brilliant William Jackson Harper), is even better – and funnier. Tonight’s double bill introduces us to thirtysomething book editor Marcus, who is happily married – well, he thinks he is – until he meets Mia (Jessica Williams, another perfect casting move). The series then sees him rediscover his identity as a single black man in New York. Hollie Richardson

Our Lives: Born Deaf, Raised Hearing

7.30pm, BBC One

When he turned 40, actor Jonny Cotsen embraced being deaf for the first time in his life and learned sign language after growing up lip-reading. In this powerfully candid film, he looks back at his mum’s life-changing decision to raise him as if he was hearing. HR

Richard Hammond’s Crazy Contraptions

8pm, Channel 4

Hammond’s jolly contest pits two teams of engineers against each other to make the best Heath Robinson-style contraption. Tonight: a team of TikTok creators versus three civil engineering students from the University of Southampton. Can they use linked household objects to boil a kettle from afar? Jack Seale

Here We Go

8.30pm, BBC One

The smile-raising family sitcom starring Katherine Parkinson and Alison Steadman continues. Determined to take his archery hobby further, Paul (Jim Howick) fulfils his embarrassing dad role with a YouTube fitness channel. And daughter Amy (Freya Parks) attempts to get her first job. HR

The Terror: Infamy

9pm, BBC Two

The slow-burn horror anthology returns with another unsettling historical story wreathed in the supernatural. A community of Japanese immigrants in LA begin to feel the ill winds of a vengeful spirit. But this is 1941 and, with Pearl Harbor looming, things are about to get a lot worse. Graeme Virtue

Open House: The Great Sex Experiment

10pm, Channel 4

In the climactic episode of this six-week polyamory experiment, Helen from Devon wonders if dating other people will fix the spark that’s gone out of her current romance, and influencer couple Caius and Eli need help organising their first threesome. Ali Catterall

Live sport

Cycling: Giro d’Italia Fri, 11am, Eurosport 1

Stage one of the first Grand Tour of the season, 195km from Budapest to Visegrád in Hungary, with 2019’s winner, Richard Carapaz, the favourite.