The Fallen

BBC Two, 9.05pm

Morgan Matthews’s three-hour film remembers every one of the 297 service men and women who have died in Afghanistan and Iraq. “People don’t care,” says one grieving family member. “You only care about somebody that died if they’re connected to you.” But a film like this challenges that bleak view.

Just as every casualty is unique, so every family member grieves in their own way. There is one sister who says: “I don’t know how to say it or what to say”, and another who continues to tease her elder brother even after his death. One common regret among parents is not that their children died serving their country, but that they never told them how proud they were. It would be impossible to witness this outpouring of grief and pride and not to care.

First Cut: Jail Date

Channel 4, 7pm

There have been many cases of women falling in love with convicted murderers on death row, but what of the men who develop relationships with women prisoners? Tonight’s oddly compelling edition of First Cut looks at a handful of men who have used prison-dating websites to meet women behind bars.

They all felt they had a connection with their prison partners that they couldn’t get with women in the outside world. They develop a romanticised version of love based on letters, photographs and fantasy – and a sense of being needed. But as you might expect, it doesn’t always work out. One former convict spoke to her long-distance lover for the first time after she was released – and dumped him straight afterwards by text.

We Are Most Amused

ITV1, 8.35pm & 10.20pm

The royalty of the comedy world will perform for Charles and Camilla at this one-off gig; a definite bright spot among the glut of programmes celebrating the future King’s 60th birthday. Robin Williams is on a UK stage for the first time in more than 25 years; the often-shy Rowan Atkinson is joining in, as is the not-so-shy Joan Rivers, a comedy chum of the Royal couple. Then there’s John Cleese, who is apparently promising something extra special. . .

As befits the work of the Prince’s Trust, which will benefit from ticket sales at the New Wimbledon Theatre, fresh young acts from the stand-up circuit will also share the bill.

Outnumbered

BBC One, 9.05pm

This is some sort of a miracle. Sitcoms are usually a form of hell on earth, in which the viewer feels as though he or she is being torn apart by a pack of brain-dead hyenas.

But incredibly, there are now two sitcoms being shown, both from the BBC, that are gloriously funny – Outnumbered Lead Balloon. They share many qualities. Both are based loosely around the travails of family life, both are sharply observed and brilliantly cast, both are understated and neither has a laughter track.

But what makes the returning series of Outnumbered so special, above and beyond all those other estimable qualities, is the acting of the three children involved. They are the most natural comic performances from children that I have ever seen.

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