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

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 10pm, Sky OneSteve 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 8pm, U&YesterdayA 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 9pm, Channel 4Would 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 camp

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