TV highlights 10/07/2012

Tony Robinson's London Games Unearthed 8am, Yesterday It wasn't just builders who descended on east London when the capital was awarded the Olympics: a team of archaeologists was also despatched to explore the area. Cue the discovery of such artifacts as a bronze-age axe, buried close to where the aquatic centre now stands. That find is a starting point for Tony Robinson to explore the wider history of the area around the Olympic Park. It's a documentary that rather skims across its subject, mainly because it also traces the development of the modern games. Jonathan Wright Beauty And The Beast: Ugly Face Of Prejudice 8pm, Channel 4 This new series has beauty addicts - those who spend thousands of pounds on looking good, and hours in front of the mirror - confronted by others who are also defined by how they look, in this case because they have facial disfigurements. So in the pretty corner we have Gary, a wannabe model who intends to have plastic surgery. Enter Reggie, from Texas, who has extreme neurofibromatosis, causing a large tumour growth on his face; he won't change the way he looks, and thinks Gary has an addiction. Is anyone about to have their worldview rocked? Martin Skegg Line Of Duty 9pm, BBC2 After a messy throat-slitting at the end of the last episode, things continue on a grisly slant tonight with corpses being discovered, some mutilated. Lennie James's DCI Tony Gates now has a new master pushing him further into the crime world than even his fast-and-loose team would tolerate. What will be the thing to bring him down? Hubris? Vicky McClure's double agent? Martin Compston's increasingly tenacious internal affairs detective? Or the ton of paperwork all the police now seem to have to go through? Phelim O'Neill New Girl 9pm, E4 Zooey Deschanel's vehicle returns to TV following its mid-season break, shifting to a more suitable home on E4. In the first of tonight's double bill, Jess accuses Nick of being judgmental, leading to a comedy of errors that makes sub-letting far funnier than it ought to be. In the second, Schmidt helps Jess find a one-night stand. If you ditched New Girl early on, it's worth another look, having dropped the overbearing kookiness in favour of solid observational comedy. Rebecca Nicholson Twenty Twelve 10pm, BBC2 This is the least on-message sitcom imaginable: you have to wonder how the London Olympics types feel about being painted as inept morons bouncing from one strategy buzzword to the next. This week, legacy expectations of the Olympic Stadium are downgraded from Spurs or West Ham to Dagenham & Redbridge FC, before the Americans arrive to assess security concerns over dodgy starting pistols. It's almost too realistic to be funny, and – considering the bill for the real thing – a bit like rubbing sandpaper on a nasty graze. Ben Arnold The Newsroom 10pm, Sky Atlantic After a high-profile critical assault in the US, Aaron Sorkin's new one limps almost apologetically on to our screens. Yet, in its best moments, and with its flaws - toxic levels of sanctimony and self-importance - forgiven, or at least ignored, this opening episode of The Newsroom is watchable in that zippy, dialogue-driven fashion that only Sorkin could manufacture. Jeff Daniels's newscaster-on-autopilot is shaken out of his safety zone by the appointment of his ex-girlfriend as his show's exec producer. After initial sniping, the pair decide to make sweet, sweet news together, beginning with a probing report on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Gwilym Mumford