TV highlights 16/08/2012

The Best of Men 9pm, BBC2 This one-off drama, starring Eddie Marsan and Rob Brydon, tells the story of how neurologist Dr Ludwig Guttmann gave birth to the Paralympic Games. It's 1944 and Dr Guttmann arrives at the spinal injury clinic at Stoke Mandeville Hospital. Here he finds paralysed patients cared for but forgotten, so he is soon instigating a physical fitness regime with the promise that their condition will improve, battling the "system" and confounding colleagues in the process. A feelgood drama, telling a significant, little-known story. Martin Skegg Peter Kay Live: The Tour That Didn't Tour – Tour 9pm, Channel 4 Garlic bread. T'internet. Peter Kay's searing social commentary returns, launching C4's Funny Fortnight season, two weeks of new stuff and "archive treats" with previously unseen-on-the-telly footage of his Tour That Didn't Tour – Tour, which saw him return to stand-up after seven years away. Other Funny Fortnight morsels here include Verry Terry, a chatshow in which Facejacker's car salesman Terry Tibbs grills Mickey Rourke and Anthea Turner in his own inimitable style, and a re-airing of Vic and Bob's 1992 sitcom pilot The Weekenders. Ben Arnold Neighbourhood Watched 10.35pm, BBC1 John is a 55-year-old eccentric with a fondness for wearing crowns and pirate hats. Nothing wrong with that, except he's also a soft rock fan who bludgeons neighbours, specifically 20-year-old mum Jess, with the sounds of Smooth FM. As this series, following the lives of social housing officers and tenants in Greater Manchester, reveals, the duo's dispute is about to escalate. Elsewhere, a pair of roosters cause problems, and a rubbish-hoarding tenant is chivvied into cleaning her flat. Jonathan Wright Russell Brand: From Addiction to Recovery 9pm, BBC3 On the floor of a sparse Hackney flat, a young barefoot addict chases the dragon, before slumping against the wall with unfocused eyes. This home movie footage of Russell Brand is pretty hard to watch, but it's typical of Brand's self-absorbed/searingly honest character that he has chosen to include it in this frank documentary about heroin addiction. He meets a recovering addict, chats with former drug tsar David Nutt, and has a passionate disagreement with a methadone-endorsing GP. Impressive. Ali Catterall Paranormal Witness 9pm, Really Just because graphics on screen claim the programme depicts real events doesn't necessarily make this Panorama. The events in this first in the series of Paranormal Witness apparently took place in Baltimore in 2008 to the Poremski family. But these people don't appear to be actors, and hearing what they claim happened to them is genuinely creepy, even with the ropey reconstructions. After the family move into a new house, their daughter starts talking about her new imaginary friend Emily and the "white face in the window". Nightmare-inducing stuff. BA Wilfred 10pm, BBC3 This second season opener finds this sitcom in a dark mood, with much of the episode taking place in the brain of Ryan (Elijah Wood) as he's undergoing psychiatric treatment by guest star Robin Williams (a great low-key performance). With Ryan's fractured mental state and his dog-suited friend/hallucination Wilfred confined to a wheelchair, it's hard to view the show as a comedy. But the laughs do come, and they're all the better for the highly unusual setup. If Wilfred keeps taking chances it could become something quite special. Phelim O'Neill