TV highlights 12/09/2012

Dead Good Job 9pm, BBC2 Hard to know what BBC2 was hoping for with this fly-on-the-wall look at funeral directors. Gallows humour? Pathos? Whatever, Dead Good Job is an engaging look at the business. From a Muslim firm in London to a fifth-generation operation in the north of England, the best moments here avoid "personal stories" and are instead about the procedure of death. Enlightening particularly is the washing and dressing component of the Muslim ceremony, a stringent formality amid the haste to ensure the swift burial that religious observance demands. John Robinson Be Your Own Boss 9pm, BBC3 Innocent Drinks co-founder Richard Reed has £1m to invest, and he's looking for new ideas from young entrepreneurs. His search turns out a bit like Dragon's Den meets Junior Apprentice soundtracked by Tinie Tempah and Dizzee Rascal, but some of the ideas are fascinating. (OK, so maybe not the modern takes on wordsearches or bubblegum-flavoured chicken.) Still, Reed comes across as a nice chap who wants these budding entrepreneurs to succeed, and manages to find a few gems among the people and products as he tries to choose his three best. Hannah Verdier Anger Management 9pm, Comedy Central Charlie Sheen's recent career is a clear example of how messed up the celebrity world is. Hollywood's response to his public meltdown last year, full of rants about "tiger blood" and "Adonis DNA", was to reward him with another high-paid sitcom job, his more violent outbursts written off as boyish hijinks. Here he plays an arrogant, angry therapist called Charlie, who's getting therapy. Hardly the help Sheen needs. Regrettably, it is a surprisingly conventional show. Phelim O'Neill Shameless 10pm, Channel 4 In the 10th series of the Manchester-set comedy-drama, Frank has fallen foul of guidelines, meaning he is no longer deemed unfit to work. He must get a job. Cue hefty use of dream sequence as a distraction from the endless repetition. The sight of David Threlfall capering about in a Jesus wig spouting Paul Abbot's finest lines used to be invigorating, but now it feels like a joyless court jester hitting you on the head with a bladder over and over again. Episode two is tomorrow if you can be bothered. Julia Raeside The Three Rocketeers 10pm, BBC4 A doc about British engineering isn't the sexiest of propositions. That kind of attitude, however, is just what's wrong with this country, in the view of the engineers profiled here: we're too interested in "celebrity programmes" to have our imaginations fired by the potential of an "air-breathing, single-stage-to-orbit" rocket. Government bureaucracy and lack of funding are other obstacles that Alan Bond, Bob Parkinson and their team have had to face in their 25-year space race documented here, but their perseverance may be finally about to pay off. JR Rosh Hashanah: Science Versus Religion 11.15pm, BBC1 Big-hearted attempt to umpire the dispute between science and religion. Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks thinks reason and faith are reconcilable: he believes that science is a gift from God. He celebrates the Jewish new year by taking his case to three non-believing scientists: the neurologist Susan Greenfield, the theoretical physicist Jim Al-Khalili and the dauntless sceptic Richard Dawkins. A valuable reminder of how wretchedly little of today's public discourse is the conversation of civilised people agreeing to differ. Andrew Mueller