TV highlights 29/06/2012

Ice Road Truckers: Deadliest Roads 8pm, Channel 5 The Ice Road Truckers take on the North Yungas Road in Bolivia in this thawed spin-off. It's affectionately known as El Camino De La Muerte, or The Road Of Death, a notorious 43-mile stretch of crumbling mud clinging precariously to the side of the mountains. It claims the lives of around 300 people every year thanks to its narrow carriageway and the fact that on one side it drops away into oblivion in a stomach-churningly terrifying fashion. God help them. Ben Arnold Simon Schama's Shakespeare 9pm, BBC2 The second part of Schama's mission to historicise the bard begins by considering Shakespeare's relationship to monarchs and, in particular, what happens when a mere mortal puts on a crown. Henry V is the touchstone, a play in which Shakespeare – while flattering Elizabeth I with almost obsequious comparisons to Henry – provides us with a portrait of a ruler afflicted by doubt and the burden of kingship. Shakespeare's skill in dramatising opposing sides, we learn, made him hard to pin down, helping him avoid trouble with the authorities. Martin Skegg The Circus 9pm, ITV1 The circus, as this fly-on-the-wall series points out, is best experienced through the eyes of a child. That certainly seems to be the case as the Darnell family take their Paulo's Circus to delighted families for the west country summer season. For the adults involved, however, there is plenty to contend with behind the scenes: animal rights protesters, gruelling hours and the anomie that comes with a rootless existence. A succession crisis is also looming in the Darnell family: not all the adult children feel as passionately about the work as they once did. John Robinson Quadrophenia – Can You See The Real Me? 9pm, BBC4 "If you take away the mod uniform, all you're left with is the universal adolescent problem." The Who manager Bill Curbishley there, nailing the theme of Quadrophenia, album and film (which follows). In this fantastic documentary, Pete Townshend talks us through it. Among other fascinations, we learn that Chad, the young man who plays Jimmy in the sleeve photos, had to go to court halfway through the shoot for stealing a bus. "I'm a male model," he told the judge. "I work for the Who." And was let off. Ali Catterall Sanctuary 9pm, Watch The world is no longer safe for Abnormals, or indeed humans, as Sanctuary reaches its last episode. Dry your tears, sci-fi fans, as there's enough drama in this finale to keep you going for the next 200 years. Caleb's up to no good, brandishing a vial of blue liquid that's threatening to ruin everyone's DNA. Will and Abby try to find out exactly what Helen's been up to after she was stranded 113 years ago. Any of this making sense? At least there's a bit of love action between Helen and Tesla with a "the end is nigh" smooch. Hannah Verdier Awake 10pm, Sky Atlantic With gimmick shows like Awake you get two chances to hold an audience's attention. The first is with the regular crime-of-the-week stuff, the second with the alternate son world/wife world routine that the great Jason Isaacs has to dance around. This week the crime mystery stuff is a predictable and a bit of a dud. What's better is the conundrum faced by Isaacs when he finds out his son's girlfriend is pregnant; how does this affect both of the worlds he lives in? It's stories like this, which really rely on Isaacs's considerable acting skills to sell them – that are where this show shines. Phelim O'Neill