Tonight's TV highlights

The Culture Show 7pm, BBC2 This week, Andrew Graham-Dixon explores 16th-century Flemish artist Jan Gossaert's second wave of artistic style and how it influenced the course of northern art, Alastair Sooke is in Paris to interview the recent recipient of the 2011 TED prize, Parisian guerrilla street artist JR, and Lindsay Johns speaks with Maxine Peake and Anne-Marie Duff on their roles in two of Terence Rattigan's plays. Also, Miranda Sawyer heads to Manchester to chat with Elbow about their latest album, and photographer Rankin selects his favourite moments from the BBC archives. Candice Carty-Williams Marchlands 9pm, ITV1 The trick to maintaining any ghost story is to sustain a balance of terror just the right side of straightforwardly ridiculous, and even after four episodes, Marchlands is continuing to grip. The joins between the three generations who have lived in the titular house are blurring, as the membersof the three families come round – decades apart – to the realisation that their home hosts a former resident who never quite left. The revelations stirred up by the mischievous spook ensure that the real drama is kept plausibly human. Andrew Mueller Mad Dogs 9pm, Sky1 You know how it is. One day you're off to Spain to stay with a friend from college; the next you're waiting until nightfall so you can hack his hands off with a machete so it looks like he's been a victim of the Serbian mafia. It's the third episode of this amusingly dark series, and our gang of middle-aged pals abroad – John Simm, Philip Glenister, Marc Warren and Max Beesley – are beginning to go completely Lord of the Flies. Their civility is ebbing away, their secrets are coming out, and their situation is getting no better. All they need now to complicate things is a defrosting corpse and an offshore party boat. John Robinson 30 Rock 10.30pm, Comedy Central Although this episode went out live in the US, we get a version compiled from both west and east coast performances (they did it twice due to the time difference). So we don't get the few flubs that made it that little bit more exciting, but there's much to enjoy here. With harsher video images and a live audience whooping and hollering, this is what the show would feel like if it were a more regular sitcom. Best bits are Tracy's pretend corpsing, the live take on flashbacks and Jane Krakowski, an experienced Broadway regular, clearly thriving on the chance to perform to a crowd. Phelim O'Neill The Big C 11pm, More4 This week, Cathy cashes in her retirement fund, figuring that she'll be long gone before retirement age. She's still hardly told anyone about her terminal cancer, so her family are baffled when she buys herself a sporty new car while trying to teach her son a lesson in responsibility. There's still a weird tone to the show, with its loose exploitation of cancer, but seeing Laura Linney relish scenes such as the one where Cathy frees a lobster from a restaurant makes it all worthwhile. Phelim O'Neill Rome Wasn't Built In A Day 9pm, Channel 4 October in Shropshire, and in a couple of months winter will render villa-building an absolute farce. (Actually, we now know something our would-be Roman builders didn't: last December, Shropshire experienced its coldest winter in 114 years.) So thank Jupiter and Juno they appear to be on schedule. However, it was never going to be a walk in the hortus ortus: mosaic tiles aren't sticking and the plaster isn't setting. Will the boys manage to do English Heritage (let alone hilariously uptight designer Dai Morgan Evans) proud? Ali Catterall