Sunday

The Enfield Haunting

9pm, Sky Living

It's part two of the daft but nicely downbeat 1970s ghost story and, while the poltergeist continues to plague the little family in their humdrum London house, the odd-couple ghostbusters Maurice and Guy (Timothy Spall and Matthew Macfadyen) turn to the question of what the malevolent spirit wants. Almost as pressing a question, however, is what this pair really want there themselves, as it becomes clear Guy already has his mind on the bestseller he will write about the affair, and Maurice's motivations are as much about his own pain as the trauma the family are experiencing. Things come to a head with the visit of a pale medium for a drab afternoon séance: Maurice has her pegged as a faker, but soon even her assistant isn't so sure... Meanwhile, as the focus of the spook's bad moods, 11-year-old Janet gets put through the wringer, yet remains the sanest person in sight - a star-making performance by Eleanor Worthington-Cox.

Monday

Benefits Street

9pm, Channel 4

A second series of Channel 4's hit controversy. Last time, they filmed on James Turner Street in Birmingham; this time it's Kingston Road on the Tilery Estate in Stockton-on-Tees. The first episode of four introduces the residents, including Mother Of Six Julie, Friend Sue, Unemployed Lee. See TV eat itself when news breaks of the street becoming the location of the series, and press turn up. Your caring, sharing home of ground-breaking, taboo-busting, non-exploitative, empowering TV, it's followed by Channel 4's new cheap and easy documentary series, The Night Bus, in which cameras film passengers on a London night bus, some of them a bit pissed up, in much the manner of the previous classics in the genre that they made in nightclub toilets and fried chicken takeaways.

Tuesday

No Offence

9pm, Channel 4

It's fun, and it's worth sticking with, but it's hard sometimes not to wish that Paul Abbott had held himself back from spraying the gags and the crudity quite so thickly over his odd cop show. When it calms down, here and there come flickers of something that made me think back to the BBC's great, lamented 1990s series The Cops, a series that had its fair share of hand-to-mouth laughs, but still felt like you were watching a documentary, and gripped like a vice as a result. What we do have here, though, is the brilliant performance from Elaine Cassidy as Dinah Kowalska, the Manchester cop on the hunt for a serial killer targeting Down's syndrome women, only to see the case being taken away from her, thanks to her own actions. With a rival team taking over, her crew seize on a chance to get themselves back into the good books when a new street drug turns out to have lethal effects on its users.

Wednesday

The Affair

9pm, Sky Atlantic

This new import comes from Showtime, house of Mad Men and the creators of Gabriel Byrne's quietly brilliant In Treatment. It's too early to say whether it will rank on their level, but tonight's slow-burning opening double bill is intriguing and increasingly unsettling; although also a little po-faced and maybe not quite as profound as it wants to be. Dominic West and Ruth Wilson star as the couple whose affair we observe from a multitude of angles. He's Noah, a happily married, middle-aged Manhattan teacher and writer, reluctantly visiting the exclusive beachfront community of Long Island with his wife and kids, to visit her snooty parents. There, he encounters Alison (Wilson), a younger waitress who holds his gaze, and so the old story begins again. What makes the show interesting is the way they tell it, and what they don't tell; alongside the not-quite-love story, there is a crime story unfolding. As with True Detective's cops, we see Noah and Alison speaking about their relationship long after the fact and, when we flash back to the events described, we find them unfolding in subtly different ways each time, depending on who's telling the story. (As things go on, other observers pitch in, too.) The various versions contradict each other, in ways that sometimes illuminate, but more often add to the mystery. As he says this and she says that, it's the old Citizen Kane/Rashomon deal: truth is relative, to the point it disappears, and you have to make your own.

Thursday

Wayward Pines

9pm, Fox

If we all hold hands and just quietly believe that it can happen, maybe things will sort themselves out, and David Lynch will return to directing the Twin Peaks sequel for Showtime next year after all. In the meantime, there's this, the latest in the long, long line of Twin Peaks rip-offs that JUST DON'T GET IT. It's based on the novel Pines by Blake Crouch, but the first reason to get antsy is that it is produced and sometimes directed by M Night Shyamalan, a name that has had moviegoers shuddering since 1999, but rarely for any of the reasons he wants. On the plus side, it's good to see Matt Dillon front and centre again. He's Ethan Burke, a Secret Service man in a black suit, white shirt and black tie who, while investigating the disappearance of some colleagues, winds up in the mysterious town of Wayward Pines, a little place way out beyond the trees, where everybody else acts like they think they should in a David Lynch movie, but apparently have never seen any. Burke soon discovers that he is unable to leave, and stumbles over a massive big what-the-hell mystery of the kind that viewers of shows like Lost, Flashforward, The Event and Fortitude will instantly recognise, and go to any lengths to avoid, swearing never again to lose so many hours of their lives to that kind of baloney. The fine cast also includes Toby Jones, Juliette Lewis and Melissa Leo.

Friday

Je T'aime: The Story Of French Song

9pm, BBC Four

When BBC Four rolls out its regular nights on the likes of Queen or Elton John or Pink Floyd every couple of weeks, it gives them about 20 hours each, but when it does good, interesting stuff like this these days, you barely get an hour. Cuts, probably. Petula Clark is your host for a brief waft through the smoky, moody St-Germian-des-Prés world of the chanson. Along the way come interviews with gods among mortals including The Mighty Charles Aznavour (recalling his days with Edith Piaf), Juliette Greco and Anna Karina. Also on hand is Jane Birkin, one-time main squeeze of Serge Gainsbourg, and moaning co-conspirator on that version of Je t'aime (Moi non plus) that got everybody all steamed up. Now: you'd think this would be a pretty good excuse for them to roll out about two hours of archive Serge Gainsbourg footage as a late-night accompaniment, but no. It's followed by two hours of Shirley Bassey repeats. Not. The. Same. Thing.