Like an endless game of whack-a-mole, Modern Family just keeps on going, popping up at increasingly odd times in the schedule and still running its same single-gag characters through their single-gag hoops. Jay's technological ineptitude, a running theme through the first of this week's doubler-header, is evidence why the show no longer occupies prime time (see also: his young son Joe, the latest addition to the wearyingly long list of annoying child characters played by annoying child actors). Yet there is a big Cam-sized consolation as he contends with a professional bully at school while actor Eric Stonestreet lays the groundwork for a spin-off starring himself, his fictional husband Mitchell and their friend Pepper Saltzman – just so long as Lily is packed off to boarding school.

24 Hours in Emergency

SBS, 9.35pm

The most tear-jerking thing on the box since those toilet paper commercials with the labradors, this long-running series has the emotional puppeteering down to a fine art. No longer the mere fly-on-the-wall observational doco, it now corrals the loved ones of patients for heartfelt pieces to camera and backstories about their school days and how they met their partner. This week, the boyfriend of a young psychiatric nurse suffering facial burns after a patient pours boiling water over her relives their dating life and times. It's highly manipulative, but it works.

Christians Like Us

SBS, Wednesday, 8.35pm

It turns out that when 10 Christians of different stripes share a house for a week, the only thing they agree about is God. The two-part observational series filmed in a McMansion in Sydney's Bible belt mimics its 2018 counterpart Muslims Like Us in setting up the obvious lines of conflict as it explores what it is to be a Christian today. Ranging from fundamentalist to progressive, there's a female ordained Anglican priest, a young gay man, a charismatic preacher and the controversial inclusion (to some of the group, anyway) of a Mormon. Against a background of the royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse, and the perceived hostility of an increasingly secular society, they tackle the big issues while occasionally judging others as they would not like to be judged.