Britain’s Supermarket Revolution: What’s In It For Us?
8.30pm, BBC2
With all supermarkets slashing prices to maintain market share, the race to cater to recession-era shoppers is becoming increasingly sharp-elbowed. Cherry Healey sneaks beyond the Employees Only doorway to explore changing tactics. With Aldi and Lidl shedding their downmarket images to cater for choice-weary shoppers, the traditional superstores are putting increased emphasis on squeezing as much as they can from desperate suppliers. Mark Jones
Italy Unpacked
9pm, BBC2
The huge gamble of commissioning an Italian travelogue with a foodie angle appears to have paid off. Who’d have thought it? Concluding the series, Andrew Graham-Dixon and Giorgio Locatelli visit the Veneto region. They begin their journey by harvesting clams for pasta. They take in frescoes in Padua, travel along the river Brenta and in Vicenza admire Giovanni Bellini’s Baptism Of Christ, which, it so happens, is Graham-Dixon’s favourite painting, before fetching up in the Dolomites. David Stubbs
Bear Grylls: Mission Survive
9pm, ITV
Tonight the celebs must scale a dense jungle ravine, then descend a 120ft waterfall. (How do you do that? Very carefully.) That completed, they get to unwind with a live boa constrictor, and enjoy a slap-up meal with added zing: in this case, an innocent family of scorpions, eaten alive by our would-be Indiana Joneses. Wildlife was most definitely harmed during the making of this programme. Say, why not wash it down with a bottle of boiled urine? One’s own, naturally – Bear’s no sadist. Ali Catterall
Joy Division
9pm, BBC4
Theirs is a story of uncompromising music and suicide. Still, the surviving members of Joy Division are an amusing bunch – their wry take on the legend just one of the reasons to watch this essential documentary. Reverent, but never overbearingly so, taste and care are the words here. The late Tony Wilson supplies the “Manchester, city of visionaries” element. Great talking heads, plus Bernard Sumner’s recording of Ian Curtis’s past-life regression, make this otherwise well-turned ground freshly startling. John Robinson
12 Monkeys
9pm, Syfy
Entirely unneeded TV remake of Terry Gilliam’s terrifically twisty sci-fi thriller. Aaron Stanford stars as James Cole, a prisoner sent back from the year 2043 to 2013 to stop a civilisation-destroying pandemic at its source. On the way he converts virologist Cassandra Railly (Amanda Schull) to his cause. It’s all very SyFy, with wonky special effects and cardboard characterisation, though events are enlivened by the appearance of character actor Zeljko Ivanek (you’ll recognise his face), as shifty businessman Leland Goines. Gwilym Mumford
Lost Worlds With Monty Halls And Leo Houlding
9pm, Discovery
Equal parts nature travelogue and adventure challenge, this series is a familiar mix. Tonight, an admittedly daunting cliff in Borneo engenders some faintly melodramatic jeopardy (“You see a challenge, I see a tombstone!”). Even so, it’s likable enough; the pair can strike action man poses on sheer rock faces as convincingly as the next tousled adventurers, but Halls is a biologist, too, and his insights into the spiders, scorpions and civets they encounter keep things purposeful. Phil Harrison
The Last Leg
10pm, Channel 4
Adam Hills, Alex Brooker and Josh Widdicombe have got Friday night satire right; matey instead of aloof, heartfelt instead of withering; and, because the presenters visibly enjoy each other’s company and aren’t competing, far less stilted than such a heavily scripted show ought to be. They don’t feel like part of the well-oiled daily debate machine, so their points stick and miracles happen: viewers’ tweets aren’t annoying! Nick Clegg looked human when he was on! Sarah Millican guests as another annoyingly short series ends. Jack Seale
Today’s best live sport
• Rugby Union: Northampton Saints v Harlequins
Action from the Premiership at Franklin’s Gardens (7pm, BT Sport 2).
• Rugby League: St Helens v Castleford Tigers
Super League action from Langtree Park (7.30pm, Sky Sports 1).
• ATP Tennis
The Mexican Open semi-final stage (12midnight, Sky Sports 3).
• Cricket World Cup: New Zealand v Australia
The co-hosts and most strongly fancied teams meet in Auckland (12.30am, Sky Sports World Cup).
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