Alex Polizzi: The Fixer
8pm, BBC2
Alex is taking on a family business in Torquay this week – a tea room that sometimes only manages to make a profit of £20 a day. The biggest problems, as she sees them, are the old-fashioned decor, the overstuffed menu and the uninspired signage. Yet she soon realises that the real challenge will be dealing with Ray Messer, who runs the place with his wife Marlene and has never met an improvement that he didn’t hate. Predictably, tempers flare, voices are raised and tears are shed. Will the Messers heed Polizzi’s advice? Bim Adewunmi
Bad Builders – Bang To Rights
8pm, ITV
Dominic Littlewood, bulldog-like defender of the man in the street, presents this consumer show. Employing a builder, we are told, can be a hit-or-miss business. Sometimes they fix your place nicely. Other times you let them in, they ruin your house and then charge you a fortune for doing so. Tonight we meet crooked roofers in Lancashire, and Betty and Trevor in West Sussex – 140-odd grand down and still camping in a ruin. Luckily, Dom’s team are on hand to fix things up. John Robinson
EastEnders: The Greatest Cliffhangers
8pm, BBC3
Anyone for a doof doof? As EastEnders hurtles towards its 30th birthday, this countdown covers the 100 best cliffies the soap has ever seen. If you’re partial to a “You’re not my muvva!”, a hit-and-run or the elaborate unmasking of an affair, there’s plenty to get your teeth into here. Characters have come and gone over the last three decades, but which one’s had the most cliffhangers? With Phil Mitchell and Nasty Nick up against old favourites, the competition is intense. Hannah Verdier
Touched By Auschwitz
9pm, BBC2
This year’s Holocaust memorial day falls on the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by the Red Army. Laurence Rees’s film tracks down six survivors of the camp to ask the complex questions of how a person endures the unendurable and then explains the inexplicable, to themselves and to others. All Rees’s subjects have struggled not to be defined by what they suffered, but it’s telling that they all speak of their efforts, since being freed, to do better and be nicer. Andrew Mueller
The Art Of Fly Fishing: Kiss The Water
9pm, BBC4
A profile of Megan Boyd, who died in 2001. She devoted her life to tying anglers’ flies, plying her craft while staring at the sea from inside her tiny Highlands cottage. Who was she? What drove her? Why were her knots of thread and feather the world’s best at luring salmon out of the water? Eric Steel’s film fails to answer these questions, but the not-knowing is the point. Sparkling landscapes, handsome animation and the prosaic reminiscences of Boyd’s friends form a calming picture. Jack Seale
The Mysteries Of Laura
9pm, 5USA
She’s a cop. Oh, and she’s a mom. Debra Messing (Will & Grace) is truly slumming it here as Laura Diamond, the Manhattan cop who is also a mom. Did we mention she’s a mom? Well, she is, balancing her parental duties with coppery, dusted with eye-rolling, teeth-grindingly irritating quips. This week, Laura deals with the case of a strangled woman and heads undercover on the online dating scene to snare the culprit. With talentless action movie hack McG behind the camera, alarm bells have been ringing from the off. Ben Arnold
Britain’s Flashiest Families
10pm, Channel 5
Hot on the diamond-encrusted Louboutins of The Real Housewives Of Cheshire comes this selection of shameless spendthrifts, many of who have been chasing the limelight for years. Wife Swap alumni Noelie and Robin Goforth have splashed out on everything from plastic surgery to a £375,000 boat, while red carpet-addict Lizzie Cundy would, you suspect, attend the opening of a pore. Also profiled is Leanne Couch who, not content with selling the story of her spoilt Maltese terrier to the tabloids, is opening a dog-themed bakery. Hannah J Davies
