Inside the Factory: How Our Favourite Foods Are Made
8pm, BBC2
Endosperm may sound like something from sci-fi, but it’s actually a crucial ingredient in white loaf-making, as Gregg Wallace and Cherry Healey discover during this new three-parter looking at the mass-production of food. First up: bread – from the fields to your breakfast table, via a vibrating, juddering, non-stop process. How do you get 28 tonnes of white powder out of a truck? All is revealed here. Continues Wednesday with a visit to a chocolate factory. Ali Catterall
24 Hours in the Past
9pm, BBC1
Alistair McGowan, Ann Widdecombe, Miquita Oliver, Zoe Lucker, Tyger Drew-Honey and Colin Jackson face a second 24-hour stint of Victorian-style toil. From grooming horses and cleaning carriages to feeding guests and emptying chamber pots, running a coaching inn proves a dirty job. While Alistair and Colin make competent ostlers, Ann causes a stir when she challenges the boss’s ethics. Fi Glover and historian Ruth Goodman are on hand to see whether the team live up to their great expectations. Hannah J Davies
Wastemen
9pm, BBC2
That staple iteration of BBC programming, the “fly-on-the-wall, with salt-of-the-earth people” gets another airing with this doc about waste management in Newcastle upon Tyne. Tonight’s episode examines treasure among the trash. From skip-diving Sam, who sells his finds on eBay, to the guys extracting reusable materials from unwanted goods (“I’ve seen new bikes dumped because they’ve got a puncture…”), and items discarded by accident, it’s a quirky if not completely compelling look at consumer culture. John Robinson
No Offence
9pm, Channel 4
Paul Abbott’s new Manchester-set police drama starts with a bang as you would expect. Dina (Elaine Cassidy) is a determined, unafraid powerhouse of policing; Joy (Alexandra Roach) is her nervy colleague; and Joanna Scanlan is Viv, their boss. It’s the women who lead this, and brilliant support comes from Paul Ritter and Will Mellor. We didn’t really need another police drama but, if there has to be one, Abbott is the man for the job. It thrusts and bulges with his energy and heart while avoiding procedural cliche. A brilliant start. Julia Raeside
20 Moments That Rocked Britain
9pm, Channel 5
Over two hours, archive footage and analysis of 20 headline-hitting events from the past 50 years provide the ample if relentlessly depressing material, charting times the country was brought together and the times it was driven apart. There’s the miners’ strike in the 80s, the Jimmy Savile revelations, the Dunblane massacre, the sinking of the Belgrano and the death of Princess Diana, interspersed with the likes of the Profumo affair and David Beckham’s alleged liaison with Rebecca Loos for some light relief. Ben Arnold
Educating Joey Essex – General Election, What Are You Sayin?!
9pm, ITV2
Ex-Towie rascal Joey used to think that the “Liberal Democats” were led by somebody called Nick Leg and has trouble pronouncing the word Conservative. Thankfully, the 24-year-old agreed to brush up on his political knowledge for this special, in which he quizzes the likes of Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg, Nigel Farage and Tory MP Priti Patel. Some may sneer but the reality star should be applauded for trying to demystify a system that alienates so many of his peers – one selfie at a time. HJD
Penny Dreadful
10pm, Sky Atlantic
The sometimes silly, often moving, always gory psycho-thriller – set in a Victorian London populated by fictional characters of the day – returns for a second series. At the end of season one, Ethan had dealt with two Pinkerton detectives by turning into a werewolf and massacring them while Vanessa was requesting an exorcism. In this opener, Ethan decides to leave London, while Vanessa now cuts a deeply disturbed figure, haunted by evil, as Sir Malcolm Murray discovers. David Stubbs
Today’s best live sport
WTA Tennis: The Madrid Open The third day of the women’s tournament from La Caja Mágica. 10am, BT Sport 2
International Test Cricket: West Indies v England The final day of the Test series from Barbados. 2.30pm, Sky Sports 2
IPL Cricket: Mumbai Indians v Delhi Daredevils From the Wankhede Stadium. 3pm, Sky Sports 1
Champions League Football: Juventus v Real Madrid All the action from the opening leg of the first semi-final. 7.30pm, ITV
