Great Ormond Street
9pm, BBC2
This week, the tough-to-watch documentary focuses on patients with cystic fibrosis whose lungs are failing. Some can be offered transplants, but it’s a risky operation. Charlie, who’s nine, is asking how long transplanted lungs will last as he weighs up his choice. Fourteen-year-old Jessica shows incredible maturity by taking the decision herself so her parents won’t blame themselves if anything goes wrong. It’s brilliant to see the children who achieve a better quality of life, but for some the outcome is so sad. Hannah Verdier
The House That 100K Built
8pm, BBC2
Kieran Long and Piers Taylor are the diametric opposite of Kevin McCloud. While McCloud smirks supportively at the elaborate constructions and spiralling budgets, this pair are all about injecting pizazz into builds constrained by limited money and imagination. Here, we check in with Sholto and Marcus, who have cashed out in the south of England and bought land in Scotland, but whose requirements have changed since Marcus’s double organ transplant. Can Kieran and Piers help them find a kit house within their limited means? John Robinson
Virgin Atlantic: Up In The Air
9pm, ITV
The final episode of the obs doc sees Richard Branson gently prodded about accusations of sexism in Virgin’s adverts. “I think it’s a very American thing,” he smiles. “In Britain, we’re quite happy if our daughters look good.” Elsewhere, the customer services team deals with a call from a man who complained about having numb gums for a month after a flight, staff use an unorthodox meeting room, and in Atlanta a gospel choir sings London Calling at the launch of a new Dreamliner. HV
Child Genius
9pm, Channel 4
As we reach the semi-final stage of this swot-fest, it’s become apparent that the kids are a red herring. Behind many of these busily whirring junior superbrains, there’s an entertaining if worrying frenzy of parental expectation and vicarious ambition. “He has to be a winner,” blurts one dad. Another eagerly anticipates his offspring knocking another contender off his perch. It’s hard to watch without taking sides but, really, we wish these bright sparks well in negotiating expectations once the competition is over. Phil Harrison
Not Safe For Work
10pm, Channel 4
Now that Danny’s off-the-cuff immigration policy has got some unexpected traction with Martine, the minister’s devious emissary from London, he’s all invigorated. He’s even off the ketamine, which can only be a bonus. But is the Northampton office being set up for a fall? And can Danny stay focused on the job at hand with a make-or-break presentation to the minister in the offing? Meanwhile, Katherine and Anthony call a truce of sorts. The best vision of ennui and simmering despair on telly for years. Ben Arnold
Brotherhood
10pm, Comedy Central
Last in the run of a sitcom that’s a kind of apologetic British remake of Two And A Half Men, though it feels more like something from the 1990s on ITV. Up to now it’s been a vicious circle of familiar characters and consequently underpowered gags. Tonight, the chalk/cheese twentysomething brothers who are surrogate parents to a troubled younger sibling are surprised by the arrival of their unreliable father. Feckless lothario Toby (Johnny Flynn) is innocently delighted; Tolstoy-reading fusspot Dan (Ben Ashenden) is embittered. Jack Seale
Before I Kick The Bucket
10.35pm, BBC1 Wales
A smart, wry study of the cult of the bucket list, presented by Rowena Kincaid, who has more urgent cause to contemplate the subject than most. Though only in her 30s, she has terminal cancer, but does not have an agenda of boxes to be ticked; indeed, she’s bemused by the way that the bucket list idea has descended into a litany of wacky cliches. Kincaid meets people in similar predicaments to hers to ask them how they’ve decided to maximise whatever time they have left. Andrew Mueller
Today’s best live sport
Women’s International Test Cricket: England v Australia Day one of the opening Test in the women’s Ashes series from Taunton. 10am, Sky Sports Ashes
Football: Manchester City v Roma Opening clash of the International Champions Cup Australia from the MCC in Melbourne, featuring the runners-up in the English and Italian top flights. 10.45am, Sky Sports 1
T20 Cricket: Guyana Amazon Warriors v Trinidad And Tobago Red Steel Caribbean Premier League action. 10.45pm, BT Sport 1
