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Ben Arnold, John Robinson, Ali Catterall, David Stubbs, Hannah Verdier, Mark Gibbings-Jones, Jack Seale, Paul Howlett

Wednesday’s best TV – Celebrity Masterchef; The Man Who Built America

Celebrity MasterChef, BBC1.
Celebrity MasterChef, BBC1. Photograph: BBC/Shine TV Ltd

Celebrity MasterChef
8pm, BBC1

Another crop of hopefuls descend on John and Gregg’s kitchen for the next round. With Vic Reeves now out of the running, it’s down to Ulrika-ka-ka Jonsson to represent Team Shooting Stars. She has a face on throughout, but then perhaps you would, too, if everyone kept calling you “Eureka”. Plus, Nick Moran boshes out a serviceable “veloot” in the mystery box test, and Lesley Garrett entertains immeasurably with random blasts of opera. Ben Arnold

World’s Busiest Cities: Hong Kong
8pm, BBC2

There is an appealing naivety to this series, which even Dan Snow’s foghorn voice of authority can’t dampen. Hong Kong is a place of wealth and opportunity, but getting inside individual lives makes the place seem a bit more divisive and comprehensible. It’s Ade Adepitan who gets stuck in, meeting a family with sleeping pods in the front room, and a man who lives in “cage housing” – a bunkhouse in a corridor shared with 10 other people. John Robinson

Frank Lloyd Wright: The Man Who Built America
9pm, BBC4

To be “a grace to the landscape, instead of a disgrace” was what Frank Lloyd Wright wished for architecture – and now, 150 years after his birth, architect Jonathan Adams explores the construction and (very modern) attitude of the man who “wanted to elevate the humble concrete block into something beautiful”. These range from Wright’s own classic but stylised house and studio, to the iconic Fallingwater house in Pennsylvania. Ali Catterall

Mountain: Life at the Extreme
9pm, BBC2

This series of three hour-long specials from the BBC Natural History Unit will examine the Andes and the Himalayas, but tonight we begin with the Rocky Mountains. We see horny bighorn sheep kicking each other in the testicles, a mountain lion storing her kills in barns, and a parachutist joyfully hurling himself off precipices in defiance of gravity. Most staggering of all, though, is the serene beauty of the surroundings. David Stubbs

Long Lost Family
9pm, ITV

If you’re one of those people who doesn’t end up bawling their eyes out by the end of a fresh episode of Long Lost Family, well, you probably don’t exist. As ever, the stories are sensitively handled and played out with warmth. This week, Laura searches for her birth father nearly 40 years after he left her mother to return to Nigeria. Elsewhere, 71-year-old Linda is searching for her twin sisters, who were put up for adoption when their mother died. Nicely done. Hannah Verdier

I’m Dying Up Here
10.10pm, Sky Atlantic

Hell hath no fury like a comedy club owner scorned, so having wronged the all-powerful Goldie, Edgar makes a desperate attempt to write himself back into her good books. However, Goldie has her own concerns, since her oldest friend is returning to town with a dilemma in tow. Meanwhile, Cassie tests out some controversially macabre material that could see her lose her prime slot. As Larry David would say, “Eh, I took a risk.” Mark Gibbings-Jones

Made Over By
10pm, E4

Another new episode of the Gok Wan-voiced style series in which an unhappily dishevelled woman is spruced up by three groups of self-appointed fashion experts. Tonight’s canvas is Rebecca, a gran whose commitment to black extended to her wedding dress. Now she wants a sexy new image, so she submits to the creative visions of teams from Cardiff, London and Manchester who, respectively, offer painfully hip, fearlessly bold and flawlessly cool looks. But which is best? Jack Seale

Film choice

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (George Miller, George Ogilvie, 1985) 9pm, TCM

Third time around for leather-clad Mad Mel Gibson in a post-nuclear-holocaust Australian wilderness that’s not unlike pre-holocaust Australia. Tina Turner belts out her performance as tribal chief Aunty Entity, iron maiden of Bartertown, who signs Max up for to-the-death cage-combat with the loathsome Master Blaster. A cheerfully gruesome adventure. Paul Howlett

Live sport

Quad Series Netball: New Zealand v England 8.30am, Sky Sports Main Event. The Roses take on New Zealand in Auckland, while Australia face off against South Africa at 10.30am.

New Zealand NPC Rugby 8.30am, Sky Sports Action. Auckland take on Waikato at Eden Park.

Greyhound Racing 7pm, Sky Sports Action. Coverage of the Coral Champion Stakes from Romford.

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