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Candice Carty-Williams, Phil Harrison, Ben Arnold, Hannah Verdier, Mark Gibbings-Jones, Jack Seale and Paul Howlett

Wednesday’s best TV: Zoe Ball’s Hardest Road Home; Damned

Zoe Ball’s Hardest Road Home, BBC One
Zoe Ball’s Hardest Road Home, BBC One. Photograph: Victoria Dawe

Zoe Ball’s Hardest Road Home
9pm, BBC One

Over five gruelling days, Zoe Ball, despite having very little cycling experience, shows herself to be a bona fide trooper by embarking on a 300-mile cycle from Blackpool, the place of her birth, all the way to Brighton, her home town. Not put off by dreaded hills, treacherous terrain or adverse weather (luckily there was no “beast from the east” to halt proceedings), this challenge to raise money for Sport Relief takes Zoe through historic towns and iconic sights; an excuse to pop off the bike for some well-needed rest. Candice Carty-Williams

The Secret Helpers
8pm, BBC Two

A slightly odd new series in which people facing challenging moments in their lives don earpieces and submit to the advice of friendly strangers from South Africa to New York. Tonight, Dan prepares for his wedding while coping with the aftermath of a stroke, and Brett learns all about modern fatherhood. Phil Harrison

The Assassination of Gianni Versace
9pm, BBC Two

The horror continues in Ryan Murphy’s lurid and disjointed retelling of Andrew Cunanan’s killing spree in 1997. Following his nauseating torture and murder of Lee Miglin, we join the story a week earlier in Minneapolis, where Cunanan started on his journey towards grotesque infamy. Ben Arnold

Make! Craft Britain
9pm, BBC Four

“Do I have a shepherd here?” Welcome to a fine slice of therapeutic TV, in which expert crafters give workshops that are detailed enough to school viewers as well as participants. If you’ve always wanted to try your hand at rug-making, letterpress printmaking or folding origami lilies, this show is for you. Hannah Verdier

Damned
10pm, Channel 4

The series concludes on a double bill with change looming large at Elm Heath social services. Al plans to swap social services for some Scottish serenity, Martin confronts Mimi about their living arrangements and Rose vows to change the lives of some children undergoing sinister homeschooling. Mark Gibbings-Jones

Bliss
10pm, Sky1

The final episode of the double-life dramedy is all blind panic, as Andrew (Stephen Mangan) tries everything to stop his son visiting the house of his secret other family. In less skilful hands than Mangan’s this scenario might be too absurd or just too stressful and unpleasant, but somehow he gets you to buy in. Jack Seale

Film choice

Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju, 1960) 1.40am, Film4

Psycho, Peeping Tom – 1960 was quite a year for artful horror, and Georges Franju’s lyrical, gory tale is every bit their equal. Pierre Brasseur’s obsessive surgeon reconstructs his daughter’s missing face with features scalpelled from other, murdered young women; a grotesque, borderline-surreal atmosphere pervades. Paul Howlett

Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal in Love & Other Drugs.
Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal in Love & Other Drugs. Photograph: Sportsphoto Ltd/Allstar/New Regency Pictures

Love & Other Drugs (Edward Zwick, 2010) 1.25am, Channel 4

Edward Zwick’s fact-based drama is part-romcom, part-assault on big pharma, a bipolar project that just about comes off. It’s the mid-90s and Jake Gyllenhaal’s Jamie is a womanising Viagra salesman – then he falls for Maggie (Anne Hathaway), who is harbouring a secret that drugs can’t help. PH

Live sport

Cycling: Tour of Catalunya Stage three of the road race. 2.45pm, Eurosport 1

Tennis: The Miami Open The opening day at the Tennis Centre at Crandon Park. 3pm, Sky Sports Main Event

Test Cricket: New Zealand v England England’s seemingly never-ending tour begins its concluding leg at Auckland. 12.30am, Sky Sports Main Event

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