Thursday's TV tips
(2012) Shania Andrews (Lenora Crichlow) lives on a London council estate and trains for the 200 metres with coach Brian (Phil Davis).
She beats fast-rising Lisa Temple (Lily James) in a qualification race to book her spot at the World Championships. Lisa is incredulous and her father David (Rupert Graves) – a former Olympic gold medallist – exerts even more pressure on his daughter.
Coach Tommy Southern (Noel Clarke) invites Shania to join the relay squad and she gels with 100 metres veteran Trix Warren (Lorraine Burroughs), Belle Newman (Lashana Lynch) and reserve runners Sarah (Dominique Tipper) and Rachel (Hannah Frankson). However, Lisa runs the relay’s anchor leg.
Tension intensifies when Shania develops a crush on physiotherapist Carl (Bradley James), who is also the object of Lisa’s affections.
Vet Mark Evans helps more problem pooches by observing their behaviour while they are alone, dealing with labrador Jaydee, who recycles her own – and other dogs’ – waste, and destructively delinquent pointer Loki, who trashes his owners’ home every chance he gets.
Mark also tests a sniffer dog’s acute sense of smell and trainer Tamsin Durston demonstrates ways that owners can get to know their pooches better.
This one-off documentary follows people who have experienced the heady world of fame or success, only for it all to come crashing down.
Among them are one-time Coronation Street actor Bruce Jones, who was once one of Britain’s biggest soap stars.
As Les Battersby, he had the world at his feet – but after leaving the show he went from signing autographs to signing on the dole.
The programme also features Lisa Appleton from Warrington, who was plucked from obscurity to appear on Big Brother, and is now living below the breadline.
In the third episode of the series, we meet Geraldine who was told by the adoption agency that her natural mother never married and was dead.
Nonetheless she went on to meet her family, who knew nothing about the adoption.
A DNA test revealed they weren't related. The agency hadn't searched properly and found the wrong woman.
She is named officially as the mother on the file, but she never had a child.
We also meet Sheila, who as a baby, was sent to the US for adoption in the early 1960s and still has the little case with all her personal belongings that were sent with her.
They are much more expensive than the clothes the children were normally sent in. She was devoted to her adoptive parents, and spent a lot of time in Ireland with their extended family.
With “Hipsterverse” in crisis, Dylan needs to make some bold moves and decides to buy a car. But only a true hipster car will do.
Jade is assisting Karolina Turek, one of Vancouver’s top photographers.
The gang head to CandyTown, Vancouver’s most famous Christmas Market.
Nicola is doing her second job with NOVUS, showing off her presenting skills and natural way with children.
Once Dylan has finished his first day of filming he joins the gang to watch the football match. But his mood quickly dampens after a series of texts and an angry phone call from Carolina.
It’s a big week for the Ayke Muko family – they are about to celebrate youngest son Magi’s initiation into manhood, during which he must prove his strength and agility by leaping naked across a line of cattle.
Completing the task successfully will earn the respect of his community – as well as the right to get engaged.
But like many young people on the cusp of adult life, he is fraught with anxieties – will Magi be successful? And what will happen to him if he is not?
Meanwhile, outspoken Rebo was widowed three years ago and has spent the intervening time not only grieving for her husband, but fighting against the constraints placed on Hamar women.
Her frustrations reach boiling point at the cattle-jumping ceremony, and the fallout threatens the divide the entire family.
Gregg Wallace and John Torode invite another five famous faces to take on the culinary contest. They are actress Amanda Donohoe, comedian Syd Little, singer Mica Paris, children’s TV presenter Sam Nixon and Paralympian Danny Crates.
Their aim is to make it to through to tomorrow’s show, but first they have to invent a dish from whatever ingredients are put before them, then face the stress of a real restaurant kitchen, before preparing a two-course menu of their own design. After these three rounds of culinary creativity, one of the hopefuls is sent home.
There will always be those who think they can commit the perfect murder, but in reality it’s virtually impossible to leave no evidence at a crime scene.
Fingerprints, hair, fibres and blood can all lead to the killer. In this second episode, surgeon Gabriel Weston explores the cases that were solved by examining the smallest traces of forensic evidence.
These include the first murder case solved in the UK based on fingerprint evidence, and the patterns of blood in a bedroom which helped overturn an infamous murder conviction.
As well as looking to the past, Gabriel investigates the cutting-edge techniques that are proving vital to catch the killers of today.
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