Race Throughout the World
9pm, BBC One
Betty is an intrepid traveller, whereas her child brother James prefers “having it off for every week” in Magaluf. Retired couple Viv and Stephen (described by Viv as “an acquired style”) need a thrilling journey. Who will you champion within the return of this beloved race? This time the pairs have to journey 15,000km round east Asia – beginning in Japan, the place they aren’t allowed to make use of bullet trains. Hollie Richardson
The Restore Store
8pm, BBC One
Jay Blades and his artful crew are again, and Diane brings the primary merchandise in want of restore: a pair of cowboy boots, purchased for her son by her musician brother Roger – who drummed with the likes of Elton John – earlier than he died. Can cobbler Dean work his magic? HR
Glow Up: Britain’s Subsequent Make-Up Star
8pm, BBC Three
This new collection of the Leomie Anderson-hosted make-up artist competitors opens with a show-stopper: the eight aspiring MUAs should create a TikTok lip-sync search for the European launch of Woman Gaga’s make-up model, Haus Labs. Then it’s on to the final word on a regular basis talent that so few can grasp: the proper winged eyeliner. Ellen E Jones
Professor T
9pm, ITV1
Ben Miller’s clenched criminologist is lastly getting his day in courtroom. However as Jasper meekly faces expenses of tried homicide, there are flashbacks to his most up-to-date case: untangling the killing of a guard within the jail laundry. Why is an harmless lag keen to take the blame? And may the Prof actually be doing the identical? Graeme Advantage
Stacey Solomon’s Renovation Rescue
9pm, Channel 4
She has sorted folks’s lives out, and now she is rescuing them from disastrous constructing initiatives. First up, Erick and Caroline in Enfield, who spent £80k on a botched bungalow extension and are taught how to economize by doing their very own plumbing, becoming flooring and laying decking. The completed challenge is spectacular however they do shell out tens of 1000’s of kilos on builders, thoughts. Alexi Duggins
Mandy
10pm, BBC Two
It’s the final double-bill of Diane Morgan’s brilliantly bizarre comedy collection, and it begins with assembly Mandy’s 109-year-old nan who has been residing in her attic – and now needs to have a child. Then, she will get a job doing high quality management at a biscuit manufacturing unit (“I really feel like my complete life’s been main as much as this”). HR
Movie selection
Hit the Highway (Panah Panahi, 2021), 2am, Channel 4
Thanks partly to his 2011 documentary This Is Not a Movie – self-filmed below home arrest, and smuggled in another country inside a cake – Jafar Panahi has grow to be one of the revered Iranian film-makers. Which should have been huge boots for his son Panah to fill when it got here to creating this, his 2021 characteristic debut. Thankfully, although, Hit the Highway is a gigantic quantity of enjoyable. A movie about an Iranian household making an attempt to smuggle their grownup son throughout the border to Turkey, it’s gentle, candy and uproariously humorous. Stuart Heritage
