TUESDAY

The Hairy Bikers’ Chicken And Egg

8PM, BBC2 Si King and Dave Myers are in the good ol’ US of A to discover the origins of Southern fried chicken, one of the world’s favourite fast foods, and to find out why Americans love chicken wings – 1.3 billion of them are eaten in the US on Super Bowl weekend alone!

Location, Location, Location

8PM, CH4 Kirstie and Phil help two very different sets of house-hunters in Bath: Laura and Phil want to move out of shared accommodation and into their own home, while Kerrie and Dave want to downsize from a spacious barn conversion.

Great Continental Railway Journeys

9PM, BBC2 Michael Portillo crosses Switzerland in this edition, from Zermatt in the Alps to the shores of Lake Geneva. Along the way, he is rescued from an ‘avalanche’ by a St Bernard puppy, and takes to the skies in a vintage biplane.

National Treasure

9PM, CH4 Robbie Coltrane and Julie Walters are once again superb in episode two of this excellent drama, as the veteran comedian Paul Finchley and his long-suffering wife, Marie. This week, the family have to deal with the pressure of the mounting sex allegations against Paul.

Damned

10PM, CH4 This black comedy, which began life on Sky Arts, stars Alan Davies and Jo Brand as harassed social workers. It’s so accurate that you won’t know whether to laugh or cry.