PICK OF THE DAY

Living With The Brainy Bunch

8PM, BBC2

There are high-achieving pupils in every school, along with those who consistently fail to make the grade, but how much of that is down to their home life? Could a radical change in parenting turn a tricky teenager into a model pupil? This one-off programme follows a revolutionary experiment at Chessington Community College in Greater London, in which two 15-yearold rebels spend half a term living with the families of two of their year’s top A-star students. Will strict new house rules transform Hollie and Jack’s results – and their lives?

Not Going Out

9PM, BBC1

Lucy asks Lee to tell Fred the school lollipop man – a kindly, bearded old chap who looks ‘like a big smiley cauliflower’ – to refrain from giving the children lollipops every day. ‘I don’t want our kids turning into hyperactive psychos!’ But the plan soon backfires when Fred is suspended, leaving Lucy and Lee wracked with guilt…

The Investigator: A British Crime Story

9PM, ITV

In part two, former detective Mark Williams-Thomas investigates the unsolved murders of Anna Kenny, Agnes Cooney and Hilda McAuley, who were all abducted and brutally killed within four months of each other in Glasgow in 1977. Was convicted killer Angus Sinclair responsible?

Indian Summer School

9PM, CH4

It’s been three months at Doon School in the foothills of the Himalayas, and the boys are all homesick – not only that, but it’s time for the core GCSE retakes in maths, English and science. Will they all achieve the grades they so desperately want this time around – and with them, the chance to get their lives on track?