CRITICS' CHOICE

SOAP SPIN-OFF

Kat & Alfie: Redwater, 8pm, BBC1

‘IF YOU lie your whole life, you cannot escape the wrath of God.’ As Dermott tries to justify (to the Lord and himself) his shocking actions in last week’s opening episode, a reluctant Alfie agrees to accompany Kat to Lance’s wake, where they make a shocking discovery. Meanwhile, grandmother Agnes (Fionnula Flanagan, pictured with Maria Doyle Kennedy and Angeline Ball) receives startling news.

CANINE CLINIC

The Supervet, 8pm, Ch4

A GERMAN Shepherd needs treatment for a painful degenerative spinal disease, and a Chihuahua requires a hip replacement. All in a day’s work for Professor Fitzpatrick.

GO EAST

Joanna Lumley’s Postcards, 8.30pm, ITV

OUR fabulous travel guide remembers her trip to China and Mongolia aboard the Trans-Siberian Express (pictured). It’s a journey that gets off to a very personal start as she sets off from Hong Kong, one of her childhood homes, where her father’s regiment was stationed.

DEFEATING DISEASE

The Truth About HIV, 9pm,9 BBC1

ENLIGHTENING documentary in which Dr Chris van Tulleken

(pictured with South African nurse Sister Zanele Phindile Mbatha), an expert in the study of HIV, separates the fact from the fiction in a bid to destigmatise the virus, revealing that there are treatmentsments that can keep it at bay and prevent infection in the first place. Prince Harry and Elton John are among the contributors.

FILM CHOICES

Guilty At 17, 3.15pm, Ch5

PART of a series of movies — made for the U.S. Lifetime channel — in which horrid things befall 17-year-old girls. Sticking up for a friend she believes was being sexually harassed by a teacher, promising student Traci (Erin Sanders) tells a lie that has terrible consequences, for others as well as herself.