CRITICS' CHOICE

CONSUMER CRUSADER Joe Lycett’s Got Your Back, 8pm, Ch4

JOE (pictured) is tackling online reviews this week as, helped by the hilarious Alison Hammond, he discovers just how trustworthy Trustpilot is. The comedian also targets a paintballing company to home in on its unreliable practices — and he gets a little one to help him to look into the world of the Google Play Store.

LA BELLE FRANCE The World’s Most Scenic Railway Journeys, 8pm, Ch5 HORTICULTURE HOUR Gardeners’ World, 9pm, BBC2

TOMATOES can be tricky, but Monty Don is on hand to show how to pot them on. And all those lacking sun, fear not — he knows the shade-loving herbs, too. Adam Frost (pictured) turns to logs to transform his garden, and Arit Anderson has gone potty with containers. Also, meet a man who’s designed his whole home around house plants.

CLASSIC COMEDY Smack The Pony, 11.05pm, Ch4

A CHANCE to see the entire first series of the stylish, original and groundbreaking sketch show, starring Fiona Allen, Doon Mackichan and Sally Phillips.

FILM CHOICES King Kong, 2.50pm, BBC2

ONE of the greatest movie monsters, Kong is a huge gorilla whose reign on a lost island

is cut short by the arrival of a film crew from America, along with actress Ann Darrow (Fay Wray, pictured with Bruce Cabot). Once in New York City, he causes panic when he scales the Empire State Building.

Young Adult, 12.15am, BBC1

CHARLIZE THERON is crass and classless in this black comedy from Jason Reitman (Juno). She plays an alcoholic writer who misreads the signals from her old high-school boyfriend (Patrick Wilson). Ignoring an important deadline, she heads to her old home town to cause a firestorm of immaturity.