Pick of The DAY

WATERLOO ROAD 8PM, bbc1 ★★★

Nicky (Kym Marsh) is left in a rotten position when she steps up to support Kelly Jo as the teenager awaits confirmation of her diagnosis – and she’s set for a fiery confrontation with her sister, Kelly Jo’s mum, Debs. Headteacher Kim (Angela Griffin) is not having a great day either, as she faces a brutal meeting with the governors and parents, and her judgement comes under scrutiny. While the grown-ups are having a tough time, the youngsters are coping with their challenges rather more elegantly.

LOVE YOUR GARDEN 8PM, ITV1 ★★★

It’s an exciting week for greenfingered fans, as the Chelsea Flower Show gets under way (3.45pm, BBC1, 8pm, BBC2) – and Alan and his team continue to make good on the gardens of well-deserving folk. Tonight, they are in Enfield, north London, to help Yvonne – whose son was murdered when he was just 17 – and who now works tirelessly to fight knife crime. Alan wants to create a healing space for her, where she can reflect on happier times spent with her son while he was alive.

THE GREATEST AUCTION 8PM, CH4 ★★★

AJ Odudu hosts another edition of the upstart version of The Antiques Roadshow which proves that value can be funky and youthful not just historical. This week, two vintage Hermes bags spark a bidding war, and one seller collects a huge return on a print by street artist Invader (above, with one of the Hermes bags). Also going under the hammer is a skateboard designed by Virgil Abloh, the American designer who worked with Louis Vuitton and who died tragically young in 2021, at the age of 41.

MASTERCHEF 9PM, bbc1 ★★★★

It’s semi-finals week, and the temperature rises for the eight remaining chefs hoping to survive to next week’s finals. The first challenge is to work in teams of four to create a celebratory lunch for the Fire Service College in Gloucestershire. They have to serve 120 covers with fine dining standards – no mean feat, and one of the chefs will be homeward bound once the washing up is done. On Thursday, the remaining seven take on a new brief, to cook a dish that is ‘so wrong it’s right’ – that promises to be interesting – and the chefs will be steadily whittled down to five for Friday’s programme, in which they will prepare a ‘theatrical and fantastical’ dish that will hopefully see them through to the final stretch.

FORENSICS: THE REAL CSI 9PM, bbc2 ★★★★

During a daylight robbery in Birmingham, thieves make off with £300,000 worth of gold from a jewellery shop, and the trail quickly goes cold when the criminals switch cars. No one wants a repeat of the Brink’s Mat robbery – an investigation that dragged on for years – so police are hopeful that forensic evidence from the scene of the crime as well as the cars that were ditched will be enough to put the prime suspects behind bars. Follow the trail of science and evidence with forensic scene investigator Drew

Birtles and his team.