By BARNEY SAMUELS
TUESDAY
Inside the Factory
BBC2 9pm
GREGG Wallace visits two factories in Italy and Wales, learning how denim cloth is made and transformed into one of the world’s most popular items of clothing – jeans.
Visiting a zip factory, Cherry Healey learns about how the ubiquitous fastener is made and heads to a research facility of a denim manufacturer to witness environmentally friendly ways of distressing old jeans to make them look new.
Discovering an unknown name in the history of jeans, Historian Ruth
Goodman looks into the environmentally history behind indigo dye.
After the Flood
– ITV Wednesday, 9pm
WHEN PC Jo Marshall finds a man dead in a lift in an underground car park after a flood, police assume he became trapped in the rising water.
However, Jo becomes obsessed with finding out the truth and the investigation changes her life for ever.
Mystery thriller, starring Sophie Rundle.
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Match of the Day Live: The FA Cup Arsenal v Liverpool
ALL the action from the third- round tie at Emirates Stadium ( Kick- off 4.30pm).
Arsenal have won this trophy a record 14 times, with their most recent triumph coming in the 2019/ 20 campaign, while Liverpool have lifted the trophy on eight occasions, including two seasons ago.
– BBC1 4pm
First Dates
DOUBLE- daters mum and son Andrea and Stephan enter the restaurant.
Andrea is looking for a debonair, cultured and passionate man while Stephan is mainly hoping that his mum won’t embarrass him.
Seventy- year- old Diane refuses to let age get in the way of love and meets retired trucker and part- time crooner ‘ Neil the Wheel’.
Bagpipe instructor Adam is hoping that fellow Scot, Conor can bring back his excitement for dating.
– C4 10pm
I Am Andrew Tate
9pm – C4
THE story of the internet star’s rise to prominence, featuring interviews with fans, former associates, critics and alleged victims of sexual and physical violence.
The programme examines how he became a global example of toxic masculinity, the background to his sensational arrest in Romania, and his controversial influence on teenage boys.