Manctopia: Billion Pound Property Book

BBC2, 9pm

In recent years wags have named the city centre of Manchester as ‘Manchattan', summing up the way in which gleaming towers have sprung up seemingly overnight to transform the image of the northern metropolis. Now this fascinating four-part documentary series reveals how some are winning spectacularly in an exploding property market – while others are finding themselves left behind.

Millionaire Tim Heatley is investing his money transforming the red-light district into the latest word in urban hip, while Helen has a hefty divorce settlement and is in search of a penthouse with room for her collection of high fashion. Single mum Christina is a few miles away but might as well be in another universe, as she struggles to find somewhere she and her two children can afford to live.