• Terrestrial

    Honest ITV1, 9pm
    It's one heck of a day for Lindsay Carter (Amanda Redman). On the plus side, one of her sons is graduating as a solicitor. He's the first Carter ever to graduate from university and Lindsay is extremely proud. On the negative side, her career-crim husband is being sentenced on various burglary charges. But Wilson, the family lawyer, has assured them he'll be out in a year, tops. It's an occupational hazard. Then there's a familiar knock on the door and the family nemesis, DS Ed Bain (Sean Pertwee), leads his police team on yet another search of the Carters' home.


Barry Humphries: The Man Inside Dame Edna Channel 4, 10pm
Hailed as a comic genius, Barry Humphries has produced some of the most enduring characters of the past 50 years. With Dame Edna and Sir Les Patterson, he turned unadulterated vulgarity, snobbery and pretension into comedy gold. But how did he do it? What mysterious parts of the famously private Barry Humphries brought these grotesques to life? Here we get to accompany Humphries on his 2007 tour of Australia as the comedian goes back to his roots in search of some answers.


Britain's Biggest House Price Falls: Tonight ITV1, 10pm
After a price boom lasting more than a decade, Britain's housing market is heading downwards. The Tonight team reveal the areas of the UK undergoing the biggest falls, and worry householders by divining exactly who stands to win or lose most from the slowdown.


  • Digital

    House of Flying Daggers Film 4, 9pm
    Zhang Yimou's sumptuous, action-filled martial-arts epic is set in China in 859 AD, with Andy Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro as Leo and Jin, police officers charged with finding a secret society, the Flying Daggers, who are sworn to overthrow the government. They learn that, incredibly, one of the most dangerous agents is Xiao Mei (Zhang Ziyi), a beautiful dancing girl. But as they close in on her, the two men's love for her and the dangers they face lead to double and triple crossings as they confront danger in what is both a thriller and a tragic tale.


Payback ITV2, 10pm
Mel Gibson is super-bad-guy Porter: he'd steal a pan-handler's money and take a waitress's tip. Then his even more despicable buddy and his junkie wife unite to kill him after a robbery from a Triad gang. Porter recovers from being gunned in the back, setting out for revenge on his "friend", who used the money to buy his way into an underworld syndicate. And so Porter must also take on syndicate bosses William Devane, James Coburn and Kris Kristofferson.


How Pop Songs Work BBC4, 10pm
Conductor Charles Hazlewood explores the mechanics of the pop song. He breaks the genre into six key areas - melody, song structure, lyrics, production, arrangement and performance - using classic pop tunes to demonstrate each.


  • Radio

    Longing for Silence Radio 4, 9pm
    More than one-third of people in Britain suffer from tinnitus, a persistent ringing in the ears so severe for at least 600,000 patients that it impedes the quality of life. Agitation, forgetfulness and an inability to sleep are just some of the consequences. Here Kate Cook, a sufferer for 25 years, goes in search of the answer to the question: why?