Joe Lycett vs Sewage
9pm, Channel 4
Last year, the comedian launched a poo podcast with Gary Lineker, who discussed his World Cup pitch diarrhoea. It turned out to be a stunt, and this informative but hilarious documentary tells the story behind it. “How have we got to the point where it’s like: ‘Oh yeah, there’s just loads of shit in the water?’” he asks before investigating water company sewage leaks. He makes some vile discoveries – “The more spills reported, the less of a bonus you get,” one anonymous sewage worker says. Hollie Richardson
The Hairy Bikers Go West
7pm, BBC Two
To Lancashire, where a potato farm just happens to be producing Dave Myers’ favourite snack: crisps. All those spuds inspire the Bikers’ own Lancashire butter and potato pie – and a craving for something sweeter, too: gingerbread, rustled up in a tiny garden shed. Ali Catterall
Sort Your Life Out With Stacey Solomon
9pm, BBC One
Smiley Stacey Solomon is back to help people declutter their homes (and sort out their lives a bit). She starts by getting to work at the Bufton household in Surrey, where she finds nearly 200 teddies, 373 unopened letters and 1,239 books. Rather her than us. HR
Boarders
9pm, BBC Three
Five smart but skint Black inner-city London teens are awarded scholarships to a private school in need of a quick PR win. But how will the new upper-sixth intake cope with blazers, boarding and proto-Bullingdon Club vibes? The winning young cast and breakneck pace get Daniel Lawrence Taylor’s comedy-drama off to a promising start. Graeme Virtue
Storyville: Total Trust – Surveillance State
10pm, BBC Four
“If a country can’t tolerate someone like him, the country is the problem,” says Zijuan Chen of her imprisoned husband, human rights lawyer Chang Weiping. This documentary is a startling insight into state surveillance in China; it is deeply troubling to see how slickly data and digital technology can be used to subjugate a population. Truly dystopian. Phil Harrison
Kin
10.40pm, BBC One
This atmospheric Irish crime drama continues to simmer absorbingly. One of its strengths is its preference for ominous but low-key family politics over gratuitous fireworks. As the Kinsella family’s drug debt grows more unsustainable, the solutions proposed by Francis Magee’s volatile Bren become more tempting. Can Amanda (Clare Dunne) keep a lid on him? PH