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Entertainment
Alexi Duggins, Ali Catterall, Henry Wong, Phil Harrison and Stuart Heritage

TV tonight: Selling Sunset meets The Apprentice in this new megabucks property show

Mega Mansion Hunters.
A sense of modesty? Not likely. Mega Mansion Hunters. Photograph: Channel 4

Mega Mansion Hunters

10pm, Channel 4

“We are literally turning estate agency on its head,” says Tyron Ash, a sports car-driving property mogul who likes to celebrate megabucks deals by yelling, “Fuck you!” and giving the middle finger to thin air. We’re immersed in the rivalries of his agents, as they battle for commission, engage in Selling Sunset-esque squabbling and utter dense, Apprentice-style braggadocio. Who will ultimately succeed in selling the £5m Surrey mansion? No one with a sense of modesty. Alexi Duggins

We Are England

7.30pm, BBC One

Week three of these regional films focuses on entrepreneurs: we meet photographer Conor McDonnell (Leeds), who revisits the people and places that shaped his career; and 22-year-old Jake (Norwich), who left school with two GCSEs and now turns over £2m at his recycling business. Ali Catterall

The Bay

9pm, ITV

Morecambe Bay brings a fresh wave of drama this week, though this time it’s personal for DS Townsend, who’s on the hunt for her missing son. Things get worse when her ex husband turns up. Meanwhile, the team investigates Saif’s ever-murkier murder, which currently hinges on a fixed boxing match. Henry Wong

The Fast and the Farmer-ish

9pm, BBC Three

A mixture of Scrapheap Challenge, It’s A Knockout and Clarkson-era Top Gear … The Fast and the Farmer-ish.
A mixture of Scrapheap Challenge, It’s A Knockout and Clarkson-era Top Gear … The Fast and the Farmer-ish. Photograph: Stephen Davison/BBC/Alleycats TV/Pacemaker Press

A slightly bizarre series hosted by Tom Pemberton in which tractor-heads compete in wheel-spinning, diesel-spewing challenges including the Bog Run (racing a tractor through a bog) and the X Tractor (driving a tractor in an X shape) in the hope of being crowned the UK’s best tractor team. Imagine a mixture of Scrapheap Challenge, It’s A Knockout and Clarkson-era Top Gear. Phil Harrison

The Mind of Herbert Clunkerdunk

10pm, BBC Two

Spencer Jones’s surreal comedy comes to an end tonight, as Herbert jigs with glee at the news of a theatre audition, ponders an anniversary present and performs pop-rap about being followed by fluffy monsters. He dresses up as a tooth, dons fake eyeballs and plays a tiny pink keyboard: intensely strange business as usual, then. AD

Martin Fishback

10.15pm, BBC Two

Creating a genuinely funny sitcom by porting a Twitter profile on to TV is no mean feat. All the more reason to enjoy the accomplished 15-minute comedy debut for the character of Martin Fishback – a brashly egotistical ex-Colgate employee turned terrible crime writer. It’s part exposition of his dreadful detective, Roger le Carré, part enjoyable family comedy. AD

Film choice

A lot of fun … Ralph Fiennes in The King’s Man.
A lot of fun … Ralph Fiennes in The King’s Man. Photograph: Courtesy of 20th Century Studios/AP

The King’s Man (Matthew Vaughn, 2021), Disney+
The first of Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman movies was an unexpected treat; a big, fun, surprisingly moving Marvel-does-Bond rollercoaster. Interest waned, however, with 2017’s Kingsman: The Golden Circle, a film so incoherent it appeared to have been assembled at speed by idiots. The newest offering, The King’s Man, is something of a soft reset. It’s a prequel, charting Ralph Fiennes’ Zelig-style journey through the events that led to the first world war. There’s a lot of fun to be had spotting all the real-life historical figures dotted throughout the mayhem – Rhys Ifans, for one, appears to be having the time of his life as Rasputin. A ridiculous Kingsman v Hitler sequel awaits. Stuart Heritage

Live sport

Premier League Football: Aston Villa v Leeds 7pm, BT Sports 1. From Villa Park. Man City also play Brentford at the Etihad Stadium at 7.15pm on BT Sports 2.

Live Winter Olympics: Mixed Doubles Curling Final 1pm, BBC Two. One to look out for: Scottish curlers Jen Dodds and Bruce Mouat will attempt to turn their world mixed doubles title into an Olympic gold. Coverage of the whole event runs throughout the week.

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