TV tonight: Bafta-winning documentary makers follow far-right protesters
A depressing look at the anti-immigration movement in England ‘Til I Die. Plus: Kevin McCloud is back with Grand Designs. Here’s what to watch today
England ’Til I Die
10pm, Channel 4
Here comes the year’s most depressing hour of TV. This film follows Liam Tomsett from Crowborough, East Sussex, who positioned himself as an anti-immigration leader when the government announced that an army camp would be used to house asylum seekers in the town. The cameras follow him and far-right protesters as they wade deeper into the movement. From the Bafta-winning team behind Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods, and the pulled BBC documentary, Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone, it is shocking and scorched with anger. Hollie Richardson
The Repair Shop: Beyond the Barn
8pm, BBC One
The spin-off that looks more closely at the stories of items after being restored. A vintage steamer trunk owned by the late Paul O’Grady’s husband, André, gets revived, along with a bike once used by gas lamplighters and a wolf statue smashed by the family cat. HR
Surviving Earth
8pm, Sky One
This apocalypse wow series continues and we’re headed to the late Carboniferous period. “Swamp forests” have sprung up, oxygen levels are at their highest: great for dragonflies as big as crows (yikes), not so good for the reptilian Dendromaia battling against a forest fire. Priya Elan
Kirstie and Phil’s Love It Or List It: Brilliant Builds
8pm, Channel 4
Kirstie and Phil revisit another pair of success stories. Sarah and Sean’s sprawling Victorian semi in Whitley Bay needed a £70,000 rescue, while Steven and Adeola’s chaotic Stevenage new-build had been pushed to breaking point. With Kirstie fighting awkward layouts and Phil hunting for alternatives, did the couples finally agree to stay put, patch up, or get out? Ali Catterall
Grand Designs
9pm, Channel 4
She chutes, she scores! But is Bryony’s fixation on a hi-tech laundry solution something of a coping mechanism during her challenging self-build project? As series 27 kicks off, the stakes for her and husband Matt’s environmentally minded Cornish home are high, and there’s plenty for Kevin McCloud to raise an eyebrow at. Hannah J Davies
Andrew Davies Remembers … Middlemarch
10pm, BBC Four
Davies – the writer behind many a classic BBC period drama – looks back at his 1994 adaptation of George Eliot’s Middlemarch. Heated rows with the director is just one thing that made the experience “like carrying three big suitcases across a railway platform”. HR
Film choice
It Should Happen to You (George Cukor, 1954), 11am, Film4
The great Jack Lemmon had his first major film role in this George Cukor-directed story of a young woman, Gladys Glover (Judy Holliday), who yearns to make her mark on the world by any means necessary. Gladys kicks off a curious kind of career by hiring billboards around New York City to display her name, while suitor Pete (Lemmon) attempts to persuade her to find contentment in the crowd. It’s sharp as a romantic comedy, sweet as a prescient satire on the perils of fame, and altogether a delicious treat. Ellen E Jones