Bradley & Barney Walsh: Breaking Dad (STV, 8pm)
IN an episode originally scheduled for last week, the father-and-son duo continue their European adventure in central Germany. They head to Frankfurt, where Brad attempts to abseil down the side of a building, facing forwards. After that drama, the boys also stop off at a bratwurst-themed hotel and soak up some local Bavarian culture when they have a go at fingerhakeln (finger wrestling). The pair finish off their time in Germany with a wet and wild adventure in the mountains.
Long Lost Family (STV, 9pm)
THE Bafta-winning family reunion show is back for its 10th series. Phyllis and Kevin Haran have spent than 40 years searching for their first-born son. The couple fell in love as teenagers in Ireland in the 1970s and Phyllis became pregnant. They fled to London but their landlady kicked them out when she discovered they had baby in their flat. Homeless, jobless and desperate to put their baby’s interests first, they agreed through an agency to place their son in the care of a family, with the possibility of adoption.
Mark Kermode’s Secrets of Cinema: Pop Music Movies (BBC4, 9pm)
KERMODE combines his twin passions – music and film – as he looks at the success, or otherwise, of pop movies. There’s the classic pop star vehicle, where the biggest acts play a version of themselves, then, there are pop biopics, dramatised accounts of the stars’ lives. Kermode also sees what happens when actors play musicians, and when musicians take on acting roles and celebrates some of the true cinematic oddities that have emerged.
999: What’s Your Emergency? (C4, 9pm)
“SEXUAL offences and how we deal with them are a major issue, now more than ever”, says South Yorkshire Police call handler Terry Batchelor. In recent years the number of reported sex offences in the UK has increased by 15% and range from indecent exposure to rape. As late-night clubbers start to throng the streets, police are called to a suspected sexual assault outside a nightclub; and in another early-morning incident, officers confront a man after he exposes himself in the street.
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