TV tonight: Diane Morgan brings back Mandy for a second season

After a seasonal special, the hapless heroine returns. Plus: a grandfather clock tests The Repair Shop to the limit. Here’s what to watch this evening

Mandy

10pm, BBC Two

After a festive special, Diane Morgan brings back hapless Mandy for a welcome second season – and the job hunt continues. This time, she tries her hand at being a tour guide at Brompton Hall and ends up accidentally serving nibbles at a cult gathering. Michelle Greenidge and Tom Basden also star in this 15-minute dose of silly (read: secretly very clever) fun. Hollie Richardson

The Repair Shop

8pm, BBC One

Usually, Jay Blades and the team carefully strip down heirlooms before building them back better. Tonight, a grandfather clock arrives already in bits, requiring a lot of TLC from the horologist Steve Fletcher. Other items getting a painstaking glow-up include a pair of speedway boots and a kaput 60s electric organ. Graeme Virtue

Kirstie and Phil’s Love It Or List It

8pm, Channel 4

Tonight, a couple in Lincoln are at loggerheads over how best to find more space for their growing family. Luckily, the property gods Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer are on hand to try to settle a five-year debate and advise on whether Eric and Carly should extend their bungalow or move. HR

Paul O’Grady: For the Love of Dogs

8pm, ITV

In need of a pick-me-up on the year’s first Wednesday? Paul O’Grady and the staff of Battersea Dogs & Cats Home are on hand to give us plenty of furry faces to coo at – including eight-year-old Paul, a shih-tzu with an extreme case of bladder stones, and a feisty chihuahua not easily charmed by the host. HR

Inside the Factory

9pm, BBC Two

Gregg Wallace shows no signs of dropping off our screens in 2022, as Inside the Factory rumbles on. Tonight, he and the historian Ruth Goodman dig deep into all things malt loaf – the squidgy cake that, apparently, Britons eat about 130m times a year. HR

Britain’s Most Expensive Houses

9pm, Channel 4

Lee the broker is tasked with selling off one of the jewels of Hampstead: the £17.5m Huxley House on The Bishops Avenue (AKA “Billionaire’s Row”). But the really romantic draw tonight is a 100ft double-decked houseboat, the Flamant Rose, once owned by Edith Piaf; it was the site of her liaisons with a French professional boxer. Ali Catterall

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