There's Mussolini: Son of the Century, a new season of endurance reality show Alone USA, The Fear Clinic continues, while actress Clare Dunne and eco-builder Harrison Gardner take the High Road, Low Road . . .
Mussolini: Son of the Century, 9.00pm, Sky Atlantic
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Directed by BAFTA-winning Joe Wright (Darkest Hour, Atonement, Cyrano), Mussolini: Son of the Century is based on the Premio Strega-winning and international bestselling book by Antonio Scurati.
It chronicles the birth of fascism a century ago in Italy and the Duce Benito Mussolini’s rise to power.
Award-winning actor Luca Marinelli, amongst the most respected thespians in Italy, will lead the cast as Benito Mussolini.
Like the eponymous novel, the series will tell the history of a country that surrendered to dictatorship, and the story of a man who was able to rise from his ashes time and again.
Top Guns: Inside the RAF, 9.00pm, Channel 4
Season 2 of this series follows key characters in the air and on the ground at the RAF's busiest operational airbases in the UK and abroad as tensions rise in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
Cameras inside the cockpit head into the very heart of the battle, from secret spy missions over Syria to precision strikes in Yemen and intercepting Iranian drones threatening Israel.
Over the Black Sea, a rookie pilot escorts a top-secret British spy plane as it gathers intelligence on Russian military activity, only to face a threat which could spark all-out war.
In Cyprus, a young weapons engineer comes to terms with a deadly task and in Romania, RAF jets rapidly redeploy as Iran threatens Israel.
Alone USA, 10.00pm, Channel 4
The endurance reality series returns for a 9th season. The things people do to get on telly!
Ten lone survivalists endure the remote Canadian wilderness where they are forced to make quick decisions in the face of the changing weather.
One participant finds creative ways to make a home, while another faces pressure as a predator encircles their camp.
Season 2 of this BBC comedy - starring Alison Steadman, Katherine Parkinson and Freya Parks - opens with an episode called Mum's Classic Family Christmas.
Amy returns home for the festive holidays, so Rachel resolves to engineer an absolutely classic Jessop family Christmas - featuring stockings, presents, church, turkey, King's speech, charades and more.
All should be great - providing that everyone sticks precisely to the schedule.
Actress Clare Dunne (below) and eco-builder Harrison Gardner visit Austria's Wild Kaiser region, where they ride ski lifts, hike, cylcle and paraglide, stopping off for the odd schnapps along the way.
One of the celebrities enjoys horse drawn carriages, luxurious steak BBQs and traditional snacks, while the other travels on a budget.
The Fear Clinic: Face Your Phobia, 8.00pm, Channel 4
Eighteen-year-old Miriam checks into the clinic to treat a phobia of sheep that she's had since one charged at her while on a walk with friends.
Dave comes in with a fear of moths that developed 30 years ago when he was working in a factory and Devereaux is back after his first treatment for his phobia of dachshund/sausage dogs didn't work.
Inside the Factory, 8.00pm, BBC One
This week Paddy McGuinness (below) visits a factory in Northern Ireland producing half a million sausage rolls every day.
That’s a lot of sausage rolls!
Cherry Healey finds out what goes into black puddings and historian Ruth Goodman reveals the incredible connection between the humble sausage skin and Zeppelin airships of the First World War.
Storyville, 10.00pm, BBC Four
Journalist Shiori Ito investigates her own sexual assault, seeking to prosecute the high-profile offender. Her quest becomes a landmark case, exposing Japan's outdated judicial and societal systems.
Alison Hammond's Florida Unpacked, 6.30pm, BBC Two
Alison and Aidan Hammond continue their travels and in Miami they score a budget-friendly way to catch the Miami Dolphins in action.
Then they head to Wynwood, the city's artsy heartbeat and home to the largest mural collection in the US. Here, they take a crash course in spray painting and leave their own quirky masterpiece.
The Cult Next Door, 11.30pm, BBC Four
This is the extraordinary story of a strange cult that came to light in 2013, when three women emerged from a small flat in Brixton, south London, after decades in captivity.
The documentary traces the group back to its roots in the 1970s, when Aravindan Balakrishnan, who believed in an international communist revolution, created a tiny political sect that followed the teachings of China's Chairman Mao.
But his left-wing collective evolved into a pseudo-religious cult, in which members were controlled, threatened and brainwashed so that they were too terrified to leave.
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