Alfred Hitchcock - Made in Britain, ITV, 10.00pm
Alfred Hitchcock is arguably the most celebrated director in the history of cinema. In this documentary, movie nut Jonathan Ross sets out to discover what led the son of an East End grocer to begin a career in the film industry in Britain.
Ross visits the Gainsborough Studios where Alfred Hitchcock secured his first job in the film industry at the age of 20, designing inter-titles which appeared on screen in the silent movies. Just five years later he was directing movies.
He meets veteran actress Jean Marsh, who starred in Hitchcock’s penultimate film, Frenzy, to hear what he was like to work with when the great director came back to shoot on location in London in the early 1970s.
As he returns to his own childhood home in East London, Ross recalls how his first viewing of the iconic Hitchcock movie Psycho “scared the life out of me” and also observes, “Alfred Hitchcock was born and raised in Leytonstone in East London, coincidentally where I spent all my childhood."
The East End boy who terrified the world
Dragons' Den, RTÉ One, 9.30pm
There's loadsamoney in tonight's visit to the business star chamber with nearly a quarter of a million euro being invested in a range of inventions including an app, a new food approach and that old Dragons’ Den staple - the GAA-themed product.
This episode sees the Dragons fighting amongst themselves to work out what is morally right, to amend other Dragons' offers they feel are unfair, and to be the Dragon that spends the millionth euro in the series.
The Dragons get fiery tonight
Five Minutes to a Fortune, Channel 4, 5.05pm
Countdown presenter Rachel Riley, comedian Russell Kane and father-and-son acting team Keith and Jay Duffy play the new game show hosted by (that woman again) Davina McCall.
In the studio stands an imposing 15-foot hourglass containing thousands of pounds. To keep the money in the hourglass, the celebrity contestants must work as the perfect team to complete five challenges in just five minutes.
To secure the cash for charity, the players have to be quick-thinking and have nerves of steel, because if they run out of time the hourglass will turn and their money will start to drain away.
It's that woman again
