TV Guide BBC Two Thursday

Police are alerted to the discovery of human remains near Aviemore. They suspect this might be the last resting place of Rodrigo Falcon, a popular barman who went missing in December 2022. Sergeant Stephen Todd and his team confront a woman who is keeping monkeys and tropical animals in a ruined house in freezing cold Caithness. In Inverness, PC Siobhan Cooper faces rowdy bank holiday crowds

The race is on to track down a driver who has fled the scene of a serious crash in Newport, leaving his friend critically injured on the road. The victim has been thrown from the back seat of a Volkswagen Polo. As medics treat him and a seriously injured woman, a manhunt is gaining pace, inquiries take a forensic turn, and a chilling truth is exposed

Nigel Havers meets five sellers hoping to raise money with an entire church floor's worth of decorative tiles, a vintage metal detector, a pair of Buddhist statues, a medicine ball and an architectural antique with a royal connection

Danny Sebastian hosts a festive edition from Newark antiques fair, where Roo Irvine and Caroline Hawley gift their expert knowledge to two teams of Christmas shoppers. In red are in-laws Gary and Riah, while sisters Claire and Jill are in blue

With Buster by his side, Adam Frost gets on with some winter jobs. He's got hellebores to plant, a sedum roof to repair and a nestbox that is in need of a spring clean. He also celebrates the joy of growing your own horseradish and sows broad beans for an early harvest. In Wiltshire, Carol Klein opens the gates to a secret garden that has never been seen by the public, while Jamie Butterworth discovers how a gardener turned an empty field into a glorious display of perennials in just three years and Rekha Mistry spends the day at an allotment site in Sheffield with community at its heartias.

Game show in which contestants are tested on their mental abilities in head-to-head rounds. Hosted by Clive Anderson

Cameraman Gordon Buchanan travels to the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard to document the lives of a polar bear and her two cubs over the course of three seasons. In spring, he and a team of arctic survival experts manage to find a birth den and meet mother Lyra and offspring Miki and Luca as they emerge from it. Gordon then helps scientists fit the adult with a tracking collar and tests a bear-proof filming hide as he takes on the mission of living with the family

A dying plantation owner summons his two sons to put his estate in order. The older of the pair, a washed-up American football player with a drinking problem, is tormented by the death of a friend and resents his loyally supportive wife, and is forced by the reunion to come to terms with his personal demons. Drama based on Tennessee Williams' stage play, starring Paul Newman, Elizabeth Taylor and Burl Ives

Dave Myers and Si King travel around the nation cooking their favourite festive treats as they plan an early celebration for firefighters, nurses, police and ambulance crews who will be spending yuletide away from their families. The food lovers rustle up classic Christmas pudding, mince pies and chestnut soup, before ending their journey with a feast at the world's largest tree house

Antiques experts James Lewis and Mark Stacey value antiques at Guildford Cathedral, including a collection of Doulton dogs, a mahogany window seat and an unusual ring. Presenter Paul Martin looks at the role local people played in the the venue's construction