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Phil Harrison, Ali Catterall, Ellen E Jones, Graeme Virtue, Hollie Richardson, Jack Seale and Simon Wardell

TV tonight: the Hairy Bikers are finally on the road again

Dave Myers and Si King, both in leather biker jackets, standing together on a ferry as they head to Scotland in The Hairy Bikers Go West
Dave Myers and Si King on a ferry as they head to Scotland in The Hairy Bikers Go West. Photograph: Jon Boast/BBC/South Shore Productions

The Hairy Bikers Go West

7pm, BBC Two

Dave Myers and Si King’s UK food tours are now given extra resonance by Myers’s recent recovery from cancer. At the start of this new series, he confesses that he doubted he would ever ride his motorbike alongside his best mate again. But happily, they are back together on the road, starting in beautiful Bute in Scotland, where they find culinary institutions including an award-winning haggis-maker and a family of Syrian refugees who have opened a hugely successful bakery. Phil Harrison

Boris Becker: The Rise and Fall

9pm, ITV1

It is just over two miles from Wimbledon tennis courts to Wandsworth prison: it took teenage prodigy Boris Becker 38 years to make that journey after being found guilty of tax evasion in 2022. In this two-parter, insiders including ex-wife Sharlely (who describes him as “kind, funny, arrogant and a liar”) chart his rise, crash and burn. Ali Catterall

Domino Day

9pm, BBC Three

The coven makes contact with Domino (Siena Kelly) in an attempt to help her understand her need to feed on creepy guys – “Your whole aura is full of conflict!” But this witch is determined to go it alone and get back on the dating apps. So many predators’ souls to suck, and so little time. Ellen E Jones

David Mitchell’s Outsiders

9.45pm, BBC Two

Jamali Maddix sitting outdoors, wearing dark blue padded jacket and baseball cap
Subversive … Jamali Maddix in David Mitchell’s Outsiders. Photograph: Steve Peskett/BBC/Renegade Pictures for Dave/UKTV

There is a whiff of Taskmaster to this series, as six comedians undertake daft challenges while roughing it under canvas. In this episode, the teams are trying to earn proficiency badges in music and flag-making. But first up is a tense game of hide-and-seek that Jamali Maddix brilliantly subverts. Graeme Virtue

First Dates

10pm, Channel 4

Aaron was one of the winners of the first series of The Traitors, but will he promise to be 100% faithful to his date, Laura, if they hit off? And more importantly: does she even recognise him off the telly? Elsewhere in the restaurant, Krissy is returning to the dating scene after becoming a mum for the first time at 51. Hollie Richardson

Storyville: Another Body – My AI Porn Nightmare

10pm, BBC Four

This real story plays out like a breathless thriller. American engineering student Taylor, 22, is sent a highly traumatising “deepfake” video that digitally grafts her likeness on to hardcore pornography. Meeting a disdainful reaction from the police, she teams up with another victim and dives into a fetid online rabbit hole in pursuit of the culprit. Jack Seale

Film choice

A young woman in black leather and dark glasses stands in front of graffitied windows
A still from the 2021 film Rebel Dykes. Photograph: PR Handout

Rebel Dykes (Harri Shanahan and Siân A Williams, 2021), Wednesday, 2.20am, Channel 4

A revelatory documentary about a subculture of “young, punk, poor” lesbians in 1980s London who took the spirit of the Greenham Common peace protests into the squats and underground spaces of the city. The largely forgotten group of activists, most of whom were involved in notorious S&M club night Chain Reaction, have been brought back into the spotlight by directors Harri Shanahan and Siân A Williams to relive an era of gay-bashing, Aids and section 28 – but also of wild fun, solidarity and life-changing defiance. An inspirational history lesson. Simon Wardell

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