Jamie At Home

8pm & 8.30pm, Channel 4

Jamie returns to enthuse winningly about one foodstuff per episode, until he runs out of ingredients, or dies. The late Dame Margaret Rutherford (Jamie's friend Daphne) arrives, and proves not only to know lamb but love it, and advocate it, wildly: "Old Britain was raised for a thousand years on mutton!" she rallies. Yes, but where are they now? They're all dead! For those vegetarian types, the second part of the double bill looks at leeks. Which are ... oh. Cooked with meat in every recipe.

American Idol

8pm & 10pm, ITV2

Everyone knows the funnest bit of any of these talent shows are the audition stages, rather than those protracted karaoke rounds that go on forever, so having run out of auditions of our own (at least, until Britain's Got Talent), we can flip over and watch the US hopefuls instead. As if that wasn't enough, between the two audition shows, sits a profile of Simon Cowell - the man for whom singers can never be too shouty, trousers too nipple-tickling, or contestants' heartwarming sob-stories too sad.

Fairy Tales

BBC1, 9pm

Cindy is a young cleaner at a university where visiting anthropology expert Professor Prince (the not very charming James Nesbitt) is on the lookout for a new research assistant, who has to be young and female, for some reason. While two grasping harpies vie for the position, can Maxine Peake's sparky cleaner grab hold of the job? And the man? And what is this, a clever-woman-succeeds tale, or a romcom? Oh, it's another updated fairytale. Just when you thought the pantomime season was over.

Trial & Retribution

9pm, ITV1

Victoria Smurfit, the woman with the best name and the crossest face in television, returns as pouting DCI Roisin Connor. A dead young woman is unfurled from a posh man's silver suitcase at Heathrow, and light shines upon the murkier edges of London high-life. While murdered prostitutes may be nothing new to the jaded team, DCI Connor becomes obsessed with finding the young woman's family and, after discovering fine dining in the postmortem stomach contents, pinning down the smug growling businessmen who are getting away with murder.