Run on the Bank: Northern Crock, BBC Two, 7pm

It’s a week of grisly postmortems on television. First, there was that sinister German in a hat cutting up cadavers on Channel 4. Now, The Money Programme disinters the putrefying corpse of Northern Rock to find out what went wrong. How did it become the fifth-largest mortgage lender in just a few years, only to fall apart so spectacularly in a matter of days? How far was the bank’s senior management responsible? And, bearing in mind that 5 per cent of Northern Rock’s profit goes to its own charitable foundation, what will become of the people who rely on the charity’s generosity if the bank is sold? As Alistair Darling said to Mervyn King: “Here’s another fine mess you’ve got me into.” (Or was it the other way around?)

Never Say Die, BBC Two, 7.30pm

Is it a coincidence that this extraordinary story should be broadcast only days after Stephen Poliakoff’s Shooting the Past was repeated? Pat Bienkowski became convinced that the emaciated figure in the giant, blown-up photograph she saw at an exhibition devoted to the memory of Japanese prisoners of war was that of her father, Private George Fox, even though the inscription said that the prisoner died two days later. Her father survived the war, but he never recovered from his ordeal and died when Pat was a teenager. Pat spent six months trying to prove it was him. Finally, 60 years after the end of the Second World War, the mystery of that photograph is solved.

The Tudors, BBC Two, 9pm

Your weekly newsflash from the Tudor court . . . The young Henry is still on a rolling boil of sexual frustration. The Boleyn camp is inciting Anne to use her “pretty breasts” to do Cardinal Wolsey a great hurt, which is nowhere near as much fun for the Cardinal as it might sound. The noble Queen, however, is on to Anne Boleyn in a big way. “Lady Anne,” she tells her. “I know what you are doing . . . but do not think to take the king away from me. Let him play with you. He cannot give you his true heart, for I have that in my keeping”. Alas, this is no longer true. Who knows what may happen next? Watch this space.

Comedy Showcase: Free Agents, Channel 4, 10.30pm

If any theme has emerged from this range of Comedy Showcases, it has been to see how far the boundaries of taste can be pushed. Here, Stephen Mangan and Sharon Horgan play theatrical agents who have been bruised by past relationships and are now having an unsatisfactory nonaffair driven by his need to sleep on her sofa. He is traumatised with guilt for abandoning his children and she feels responsible for the death of her fiancé. Both are needy, only their needs are different. There is a good deal of snappy banter between the two, but Anthony Head as their boss steals the show as a pervy old goat out of whose mouth pours an unending stream of uncensored filth. It’s like being confronted by an erection on screen – more amazing than shocking.

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