Britain's Bravest

Five, 8pm

Dermot Murnaghan fronts a new series paying tribute to some of those who have laid their lives on the line for others. The first episode includes the Royal Navy helicopter crew who plucked a family of five from the roof of a crumbling building in Boscastle during the devastating flood of 2004, and two rally drivers who rescued a rival team when they crashed, upside down, in a lake.

The Passion

BBC One, 9pm

Tonight's episode begins with the Last Supper and ends with Jesus's death on the Cross. Although the production doesn't set out to be as savage in its portrayal of violence as Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ, it is still harrowing. Once again, the qualities of the production are here in abundance: a script that avoids clunking clichés, a raft of arresting performances and a vivid re-creation of Jerusalem in AD33. At its heart, Joseph Mawle's Christ is far more a son of man than the Son of God. But that's no bad thing. This is a realistic story about a divinely inspired preacher - more likeable than charismatic - who spreads a revolutionary doctrine at a time when the politics of the Middle East were even more volatile than they are now.

Torchwood

BBC Two, 9pm

At its best, Torchwood - like Russell T. Davies's Doctor Who - touches on themes that have a resonance far beyond the tinfoil suits and flashing lights of science fiction. Tonight's moving episode deals with loss and closure. A 15-year-old boy disappears on the way home from football practice. You might think, given the circumstances, that a parent would be desperate to know what had happened to his or her child - even if it meant confronting his or her worst fears. Anything would be better than living in a state of terrible uncertainty, deprived of the chance to grieve. But sometimes the worst can be so unbearable that it is better not to know. That way, at least, there is hope.

Dirty Sexy Money

Channel 4, 9pm

After the demise of Six Feet Under, the actors who played the brothers - Michael C. Hall and Peter Krause - are both back on TV heading up above-average US series. Hall is having a fine time as the amiable psycho in Dexter, and here Krause plays an upright lawyer, Nick George, who, like his father before him, gets sucked into working for a fabulously wealthy family against his better judgment. Each family member is a head case from the patriarch (Donald Sutherland) on down; having destroyed Nick's father and ruined his childhood, they now seem intent on wrecking the rest of his life. Money and power are pitched against decency and common sense in a Dallas-style entertainment that looks likely to liven up Friday-night TV.

The Friday Night Project

Channel 4, 10pm

The supermodel and actress Elle “The Body” Macpherson, joins Justin Lee Cooper and Alan Carr for a new series of post-pub tomfoolery, with music from a guest band.

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