Chateau Monty

Channel 4, 8.30pm

Chateau Monty is reaching its climax. Monty and his assistant Linzie have been working for nine months to get to this moment, and there are now 6,000 vines heavy with grapes waiting for a full Moon to be picked. The boars managed to eat only the equivalent of 30 or so bottles, so everything depends on a successful harvest — and crossed fingers that the wine won’t turn to vinegar.

Natural Born Sellers

ITV1, 9pm

In a shameless rip-off of The Apprentice, eight salesmen and women from varying disciplines compete against one another to outperform in different sales task each week. These are the usual grisly bunch of swaggering egotists, carefully selected for their ability to make viewers scream at the television set. In the first episode tonight, they are asked to sell furniture in a retail park outside Derby over the August Bank Holiday. Distinctly more unpleasant than The Apprentice, this is the cultural equivalent of toxic waste.

Cutting Edge: Dana — The 8 Year Old Anorexic

Channel 4, 9pm

Mercifully, this film is not distressing to watch. It follows the miraculous recovery of an enchanting eight-year-old girl at a specialist clinic, where she is looked after by caring staff who know exactly what they are doing. But the horror is still there in the background, even if viewers are spared the appalling details.

Anorexia is on the rise among children as young as 8 — for which the media must bear a good deal of responsibility. But, as one staff member says: “It’s not about food or being thin. It’s a cry for help. It begins with a child with lots of problems, either at home or at school.” It is difficult enough for an anorexic to swallow food at all; fighting the anorexic way of thinking can be a battle that lasts a lifetime.

Beautiful People

BBC Two, 9.30pm

Beautiful People traces the life and times of an outrageous, unashamed teenage fashionista — played with great charm by Luke Ward-Wilkinson — growing up in Reading in the 1990s. His father (Aidan McArdle ) is a plumber; his mother (Olivia Colman) is a drinkers and his blind Aunty Hayley (Meera Syal) is as mad a March hare.

As an adolescent, the young man feeds off Tennessee Williams’ films, dresses up in women’s clothes and dreams of a glamorous world elsewhere. It is not a work of comic genius and — unlike the first series of Shameless — it doesn’t give off the smell of authenticity, despite being based on the memoirs of Simon Doonan, creative director of Barney’s department store in New York. But it does have an exuberant cast of characters, crazy fantasy sequences and plenty of good humour.

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