Jade: Bride to Be

Living, 9pm

Live by the sword, die by the sword . . . Jade Goody’s adult years have been a real-life Truman Show, with cameras giving a blow-by-blow account as she stumbled from dubious fame to controversial fall and the cancer diagnosis that will soon claim her life. This two-part special should be the final instalment, save for a mooted interview with Piers Morgan. In tonight’s episode, Jade is as girly, gaudy, resilient and open as ever as she prepares for her “fairytale” wedding to Jack Tweed, flitting from girly hen night (complete with a communal tooth-whitening session), to a private helicopter ride and chats with a controversial bishop. In what might in other circumstanceshave been something to dismiss, this is likely to be a massive ratings winner – close to one million viewers have tuned in for the previous episodes of her life-story. Alex Hardy

Nature’s Great Events

BBC One, 9pm

Once a year, at the height of the dry season, rain from the highlands of Angola pours down into the Okavango Delta of Botswana, transforming 4,000 square miles of arid desert into lush wetlands. It’s nature’s answer to Easter Sunday, Mardi Gras and Fireworks Day rolled into one. Fields of lilies burst into life. Animals that had been clinging on to life in shrinking water holes can’t believe their luck. Fish beneath the surface of the water break into gospel music, and all the Big Berthas – buffalo, zebras, elephants and hippos – arrive for a spot of grazing and splashing. Disney, eat your heart out.

Building the Olympic Dream

BBC Two, 9pm

Seven hundred acres of land in the East End of London are being developed for the 2012 Olympics, which will include several world-class stadiums, a media centre and an Olympic Village to house 17,000 athletes. And it’s not just for the Olympics – the big idea is that this vast building project will regenerate a deprived area of London. Needless to say, not everyone is happy. Housing cooperatives, local businesses and allotment owners are being relocated against their will to make way for the masterplan, and here they are filmed doing what little they can to prevent the destruction of their way of life. But despite their magnificently British defiance, they (and everyone else) know that their cause is hopeless. In the end, 400 residents and 200 businesses are relocated – and the bulldozers move in.

Grand Designs

Channel 4, 9pm

A doctor and his wife have bought 12 acres of land in the Kent countryside, where they wish to raise their two children. They want to build a deceptively simple looking glass and timber pavilion, most of which has been prefabricated off-site. The main structure will use cross-laminated timber panels cut with millimetre-precision by a robot in Germany, while acres of electrically heated glass will be imported from a factory in Belgium. The trick will be to try to get all the pieces to fit together like a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle, otherwise their £560,000 budget will end up in tatters. But the highlight of the programme is not the building itself, but Kevin McCloud’s demonstration of the basic principle of cross-lamination using ice-cream wafers.

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