Telly Today: The dangers of body obsessions

One to Watch: The Kyle Files, ITV including STV and UTV, 8pm

Jeremy Kyle is back on ITV screens with another series investigating high-profile issues that impact on people’s lives – from drug-taking to acid attacks, and from body obsession to overstretched emergency services. Each week, Jeremy and the Kyle Files team get to the heart of the matter as they work with the emergency services, film covertly, interview victims and confront protagonists to demand answers.

In tonight’s programme – the third in the six-part series – Jeremy is looking into body obsessions.

Following the public taking an interest in successful programmes like ITV2’s Love Island, Jeremy investigates the latest trend for men to risk their health by using steroids to create the perfect body. He hears from a grieving mother the true danger men put themselves in when injecting steroids, he confronts a steroid dealer, a user tells his story, and laboratory tests reveal shocking results from steroids purchased from different gyms.

The Truth About Your Pay, Channel 4, 8pm

Dispatches investigate how companies could artificially close their gender pay gap.

Reporter Tazeen Ahmad reveals how the figures companies present to the government may not always be what they seem, as the deadline for disclosing the average difference between the pay of male and female employees fast approaches. Undercover reporters meet the ‘gender pay gap consultants’ who offer advice that could allow firms to exploit loopholes in the law in order to protect their own reputations, instead of tackling differences in pay.

The Channel 4 programme looks at whether this flagship policy will be enforced and asks if this new law aimed at promoting pay equality and adding billions of pounds to the economy is fit for purpose.

Criminal Minds: Miasma, Sky Living, 9pm

The thirteenth series of Criminal Minds continues tonight with Miasma. Episode fourteen of twenty-two editions no less for this run.

And tonight there are some grim goings-on in the hour-long drama, as the BAU is called to New Orleans when the police discover a mass grave inside a vandalised above-ground crypt in a local cemetery.

Extreme Winter Road Rescue: Ice Terror, Channel 5, 8pm

Are you sick of the snow we’ve experienced lately? Well have a thought for these guys… High-speed collisions, overturned lorries, drivers stranded on dangerous busy motorways, and those trapped in snow blizzards— this series follows the emergency services who risk their lives to come to our aid when winter weather causes chaos.

In this edition, a heavy road recovery team is called out in the middle of the night to an overturned lorry that is causing havoc in Milton Keynes. Laden with a 25-tonne load of bricks, they have their work cut out to get the road clear for the morning rush hour.

In Perthshire, vehicle engineer Stevie is working in sub-zero conditions beside the live lane of motorway traffic. He has to work inches away from the lorries hammering past
at speed. He knows only too well the dangers of working on the hard shoulder.

Terror in the Air: Flights Out of Control, Channel 5, 9pm

A rare moment for Telly Today – a second helping from Channel 5. Following the motorway show at 8pm we stick with the network for take-off at 9pm. Terror in the Air continues, with its second episode in the three-part series tonight and this outing explores what happens when flights lose control, with footage captured by passengers on board and first-hand accounts from lucky survivors.

We’ll see terror onboard a plane when its pilot slams his packed passenger jet into a field in thick fog, while another plane ploughs onto a busy motorway. And there is mayhem when a mountain rescue flight ends in disaster, and crowds of people race into the sea to free a trapped pilot when he ditches his plane.