TV tonight: our highlights for Tuesday, August 12, including The Great British Sewing Bee

Patrick Grant and Esme Young standing at a desk and watching someone sew on the Sewing Bee set

Patrick Grant and Esme Young. (Image credit: BBC/Love Productions Ltd)

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The Great British Sewing Bee
In Flight
The Repair Shop
The Big Pound Shop Swap

Here's our TV tonight picks for Tuesday, August 12 (for more information about what's on TV, see our TV Guide)...

The Great British Sewing Bee, BBC1, 9 pm

Sara Pascoe, Esme Young, Patrick Grant — (Image credit: BBC/Love Productions/Neil Sherwood)

While we’ve loved every Sewing Bee theme, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Week is always one we can all get behind. The first challenge set by judges Patrick Grant and Esme Young involves making a workwear jacket from a zero-waste pattern. ‘Oh my God, there’s maths!’ is the heartfelt cry from one sewer – and if just one calculation is wrong, the whole jacket won’t work out. Next, the Transformation sees tents abandoned at music festivals turned into festival outfits, while the Made to Measure takes inspiration from ‘Make Do and Mend’.

In Flight, Channel 4, 9 pm

Katherine Kelly as flight attendant single mum Jo Conran in In Flight. — (Image credit: Channel 4)

Katherine Kelly soars onto screens in a turbulent six-part thriller about a single mum whose life spirals when her son is jailed for murder in Bulgaria. Desperate to keep Sonny (Harry Cadby) safe while serving 15 years for a murder he swears he didn’t commit, flight attendant Jo Conran is blackmailed into smuggling drugs on board international flights by a dangerous criminal gang. Set across Thailand, Turkey, Bulgaria and the UK, the high-altitude drama also stars Miss Scarlet and the Duke’s Stuart Martin as Jo’s menacing criminal contact Cormac and Great Expectations’ Ashley Thomas as customs officer Dom. Continues until Thursday.

The Repair Shop, BBC1, 8 pm

Chris Shaw fixes a wartime diary chronicling the Nazi occupation of Guernsey, while Dom Chinea and Brenton West take on a paraffin lamp owned by the last stationmaster of Donemana Station in County Tyrone.

The Big Pound Shop Swap, Channel 4, 8 pm

Denise holding some fabric conditioner and standing in a white kitchen — (Image credit: Holly Wren / Channel 4)

Denise Van Outen has become a consumer champion in C4’s Secrets of the Supermarket… series, and here she heads up an experiment that sees families spend a week trading in higher-range products for cheaper alternatives from bargain stores. In this first episode, Denise tracks the progress of the Phillips clan in Kent as they buy everything from food and cleaning products to beauty items from one discount shop. Will their friends and family realise which are the budget buys when they’re invited to a party?