Garden Rescue (BBC1, 3.25pm)

FORMER perennial pin-up of Garden Force Charlie Dimmock is back on the green-fingered glory trail and starts a 20-programme daytime series in York with £5,000 to transform the stylish garden of Alistair and Philippa.

Dimmock's joined by the Chelsea Gold Medal-winning brothers David and Harry Rich and will need all their help because the North Yorkshire patch looks like a tip because it's full of building material.

The woman who made garden make-overs a crowd-puller, alongside Alan Tichmarsh and Tommy Walsh, told TV Times that she'd forgotten how frustrating filming can be. "I was obviously looking back with rose-tinted glasses and had wiped what it was like whey they say, 'Can we do that again? or Put that in, no, take that out, now put it back in again'."

It's been more than a decade since Dimmock admitted she was the braless wonder of Garden Force, which ran from 1997 to 2005. This time she feels that her new series isn't just about brightening up a tired plot of land. "This is more about showing you how to design a garden and then planting it. It's not about instant results," says Charlie who has to come up with a design to challenge those of the Rich brothers. The owners then selected the one they like best.

"This felt very real. the money we have to work with is actually the client's. They give us a brief of what they'd like in their garden and then they say, 'We've got £1,500' or whatever, but within that they want a new shed, a trampoline or sometimes both. We have to do what the client requests rather than just come up with a very nice look," says Charlie.

Harry and David have actually won two Gold Medals at Chelsea, in 2013 and 2015, but is she having as much fun as when she worked with Alan and Tommy?

"Exactly the same. We have just as many laughs. What I remember most about Ground Fore is the fun we had, along with the bad weather. Some things never change. We've had rain and more rain on Garden Rescue, plus freezing cold and one boiling hot day where we all frazzled."

Despite 2o different gardens getting the rescue treatment, Charlie and the brothers discover there were often similar problems.

"Most people know they want a patio in the sunny bit and a space the washing line and somewhere for the shed or trapoline, but they don't know how to make it all join together," says Charlie.

The Hairy Builder (BBC2, 6.30pm)

THEY may be best mates, but Dave Myers and Si King are definitely not joined at the hip. You may remember Dave ditching his Hairy Bikers cohort to ride alone during a memorable stint on Strictly Come Dancing, and now he's going solo again with this new, 15-part series. In each edition, he will accompany a team of specialist historical builders from Britain's oldest masonry company as they peel back the layers of time in some of the nation's most important stately homes, cathedrals and listed buildings, to reveal their hidden architectural DNA. Along the way, Dave will act as their apprentice to learn exactly how these buildings were constructed. He begins with a visit to Mansion House, a Grade I listed building in Doncaster, which was opened in 1749.

Forces of Nature with Brian Cox (BBC1, 9pm)

THE physicist charts the Earth's journey through space, taking to the air in a fighter jet to race the spin of the planet and reverse the passage of the day. In Brazil, a professional surfer rides a monstrous wave surges up the Amazon River, marking the world's constant dance with the Moon, while the harsh winter in Greenland brings opportunity to the Inuit people who live there, and Brian explains how comprehending the motion and speed of Earth brings an understanding of the nature of space and time itself.

Viv Hardwick