Kirstie’s Fill Your House For Free
(C4, 8pm)

ACCORDING to “jolly hockey sticks” Kirstie Allsopp there’s a revolution going on throughout the country, turning the kerbside into a shopping Mecca.

That’s in terms of trying to ensure other people’s tat becomes home-worthy treasure.

So we’ve seen a procession of discarded furniture arriving from online giveaway sites or skip-diving ready to be sanded down, given a splodge of paint and turned into a shabby chic masterpieces.

Allsop also decided to set up a shop in Glasgow, the home of the canny Scot, to display these recycled revivals to Britain’s growing band of penniless home-starters.

“You can only find happiness in other people’s happiness,” she says. “You cannot, as an individual, find your own happiness alone. It is only by making other people happy that you can be happy yourself.”

This week, Allsop meets Christine and Chris, a young Glasgow couple who’ve just bought their first home. Chris is a graphic designer, so has a good eye – and therein lies the problem. He knows what he wants, and it’s not something that can be bought ‘off the peg’. Neither is it easily sourced on a budget, so it’s up to Kirstie to let him down gently and offer up some alternatives.

Also in need of help is single mum-oftwo Helen. She’s been living in France for 14 years but has moved back to the UK and wants to revamp her new home, in particular the bedroom, which she wants to turn into a haven away from the kids, but with a workspace.

Coast
(BBC2, 7pm)

ONCE Nick Crane and co had exhausted the British coastline, most people expected this documentary team to hang up their raincoats and enjoy a rest.

But series nine is now busier than Saltburn beach and the format has barely changed.

This week, the presenters are hopping around all over the place, from Cornwall to Australia and Holland, as they retell the fortunes of various explorers.

Among the highlights is 18th Century artist William Daniell’s ten-year mission to illustrate a book, Crane taking a trip in the replica of the UK’s oldest boat to commemorate the first sailor to circumnavigate Britain and an insight into how Scot Lachlan Macquarie laid the foundations of what would become Australia.

Utopia
(Channel 4, 10pm)

YOU can’t afford to nip off to make a cup of tea or check your emails while Utopia is on – in fact, just a quick blink can make you miss a crucial piece of the plot.

The fourth episode which begins as Dugdale offers Jessica a safe place to stay, despite the fact they don’t seem to trust each other.

Ian, meanwhile, is a wanted man. Both Jessica and Milner are searching for him, but he’s holed up with Becky, trying to work out why Anton declared they were all going to die. Eventually, Becky discovers more about the dark past of the mystery man, who has a bigger part to play in this story - just as The Network prepares to release Russian flu on the world, Anton makes another announcement, this time involving the horrifying adjustment he has made to Janus...