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TV highlights 08/08/2013

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The Field of Blood | The Men Who Made Us Thin | Fraud Squad | Rhod Gilbert's Work Experience | Legally High | Scandal | Iconoclasts | Live Golf: USPGA Championship

**The Field of Blood*
9pm, BBC1
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The Field of Blood returns for another two-parter, this time based on Denise Mina's book The Dead Hour. It is 1984 in Glasgow, and with a backdrop of the miners' strike, Daily News reporter Paddy Meehan (Jayd Johnson) and her perspiring partner George McVie (Ford Kiernan) stumble on corruption surrounding the murder of a human rights lawyer, while their editor Devlin (David Morrissey) struggles with his principles as the paper is forced to modernise. It looks nice, but both plot and dialogue are clunky. Concludes Friday. Bim Adewunmi

**The Men Who Made Us Thin*
9pm, BBC2
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The diet industry is fat. Bloated on our cash. Multi-million-dollar empires creating "false promises" by gorging on our shame. At the same time, we are told diets don't work; so why do we keep playing the fat-loss lottery? In the opener of this new four-parter, Jacques Peretti discovers how early categorisations of obesity appear to have been drawn up arbitrarily ("At the stroke of a pen, normal healthy Americans had a weight problem"), and meets the creator of the Dukan Diet, and Slim-Fast mogul S Daniel Abraham. Ali Catterall

**Fraud Squad*
9pm, ITV
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It is understandable that police who deal with fraud are overlooked by documentary-makers and producers of cop dramas: their work is difficult, dull and involves few car chases. Yet, as this look inside the economic crime department of the City of London police shows, their job is important, arguably more so than busting petty ne'er-do-wells. The film follows the cops on the trail of investment scammers, mortgage fraudsters and money-launderers, whose crimes are no less grotesque for their lack of violence. Andrew Mueller

**Rhod Gilbert's Work Experience*
10pm, BBC2
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A fresh set of vocational cameos by the Carmarthen comic, previously seen on BBC Wales. First up, despite admitting that he'd rather find himself trapped in a chemical toilet than even think about a wedding, Rhod tackles the task of planning a mammoth marital shindig. Vowing to monitor the levels of tact tumbling from his mouth, Gilbert constructs a Hollywood-themed wedding, taking in cake design, music and A-list celebrity recruitment. Plus, of course, a somewhat unorthodox choice of ice sculpture as reception centrepiece. Mark Jones

**Legally High*
10pm, Channel 4
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After the mephedrone/M-cat/ meow-meow craze and the emergence of everyone's favourite-named legal high – roflcopter – you could be mistaken for thinking the whole legal high thing is one big joke. But this jaunt into the world of non-prohibited intoxicants delves deeper. Focusing on the chemists who make them, the governments that struggle to classify them and their often hidden dangers, it seeks to sniff out the truth behind the scare stories and those daft names. Lanre Bakare

**Scandal*
9pm, More4
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The types of problems that Olivia Pope's crisis-management company have to contend with are exotic: no politicians with foot in mouth here; instead, people say things like "I'll give you 24 hours" and rush around dealing with top-level spy scandals. That the plotting is so outlandish – this week former covert operatives send a message to Pope coded in some sheet music – is a shame, as the show aims to be topical and, unusual in a mainstream US drama, not only features a black female lead but strong gay characters, too. Martin Skegg

**Iconoclasts*
9.30pm, Sky Arts 1
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Lena Dunham's none-more-zeitgeisty comedy Girls might seem as if it appeared fully formed on our screens, but in reality it required the backing of comedy heavyweight Judd Apatow – a fan of Dunham's since catching her low-budget feature Tiny Furniture – for the series to reach broadcast. In this instalment of the long-running series where pairs of creative types discuss their work with one another, Dunham and Apatow explain their own inspirations and creative processes, while also bigging up each other's work. Gwilym Mumford

**Live Golf: USPGA Championship*
6pm, Sky Sports 1
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Live coverage of the first day of the season's final major tournament, held at the East Course of Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester, New York, which is hosting the event for the first time since 2003. Rory McIlroy is aiming to defend the title he won at Kiawah Island in South Carolina last year, and to atone for missing the cut at the Open last month. Punters don't fancy his chances, though; there's more money on the likes of Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson, Adam Scott and Lee Westwood. AM Reported by guardian.co.uk 9 hours ago.

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