TV tonight: it’s already time for the year’s first Christmas special

Sally Lindsay’s antique-dealing detective is drawn into a festive investigation in Madame Blanc. Plus: Martin Lewis tackles the Budget. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Madame Blanc Mysteries

9.05pm, Channel 5 Series five of the cosy crime drama. Somebody has murdered the mayor of Sainte-Victoire and dumped her body in the village fountain, which has put a dampener on antique-dealing sleuth Jean’s (Sally Lindsay) Christmas Eve wedding plans. Still, she joins the investigation, and though a local builder is under suspicion, she believes there may be a different motive. Ali Catterall

Breast Cancer Scandal: Exposing the Harm

7pm, BBC Two BBC health correspondent Sharon Barbour presents a disturbing one-off documentary about women in County Durham whose mastectomies were found to have been unnecessary.