Let's start with a trip through time with the delectable Doctor Who (BBC One, Sat). Donna Noble is determined to find the Doctor again – even if it means braving the villainous Miss Foster and her hordes of sinister Adipose. But when the alien threat escalates out of control, can Donna find her Time Lord before the march of the Adipose begins?

For the life and death drama of a wild animal shoot we journey to the centre of the controversial South African hunting industry in Louis Theroux's African Hunting Holiday (BBC Two, Sun). Keeping wild animals fenced in on farms has made it cheaper and easier to hunt than ever before, but Louis discovers that this industry, instead of endangering species, has actually increased animal numbers.

Staying at a safari hunting lodge, Louis hears that each kill has a price. The potential shopping list is endless, ranging from $250 for a porcupine to $100,000 for a rhino. It's a hunter's paradise. This is a very popular tourist attraction – particularly among Americans.

Closer to home Britain is the central character in a new four-part series looking at how writers, historical and contemporary, have reflected the natural and man-made landscape, and the lives of their people in Melvyn Bragg's Travels In Written Britain (ITV 1, Sun).

The first programme starts from the mouth of the Tyne with a whole range of voices from the Venerable Bede to Basil Bunting.

Buying a holiday home has never been so popular with over 800,000 Brits owning an overseas pad but as we find out in Holiday Homes From Hell (ITV 1, Thurs) it's not always easy.

Away from the UK, with unfamiliar laws and a language barrier, problems with property owning can soon turn into disasters. The programme meets the couples who invested thousands in a place in the sun - only to see their dreams turn to nightmares before their eyes.

Most people travel to the penthouse via the lift but in The Human Spider (Channel 4, tonight, Thurs) we join Alain Robert, arguably the most daring climber the world has ever seen on his recent climb in London, where he scaled Portland House in Westminster.

This heart-stopping documentary follows the married father-of-three on his quest to "free climb" some of the world's tallest buildings using just his bare hands, with no ropes or any safety equipment, despite suffering from epilepsy.

And for a trip down the catwalk we join 29-year-old identical twins, Suzy and Jeannie, who have very similar bodies but feel very differently about them in How To Look Good Naked (Channel 4, Tues). In a new twist, can Gok Wan convince them both to shed all in an Oxford Street shop window as well as strut their stuff down the Naked catwalk?