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Challenge USA … Romesh Ranganathan contemplates the scale of his task.
Challenge USA … Romesh Ranganathan contemplates the scale of his task. Photograph: CBS Studios Inc
Challenge USA … Romesh Ranganathan contemplates the scale of his task. Photograph: CBS Studios Inc

Wednesday’s best TV: Just Another Immigrant; Mythbusters Jr; The Twinstitute

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Romesh Ranganathan attempts to take the US, young brainboxes grapple with daft physics and TV’s twin doctors ask how best to get fit fast

Just Another Immigrant
10pm, Sky One

The comedian Romesh Ranganathan has been a ubiquitous TV presence this past 12 months, but that doesn’t mean that everything he does will be well received. The jury is very much out on this new docuseries, the conceit of which is: wouldn’t it be funny if he uprooted his family and headed to LA in a bid to make it in the US? In a fairly amusing opening double bill he flies out alone to test the water but his attempts to get gigs fall on closed ears. Trouble is: he has booked a 6,000-seat theatre and only has three months to sell it out. Mike Bradley

Mythbusters Jr
8pm, Discovery

Scrapheap Challenge is welded to CBBC classic Why Don’t You? for this kid-friendly reboot of the science franchise. In a warehouse crammed full of kit, host Adam Savage teams up with six young brainboxes to try to engineer fun solutions to daft questions such as: can you crush a car with falling dominos? Graeme Virtue

The Twinstitute
8.30pm, BBC Two

Has that vigorous new exercise regime got you seeing double? Fear not, it’s only twin TV doctors Chris and Xand van Tulleken, presenting with the help of 30 other pairs of identical siblings. In these final health experiments they discover the best way to get fit fast. Is it moderate exercise? Or high intensity training? Ellen E Jones

Revolution in Ruins: The Hugo Chávez Story
9pm, BBC Two

Director Ruth Mayer’s account of Venezuelan politician Chávez’s rise from a remote farming community to the head of the world’s most oil-rich nation. It’s an oddly tragic, turbulent tale of a man who really did believe in his vision of a socialist revolution, but left the country in ruins. MB

Cleaning Up
9pm, ITV

Episode two of the Sheridan Smith-starring insider-trading drama, which manages to be simultaneously soapy, tense and drily funny. Sam and Jess home in on a new deal, but the former’s gambling addiction and family problems threaten to derail their scheme. Elsewhere, Glynn is forced to pick up the slack for his landlady. Hannah J Davies

Red Arrows: Kings of the Sky
9pm, Channel 5

The manly series about the aerobatic display team continues with the induction of two new pilots and a look at the ground crew who keep them aloft. But are they valuable “British global ambassadors” or, given that they cost the MoD an estimated £9m a year, a waste of public money? MB

Film choice

Electric … Colin Farrell and Jamie Foxx in Michael Mann’s Miami Vice. Photograph: Universal/Everett/Rex Features

Miami Vice 9pm, 5Star
Michael Mann’s adaptation of the 80s cop show has a mojito-cool pair of leads in Colin Farrell’s Crockett and Jamie Foxx’s Tubbs. The plot, involving the two Florida undercover cops in pursuit of a drug lord, is disposable, but the atmosphere is electric and no one stages a gunfight with the icy efficiency of Mann. Paul Howlett

Today’s best live sport

Snooker: The Masters 1pm, BBC Two. Judd Trump takes on Kyren Wilson as the first round continues.

FA Cup Football 7.30pm, BBC One. A replay from the third round of the storied cup competition.

Tennis: Australian Open 12midnight, Eurosport 1. The second-round singles matches continue at Melbourne Park.

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