Tonight's TV highlights

Beauty And The Beast: The Ugly Face Of Prejudice 8pm, Channel 4 Hardly the freak show the press anticipated, this series teams six "beauty obsessives" with six "visually-different" people for a week, to see if any prejudices can be smashed. First up is attractive but insecure Yasmin, whose counterpart, the worldly-wise and facially-scarred Leo, worries the fashion industry is driving young women like her toward unnecessary surgery. Elsewhere, roving reporter Adam Pearson, who has neurofibromatosis, investigates bigotry in wider society. AJC Who Gets The Best Jobs? 9pm, BBC2 Around 7% of British children attend private schools, yet their alumni provide us with three-quarters of our judges. Worse, it's getting more difficult for those from poorer backgrounds to get jobs in the professions. Why? Blame such factors as internships that benefit those who can afford to work for no pay in London and who already have useful contacts via parents, as well as employers favouring Russell Group graduates. Presented by Richard Bilton, it's an excellent documentary that gives a sobering overview of why and how Britain is becoming a more unequal society. JW Mary Portas: Secret Shopper 9pm, Channel 4 Despite raking in billions from the public, many of whom would sooner leave the house without shoes than without their mobile phones, the stores that sell the things are not always paragons of customer service, as undercover footage reveals. A tut-tutting Portas targets the national chain Fonehouse as particular offenders, despite the high opinions of its CEO Clive Bayley. She takes control of his flagship store in north London and offers a masterclass in across-the-counter culture. DS Gossip Girl 8pm, ITV2 That most American of holidays, the mid-season hiatus, is over, so Gossip Girl can return to continue its steady and happy evolution into a blog-age version of Dynasty. Serena-based plotlines may come and go but this is now effectively The Chuck Show. While his former schoolfriends puzzle over adult problems, Chuck has jumped right in there with his power hairstyling and dismissive lip curl, which is all most entertaining. Tonight, one of his father's business associates returns to stir up trouble, while he and Serena must join forces against Lily. JR The Secret Life Of Waves 9pm, BBC4 Film-maker David Malone believes waves aren't just nice things to watch as they crash against rocks or roll up the beach – rather, he sees them as a window into how the world works and the nature of reality. So he gets to work finding out about waves and delivers some surprising insights (waves are not made of water; they travel thousands of miles; it's tiny bubbles that make the noise; some go sideways). The philosophical part, that waves are a process with a life and death cycle reflecting our own, seems fair enough, but nowhere near as profound as he believes. MS Public Speaking 10.10pm, Sky Atlantic While his movies are full of exotic and flashy camera moves, Martin Scorsese's documentary work shows a lot more restraint. This interview with writer Fran Lebowitz is a portrait both in words (covering her fascinating life and career from her big break working for Andy Warhol's Interview magazine) and pictures (apart from archive footage, it's mostly Lebowitz's head and shoulders centred in the frame). Lebowitz is such an interesting character that the camera daren't move in case we miss one of her incisive, bone-dry utterances. PO'N