Tonight's TV highlights

Teen Horse Whisperers 7.30pm, Channel 4 Lucy Kaye's rather lovely First Cut documentary looks at the work of Impact, an alternative school in Liverpool, and the Shy Lowen Horse and Pony Sanctuary. It shows how pupils with behavioural issues are encouraged to work with unwanted, wild horses, who need taming before they can be reintegrated with their herds. The parallels between the animal and human adolescents are obvious but this makes the task ahead of the teenagers no less of a challenge, as they must first confront their own difficulties before addressing those of the horses. David Stubbs Benidorm 9pm, ITV1 Cilla Black, naked in a Jacuzzi. That is the prospect dangled before our imaginations in this opener, in which the former Blind Date presenter makes a cameo appearance that's as cheerfully clunky as cheap amber jewellery. It's in keeping with the series, which feels like the funny bits of yesteryear's Coronation Street sent on permanent holiday – salt and vinegar comedy that raises as much of a wince as a smile. Tim Healy stars as a the new barman and unlikely transvestite, but it's mostly the usual faces, including leathery old Madge, who finds herself on her uppers. DS Friday Night Dinner 10pm, Channel 4 Surprisingly traditional family sitcom from Look Around You's estimable Robert Popper. Green Wing's Tamsin Greig, Paul Ritter, Simon Bird from The Inbetweeners and Brass Eye's Mark Heap star as the Goodman family and their odd neighbour respectively. It will draw comparisons with Grandma's House in that it's about a Jewish family, but the trad exterior slowly begins to yield Popper's distinctive comic voice as this first episode warms up. Superb stuff. Julia Raeside The Middle 7.30pm, Sky 1 In a decent bit of housekeeping, Sky 1 is rejigging its schedules to put four of its sitcoms in a Friday night block-booking. It starts with all-new episodes of The Middle (Frankie and Mike take on their kids), The Simpsons (Marge meets some old friends), and finishes with Raising Hope (Jimmy gets videos from Hope's mum), but the real highlight is the reliably funny Modern Family at 8.30pm. Jay and Gloria teach Manny to ride a bike, while Mitch has a close encounter with James Marsden. Richard Vine McQueen and I 9pm, More4 Documentary about wide-boy fashion designer Lee Alexander McQueen and his close friendships with, among others, Isabella Blow, the woman who discovered him. It's a sad tale considering the untimely deaths of both within three years of each other. But even non-fashionistas should appreciate the maverick talent of the man who sent clingfilm-clad models down the Parisian catwalk and who generally did what he wanted artistically and got away with it. McQueen was unusual in being hailed as a genius long before he died, not just because he did. JR Treme 10.15pm, Sky Atlantic David Simon's new series is a slow-building one – as gradual a progression, it seems to be suggesting, as putting a city back together. Tonight, the many-stranded plot discernibly thickens. As Albert struggles to reassemble his tribe, we get a troubling inkling of how serious a man he can be, while Toni's investigation proves more complex than she suspected. Among all this, there is, mercifully, some light relief in the shape of Davis McAlary (the great Steve Zahn) whose indefatigable (and at times, to be honest, fairly irritating) enthusiasm is one of the optimistic energies driving the show. John Robinson