What's on TV: Thursday, October 11

Tony Robinson's Hidden Britain by Drone

SBS, 7.30pm

Impish Tony Robinson is an inveterate and enthusiastic explorer. He's made a career out of examining the history and geography of Britain, and countries beyond, walking coast to coast, digging up ruins, cataloguing the worst jobs ever. In this 2016 series made for Channel 4, the view is initially aerial as he seeks out places that are not generally accessible to the public. And the sites he reveals are intriguing. Here, they include a factory of the future, the incubator of ideas that is the research and development headquarters of the Dyson corporation. There's a "dark store", a facility in Nottingham that operates pre-dawn to fill online supermarket orders. There's the sad history of what has become the ghost village of Imber and a visit to the smallest country in the world, "Britain's very own rogue nation" of Sealand. It's an informative and enlightening survey.

Deadly Down Under (premiere)

7Mate, 8.30pm

Over many years and numerous productions, producer, writer, director and actor Paul Fenech (Fat Pizza, Housos, Bogan Hunters) has developed a devoted audience for his comedies, though their broad and brazen style doesn't tickle everyone's fancy. In this scattergun series, he's in pursuit of deadly things accompanied by the busty and often bikini-clad duo of Jacqui and Elle, as well as his trusty sausage dog, Fonz. The canine's claim to fame is that he's "a specially trained tracking dog", although what he's trained to track is not evident in the opener. In this episode, Pauly's survey of "the most deadly continent on the planet" takes in crocodiles in the Northern Territory, and the unquiet spirits that haunt a decommissioned asylum in Melbourne. The unifying theme appears to be scary things and spooky places. It's a missable tour, although it might hold some appeal to rusted-on Fenech fans.