Warning – this review may contain ranting. There's so much wrong with the premise of Daddy Daycare (Channel 4, 8pm) that it's hard to know where to start, writes Sian Brewis.

Its central plank is that men – bless them – don't know how to cope with children. It's women's work, after all.

The best you can hope for is that the male breadwinners learn to look after the kids once in a while when you pop to the shops, ladies.

It's like those annoying "men creche" things that crop up in big supermarkets.

Men hate shopping, goes the theory, so why not let them watch the sport on TV and read the paper while women run round the aisles for them, loading everything up and then collecting their men afterwards, like picking up kids from a nursery.

Anyway, back to the programme. Workaholic Garry, child-phobic Jay – who has a baby, but doesn't like her very much – and Stefan spend a week at a pre-school.

Two of them have a bit of a tragic back story to stop the hackles rising. Garry has MS, so wants to work as hard as he can to store up cash for his family, while Stefan's dad walked out when he was a child, and he's worried he will do the same.

And they do muck in, with predictably hapless results.

Throughout the show, their partners tut merrily at the idea of their husband or partner "not being able to change a nappy" or never having read their children a story.

Aah, they croon. Bless him.

No, don't bless him. He should blimmin' well know how to change a nappy. And feed a child, and look after them.

Did they learn anything?

Well, once they'd stopped making excuses, they discovered that spending time with kids could be fun.

And Garry took a day off to play with his lads.

Baby steps, as they say.

Dan loved his grandad. They were close. So close, in fact, that when his relative died all Dan's hair fell out with the stress of his grief. It's never grown back.

In the short but moving documentary, My Life Without Hair (BBC 1, 4.30pm), children with alopecia talked with an honesty that most adults would struggle with about having to pop a wig on before leaving the house.

Dan even has a few tips for his new pal William over how to tackle bullies who call him "baldilocks".

"Listen," he whispers. "I will tell you a story. Guess what I do? I call them back. I shout 'hairy."

William looks like he's been given a secret of the universe. "I'm definitely going to stay in touch with you, Dan. You're the happiest person on Earth."