By Sian Brewis

It's funny how programmes can be touching when you least expect it. In Jo Frost's Extreme Parental Guidance (C4, 8pm) we met Bronwyn, 11, a girl who hates how she looks.

"I'm really stupid, and ugly, and I'm too thin," she states, before showing us a make up collection which would easily fill a counter at Fenwick.

Through choking sobs, she explains how once she caught sight of herself in the mirror part of a toaster: "I started crying," she says, before breaking down again.

She won't leave home without a full face on. Neither did Joan Crawford, and look what happened to her.

Realising the danger, Jo whisks Bronwyn to a photographic studio where she sees how pictures are re-touched, using herself as an example. Over four hours, Jo is turned from a plus-size model to a slimmed-down vamp. The little girl's face as the scales fall from her eyes is a picture in itself.

Bronwyn starts crying again. "What are you crying about?" asks Jo, softly. "I'm ... I'm happy," she sobs, before consigning her beauty products to the bin.

Meanwhile, in Leeds, four-year-old Kiran will only eat sweets and her desperate mum Sophia has resorted to holding down the screaming toddler and forcibly shovelling food down her as the youngster struggles to get free.

It's unpleasant stuff to watch, and even Supernanny's shocked. "I have been in childcare for 20 years but that horrifies me. This stops here now."

Kiran has 10 fillings, and has been hospitalised for malnutrition. "Ice cream is made out of milk so at least she's getting calcium," says Sophia, miserably.

Bossy she may be, but Jo Frost is full to the brim with common sense. "Stop faffing," she tells Sophia. And, hey presto, problem is soon solved.

Jo teaches Sophia "tough voice''. She tries to practise in front of hubby, who kills himself laughing.

Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jo-leeeennnee….ahm, sorry. Just channelling my inner Dolly Parton.

It was difficult not to hum along in Amanda Holden: Country Singer (ITV 1, 9pm).

There was Dolly, Johnny Cash and good Lord, is that Kenny Rogers? What a state. He's giving Dolly a run for her money in the cosmetic surgery department.

Amanda thrives in Nashville: the rhinestones, the glitzy jackets – one costing $47,000 – and, most importantly, the tears.

Ever wondered why so much of country music is, well, a bit of a whinge?

"The sad songs are easier to write," explains Grammy winner Gordon Kennedy.

Amanda carries on the tradition when she's given a ballad called Ladders and Windows to belt out at Nashville's Bluebird Cafe: "I love this," she says, after hearing a few bars. "I could cry already."