Last night's TV

By Sian Brewis

At least the Incredible Hulk let people know when he was about to lose it.

“Don’t make me angry,” warned mild-mannered David Banner in the TV series, “You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.”

Griff Rhys-Jones, seemingly, doesn’t bother to let people know what’s coming before one of his temper tantrums.

And blimey, he doesn’t half get a monk on, as my mum used to say.

Punching walls, ranting, raving and hurling things.

Creepier still, he then sits alone at his computer for hours, bashing out furious bitter emails to those who have “wronged him“.

Who’d have thought that cheeky chappy comic Griff is, in the words of his own son, “a seething cauldron of rage”, who wanders around muttering the mantra “incompetence, morons!”?

But this is his point, in Losing It: Griff Rhys Jones on Anger (BBC 2, 9pm). According to him, having a temper is the last taboo, a shameful secret which people won’t admit to.

He searches for others like him - from busy mum Rosie who chucks plates to superchef Heston Blumenthal whose strops nearly ended in road rage violence and writer Craig Brown, whose temper runs in the family.

Brown’s grandad shot himself in the stomach after a blazing row with his missus: his last words? “Look what you’ve made me do!”

Griff’s most pleased when he finds psychologist, Adam, who tells him: “I’m very suspicious of people who are calm and kind.”

He’s less happy hearing from former workmates about how scary he was. “It wasn’t exactly a joy to come to work,” says one. He smiles, but don’t be fooled. The eyes are stony, and I’m starting to be slightly scared. “I feel,” he tells her, icily, “betrayed’’.

Losing It is that increasingly common device – television as therapy. Once the little souls checked into the Priory, now they treat viewers as an extended group therapy session.

* Someone who’s got every right to be angry is Leslie Ash, famously left with a “trout pout” after plastic surgery went badly wrong.

In Face To Face (ITV, 9pm) she does a great job of exposing the unregulated industry, both a sympathetic victim and consumer champion, tackling surgeons and meeting fellow victims.

Good for you, Leslie. But what’s this? She chats to Toyah, who tells her about her fab facelift and now wants one: “Never say never!” she chirrups. Don’t do it, Leslie!