TV highlights: 28/12/2011

Top Gear 8pm, BBC2 Jeremy Clarkson's recent outburst about protestors (though wilfully misconstrued) showed him at his worst: the boorish blowhard into which he too often lapses. This should show him at his best – another Top Gear road trip, an institution which consistently results in funny, curious and audacious travelogue. In this one, the team brave the dangerous roads and frolicsome motorists of India, seeking to impress the locals with a sample of the best British cars which can be bought for less than £7,000 – a Mini Cooper, a Jaguar XJS and a somewhat dishevelled 1976 Rolls Royce. Andrew Mueller Felix And Murdo 10.35pm, Channel 4 A one-off, half-hour sitcom starring Armstrong and Miller. It's set in 1908 when the Olympics first came to London, and provides our comedy duo with the opportunity to act like posh nitwits, which they do so well. They decide to enter the Olympics, despite not having done any training and going on a drink-and-drug spree. The script, by Simon Nye, is more Eddy the Eagle than Steve Redgrave. If this is a pilot for a possible series, then the producers need to raise their game. Martin Skegg Ben Elton: Laughing At The 80s 11.40pm, Channel 4 Ah, youth: remember a time when people crowded round Saturday Night Live in thrall to a spangly-suited Mockney, while our parents muttered that he was an utter windbag? The former Thatcher-baiter narrates this two-hour retrospective of 80s comedy; or at least of the safe, Comic-Relief variety, which means lashings of Rik and Ade, Lenny and Dawn, and Harry and Paul; the latter, funnier and more vital now than they ever were back then, Peeps. Ali Catterall American Chopper 9pm, Discovery While this reality show about rivalry between father and son custom bike companies does have all the requisite colourful characters and conflict, it's also good at showing how the image of outlaw bikers doesn't stand up to close examination. Their biggest job this week is constructing two hogs for an insurance company giveaway; they have money worries, looming foreclosures and often sound more like Hell's Accountants than Angels. They're more likely to say "see you in court" than burst into a few bars of Born To Be Wild. The work they do is exceptional, but Sons Of Anarchy they ain't. Phelim O'Neill Timewatch: The SecreTt History Of Genghis Khan 10.40pm, BBC4 Most historical documentaries employ plenty of weak 1990s-style videogame CGI to show the more spectacular events, but this one eschews such time and money saving tactics and presents the story of the great conqueror as an earthy, realistic drama. While it's not quite a cast of thousands, they did manage to wrangle around 200 horsemen, mostly nomadic Mongolians, for some authentic-looking sequences. Intercut with Khan experts, a man about whom little is really known, it's best-guess stuff backed up with impressive period recreations. Phelim O'Neill Jane Eyre 11pm, ITV3 This 1997 version of Charlotte Bronte's oft-adapted novel, starring Samantha Morton as Jane and Ciaran Hinds as the mysterious Mr Rochester, isn't regarded as a classic but, come on, it's Christmas (just about), and bonnets are a must. After surviving a brutal education at Lowood School For Girls, Jane takes up residence at Thornfield Hall, and falls for the mysterious Rochester. Marriage awaits, but what are those strange noises emanating from the attic? Gwilym Mumford