PAY
Stripped USA
Style, 12.30pm

This series strips Americans of all their possessions – clothes, phones, toothbrushes, the lot – and gives them 21 days to have a good, hard think about their lives. Each day, though, they get to visit a storage container and retrieve one item to make their lives a little easier. Today we meet goofy sisters Autianna and Jaseena, who both have university degrees and career ambitions but have spent years drifting along as bartenders in Los Angeles, spending everything they earn on clothes, perfumes and restaurant food. Once they've recovered from the shock of the removalists having taken everything, they seem stubbornly opposed to epiphany – they refuse to eat the rations supplied by the show's producers and instead focus on begging for more restaurant food. But with parents and grandmother providing some sound advice the girls are soon sorting out their priorities. Surprisingly engaging. Brad Newsome

MOVIE
Need for Speed
7Mate, 6pm

There have been few more surprising characters in recent pop culture than Jesse Pinkman, the hot-headed young meth dealer played by Aaron Paul in Breaking Bad. Initially Jesse came off as an obnoxious brat, yet he turned out to be a surprisingly soulful guy and, ultimately, the heart of the show. This was thanks in large part to Paul's capacity for almost childlike emotional directness, a trait he also displays in the role of mechanic and race driver Tobey Marshall, the hero of Scott Waugh's Need For Speed. A video-game adaptation, it aims to muscle in on the action of the Fast and The Furious franchise. Usually these kinds of films centre on hard-boiled guys sitting stony-faced behind the wheel, but Tobey lets it all hang out: when he's angry he scowls, when he's abashed he looks at the ground, and when he's happy he breaks into a huge grin. Aside from some needlessly frantic editing, the main drawback here is an unwillingness to admit that the impulses being celebrated are basically anti-social. The script repeatedly insists that Tobey truly cares about other people, yet his actions show an unrepentant willingness to risk the lives of cops, fellow motorists and anyone else who gets in his way. Jake Wilson

Attenborough and the Empire of the Ants
ABC, 7.40pm