Blood Under The Carpet (C4); Cutting It (BBC1)

TO misquote Loyd Grossman in Through The Keyhole mode: "Who on earth would want to live in a house like this?". The properties in Blood Under The Carpet were very des res on the outside. But once you learned their secrets, the houses of horror became less attractive.

Although the house where Fred and Rosemary West's horrific crimes took place has been demolished, there are still thousands of houses around the country that have been "an accessory to murder" - and plenty of people willing to live in them.

The Darlington house, where the so-called "bikini murder" took place, is now the home of Andrew and Louise Bloomfield. They seem unperturbed at smelling cigarette smoke in the house, despite both being non-smokers.

"The moment I walked in, I knew it was everything we wanted," said Louise.

They're building luxury boarding kennels in the grounds - for dogs, cats, budgies, goldfish - and a dog crematorium. Louise feels the murdered woman is looking down in approval. "Give us a little more time and it won't be that unloved, cold house where that lady got murdered, but will be like the little house on the prairie, full of kids," said Louise.

In another house, builder Patrick and retired dog breeder Eileen were only too happy to show cameras the sink in which the killer might have washed his hands after stabbing a mother and daughter. The walls, which had been splattered in blood, were pointed out too. They even wondered if the unfound murder weapon, a knife, might still be hidden in the grounds.

The house is now worth three times what they paid for it. "One person's misfortune is another person's gain," said Patrick.

Dustman and former butcher Craig became interested in gardening after buying a house where a woman, bludgeoned to death with a hammer, had been buried in the garden. The problem is that the ground keeps sinking where the hole for the corpse was dug.

Restaurant owner Graham didn't know about his home's previous history until people told him: "You've got the place where the murder happened". A woman was stabbed 18 times by her son in the bedroom. Now he holds clairvoyant evenings in the restaurant after strange things, such as feeling clothing being touched or pulled, happened.

The history of Gavin and Allie's hair salon in Cutting It is equally nasty, although the damage is emotional rather than physical. At the end of the first series hairdresser Allie foolishly chose her first love, Finn, over husband Gavin.

Now she's returned from a month's canoodling with Finn in Naples to find Gavin enjoying threesomes and running their business as if it was his own. Finn's ex-wife Mia (Amanda Holden) has become a vindictive stalker, who enjoys stirring up trouble for her philandering hubby.

The 60th birthday party of Allie's father provided the opportunity for enough cats to be let out of the bag to keep a soap storyline going for months, as well as giving Allie's mother ("built like a pig sty with all the allure of a tin of Spam") an amazing makeover.

Debbie Horsfield's script is as sharp and funny as before, as she mixes and matches characters in ever more complicated pairs. The next six weeks of Cutting It are going to be unmissable.