CRITIC’S CHOICE

PICK OF THE DAY Feud: Capote Vs The Swans

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“There are certain rules aren’t there? About how much humiliation someone can stand?” Babe Paley (Naomi Watts, left) says about her adulterous and powerful husband, Bill (Treat Williams), to her closest confidant, Tom Hollander’s Truman Capote. The In Cold Blood writer serves sharp advice and medication (“I know what you need: a nice whopper of Valium for baby… with a nice Scotch to wash it down”) to society’s most elite women, whom he nicknamed “the Swans”. “The only person who could really hurt me is you,” Babe informs Capote, and that’s exactly what he ends up doing, foolishly, in Ryan Murphy’s suitably ripe look at wealthy vacuousness.

=== The 1980s Supermarket: Posh Food Revolution

9pm, Channel 5

“My mum had one of the very first microwaves,” boasts Anthea Turner in this “step back in time” to discover the 1980s products “we loved”. The focus is very much on Wall’s cheap but sophisticated ice cream dessert Viennetta. For children, Bird’s provided (the appalling) Ice Magic. The “magic” comes from coconut oil and sunflower oil, according to scientist Dr Chris Clarke, which seems a bit underwhelming.

=== Surgeons: At The Edge Of Life

9pm, BBC Two

This isn’t for the squeamish, replete as it is with internal organs, serious injuries etc as we follow surgeons at University Hospital Southampton. This week, maxillofacial consultant Sanjay Sharma jas to operate on 67-year-old patient Sue, a retired nurse, for a “complex jaw” operation. The surgeon originally operated on her three years ago to remove cancer and reconstruct her jaw. However, subsequent radiotherapy caused a rare condition that damaged Sue’s blood vessels and caused the bone in the reconstruction to die. As a result, Sue’s jaw has started to crumble, resulting in infections and a loss of function, including difficulty eating and speaking. Now Sanjay faces the demanding challenge of rebuilding Sue’s jaw again. Fascinating and worrying in equal measure, with the medic’s skills front and centre.

=== Professor T

9pm, ITV1

Ben Miller’s Jasper Tempest is back at Cambridge after his time in prison – the hostile environment played havoc with his OCD – where he is not welcomed back by his fellow academics. However, he soon returns to the sleuthing business after six murders, all poisoned (is chocolate the culprit?), that DI Lisa Donckers (Emma Naomi) needs his help with. However, new DCI Maiya Goswami (Sunetra Sarker) isn’t impressed with Professor T (or with Donckers dating her colleague DI Dan Winters (Barney White) for that matter). This superior detective series is also blessed with Juliet Stevenson playing a shrink and Frances de la Tour as Tempest’s Mother.