CRITIC'S CHOICE

HISTORIC DELICACIES The Sweet Makers: A Georgian Treat, 8pm, BBC2

EPISODE two finds the quartet of confectioners (Andy, Diana, Cynthia and Paul, pictured) in Bath, where they go back in time to the Georgian era. Finding out how sweet-makers of the late 18th and early 19th centuries created their extravagant treats — including jellies made from boiled calves’ feet and Parmesan ice cream — they also discover how our sugar craving changed Britain for ever, and inspired an ethical revolution.

DOCTORS’ SURGERY GPs: Behind Closed Doors, 8pm, Ch5

A NEW series and a new venue as we head to the West of England to meet staff and patients at Horfield Health Centre in Bristol. This week’s cases include a baby who has been persistently vomiting, a schoolboy who can’t stop biting his fingernails and a man who collapses on his doctor’s desk.

DEADLY SIDE EFFECTS A Prescription For Murder?, 9pm, BBC1

LAST year, UK doctors wrote 40 million prescriptions for SSRI anti-depressants. But while they are beneficial to the majority, some believe they can, in a tiny minority, cause psychosis, which can lead to extreme violence — even murder. Shelley Jofre reports.

HANKIES READY . . . Long Lost Family, 9pm, STV

NICKY CAMPBELL and Davina McCall (pictured) return with a new series of the emotional show in which they reunite people with long lost relatives. Tonight, they meet a couple who, though divorced, are still united by the need to trace the son they had to give up as teenagers. Can they finally bring him back into the family fold, 46 years later?

FILM CHOICE Who Killed My Husband?, 3.15pm, Ch5

WITH her daughter in dire need of expensive hospital treatment, Sophie Howell (Andrea Bowen) reluctantly returns to work as an undercover investigator after the death of her police detective husband. Getting stuck in, she reopens his very last case, which proves to be connected to his murder.

Hope Springs, 2.20am, Ch4

IT’S marvellous to see Meryl Streep sparking off Tommy Lee Jones (both pictured) in this grown-up romcom, even if the film itself is a little patchy. Hoping for renewed intimacy, Streep is the wife who books marriage counselling for her and her devoted, but unimaginative, husband (Jones).