CRITICS' CHOICE
COMPETITIVE CUISINE The Big Family Cooking Showdown, 8pm, BBC2
EPISODE six of 12 introduces the Codougan family from Northamptonshire and the Kings from South-West London. Will the Codougans’ spicy, Caribbean-inspired food or the Kings’ favourite home-cooked dishes be impressive enough for judges Rosemary Shrager and Giorgio Locatelli to put them into the semi-finals?
PET SAVIOUR The Supervet, 8pm, Ch4
PROFESSOR Noel Fitzpatrick is back to perform more minor miracles on his animal patients. First on the treatment table is two-year-old Staffordshire Bull Terrier Lulu (pictured), who is rushed into referrals late at night after being hit by a car, leaving her with a shattered pelvis.
FINE FOOD CITY James Martin’s French Adventure, 8.30pm, STV
THE chef concludes his tour in Paris, but there’s no time to enjoy the cafe culture as James is off to one of the largest wholesale food markets in Europe — at 4am!
MEDICAL EMERGENCIES Ambulance, 9pm, BBC1
EPISODE five of this riveting series following the work of the West Midlands Ambulance Service (including paramedic and grandmother Helen, pictured) begins with the race to save the victim of a cardiac arrest. Elsewhere, as paramedics struggle to cope with numerous Saturday night fight injuries, a call comes in about a man who has been found having a fit in a pond.
MARRIAGE SECRETS Eamonn & Ruth’s 7 Year Itch, 9pm, Ch5
HAVING recently celebrated their seventh wedding anniversary, Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford (pictured with sex therapists
Mike Lousada and Louise Mazanti) are now entering that dreaded period when couples get itchy feet. In this two-part series, they explore some of the eyebrow-raising ways in which people keep the fizz in their marriages and stop them falling flat.
FILM CHOICE Abducted Love, 3.15pm, Ch5
LIFE gets very complicated for suburban mother Anne (Daphne Zuniga) one sunny morning. Not only is her husband kidnapped, but the police suspect him — and Anne — of being involved in a money laundering scheme. Cue the unravelling of everything poor Anne held dear in her life.