TV CHOICES

Dopesick BBC2, 10pm

It’s taken almost three years for this US miniseries to make it to our screens, but it should be worth the wait - those who enjoyed The Dropout, which the BBC broadcast recently, should certainly enjoy it. Dopesick is an eight-part drama based on Beth Macy’s factual book Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America, and won numerous plaudits when it was shown in the US in 2021. Despite being inspired by real events, many of the characters are fictional or composites of several real people, while the story focuses on opioid addiction and its impact on several groups, as well as the conflict of interest between a major pharmaceutical company and various government agencies. Michael Keaton, Peter Sarsgaard and Will Poulter star.

The Piano Channel 4, 9pm

Claudia Winkleman is back on the box for the second run of this musical contest; if it’s as remarkable as the first, we’re in for a winner. For the uninitiated, the series focuses on the hunt for Britain’s best amateur pianist, with Mika and Lang Lang as the judges. They secretly watch players tickling the ivories on a keyboard in a public space; this time it’s Manchester’s Piccadilly Station, where a classically trained boxer, a dance DJ with a fantastic voice and an 80-year-old romantic catch their eye in the opening episode. Expect to be impressed and moved by what you see and hear as the search for the successor to last year’s winner, blind, neurodivergent teenager Lucy Illingworth, begins.