CRITIC'S CHOICE
RECIPE FOR SUCCESS? Best Home Cook, 8pm, BBC1
THE eight remaining contestants make their ultimate Sunday brunch for judges Mary Berry, Chris Bavin and Angela Hartnett — in just an hour — and the weakestkest cooks will have to face Angela’s dreaded Eliminator recipe.
GO APE Baby Chimp Rescue, 8pm, BBC2
IN THE second episode of this adorable series, the orphans (including Chance, pictured) learn to master tools so they can forage for food. But a deadly cold breaks out among the babies, with disastrous consequences. Meanwhile, the Liberian centre’sre’s numbers swell to 28 with the arrival of an eightweek-old infant and an adult male chimp.
PET SAVIOUR The Supervet, 8pm, Ch4
ono Hagar the French bulldogbulldog. The poopoor pooch has an exploded disc in his neck, and Noel has a race against time to save him before he becomes even more paralysed. He also helps a cat who has been sadistically shot with an air gun, shattering her bones.
HEALTH SCANDAL Addicted To Painkillers? Britain’s Opioid Crisis, 9pm, BBC2
IN AMERICA, opioid addiction has become a deadly epidemic — and now, new evidence is raising concern about the UK’s use of prescription painkillers. In this worrying investigation, Michael Mosley (pictured left) meets people whose lives have been ruined by opioid addiction, as well as GPs working to help people in chronic pain, and tries to find a way to combat a growing problem.
FILM CHOICES The Wrong Neighbour, 2.15pm, Ch5
THE strain of a grand opening takes a toll on restaurateur Tim’s personal life, leading to a trial separation from his wife. Moving to a new apartment, Tim (Steve Richard Harris) becomes friendly with neighbour Jamie (Ashlynn Yennie). But when Tim tries to rebuild his marriage, Jamie is none too happy . . .
Limitless, 9pm,, 5Star
WITH a visual style perfectly in sync with the plot — about a drug that vastly increases a person’s brain capacity — this frantic, gripping thrillerer stars Bradley Cooper (pictured with Robert De Niro) as the lazy writer who goes from zero to hero with one gulp of a pill. But he is not the only one in thrall to its medicinal benefits . . .