CRITIC'S CHOICE
MEET THE FAMILY Absolutely India: Mancs In Mumbai, 8pm, STV
LAST week, famous brothers Ryan, Adam and Scott Thomas met distant cousin Keshia; now, dad Dougie is introduced to his first cousin Darryl for the first time. But before the Thomases head to Darryl’s home to learn more about their family’s past, they must find a suitable gift . . .
MATERIAL GAINS The Great British Sewing Bee, 9pm, BBC1
IT’S sportswear week, and the nine remaining contestants (including Hazel, pictured) get to work on a rugby shirt with a tricky placket, where precision sewing is the name of the game, and then transform a cagoule into a toddler’s waterproof onesie. Finally, they get into the swing of it making a women’s tennis outfit.
DETECTIVE DUO Vienna Blood, 9pm, BBC2
ANOTHER chance to see this period crime thriller, set in the Austrian city of Vienna in the early 1900s. Matthew Beard’s junior doctor and Freud disciple assists a gruff police detective (Juergen Maurer, pictured near right with Beard), providing insights into the criminal mind. It covers some intriguing cases, but there’s a lot about it that feels all too familiar.
REAL-LIFE DRAMA Casualty 24/7, 9pm, Ch5
THE A&E waiting room is full of patients — and two nurses have called in sick — as we return to Barnsley Hospital. Among the emergency admissions
this week is 84-year-old Norman, who has fallen from his mobility scooter.
FILM CHOICES A Lover Betrayed, 2.20pm, Ch5
JAMIE LUNER plays Tess, who, seven years after the death of her son, is finally ready to live again. But, in a made-for-TV movie with echoes of Fatal Attraction, a one-night stand with a handsome soldier throws her life into peril when he becomes dangerously obsessed with her.
Blue Murder At St Trinian’s, 3pm, BBC2
THE first of Launder and Gilliat’s three sequels to The Belles Of St Trinian’s, this follows those louche sixth-formers as Flash Harry’s marriage agency attracts the attention of an Italian lothario and sees the girls heading to Rome. George Cole (pictured) is Harry, who was played by Russell Brand in the 2007 St Trinian’s remake.