PICK OF THE DAY This Is Going To Hurt

BBC1, 9pm

After last week’s barnstorming opening to the adaptation of the best-selling memoir of life as an NHS obstetrician by Adam Kay, his screen incarnation (Ben Whishaw, right) is reeling from the death of a woman he’d misdiagnosed as a timewaster.

With his nerves shaken badly, he’s now erring on the side of caution, and when another patient complains about mysterious pains in her ovaries, Adam doesn’t want to take any chances. Though the all-powerful consultant Mr Lockhart (an imperious Alex Jennings) has other ideas and wants to send her home.

Meanwhile, student doctor Shruti (Ambika Mod) has become Adam’s scapegoat and the target for his incessant barbed comments. When he asks her if they are friends the chilly rejection is, ‘No. Colleagues’, before their relationship begins to thaw. )))))