My Life on a Plate
3.45pm, BBC1
Reheating decades-old dinners might not be the most appealing method of whiling away an afternoon, but that’s the premise for BBC1’s new daily afternoon offering. Chef Brian Turner takes a celebrity back to revist the old stomping grounds of their youth, and to recreate the meals that helped to fuel their formative years. Today’s series debut sees Brian lure Mary Berry back to Bath, with an added opportunity to see how her childhood favourite foods continue to be made today. Mark Gibbings-Jones
Britain’s Mental Health Crisis – Panorama
8.30pm, BBC1
Demand for mental health services in the UK is rising, as are suicide rates. But real-terms funding has recently been reduced, with cuts to benefits and other support services ripping further holes in an already fraying safety net. Panorama’s cameras go inside one of the country’s largest mental health trusts, following the daily agony of deciding who gets help and who is turned away. Nurses attending to the suicidal, aggressive and isolated testify to an overloaded system. Jack Seale
Modern Times: The Last Dukes
9pm, BBC2
A dukedom used to put you at the top of the aristocratic pile. But a new dukedom, outside the royal family, hasn’t been created since the reign of Queen Victoria, and the remaining titles are slowly expiring as family lines run out. Those who survive are frayed eccentrics. Michael Waldman’s light Modern Times doc meets everyone from energetic business-duchesses pimping their castles to a meek South African signwriter who is also the 12th Duke of Atholl. All are preoccupied with nursing the heritage flame. The ducal life is a thing of the past. JS
Doc Martin
9pm, ITV
Even by his own grim standards, Martin is being spectacularly grumpy. But he has good reason to be unhappy, what with therapist Dr Timoney advising Martin and Louisa to consider parting. “Accepting separation is a success in itself,” she reckons. Elsewhere, Martin has a new neighbour, Erica the arty art teacher (Kelly Adams of Hustle fame); and a visiting American – in one of the more unlikely TV cameos of recent years – turns out to be Sigourney Weaver. Undemanding fare, at least until a final scene that may floor you. Jonathan Wright
World’s Worst Place to be a Woman – Stacey Dooley Investigates
9pm, BBC3
Stacey heads to Honduras, where violence towards women is part of the culture – 16 women are murdered while she’s there. Her interviews are straightforward and effective: a woman who has been forced into cooperating with gangs reveals she’s killed “only about 42” people and a pregnant woman tells her she’s hoping for a boy as “girls suffer more”. Depressing viewing but Dooley is brave, especially when she challenges a group of prisoners. Hannah Verdier
Fargo
10pm, Channel 4
After an uncertain response from those who treasured the Coen brothers movie on which this series is based, Fargo has blossomed in its own right. This series distances itself still further from the original, while maintaining its spirit; extraordinary things befalling ordinary Americans. Take tonight’s episode, in which a pair of unlikely murderers take steps to clean up the mess they have made. Meanwhile, Floyd Gerhardt and her crime family get a surprising offer, as the events in the diner continue to reverberate. David Stubbs
Scream Queens
10pm, E4
Emma Roberts stars as a sociopathic sorority girl in this new horror-comedy anthology from American Horror Story mastermind Ryan Murphy. University dean Cathy Munsch (Jamie Lee Curtis) is keen to curb Kappa House’s tyranny, but how will Chanel (Roberts) and her minions react when she intervenes? And who is the mysterious figure stalking campus in devilish get-up? Described by its creator as somewhere between Friday the 13th and dark teen flick Heathers, it’s a grim blend of satire and spookfest. Hannah J Davies
Film choices
Monsters vs Aliens (Rob Letterman, Conrad Vernon, 2009) 8.25am, CBBC
This terrific DreamWorks caper pits a bunch of heroic monsters – led by the Reese Witherspoon-voiced 50ft woman Susan (AKA Ginormica) – against an alien invasion fleet. A feisty blend of eyeboggling action scenes and witty references to Dr Strangelove and any number of sci-fi classics, including ET and Men In Black. Paul Howlett
Patience (After Sebald) (Grant Gee, 2012) 2.20am, Film4
WG Sebald’s austere and gloomy account of his walk along the Suffolk coast, The Rings Oof Saturn – the very antithesis of, say, Bill Bryson’s jolly The Road to Little Dribbling – is examined in wonderfully melancholic mode in this bleak, beautiful documentary. It’s all grainy monochrome mood shots of those flat landscapes, with thoughtful contributions from the likes of Andrew Motion and Tacita Dean, and Jonathan Pryce reading extracts from the remarkable book. PH
Today’s best live sport
Test Cricket: Pakistan v England The final day of the second Test from Dubai. 6am, Sky Sports 2
Para-Athletics: 2015 IPC Athletics World Championships Fifth-day action from Doha, Qatar. 3.30pm, More4
ATP Tennis: The Swiss Indoors Coverage of the first day of the event at St Jakobshalle in Basel. 5.30pm, Sky Sports 3
Championship Football: Cardiff City v Bristol City The Bluebirds and the Robins meet in an ornithologically themed clash. 7.30pm, Sky Sports 1
