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Ellen E Jones, Sharon O'Connell, Hannah J Davies, Graeme Virtue, Mark Gibbings-Jones, David Stubbs and Paul Howlett

Tuesday’s best TV: The Big Family Cooking Showdown; Trust Me

Giorgio Locatelli, Zoe Ball, Nadiya Hussain and Rosemary Shrager in The Big Family Cooking Showdown.
Giorgio Locatelli, Zoe Ball, Nadiya Hussain and Rosemary Shrager in The Big Family Cooking Showdown. Photograph: Andrew Hayes-Watkins/BBC / Voltage TV Productions

The Big Family Cooking Showdown
8pm, BBC2

The BBC’s Bake Off replacement is a filling, if slightly under-seasoned, dish. Each week, families compete in a series of challenges, starting with the Marks. Flamboyant gran Torun prefers chatting to cooking, but never lets a sauce leave the kitchen without a disapproving look for garnish. Meanwhile, the Charles family are keen to let judge Giorgio Locatelli know they learned their risotto recipe in Sorrento. What’s the Italian for “ruddy show-offs”? Ellen E Jones

Trust Me
9pm, BBC1

It was only ever a question of when – rather than if – her deceit would be rumbled, and as this drama gathers pace, cracks in nurse Cath’s fiction are starting to show. Now she adds passport forgery to her crimes. Of course, it’s other people – with their nosiness and self-interest – who pose a threat, notably Andy, her own McDreamy. The premise is absurd, given the unavoidability of one’s digital footprint, but Jodie Whittaker is no less watchable for it. Sharon O’Connell

Seven Days in Summer: Countdown to Partition
9pm, BBC2

The Beeb’s run of programmes to mark the 70th anniversary of the partition of India continues with this one-off. The brutal tactics and piecemeal concessions of the empire were finally coming to an end, but it was already clear that it was not going to be a smooth transition from imposed rule to independence, in part due to the bungled borderlines of the partition itself. Testimonies, archive footage and experts tell the not-so-distant tale. Hannah J Davies

Quacks
10pm, BBC2

This rollicking medical farce set in a convincingly pungent Victorian London comes courtesy of James Wood, co-creator of Rev. A talented cast – including Rory Kinnear as a fame-hungry sawbones, Tom Basden as a cocaine-fuelled dentist and Mathew Baynton as a wide-eyed alienist – amp up their performances to match the fevered plotting, while hawkish Rupert Everett swoops in to steal scenes as mercurial royal physician Dr Hendrick. Graeme Virtue

Delhi Cops
11.05pm, Channel 4

A rarely afforded look at life for overworked police officers in one of the world’s fastest growing megacities. With crimes against women rising, the government strives to recruit female officers, and this programme follows new recruit Sonam as she kickstarts her career at Delhi’s busiest police station, quickly discovering clashes between tradition and changing society add to an already overwhelming workload. Truly arresting viewing. Mark Gibbings-Jones

Twin Peaks: The Return
9pm, Sky Atlantic

The revisitation of Twin Peaks has been justly trumpeted by its besotted fans. It started off as a police procedural and at heart it’s an almost banal meditation on the polarity of good and evil, as seen in the supernatural division of Cooper. But it has produced some of the strangest, most borderline lysergic TV in the history of the medium. Some glorious performances – watch out for Grace Zabriskie (as Sarah Palmer) in particular. David Stubbs

Chance
9pm, Universal

While it was never going to match the global success of House, Hugh Laurie’s return to TV as another equally irascible medic has featured some impressively nasty twists and turns in its noirish first season. The finale kicks off where other dramas might begin, with crime-curious, antique-flogging shrink Eldon Chance suffering short-term memory loss, shortly after targeting the crooked cop making his life a misery. Might he have crossed a line? GV

Film choice

Billy Budd (Peter Ustinov, 1962) 5.15pm, TCM

A powerful and astute screen version of Herman Melville’s last novel from Ustinov. A seagoing allegory that pits naval law against moral justice on board a British man o’ war in 1797, it stars Terence Stamp in his first screen role as the angelic Billy Budd, technically guilty but spiritually innocent of the murder of the satanic Claggart (a terrifying Robert Ryan). Ustinov also plays the conscience-torn Captain Vere, who must decide at the trial if Billy is to hang. Paul Howlett

Live sport

ATP Masters tennis: Western and Souther Open Coverage of day two in Cincinnati. 4pm, Sky Sports Action

T20 Blast cricket: Derbyshire Falcons v Durham Jets North Division encounter from the County Ground, Derby. 6pm, Sky Sports Cricket

Champions League football: qualifying play-off first leg Europe’s best go head-to-head to qualify for the group stages. 7pm, BT Sport 2

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