TV tonight: hit show Couples Therapy just keeps getting better
The vulnerability of the clients and the utmost professionalism of Dr Orna (compared to other 'experts' on reality shows) is what makes this therapy show such a hit. This week, though, it's Orna who lets her guard down when one couple quits: 'When patients just get up and leave, I do a lot of self-examination. Should/could I have? It's not easy.' This adds another fascinating new layer, but she's quickly back to helping the other couples get on track. Hollie Richardson
7pm, Channel 5
A second series starts with JLS star turned farmer JB Gill heading to Wales, where he meets a farmer using daffodils to make an unusual medicine. Meanwhile, up north in Barnsley, brothers Rob and Dave Nicholson pick sloes from their farm hedgerows to turn into chocolate. HR
8pm, Channel 5
It's the last visit to Reuben Owen's farm in the Dales for this second series and things get very busy as spring has arrived. That means it's lambing season! So while his partner, Jess, deals with a chaotic number of deliveries, Owen and the rest of the team have to handle a huge order of cropped stones, which need to be hand-finished. HR
10pm, Channel 4
The chicken coop of an isolated Leicestershire farmhouse seems an unlikely setting for murder, but it was here that wealthy businessman Ken Brown was shot dead, at point blank range, one August evening in 1994. Now, Silent Witness star Emilia Fox is following the clues, along with ex-detective Dr Graham Hill and criminologist David Wilson. Ellen E Jones
10pm, BBC Four
It's been 30 years since the Bafta-winning documentary series about the breakup of Yugoslavia was released. Film-maker Norma Percy and producer Angus MacQueen tell the extraordinary story of how they made it, ahead of it airing again. HR
10.05pm, ITV2
Jordan Gray's supermarket sitcom with a gender-fluid twist continues. While manager Simon (Nick Frost) has encouraged Olivia (Gray) to be 'as loud and proud as you like', there's grim pushback as transphobic graffiti is discovered in the women's toilets. Tom is given the job of unmasking the culprit. Phil Harrison
The Wicker Man (Robin Hardy, 1973), 11.50pm, BBC TwoDon't worry, this isn't the Nicolas Cage one with the bees. This is Robin Hardy's superlative 1973 original, in which Edward Woodward travels to a remote Scottish island full of pagans and slowly comes to learn he's in over his head. A masterpiece of folk horror, brimming with uncomfortable eeriness, The Wicker Man has left a long and impressive legacy. There is more than a fighting chance this was scheduled to capitalise on the popularity of 28 Years Later. If that's the case, it's a very smart move, because the fingerprints of this are all over that. Stuart Heritage
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