Bake Off: The Professionals (C4, 8pm)
LIAM Charles and Tom Allen welcome back the five remaining teams, as the pressure and the difficulty ramp up. Tonight’s first challenge is a cube-shaped dessert, which must be razor sharp from every angle. The teams must master the art of illusion by creating magical desserts that look exactly like mushrooms but taste of anything but. Then, they have five hours to create a heroes and villains themed occasion showpiece adorned with 160 macarons. Which teams will rise to be superheroes under the watchful gaze of patisserie experts Benoit Blin and Cherish Finden?
The Anti-Vax Conspiracy (C4, 9pm)
THIS documentary goes inside the astonishing world of the anti-vaxxers and their opponents, ranging from “bleach hunter” mothers who expose anti-vaxxers profiting from lethal fake cures, to Piers Corbyn, the brother of the former Labour leader, who believes the vaccine roll-out is equivalent to experiments carried out in Nazi concentration camps. At the root of much of this is disgraced British doctor Andrew Wakefield, whose debunked study linking vaccines and autism helped spark the anti-vax movement.
Hospital (BBC2, 9pm)
ONE negative effect of the lifting of the lockdown restrictions was a rise in emergency cases at hospitals. Andrew, 75, comes into Coventry’s A&E unit with a suspected cardiac arrest, having collapsed while out litter picking. He is placed in an induced coma and ventilated to stabilise his condition. Meanwhile, healthcare assistant Tracie has spent the last four years living with trigeminal neuralgia, excruciating pains she describes as electric, stabbing shocks to her face. With her daughter’s wedding in nine days, Tracie is desperate to have an operation and get home.
The Pact (BBC One, 9pm)
THE BBC crime thriller reaches a conclusion tonight. We’re promised that the shocking truth about Jack Evans’s death will finally be revealed – was it really a prank gone wrong, an undiagnosed heart condition, a drug overdose, or murder? Meanwhile, the lives of the four friends and brewery employees who made the pact of silence in the first episode are about to change forever.
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