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The week in TV: I Hate Suzie; Peter: The Human Cyborg; A Suitable Boy and more – review

Billie Piper tears up the screen; the paedophile ring that never was; a scientist’s courageous struggle against disease; and the trouble with Andrew Davies’s Suitable Boy

I Hate Suzie (Sky Atlantic) | sky.com
The Unbelievable Story of Carl Beech (BBC Two) | iPlayer
The Truth About Cosmetic Treatments (BBC One) | iPlayer
Peter: The Human Cyborg (Channel 4) | 40D
A Suitable Boy (BBC One) | iPlayer

Not Billie Piper’s intent, no doubt, to outshine every other actor on screen. It just comes naturally. Her latest outing, I Hate Suzie, which she co-created with Lucy Prebble, is a humdinger, and despite genuine in-depth quality to the cast – Leila Farzad, Daniel Ings – the eyes are drawn remorselessly to Piper, even walking through a crowd or filling a glass in a corner of a vast country kitchen.

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