Beautiful Boy, BBC Two, 10pm David Sheff (Steve Carell) is a senior writer for prestigious magazines, a man who famously conducted the last major interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1980. His first wife Vicki (Amy Ryan) lives in Los Angeles, amicably sharing custody of their son Nic (Timothee Chalamet), while David builds a new life in San Francisco. David suspects Nic is in the grip of drug addiction and the concerned father persuades his boy to attend Ohlhoff Recovery Centre. Treatment appears to go well until the teenager goes AWOL and David applies his journalistic mind to learning everything about drugs and their treatment. Based on two emotionally raw memoirs, Beautiful Boy is a sobering account of one family's battle of attrition with a demon that sinks its jaws into a prodigal son and refuses to let go.