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Tuesday, January 25, 2011televisiontv and radioculturecomedy

Tonight's TV highlights

No Ordinary Family 8pm, Watch We arrive at episode four of NOF and there's still barely any progress, which is frustrating for anyone who can see the potential for a show dealing with a family with superpowers. The kids are still using their gifts to do better at school both socially and academically, while the parents don't seem to know what to do with them as Jim, once again, bungles his role as a crime fighter. Hopefully the hinted-at supervillains will make an appearance next week to get this thing on track. PO'N Scenes From A Teenage Killing 9pm, BBC4 Morgan Matthews's remarkable film, part of BBC4's Justice season, is a head-on look at teenage killing. Naming every teenager who died as a result of violence in the UK in 2009, the film explores the impact and effect of the killings: what it's like for the victims' friends and families, for those who rushed to help and those who witnessed events, and for the investigating officers. Often, it seems, the killings are misrepresented in the press and the film gently questions the use and usefulness of terminology such as "gang violence". Ultimately, though, it's about the victims and young lives brutally cut short. MS The South Bank Sky Arts Awards 9pm, Sky Arts 1 Evicted from ITV, Melvyn Bragg brings the South Bank awards to Sky, with film, dance, pop (Tinie Tempah is a good bet) and classical music among the categories. There's an all-female shortlist for the visual arts category, featuring Angela De La Cruz and Tacita Dean. Mike Bartlett's Earthquakes is up for best play, while best comedy nods include Tom Hollander's Rev, Getting On, and, for the first time, an internet-only entry – the superb Midmorning Matters shorts, featuring Alan Partridge and the hapless Sidekick Simon. DS Big Fat Gypsy Weddings 9pm, Channel 4 This peek behind the curtain into the world of Gypsies is fascinating. On the one hand there's the cultural element, exploring the secretive Gypsy lifestyle, and serious issues, such as the plight of those who have had their homes destroyed by the council. On the other, there are the Disney dresses, the fake tans and six-year-olds dressed like pole dancers, turning it into a gawk-fest. This week, Gypsy and non-traveller families are united by a wedding. MS How TV Ruined Your Life 10pm, BBC2 Charlie Brooker turns up his drollery-o-meter to 11 as he presents a history of some of TV's most jolting attempts to lull us into a false sense of insecurity, from early public information films warning against flying kites into pylons, through to dramas like Threads in the 1980s, a graphic depiction of nuclear annihilation, in which Britain is reduced to "a Plymouth-style wasteland". Between clips and sketches, Brooker's argument is that overexposure to such TV causes us to overestimate the amount of risk we actually face in everyday life. DS The Science Of Pain And Pleasure With Michael Mosley 10.35pm, BBC1 The relationship between pleasure and pain is an intimate, confusing and vexatious one, as will be understood by anyone who has ever been drunk, hungover, loved or heartbroken. Science presenter Michael Mosley attempts to codify matters slightly, noting that evolutionary reasons for both states exist. Without pleasure, we wouldn't procreate. Without pain, we'd try to cuddle leopards. Mosley subjects himself to a couple of counter-intuitive experiments, including pondering the euphoria created by consumption of the world's hottest chili. AM

Source: The Guardian ↗

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