WATCH ROUND THE CLOCK

BEFORE 6PM

Playing It Straight USA

10AM CHANNEL 4

A woman has to choose a mate from a mix of gay and straight men " all of whom are dissembling like mad " in this fun, sideways look at the modern metrosexual male.

On the Town

10.05AM TCM

Shot on location (a rarity in 1949), this hearty musical with Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra (above) tells of sailors on shore leave in New York.

Follow the Fleet

1PM BBC2

'Let's Face the Music and Dance' and all that, in this cracking Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers hoof-athon, scored by Irving Berlin.

FROM 6 TO 8PM

Tsunami Prayers

7PM BBC2

A new series, showing all this week, about how the various faiths throughout Asia have responded to last year's devastating tidal waves. We begin with a Buddhist village in Thailand.

The Naked Pilgrim: the Road to Santiago

7.15PM FIVE

An erudite and oddly moving gem, in which Brian Sewell (right) follows the old pilgrim route to Santiago de Compostela in Spain.

FROM 8 TO 10PM

Streets Ahead

8PM CHANNEL 4

Sarah Beeny (right) thinks cladding and pebbledash are hitting values in a street in Nottingham. Can the residents curb their tastes?

Looking for China Girl " This World

9PM BBC2

China's one-child-per-family policy has led to a desperate shortage of brides. This film follows a bachelor's extensive trawl for a wife.

The Nightmares Next Door

9PM CHANNEL 4

Has living in a field in Dorset for four weeks made our Asbo- magnets better neighbours? Find out tonight.

CSI: Miami

9PM FIVE

A new, 24-episode batch of Miami sleuthing with 'whispering' David Caruso (above), which fires off with a yacht hitting a bridge.

10 TO 12MDN'T

Romancing the Throne

10PM BBC4

What does a carefree, thirtysomething, Ampleforth-educated chap do when he suddenly finds himself the king of Lesotho? And where does he find a wife?

Abroad Again in Britain

11.15PM BBC4

Jonathan Meades (below) - a gonzo Nikolaus Pevsner - is our guide to Edinburgh Castle's brutal past.

Paris Brothel

11.20PM BBC2

A Storyville documentary exploring the history of France's maison closes, state-authorised brothels established by Napoleon and only abolished in 1946.

LATE

Les Visiteurs

3AM SKY CINEMA 2

A hugely entertaining Gallic fantasy about a medieval knight and his servant, who suddenly find themselves in modern France. Time Bandits out of Tati.

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