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The Ugly Face of Beauty | Britain By Bike: North Devon | Danielle Lineker - My New Stepfamily | CSI: Miami | Shooting Stars | True Stories: The Cove
  
  

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The Ugly Face of Beauty
8pm, Channel 4

Here's a series to put you off cosmetic surgery forever, as Dr Christian Jessen outlines just what can go wrong. In particular, we're offered first-hand testimony by mother-of-two Kelly, whose tummy tuck led to such bad scarring that, in her own words, "People say it's like I've been bitten by a shark." Perhaps the most dispiriting moments here, though, arrive when a group of teenagers study the body of a perfectly ordinary young woman and decide that she needs £50,000 of procedures to conform to modern ideals of beauty. That's 12 operations "plus extensive liposuction", in case you're wondering. JW

Britain By Bike: North Devon
8.30pm, BBC4

As part of BBC4's Call Of The Wild season, Clare Balding follows in the tracks of Harold Briercliffe, whose Cycling Touring Guides helped fuel a boom in pedal-powered holidays after the second world war. Balding explores the North Devon coast, as well as struggling with the hills of an area known as Little Switzerland in Victorian times. The tone is tinged with nostalgia, but amid the faded grandeur of Ilfracombe, Balding takes time to consider how rural communities are reinventing themselves for the 21st century. JW

Danielle Lineker – My New Stepfamily
9pm, BBC3

Gary Lineker's new bride talks about being stepmother to his four teenage children and mum to her own little girl. She interviews other families and, in the process, comes to a better understanding of her new offspring. In front of a camera crew. Gary's oldest son looks just like him and they reminisce, rather disturbingly, about how they Googled pictures of Danielle when Gary was set up on a blind date with her. She's semi-clad in most of them. Must not fancy stepmum. Repeat, must not fancy stepmum. JNR

CSI: Miami
9pm, Five

New recruit Jesse Cardoza is taken prisoner in tonight's episode by a shotgun-wielding hostage taker – nothing like being thrown in the deep end. Surprisingly, the troubled avenger, who calls himself Ted, seeks help from Detective Horatio Caine, to see that justice is done. Before the show's through, somebody may be in need of medical assistance, Ted's real identity and motivation may be revealed and Cardoza may find himself in the direst of straits. Just another day's work for our Polaroid-sporting heroes, then. AJC

Shooting Stars
9.30pm, BBC2

TV is full of comedy quiz shows, but the sheer silliness of Shooting Stars separates it from the bullying boys' clubs its peers regularly descend into. The lack of ego is refreshing, Vic and Bob are always only too willing to shame themselves to service a gag – as seen in Vic's wardrobe malfunction tonight when he dances. Angelos Epithemiou's hard work as the replacement for George Dawes pays off with some great moments, including a killer off-the-cuff insult at the expense of David Gest. PO'N

True Stories: The Cove
10pm, More4

Ric O'Barry once trained dolphins for 1960s show Flipper, a decision he now seems to regret every day – especially after one of those dolphins appeared to kill itself to escape a life of captivity in a dolphinarium. In a shot at redemption, he sets off with some guerrilla film-makers and expert divers to expose, and intervene in, the killing of dolphins by fishermen at Taiji Cove, Japan, while also discovering that mercury-tainted dolphin meat has been finding its way to the shelves. One of the best and most moving of the recent eco-mentaries. AJC

 

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