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Naked Attraction

Channel4 On Demand, until September 29, episodes 1-5 THE response to Channel4’s new ‘dating’ show — I use the term advisedly — from reviewers was a pretty unanimously weary sigh of “how low can they go?” The words ‘exploitation’ and ‘bottom of the barrel’ were used, rather often. So, if you missed it, and want to know what all the fuss was about, here’s your chance. The concept is simple and, apparently, is an attempt to return us to a less civilised time when a mate was chosen based on ‘primal instinct’ rather than, say, love of early-period David Bowie. To accomplish this, the dater is confronted with six naked candidates of the opposite sex (unless they are bi-sexual, in which case it’s three and three) standing in coloured boxes. All that is revealed of the candidates is their naked bodies, starting from the waist, gradually moving up to reveal stomach, chest, shoulders and so on, with faces coming last, and only then if the dater has deemed the bodies worth pursuing. So really, they are choosing based on their response to buttocks, penises, breasts and so on. Before the dater makes their final choice, they have to get naked too. Meanwhile presenter Anna Richardson (left), drops a few pseudo-scientific ‘facts’ about the laws of attraction. The real worry? Where do we go from here . . . ? Ellie Simmonds — Swimming With Dolphins

UTV Player, until September 27

With the Rio Paralympics starting in three days, this is a perfect moment for this documentary following Ellie Simmonds, 21-year-old British gold medallist Paralympian swimmer, as she travels to South Africa to fulfil a lifelong ambition — overcome her fear of the open sea, and swim with dolphins. It is of course a story about courage and determination, qualities Simmonds has in abundance. She was born with achondroplasia, a common cause of dwarfism, and won two gold medals for Team GB when she was just 13, at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics.