CHILD OF OUR TIME: TURNING 20

JOANNA LUMLEY’S HIDDEN CARIBBEAN: HAVANA TO HAITI

La Lumley’s travelogues are usually a cut above most Famous Person Takes a Subsidised Holiday confections, and this series is no exception. Lumley is impeccably charming, genuinely inquisitive and entirely comfortable around people she’s only just met, hence why she’s a natural fit for this overpopulated subgenre. Her Caribbean adventure begins, as per the title, in the Cuban capital of Havana. While admiring the architecture and vintage automobiles, she checks in with a traditional rhumba group, a tobacco farmer, a luxury hotel magnate, and an old lady who lives in a beautifully faded house frozen in time. It’s a picturesque programme driven by Lumley’s serious interest in the troubling complexities of six decades of Communist rule.

FIVE GUYS A WEEK

Tuesday, Channel 4, 9.15pm

It’s a dating show, folks, but with a difference! Here’s the concept: Various single women invite five competing men into their homes. Every day, one of them is asked to leave.

In the end – voila! – a couple finds everlasting happiness. Yes, it’s just another piece of voyeuristic Channel 4 nonsense, something to occupy your time while staring into the abyss: Big Brother meets First Dates. A bunch of men moving into a single woman’s house sounds dodgy in theory, but the results are harmless.

It’s an entertaining social experiment, vaguely embarrassing and sporadically amusing.

Channel 4 have got a cult hit on their hands here, it will trend on Twitter for an hour every week. Lightweight job done.

In 1999 the BBC’S Horizon strand began an ambitious project: Filming 25 children from birth to adulthood. The chosen ones came from all walks of life, the idea being to chart how their upbringings and social environments shaped them.

Now young adults, they’ve invited the Child Of Our Time team back into their lives to reveal what it’s like to be part of Britain’s first generation of the 21st Century.

They also reflect on the project itself while discussing the challenges they’ve faced throughout their lives so far.

It is, in effect, a variation on Michael Apted’s seminal 7 Up endeavour, but undeniably interesting in its own right.

A candid group of guinea pigs, they provide some valuable insights.

Clockwise from main image: Miriam Margoyles, right, with plus-size fashion expert and writer Bethany; Joanna Lumley in Havana, Cuba; Trystan, Michael, Amy, Scott, Christian and Glen from new dating show Five Guys A Week; Rihanna provides some insights on being the first generation to turn 20 in the 21st Century. Tuesday, STV, 9pm

Wednesday, BBC2, 9pm