Channel Hopping

KKK: THE FIGHT FOR WHITE SUPREMACY

9.55PM, TUESDAY, RTÉ2

THE stories I love the most... apart from animals skateboarding or dressed as humans, are when bigoted zealots are caught with their trousers down. And when it’s white supremacists caught sleeping with the ‘enemy’, well! Remember that they do do this as you watch this self-serving PR exercise... and that their boss is called Imperial Wizard.

WORLD’S SNEAKIEST ANIMALS, 8PM

THURSDAY, BBC2, 8PM

CHRIS Packham is the joker of the naturalist pack – he once sneaked The Clash song titles into an episode of Spring-watch... and then later repeated the gag with Oscar-winning films. In this, the latest of his showcases, Packham, pictured, tells us about bower birds and fiddler crabs who use optical illusions to impress females. Naturally, Chris has no need for such deception.

EMPIRE OF THE TSARS, ROMANOV RUSSIA

9PM, WEDNESDAY, BBC4

RUSSIA is back in vogue with the dramatisation of Tolstoy’s War And Peace and historian Catherine Worsley delves into that country’s rich history, trawling through the Napoleonic conflict which is the backdrop to Tolstoy’s magnus opus. It may be puerile, but I’m more interested in her treatment of the earlier period, Catherine The Great and a certain horse.

MUSIC MOGULS: MASTERS OF POP,

10PM, FRIDAY, BBC4

IF you’re going to manage ‘the next big thing’ the first rule is get a grand name. Andreas Van Kujik didn’t cut it, but his alter ego Colonel Tom Parker did. Justin Bieber’s boss ‘Scooter’ Braun sounds better than plain old Scott and The Stones boss Andrew Oldham was more memorable for middle name Loog. We take it Bono wouldn’t let Paul McGuinness have a nickname.