Channel Hopping

LEN GOODMAN’S PARTNERS IN RHYME Today, 5.10pm - BBC1

IF there could be one thing more depressing than the thought of watching this show, it would have to be the prospect of appearing on it. Even the BBC’s own promotional guff does a lame job of trying to flog it to the punters at home. ‘A fun, play-along family game show all about rhyming’? Eh, no thanks. Tonight’s celeb guests are Linda Robson (from a million years ago), Tom Allen (no idea), Jorgie Porter (likewise) and some bloke who won last year’s Strictly. I presume they all wish they were appearing instead in panto somewhere in the Falkland Islands.

JAWS

Today, 9.20pm - RTÉ1

I KNOW, I know. We’ve all seen it a hundred times, but it’s still one of the greatest films in living memory. It features fine performances by Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss, but even they are topped by Robert Shaw playing the rough-and-ready shark hunter Quint. Watching it, it is hard to believe that Shaw – who died near his Co. Mayo home in 1978 – was a highly cultured Englishman whose novels and plays were widely acclaimed.

LOUIS THEROUX: MY SCIENTOLOGY MOVIE Tomorrow, 9pm - BBC2

WHEN the intrepid Louis tries to interview members of the controversial cult established by L. Ron Hubbard, he finds that they don’t want to play ball. So he ends up speaking to people who have left its clutches and have some disturbing stories to tell.

ARENA: MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR REVISITED Friday, 11.30pm - BBC4

THIS documentary looks back at the controversial Fab Four film, first screened on BBC1 in 1967. The BBC blurb says it was greeted with ‘outrage and derision’ in many quarters, posing the question: ‘What propelled The Beatles (pictured) to make this surreal, startling and - at the time - utterly misunderstood film?’