Yes, it's Friday night, and what does that mean? Another eviction on Celebrity Big Brother. Excited? Yes! Of course you're not! But don't worry, you don't have to go to the moon to avoid it, or even to the pub - you can avoid it much more easily by simply changing channel.
And there are plenty of positive reasons to channel-cha-cha, too, with another episode of the fabulously mustachioed My Name Is Earl, some charming documentaries on Google and peat bogs (not at the same time, obviously), and a couple of films which are appalling, but might pass the time if you're drunk.
The world is your oyster. Your rectangular oyster with a screen on the front of it, and a remote control attached. Find out what could be in store for you in your oyster, by reading our picks of tonight's TV, as taken from this week's Guide.
The World According To Google 7pm, BBC2 In just seven years, Google has become not just the fastest-growing company in history, but a workaday colloquial verb, and something it is difficult to imagine we ever lived without. This edition of The Money Programme explores the phenomenon, focusing on how Google has changed the lives of individuals, and also examines concerns raised by Google's pre-eminence: while Google helps us find out about other stuff, how much is Google learning, and storing, about us?
Andrew Mueller
Timewatch 9pm, BBC2 The peat bogs of Central Ireland are an archaeologist's gift from God: the peat can perfectly preserve human remains. Discovered during a recent murder investigation was a beheaded body dated to 250-300BC. Naked except for a leather band around one arm, the body showed signs of stabbings and ritual torture. The possibly sacrificial victim has helped rewrite history, as has the discovery of a similarly dated body 25 miles away of a short young man with what looks like a rather elaborate hairstyle.
Will Hodgkinson
My Name Is Earl 10pm, C4 Something about this new comedy from writer Gregory Thomas Garcia smacks of that Coen brothers' classic, Raising Arizona. Perhaps it's the comic narrative drawl, the lovable loser at the centre of the action, his permanent bad hair day, or the karmic tragedy that beleaguers him. Anyway, what worked so well on film translates with ease to the small screen in a half-hour slot of pure fun. This week, Earl's feeling guilty about having made his brother throw a football game back in high school, while the inappropriately named Joy is still stalking him for half of his lottery money.
Clare Birchall
Bird (Clint Eastwood, 1988) 10pm, BBC4 Eastwood's homage to the legendary 1940s jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker oozes with the mood and the music, but is no hagiography. Based on the painful memoirs of Parker's common-law wife Chan Richardson, it charts the musician's self-destructive obsession with drink, drugs and lots of women. Forest Whitaker and Diane Venora are superb, and the film features Parker's own playing. Preceded by a profile on Parker's life on Legends at 9pm.
Phil Howlett
Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes, 2002) 10pm, FilmFour A brilliant idea, beautifully executed. This is made like a genuine 1950s melodrama -- orchestral score, vibrant colour, perfect costumes -- but explores 1950s American values in a way that would have been impossible at the time. Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid start out as the archetypal perfect suburban couple, but secretly they're both straying -- him with other men, her with her black gardener (Dennis Haysbert). Guess which one suffers the most? It sounds like a parody, but it's played totally straight and constructed with devotion, which makes it irresistibly sweeping.
Steve Rose
Fat Slags (Ed Bye, 2004) 10pm, Sky Movies 1 This cinematic adaptation of the well-loved Viz characters was -- like Mad Cows, and Sex Lives Of The Potato Men -- one of those films that had critics competing to see who could deliver the most violent and imaginative battering. While it deserved every kicking it got, no verdict was as damning as that of Viz editor Graham Drury, who pronounced himself so appalled by the film that he was never going to draw the characters again. It's some consolation that the cast -- including Fiona Allen, Sophie Thompson, Angus Deayton and Les Dennis -- look just as embarrassed, but not much. Inexcusable rubbish.
Andrew Mueller
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Peat bogs, eh?
Well, at least it's better than Pete Burns. Although film one in the other and I'll happily pay good money to watch it. No, I don't care which way round. Be creative.
