Madagascar | MasterChef | The Elephant: Life After Death | Fame In The Frame | Romancing The Stone | The Office: An American Workplace
Madagascar
8pm, BBC2
More fabulosity, and more footage of things eating other things, from the island that looks like it sprang from the pen of Edgar Rice Burroughs, populated by the sort of creatures that might give Ray Harryhausen pause for thought. Tonight, we're in the mountains and rainforests of the east coast, home to bug-munching plants, aye-ayes and the recently discovered golden bamboo lemur, capable of consuming 12 times the lethal dose of cyanide in a single meal.
Ali Catterall
MasterChef
9pm, BBC1
Baldy and Sloppy are back to terrify another coach-load of aspiring chefs with their indifferent mastications. We begin with "the auditions" in which the hopefuls prepare a timed dish in front of their rivals. Then it's off to a dark room to be ogled by Greg and John as they plate up the final offering. Some quake like they're about to meet the pope, while others collapse under the pressure. Sham jeopardy doesn't get more panto than this.
It's fun though.
Julia Raeside
The Elephant: Life After Death
9pm, Channel 4
What happens when an elephant dies? It is probably not a question many of us often ask ourselves. But as this gimmicky yet fascinating documentary reveals, the answers are worth pursuing. Filmed in a national park in Kenya, it trains an arsenal of cameras and audio-visual gadgets on the corpse of a deceased Dumbo and chronicles the recycling of five tonnes of food into the ecosystem. It is the circle of life in all its grisly glory, as the vast carcass is scavenged by hyenas, jaguars, jackals, lions, birds, and a great many flies.
Andrew Mueller
Fame In The Frame
6pm, Sky Arts 1
This show casts various celebrities in pastiches of famous paintings. Presenter John Myatt has unusual but convincing qualifications for his role ? a mid-1990s jail sentence for forgery. Tonight's guest is James May, whom Myatt situates in a remake of Roy Lichtenstein's pop art classic In The Car. May assists Myatt with his recreation of Lichtenstein's technique, and yields a few interesting revelations. Empathy may be elicited in some quarters by May's admission that, during the filming of the Top Gear expedition to the north pole, he considered clouting Jeremy Clarkson with a shovel. AM
Romancing The Stone: The Golden Ages Of British Sculpture
9pm, BBC4
In a fascinating documentary, Alastair Sooke explores trend-bucking sculptors from Britain's imperialist age, such as Alfred Gilbert, new realist Francis Chantrey ("I hate allegory and imaginary beings because they can never touch our heart") and John Flaxman ? whose motivation, says Sooke, was: "Anything the ancients can do, I can do better." We also meet current artists, such as the delightfully eccentric Alexander Stoddart. "Our cities are in need of these outposts of silence," he says. AJC
The Office: An American Workplace
10pm, Comedy Central
A new regional boss means all change for the Scranton branch. The Wire's Idris Elba arrives as Charles Miner, a man with no time for any of Michael Scott's baffling business ideas. His introduction shows how important first impressions can be: Miner arrives to find Jim pranking Dwight and immediately pegs Jim as a lazy trouble-maker, while Dwight appears to be ideal number two material. Worst of all, he cancels Michael's 15th-year-at-work anniversary party. Something's gotta give. Phelim O'Neill
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/feb/16/television-documentary
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