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The British Soap Awards 2010 | Young, Male And Angry | Sectioned | Jamie Does – Athens | Eurovision: A Song For Justin | Justified
  
  


The British Soap Awards 2010
7.30pm, ITV1

Phillip Schofield presents the annual ceremony honouring acting, individual storylines and sexiness in five specific TV programmes. It's the Smash Hits Poll Winners' Party for the slightly older starlet. The main event will, as always, be a sideshow to the tottering, orange-ified foals on the red carpet, phones and fags jammed into tiny clutch-bags, tanned bosoms squeezed into trifling dresses. Michael Underwood and Angellica Bell will be monitoring the party afterwards on ITV2, so you can get a more detailed look at those outfits.

Young, Male And Angry
9pm, BBC3

Ben Anderson meets the English Defence League, the "counter-jihad movement" established in 2009 in response to what it perceives as British government apathy in confronting Islamism on the home front. The EDL claim, inevitably, that they are not racist. Their opponents claim, equally inevitably, that the EDL are descendents of the National Front and/or the BNP. Whatever the truth, the EDL are not helped in this respect by the fact that YouTube footage of them is indistinguishable from that of football hooligans on the rampage.

Sectioned
9pm, BBC4

It's quite possible that somebody you know will have passed through the NHS's mental health system, given that one in four Britons suffer mental illness at some stage in their lives, and that 30,000 people on average are sectioned (detained under the Mental Health Act) every year. Granted unprecendented access to patients and staff from Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, this candid documentary follows the progress of three men with long-term problems from their initial sectioning to their point of departure.

Jamie Does – Athens
9pm, Channel 4

In which Mr Oliver continues his grand tour of Europe investigating cultures and foods. This time he visits the home of democracy, replicating his formula of chirpy travelogue and local recipes. Greek food is fairly straightforward – the ingredients and method are pretty simple, though no less delicious for that – and Jamie learns a thing or two along the way, including the proper use of dried herbs in their cooking and some facts about bee sex. He makes goats cheese with an orthodox monk, goes spear-fishing and tries his hand at making Greek fast food.

Eurovision: A Song For Justin
10pm, Five

Alas, not Bieber, precocious singer man-child and king of Twitter trending, but Lee Collins, which is something of a disappointment. Here, JLC attempts to repeat his usual TV trick of doing something wacky and faintly investigative to a difficult deadline, encountering setbacks and upsets along the way. This time he's trying to enter the Eurovision Song Contest on behalf of various tiny European countries with the help of Ronan Keating. What have they done to deserve this?

Justified
10pm, Five USA

Decent actors seem to be queueing around the block to appear in Justified. This week it's the turn of David Eigenberg (Steve, from Sex And The City), who plays a criminal informant with a decent tip, key to a plot that turns on the kind of pathological stupidity and greed you generally find in a Coen Brothers film. It'll be interesting to see what develops as Justified continues. This week, Raylan Givens quotes Somerset Maugham (Florida is "a sunny place for shady people"), but rest assured he gets his opportunity to shoot someone, too.  

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