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The Ugly Face of Beauty | That Mitchell and Webb Look/Shooting Stars | Witch Hunter's Bible | True Stories: Maradona | CSI: Miami | King of the Hill
  
  


The Ugly Face Of Beauty
8pm, Channel 4

Cosmetic surgery is cheaper and more readily available than ever before – Brits now spend £200m a year on nips and tucks. But one in five admit they are less happy with their bodies after they have had surgery. This new series, presented by Dr Christian Jessen, provides a users' guide to going under the scalpel, showing the realities of surgery, and looks at the consequences of things going wrong, meeting women who have been horribly disfigured by botched operations. MS

That Mitchell And Webb Look; Shooting Stars
9pm; 9.30pm, BBC2

Tuesday, it appears, is the new Thursday as far as BBC comedy goes, with a double-header of double-headed comedy shows. First up is the return of Mitchell and Webb's always-improving sketch show, featuring a sketch promisingly entitled How to Spot an Emotional Subtext in a TV Drama. Following it is the only show where one of the Hairy Bikers getting hit on the bum could pass as avant-garde humour – Shooting Stars. Featuring the new George Dawes, Mr Angelos Epithemiou. WD

Witch Hunter's Bible
9pm, National Geographic

A suitably dramatic documentary (endless close-ups of screaming women) about the Malleus Maleficarum, an ancient handbook outlining how to spot, prosecute and dispose of your common-or-garden witch. A nasty piece of work, it provided helpful torture suggestions for those less keen to admit to their witchery and received a ringing endorsement from the pope. It's really just a good excuse for some juicy descriptions of the hideous methods used to extract confessions. The narrator, in particular, is having a marvellous time. JNR

True Stories: Maradona
10pm, More4

Made by Serbian director Emir Kusturica, this engagingly shambling documentary about the Argentinean football legend was made in 2007 but is broadcast to coincide with renewed interest in Maradona following his colourful, if unsuccessful, stewardship of the national team in this World Cup. Maradona emerges from the chaos of his career and this film determined to recast himself as a man of the people, an anti-American icon à la Castro and Che Guevara, who describes George Bush as a "murderer" and a "piece of human garbage". But there's also plenty of footage of Maradona the footballer. DS

CSI: Miami
9pm, Five

With Eric Delko flip-flopping between life and death in the Everglades, tonight's season opener kicks off with a genesis story set in 1997; an era when Delko is still a fresh-faced tow-truck driver with a passion for Chumbawumba; Calleigh Duquesne looks and squeaks like some kind of cheerleader-chipmunk hybrid, swearing she'll never date "anyone remotely connected with my job" (irony, there); and a pair of Polaroid lenses with titanium frames are yet to become vital, semi-organic appendages squatting above detective Horatio Caine's nose. AJC

King Of The Hill
11pm, E4

Beavis And Butt-head creator Mike Judge has made the leap from small screen to big screen (with the great Office Space and, most recently, Extract), but his great series King Of The Hill just keeps on coming. The animated tale of the good people of Arlen, Texas, as personified by Hank Hill and his family, it's a warm-hearted but still sharply satirical series. Now in its 13th season, tonight's double finds Bill using a wheelchair he doesn't strictly need, and Hank spearheading Strickland Propane's drive to "go green". JR  

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