The Ultimate Guide: Fireworks
World, 9pm
This is the story of mankind's love affair with fireworks, from the first Chinese firecracker of a thousand years ago to the modern eye-popping, ear-blasting, multicoloured displays that precisely choreograph 30,000 separate explosions. Ultimate Guide turns the illuminating art of pyrotechnical wizardry inside out from the complex preparations necessary to pull off a night of fireworks and daredevils lighting banks of explosives by hand to a hi-tech computerised display choreographed to music. There's even a spectator wired to brainwave-monitoring equipment to help get to the psychological root of fireworks' enduring popularity.
Bicentennial Man
Pearl, 9.30pm
Based on a short story by Isaac Asimov, this tale spanning two centuries follows the fortunes of Andrew (Robin Williams), a robot designed to perform menial household tasks whose flawed programming makes him obsessed with becoming human. Also starring Sam Neill (above right with Williams), Embeth Davidtz and Oliver Platt. (1999)