ALMOST 30 years after his death on November 22, 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy still casts a long shadow over American politics, and over modern mythology as speculation continues to run wild over his life and death.
A new four-part documentary series The Kennedys (Pearl 8.30pm) is a Thames Television production that attempts to take the myth out of JFK. It combines rarely seen footage and photographs from the Kennedy library with interviews with JFK's political colleagues, friends and many of the Kennedys themselves.
TERRY Gilliam uses his fertile imagination to great effect in the overblown, spectacularly dotty Adventures of Baron Munchausen (Pearl 9.30pm, Original Running Time 126 mins).
Ignore the gaping holes in the script, just enjoy the visual feast as the legendary tale spinner (John Neville) and his bizarre yarns come to life. The baron and his superhuman colleagues (who include Eric Idle) embark on an odyssey which introduces themto the King of the Moon (Robin Williams), love-lorn Vulcan (Oliver Reed) and his stunning amour (Uma Thurman).
The story flags in parts, but is worth sticking with for grandiose scenes like an island which turns into a huge fish, a hot-air balloon made from underwear, and a ship sailing through a desert strewn with statues.
TOM Holland made an admirable directorial debut in 1985 with Fright Night (Pearl 1.20am, ORT 106 mins) a stylish shocker that's part spoof, part horror.
The story is a variation on the boy who cried wolf - the horror-mad lad being Charley (William Ragsdale) who's crying vampire, about his handsome new neighbour (Chris Sarandon) who has a way (and has away) with the ladies.