Instead the anti-Christ is reborn as a little girl (Asia Viera), the adopted daughter of of childless couple Faye Grant and Michael Woods. They should have watched what happened to Gregory Peck and Lee Remick in The Omen more closely.

A private eye (Michael Lerner) is hired to find out where the girl's real family came from. His investigation uncovers a horrifying secret that could crush them all.

This is a disappointing tack-on to the Omen series, but it does toss up a few chilling moments.

TVB's judgement in running demon movies in the Studio 930 slot should be questioned, however; recently The Exorcist was aired at this time - a movie described by critic Pauline Kael as containing 'brutal shocks, almost indescribable obscenities'. This is prime-time, after all, and the devils should be held back until well after midnight. MOVING right along from the Killer Tomatoes Eat France (ATV World, 9.30pm), which the station itself can't even provide a synopsis for, Instant Justice (ATV World, 12.40am) stars Michael Pare as a young marine whose sister is murdered by a gang of thugs.

Pare resigns his commission to go after her killers, aided by Tawny Kitaen as a beautiful but reluctant call girl. Made in 1987 in Gibraltar, this was also titled Marine Issue, but even then it was a routine drama, highlighted only by a few solid action scenes. And Kitaen's cleavage, of course.

There's definitely more action over on TVB Pearl, where Breakheart Pass (1.15am) fields an all-star cast in a slam-bang Western made in 1976. Featuring Charles Bronson, Richard Crenna, Charles Durning, Ben Johnson and Jill Ireland, this is based on an Alastair Maclean novel and set mainly on a train carrying troops across the West in 1873.

People are being murdered, and Bronson boards the train as an undercover railroad agent seeking gun runners and confronting a false epidemic. The picture's main highlight is an incredible fist-fight between Bronson and former boxing champ Archie Moore. If you like that sort of thing. HALLELUJAH! STAR Plus is finally fielding a decent movie in the 2am slot - although it has to be noted that The Incident was made for TV in 1990.

That doesn't stop it from being above average, though, and it does mark the TV movie debut of one of the world's most charismatic actors, Walter Matthau.

Directed by Joseph Sargent, The Incident casts Matthau as a small-town lawyer in Colorado during World War II, who is handed an impossible brief.

A Nazi prisoner of war, being held in a nearby army base, has been accused of murdering the local doctor in mysterious circumstances. Matthau is forced to defend the German, and becomes the town pariah as a result. Matthau is first-rate in this drama written by Michael and James Norell, which also stars Robert Carradine, Susan Blakely, Peter Firth, Barnard Hughes and Harry Morgan. BEVERLY Hills 90210 (ATV World, 6.30pm) has more teenage angst from Los Angeles, where the world's most beautiful and wealthy teenagers populate Beverly Hills High like a plague.

Over in America right now, the Beverly Hills brats are deciding whether to renew their contracts for another season. Having dumped Shannen Doherty (Brenda) already, series producer Aaron Spelling has been obliged to give Jason Priestly (Brandon) producing credits - and dual salary - on the next series, and you'll be relieved to hear that the other stars have followed suit and signed on the dotted line again. Except Luke Perry (Dylan), who is holding out for more money, and Gabrielle Carteris (Andrea), who has her own TV chat show on Fox.

Tonight, David (Brian Austin Green) tracks down the members of Colour Me Badd at the Beverly Hills Hotel, while Donna (Tori Spelling, Aaron's daughter) sees her mother with another man, and Brandon, Dylan and Steve (Ian Zierling) hire an exotic dancer to brighten up a rainy afternoon.