AMONG a large amount of holiday dross there are two attractive documentaries. In The Wild: Dolphins (World, 1.15pm) features Robin Williams (and a number of dolphins) and Supermodels (World, 3.35pm) features 14-year-old Czech schoolgirl Martina Zlatnikova, who may or may not be the best thing since Kate Moss in an industry that continually needs to reinvent itself.
Ms Zlatnikova is barely old enough to understand the concept of money, but as a model agency's choice as face of the future, will soon be earning an awful lot of it. Christie Turlington and Naomi Campbell already are and do not mind saying so.
Supermodels , thank goodness, is not always as bug-eyed and reverential in the presence of contemporary greatness as other catwalk fashion programmes are. Christie and Naomi may be millionaires, but neither one is in the Bill Gates brainpower league.
Supermodels never comes right out and says so, but you can almost hear the narrator wondering why it is these girls are so lucky and don't even seem to know it.
At least Robin Williams is funny. In In The Wild: Dolphins he's almost too funny, as if everyone is expecting him to make the audience laugh, so make it laugh he must.
There is, it has to be said, something vaguely comical about the idea that dolphins have descended from the cow, but is this a nature documentary or a one-man talent audition? We already know Williams is funny. Just for once he could have played it straight.
THE aforementioned dross is exclusively on World and includes The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus (2.10pm), The International Magic Awards (10.45am) and The Third International Circus Festival of Massy (8.30pm).
