WARNING: watching TV tonight could be very bad for your health. Apart from the usual Friday favourites of Cheers and Murphy Brown, just about everything else has come out of the ''absolute dross'' basket.
Take for instance Pearl's main movie The Tunnel (9.45 pm, Original Running Time 99 minutes), starring Jane Seymour (Somewhere in Time) as a married woman and Peter Weller (Robocop) as her obsessive lover.
It's soporific stuff, and even the extensive nudity and sex, which presumably once livened things up a little, will have been removed.
FOR your delectation on World there's an even worse nightmare, a Jean Claude van Damme classic Cyborg (9.30pm, ORT 86 mins).
The time - wouldn't you know it - is the near future and van Damme (Universal Soldier) plays hero and soldier of fortune Gibson Rickenbacker - with a name like that how could he fail? He's protecting a cyborg whose computer brain holds the answer to a deadly plague that's stricken the earth. But they're up against the evil Fender Tremolo and his band of Flesh Pirates.
Ho hum.
THERE may be some hope in Counterstrike (Pearl, 8.35pm), a new series described as an action adventure yarn revolving around an elite crime-fighting trio.