Since I became a newspaper journalist some years ago, the television column, or rather the job of writing it on a daily basis, has always intrigued me. I mean, what else can we tell our readers but 'go out and rent a video tonight'.
Then I was asked to sit in for colleague Deborah Herd for a couple of days while she recovers from watching too much Hong Kong television for her own good.
Only kidding. I don't know about you, but I have always found local television - both the Chinese and English channels - boring. Good series and movies that make it to our screens are few and far between.
After all, this is a city where viewers have to wait endlessly for a TV station to air the third series of the popular (and excellent) cult sci-fi series The X-Files. And we are still waiting.
Anyway, back to tonight's programmes. Those of us who can only tune into the terrestrial stations are split between Clint Eastwood and Christopher Lambert. Don't hold your breath for too long as you might miss these shows.
The American Film Institute Salute To Clint Eastwood (Pearl, 9.30pm), as its name implies, involves a lot of industry big names saluting Mr Tough Guy. And why not - Eastwood is, without a doubt, a movie icon.
I can remember my parents staying up late years ago to watch him pointing his gun at the good, the bad and the ugly, and muttering 'Make my day!' in Cantonese. (In those days, many foreign movies were dubbed into the local language.) Today, my mother gasped in disbelief when she saw her hero looking aged. 'Look at those lines on his face,' she said in astonishment. I told her wait until she saw Paul Newman.
