Is there anything left to say about Titanic, the James Cameron version and the real ship? All of us are a little weary of the subject by now.
So the prospect of sitting through yet more documentaries on the subject tonight is not as bracing as it might have been a couple of months ago when we were all rather more ignorant.
Back then, I, for one, did not know Cameron employed 1,800 extras for that bit at the beginning where the boat leaves Southampton. I did not know he offered to forgo his US$8 million (HK$61.8 million) director's fee as the budget crept up.
But I do know now, thanks to endless television programmes devoted to the making of the movie. I know about the sets, the underwater cameras, and the nearly life-sized models and goodness knows what else, so I do not expect much novelty from Heart Of The Ocean: The Making Of Titanic (Pearl, 9pm).
I am even less confident about hearing or learning anything new in the documentary about the disaster Titanic The Legend: Titanic (Pearl, 8pm). There have been documentaries on this on every channel at least once a month since Christmas (or perhaps it just feels that way). Discovery is even devoting the whole of April to showing a new lot.
What I do not know for sure is how many of the scenes between crew and passengers in Cameron's Titanic are historically accurate. Because if none of them are, then Cameron has a great debt to pay to Roy Baker, the director of tonight's excellent Titanic movie, A Night To Remember (Pearl, 9.30pm).
