Amazing Science: Medical Marvels (World, 8.55pm) demonstrates that unwritten rule of television programme names: anything with an exclamation mark, or an adjective like Amazing, Fabulous, or Whacky in the title is basically tabloid television.
Amazing Science has all the pseudo-documentary bag of tricks, such as back-lit scientists saying things like 'it is not science fiction, but science fact!' as they boast about some unspeakably revolting new procedure.
It also lives up to the tabloid television rule, by having tacky faux headlines to introduce each report. Number one deals with the horrid mouse-grows-human-ear experiment, which turns out to have some practical implications after all.
Scientists are learning how to grow new bits of human beings, and have already found a ready supply of fresh clean skin to cultivate to make new skin for burn victims: the foreskins of circumcised babies.
To do the programme justice, the voice-over does not linger too much on this source material, although we do get a bit of footage of a screaming infant wailing while a masked surgeon snips away.
The back-lit scientist, who is not identified, at least not on the preview tape I had, shows less restraint. She cannot resist telling the cameras that one human foreskin contains enough cells to grow six football fields worth of new human skin.
In the second report, Killer Poison Saves Kid's Life! there are more screaming children.