Getting Even With Dad Pearl, 9.35pm This was golden kid Macaulay Culkin's last credited movie performance before the pressures of stardom and domestic dramas overtook the Home Alone actor's life. The reviews this caper received did nothing to reinforce a long career in the movies for Culkin, now 20, who just a few years before was the most famous and best paid child actor in Hollywood. Culkin plays the estranged son of ex-convict Ted Danson, dumped on dad's doorstep and determined to make him do the right thing after catching him committing a crime (1994).
The Pearl Report Pearl, 8pm Nora Sun finds out why teachers (above) are so upset at the Government's plans to test their English competency and asks what will happen if they stick to their threat of boycotting the tests. She also looks at the background to this row, of poor English standards in schools and how that in turn is threatening Hong Kong's position as an international financial centre. Expatriates are shown to be frustrated too, as English usage declines, with hospital signs, bills and even government forms dropping the language.
Rough Guide To The World BBC World, 6.30pm Super-cool Magenta De Vine, who would not be miscast as the 101 Dalmatians' Cruella de Vil, joins the more rustic Simon O'Brien in the BBC's version of Lonely Planet. This week, the outspoken globetrotters visit India's 'land of kings', Rajasthan, starting at the state's pink capital, Jaipur (above), and moving along the back-packers' trail to Pushkar and Udaipur, touring its spectacular lake palace. Along the way they explore the idiosyncrasies of caste and polo, which both originated in India.
