BRITAIN'S favourite sit-down - as opposed to stand-up - comedian, Jasper Carrott brings his brand of humour to Asian viewers in Canned Carrott (STAR Plus, 10pm, 1.10am and 5am).
The bulk of the show is made up of Carrott's famous monologues in which he airs his views on life's oddities as they strike him - and which could include his Hong Kong taxi-driver story - all from the comfort of his bar-stool perch.
Each show also features the five-minute series The Detectives where he and actor Robert Powell (Jesus of Nazareth ) portray two dim-witted policemen who manage to make the easiest of tasks extremely difficult. THE prime slots on both terrestrial channelsare occupied by the concluding episodes of two mini-series, so if you saw the first half of both get out the VCR.
The better of the two has to be Framed (Pearl, 9.30pm) though it's not quite in the same class as writer Lynda La Plante's recent police drama Prime Suspect.
Instant plot update: Timothy Dalton (The Rocketeer ) is Eddie Myers, playboy and master criminal, who had been hiding out under a new ID in Spain until he was spotted there by holidaying policeman Lawrence Jackson (David Morrissey).
He agreed to return to England secretly and turn supergrass, but would only spill the beans to young Jackson - spurning senior cop and old arch-enemy Timothy West. In the process, Myers has been stealthily manipulating the naive Jackson slowly turning his mind to his own way of thinking.