Beverly Hills brat
IF you have not yet caught up with Beverly Hills 90210 (World, 7.05pm) now is the time to do so. This is the teenage drama that adults watch. It stars Shannen Doherty, the brat who put the brat in brat-pack and was recently accused of trying to run down her millionaire fiancee when he told her their engagement was off. She went further than that, threatening to do something to him that would have altered, temporarily at least, his gait.
Ms Doherty has elevated bad behaviour to an art form. She is being evicted from her apartment for not paying bills, had a fight in a Beverly Hills nightclub with another woman and allegedly tried to hire prostitutes from Heidi Fleiss for a party she was throwing. When Fleiss demanded US$200 each, Doherty told her where to go.
This all detracts from the television series, but is more interesting. Ms Doherty plays petulant Brenda Walsh in the show, but in real life has become so notorious that she has spawned an anti-fan club in the US. Glamour magazine named her Prima Donna of the Year.
If you are interested in watching Beverly Hills 90210 (it's a postcode, not a telephone number) this is the story so far: Doherty is Brenda Walsh, female half of the Walsh twins. The other half is Brandon (Jason Priestly). Their cousin Bobby is coming to stay, but he turns out to be in a wheelchair. More important than the mobility-impaired cousin is that Brenda has to take her driving test for the third time. If she fails the kids at school will laugh at her.
IT is difficult not to like a film that is as downright stupid as Crocodile Dundee (World, 9.35pm). The fish-out-of-water storyline is a comedy standard, but Paul Hogan - who became an Australian phenomenon after the film was released in 1986 - carries it off with undeniable charm. Crocodile Dundee is good-natured, amiable and often very funny.
Hogan is Michael J. 'Crocodile' Dundee, a crocodile hunter who is paid to show a pretty American reporter (Linda Kozlowski) around Bush Country. She then shows him around New York, where he finds everything strange, particularly the people.