Monday night's telly picks

By Remote Control on Jun 4, 07 05:20 PM

If you are planning to take flight on holiday any time soon, then it might be best to steer clear of the telly tonight.

Not one, but two, documentaries will have you thinking twice about heading abroad at all.

First out of the box tonight is Panorama (BBC 1, 8.30pm) which explores why RAF Nimrods keep having problems.

Perhaps, most worringly though, is the fact they have continued to have problems in the wake of a crash in Afghanistan which killed 14 last September.

In truth, it is a story which has been told a dozen times over on the BBC during the last 24 hours, so I doubt there will be much to garner from actually sitting through the programme.

But the one really worth watching is at 9pm, where Trevor MCDonald fronts a special edition of Tonight. It's called Terror In The Skies - and its findings were so shocking that, when clips were released yesterday, they knocked the Beeb's RAF story off top spot on the BBC News website.

Sir Trev's team managed to get behind the scenes at Birmingham International Airport and found out that tight security was remarkably lax at what is one of the country's biggest airports.

The findings are shocking: Staff asleep in front of the x-ray machines, while others who are supposed to be keeping an eye on potential troublemakers opt instead to read the newspaper.

Questions no doubt will be asked - and it's certainly worth passing on the Monday night staple New Tricks (BBC 1, 9pm) for what is an excellent documentary.