Hope you’re having a great weekend, and while you do, here’s our Primetime Picks of what we recommend you have a look at on your gogglebox next week…

Monday

Winds, 9:00pm, BBC4

This is the third and final part of this documentary series about the weather and tonight, it looks at wind and how it’s caused by the interaction of temperature, pressure and the earth’s rotation which took scientists over a thousand years to fully explain.

We witness some remarkable wind-related stories, such as the tornado that flung Dorothy Allwright and her caravan into the air and how Scottish engineer James Blyth invented the first electricity-producing wind turbine in 1887.

Once we looked to the gods to explain the wind, until science unlocked its mysteries. Today, we may have come to understand the wind but we will never master it, and we ignore this elemental force at our peril.

Trophy Wives: Game On, 10:00pm, Living

New and exclusive series premiere – Canadian version of Footballers’ Wives drama following the lives and loves of the Mustangs’ ice hockey stars and their wives.

Tragedy hits the team as captain Adam McBride dies at a season-opening party, leaving his widow and daughter penniless. But the team owner decides to use the proceeds from his insurance policy to acquire the league’s number one draft pick.

Tuesday

Born to Be Different: Turning Eight, 9:00pm, Channel 4

A decade-long television project following the lives of six children – Emily, Zoe, Shelbie, Hamish, Nathan and William – who were born with a disability. In this first episode of the fourth series, we catch up with the children who are turning eight.

The children have disabilities ranging from spina bifida and Down’s syndrome to conditions such as dwarfism and this update takes us through some of the real highs and lows that the children and their families have faced.

You’d think this would be incredibly depressing TV, but it’s not and as brutally honest as it is about their problems and lives, as William’s grandmother says, “You play the hand that God dealt you. And inside that imperfect shell, there’s still the original William, and I’m very proud of him.”

Desperately Hungry Housewives, 10:35pm, BBC1

The BBC’s Headroom season continues with Desperately Hungry Housewives. Jane, Zoe, Tracey and Georgia talk frankly and movingly about how anorexia and bulimia have affected their lives and families. With seemingly successful and settled lives, these women are battling with food behind closed doors as they struggle with the fallout from eating disorders.

Fifty-four-year-old Jane has suffered from anorexia and bulimia for more than 30 years and is trying to keep her weight at a healthier level; 36-year-old Tracey is desperate to stop her cycle of binging and vomiting; Zoe, 36, is in recovery from severe anorexia but still struggles with unhealthy thoughts about food; and Georgia would like to lose weight after having a baby without spiralling back into full blown anorexia.

“One day I’d like to be able to think that I could eat birthday cake and enjoy those sorts of experiences with the boys, and with the family, feel normal and not get stressed out about it,” says Georgia. “But, at the moment, I know that it’s not something I’d be able to allow myself to do and that’s just something that I have to accept.”

Wednesday

Super Weed, 9:00pm, National Geographic

An in-depth examination of marijuana which is one of the most widely used drugs in the world. From famous musicians such as Bob Marley to great artists and even a few leading politicians, this documentary examines the science of this controversial drug.

Experts reveal that it’s one of the most complex species in the plant kingdom, containing more than 400 active chemicals and compounds.

In the United States, the government places it in the same category as heroin and in the state of California, the marijuana trade out-paces the entire wine industry! But just what is the truth about weed? Can it cause mental illness? Are there really any medicinal benefits to using it or is it too dangerous to be legalised? This documentary attempts to separate fact from fiction about the Super Weed.

I Killed John Lennon, 10:00pm, Discovery Channel

John Lennon was shot to death in 1980 and this film tells the story of the legendary singer’s assassination in the words of his killer, Mark David Chapman.

The programme reveals a series of taped interviews that Chapman conducted with journalist Jack Jones in prison, dramatically reconstructing key events from the day of the killing.

Also included are contributions from key witnesses and observers who have been close to the Chapman story since his arrest.

Thursday

My Life as an Animal: Dogs, 9:00pm, BBC3

Extreme sportsman Ed Leigh moves into a kennel with 33 male foxhounds, while former Lara Croft model Lucy Clarkson experiences life as a sheepdog on a working sheep farm, as the series following eight intrepid volunteers as they try to learn more about animals continues.

With the help of canine experts and wildlife expert Terry Nutkins, they learn to sleep, eat and communicate like a dog while learning more about the animal than they ever imagined.

Both Ed and Lucy are faced with different challenges. While Ed embraces his life as a foxhound, Lucy finds the dogs take longer to accept her into the pack. Both human dogs are being monitored on CCTV for their own safety and to see how well they are communicating with the other dogs, but it turns out that it is not the sheepdogs Lucy is communicating with but her boyfriend, as she has smuggled a mobile phone onto the farm.

Destroyed in Seconds, 10:00pm, Discovery Channel

Clip show featuring a variety of the most shocking destructions ever caught on film.

The show is hosted by former NFL star Ron Pitts who narrates as a factory fire causes deadly shrapnel to fly into the air, a motorcycle crashes at a speed of 215km per hour, a nine-storey building in Russia collapses and a Titan rocket explodes.

This episode is followed directly by another.

Friday

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2, 10:00pm, ITV4

This sequel to the epic Blair Witch Project isn’t as good as the original film but it’s still a good old scary watch!

Jeff Donavan was never a ‘good boy’; he was always bad and was always fascinated in the story of the Blair Witch, just like Heather Donahue of the original Blair Witch film. So, after the success of the movie, Jeff opens up a Blair Witch tour of Black Hills as a way to cash in on the movie hoopla, but when four people take the tour and decide to rest at Rustin Parr’s house – Rustin was the murderer of seven children under the Blair Witch’s command – the four lose five hours of their memories.

After they return to find Jeff, while trying to understand the bizarre symbols that’ve appeared on their bodies, all five people will finally know that some fiction isn’t really fiction and that when they left the Black Hills, they left with something… or someone

Here’s the film’s trailer…

Lake Placid, 10:00pm, Sky1

Friday’s are – I find – great nights for scary films, so here’s another if Blair Witch doesn’t grab your fancy… and this one has some brilliantly comedic moments thrown int too!

Lake Placid is anything but placid… beneath the surface that is. When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature lurking in the depths of the lake, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast.

Add to the mix an eccentric philanthropist with a penchant for crocodiles, and this quiet, remote lake is suddenly the focus of an intense search for a crocodile with a taste for live animals…and people!

Here’s the film’s original trailer…

Saturday

Asian Earthquake: The Science of Tsunamis, 9:00pm, Discovery Science

At 0059 GMT on 26 December 2004, a magnitude 9.3 earthquake ripped apart the seafloor off the coast of northwest Sumatra and over 100 years of accumulated ‘stress’ was released in the second biggest earthquake in recorded history.

It unleashed a devastating tsunami that travelled thousands of kilometres across the Indian Ocean, taking the lives of more than 200,000 people in countries as far apart as Indonesia, the Maldives, Sri Lanka and Somalia.

This documentary features exclusive footage that reveals the science behind the Asian tsunami. Tsunami’s scare the bejesus out of me so I’ll be watching through my fingers!

This clip shows various footage of the devastating tsunami…

Housetrapped in the Sun, 9:00pm, Discovery Travel & Living

The Housetrapped team try to help people who’ve suffered disasters when buying property abroad.

This week, Brenda and Dennis Price have fallen foul of local planning permission regulations in Spain and must demolish their extension and balcony.

Another couple are in confrontation with their builder in Cyprus over the discovery of a valuable underground river, and there is the dream home in France that is literally falling apart.

Sunday

Inspector George Gently: Gently with the Innocents, 8:30pm, BBC1

The second series of this crime drama starts tonight, and during their investigation of the murder of a lonely old man in his dilapidated mansion, Gently and Bacchus stumble upon a world which is beyond their comprehension…

It’s well worth watching just to see Martin Shaw in action… I swear that man gets better looking the older he gets! I so would…

Father Ted: The Mainland, 11:05pm, More4

This is one of my favourite episodes…

Father Jack’s glasses have been stolen by the crows again, so the Craggy Island gang must pay a visit to the mainland and while Mrs Doyle uses the opportunity to have tea with a friend, Ted and Dougal decide to visit the Very Dark Caves.

See a clip from this episode here.

Have a super-shiney fabulous week and we’ll see you here again next Sunday for more Primetime Picks!