Welcome to our Primetime Picks for next week’s TV, so without further ado, here’s what we reckon you should tune into next week on your goggle box…

Monday

Tears, Lies & Videotape, 9:00pm, ITV1

“Please come home Shannon, if you’re out there come home. If anyone’s got my daughter, my beautiful Princess daughter please bring her home safe. I need her home.” These are just a few of the lies spouted by Karen Matthews when her daughter Shannon was ‘abducted’.

When a murder or abduction case captures the attention of the media, the cameras arrive and police know an appeal from the victim’s devastated family will make full use of the publicity. Desperate relatives appear to make raw, emotional appeals for information. But sometimes the emotion is fake. In Tears, Lies and Videotape, Professor David Canter the UK’s leading forensic psychologist and Professor Paul Ekman the world’s foremost criminal body language expert, examine the evidence and show how these deceptive storytellers are eventually caught out.

The programme studies the cases of several well-known criminals who have one thing in common – they all denied their crime and lied repeatedly to police before eventually being found out. Other cases discussed in this documentary include those of Tracie Andrews, Ian Huntley who murdered schoolgirls Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, Gordon Wardell who claimed his wife was murdered during a professional robbery, Fadi Nasri who paid another man to murder his wife Nisha, Paul Dyson who strangled his fiancé just 24 hours before Valentines Day, and Michael Gifford Hull who killed his wife and buried her in nearby woods.

Examining the evidence, Tears, Lies & Videotape finds out whether we could have known these criminals were lying and if the signs were there all along.

I’d Kill for a Baby, 10:00pm, Discovery Home & Health

This documentary is a disturbing exploration of infant abduction in the US, a crime that’s getting increasingly violent. This episode focusses on the psychological elements of five individual cases.

Tuesday

Blood, Sweat and Takeaways, 9:00pm, BBC3, 1/4 – Tuna

In tonight’s first installment, six young Brits, Jess, Manos, Olu, Lauren, Josh and Stacey enter Indonesia’s tuna industry in Bitung, on the island of Sulawesi. In the UK, over a billion tins of tuna are consumed each year and Bitung’s canneries supply many of our supermarkets and sandwich chains.

Living with the workers in their basic conditions, the Brits endure the 90-degree heat of the tuna canneries and struggle with the harsh realities of life on a traditional wooden tuna boat in the Western Pacific. The extreme conditions affect them all – as does the hand-to-mouth existence of those they are living with.

After seeing the reality, will biting into a tuna sandwich ever be the same again?

Bizarre ER, 10:30pm, BBC3

Freema Agyeman continues to narrate this documentary series which follows the most extraordinary cases that come through the doors of a busy A&E Department, including remarkable tales of survival from across the UK.

Tonight we see a teenager who’s super-glued her fingers together while applying false nails, a granny who mangled her ankle while moshing in church, a DIY enthusiast whose attempt at woodwork turned into a Chainsaw Massacre and a schoolboy who got skewered by a flagpole.

Wednesday

Extraordinary People: Electric Human, 9:00pm, Five

Documentary series exploring remarkable stories of human experience from all over the world. In Puerto Rico, a man claims to be able conduct electricity through his body. Forty-year-old Jose can withstand high-voltage currents without any apparent ill effects, powering light bulbs and firing sparks from his fingers.

Meanwhile, in Brighton, a woman reports that her body mysteriously affects electrical appliances. Can scientists explain these unusual abilities?

Shocking! Sorry…

Paul McKenna: I Can Make You Bikini Thin, 8:00pm, Living

British self-help guru Paul McKenna hosts this inspirational weight-loss series based on his best-selling book.

He offers to use four golden rules to transform viewers’ lives without any specific diet or exercise plan.

Thursday

Emergency in the Womb, 9:00pm, Channel 4

Identical twin brothers, Conner and Cody Bambrough, are 21 weeks old – and battling each other for survival in the womb.

They have a rare and perilous condition that threatens both their lives before they are even born. The only chance of survival is a difficult and dangerous operation inside the womb itself, where success is far from guaranteed.

With exclusive access to pioneering foetal surgeon Professor Kypros Nicolaides, and using live surgical footage and specially commissioned 3D computer imagery, this programme follows the progress of the identical twins as they undergo high-risk surgery and, afterwards, on the precarious journey towards birth.

The Real Hustle on Holiday, 10:30pm, BBC3

Tonight sees a new series in which the team of hustlers – Alexis Conran, Paul Wilson and Jessica Clement – expose the scams that cheat tourists and travellers out of their holiday money.

Jess persuades a well-meaning tourist to take a gift through international customs, a good deed that could lead to him spending the rest of his life in jail.

Paul demonstrates how the unwary traveller can be separated from their luggage in a matter of minutes and Alex pulls a fast one on TV presenter Andi Peters by challenging him to the seemingly impossible task of ripping a phonebook in half.

Friday

Total Emergency, 9:00pm, ITV4

This series follows the work of the three emergency services in Sheffield.

Tonight, police and paramedics are called to a severely injured motorcyclist while fire fighters tackle a blaze that spreads through four houses. Also, police arrest a man who tries to escape through a third storey window.

The Keeper, 10:00pm, ITV4

You can’t beat a good thriller film while you’re eating your takeaway at the weekend, so our weekend movie viewing kicks off with this shocker…

In Redwood County, dancer Gina is attacked and her boyfriend is killed by a maniac in a motel. Gina’s attended to by Sergeant Burns and Lieutenant Krebs who insists on giving a lift when she leaves the hospital. However, he kidnaps Gina and keeps her in a cell in the basement of his isolated house.

The deranged policeman had a serious trauma from his childhood with a night club dancer and wants to take out his anger on Gina while she’s imprisoned. Meanwhile, Lieutenant Krebs is stalked by a local nutter called Ruthie who has a crush on him which hinders his search the missing Gina… it’s not the best film ever but it’s entertaining in a ‘oh god this is awful’ kind of a way!

Saturday

Hitler: The Rise of Evil, 9:00pm, Channel 4

This two-part drama traces the young and developing mind of a burgeoning madman.

This docu-drama film follows Hitler through his formative years and depicts events in his life that could explain why he became the monster he turned out to be.

Starring Robert Carlyle and Stockard Channing.

Austin Powers in Goldmember, 9:00pm, Film4

This hilarious film follows Austin’s adventures as Dr. Evil and Mini-Me have somehow escaped from a maximum security prison and the duo team up with Goldmember.

Together they formulate a plan for world domination. And this particular scheme requires a large amount of time-travel, and kidnapping Austin’s father, England’s master spy, Nigel Powers. As Austin chases Dr. Evil, Mini-Me and Goldmember through time, he stops in 1975 to “connect” with an old girlfriend, detective Foxxy Cleopatra, and requests her help to track the villains and save his father.

Here’s the film’s opening sequence…

Sunday

South Pacific: Endless Blue, 8:30pm, BBC2

This documentary series looks at the South Pacific islands where a large part of the remote, blue wilderness of the South Pacific is a marine desert. Many animals that live in the ocean – among them sharks, whales and turtles – must go to extraordinary lengths to survive.

Tiger sharks travel hundreds of miles to feast on fledging albatross chicks and, every year, sperm whales journey from one side of the South Pacific to the other in their search of food and mates.

Fighting Passions, 10:30pm, BBC2

This fascinating documentary features interviews with soldiers on the act that, for some, defines them; killing. For civilians, it’s a crime, for soldiers, it’s a job.

Soldiers who’ve done it usually don’t talk about it, but five former British infantrymen recall the reality of combat in compelling and candid detail.

Through powerful personal testimonies, the programme traces the journeys of these men, from young recruits through training and frontline combat to where killing places them today.

That’s it for this week’s Primetime Picks so have a great week and we’ll see you next weekend which is a Bank Holiday again! Yippee!