Terrestrial School of Rock Channel 4, 8pm When inept heavy metal axe-god Dewey Finn (Jack Black) is sacked from his own band, he faces debt and depression. He thus takes a job as a teacher at an uptight private school where his off-hand zany vigour has a powerful effect on his cute, classically-minded wee students. And maybe Zack, a 10-year-old guitar prodigy, could help Dewey win a battle of the bands competition The Great Drain Robbery: Tonight ITV1, 8pm With demand for lead at a 27-year high and copper quadrupling in price in two years, metal theft has increased by almost 170% in parts of the UK in the past year. British Transport Police say it is their biggest problem after terrorism, and have set up a national task force to deal with it. Railway cable theft is costing rail companies millions of pounds, and caused commuters 240,000 minutes of delays to journeys in 2007. Thieves are even targeting graveyards and crematoriums. Nothing is sacred where cash for scrap is concerned.
Comedy Live Presents Channel 4, 10pm Fresh from his sell-out tour and best-selling booky-wook, mascara'd roué Russell Brand hosts a variety extravaganza. As well as doing his own stand-up, Russell B will preside over topical and celebrity-based characters and sketches performed by some of the stars from the Star Stories team, as well as new comedy performers. The teazle-coiffed fop also introduces top-name stand-up comedians and bright new talents.
Digital Crocodile Dundee Film 4, 7.15pm "That's not a knife. This is a knife." So says the eponymous Mick "Crocodile" Dundee (Paul Hogan) as he routs a New York mugger in Peter Faiman's Oscar-nominated comedy. American journalist Sue Charlton (Linda Kozlowski) is his guide to the jungle of the Big Apple.
Mad Max TCM, 9pm Mel Gibson is Max Rockatansky, a policeman in a futuristic dystopian world, working outside the law to take revenge on the gang who murdered his family. As Max says: "I'm scared - it's that rat circus out there - that I'm beginning to enjoy it. Look, any longer out on that road and I'm one of them, a terminal psychotic, except that I've got this bronze badge that says that I'm one of the good guys."
Pop on Trial - The Final BBC4, 10pm British pop music is in the dock. Stuart Maconie presides as five advocates - each representing a decade of pop from the fifties to the nineties - argue that theirs is the best musical decade. Arguing the case for the fifties is musician Pete Wylie; championing the swinging sixties is mod DJ Eddie Piller; former NME journalist Dave Quantick campaigns for the seventies; and the eighties and nineties are represented by music journalists Miranda Sawyer and Caitlin Moran respectively. The advocates put their cases to a four-person pop jury, which carefully considers the evidence before deciding on the best musical decade.
Radio My Heart's in the Highlands Radio Scotland, 11.30am In the second specially-commissioned work for the station's new drama season, Liz Lochhead's wry celebration of Robert Burns centres on Roberta (Siobhan Redmond). In the course of preparing a Burns Supper, she finds her kitchen under the spell of a surprising guest, the poet himself. In Front Row (Radio 4, 7.15pm), Andrew O'Hagan discusses Burns with Mark Lawson. By way of utter contrast, on Radio 2 at 9.15pm Paul Merton begins narrating Spike Milligan's surreally comic war memoir, Adolf Hitler: My Part In His Downfall .
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