My Boyfriend the Sex Tourist SBS One, 10pm
Behind the upfront transactions of the oldest profession in Bangkok’s red-light district exists a complex micro economy back in Thailand’s villages. In the first of this two-part British series, we witness the back-office mechanisms that “support” the bar girls of Bangkok.
In one of the poorest districts of Thailand, we see the plight of two young women. One spends half her income visiting a love-letter writer while struggling to provide for her two children. The other lives for her weekly visits to cyberspace and hopefully an email from her alcoholic boyfriend from Birmingham. Girls depend on a clunky computer, broken English and creative punctuation to connect them to a life lived happily ever after elsewhere.
Impact Seven, 8.30pm
Widowed scientist Alex Kittner is not an alarmist. When his son discovers the first clues of a global catastrophe, he remains steadfastly in alert mode.

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