Tourettes: I Swear I Can't Help ItBBC1, 9pm
Twenty years after he became the new Joey Deacon, Tourettes sufferer John Davidson is back in a new documentary (TV tends to catch up with him every few years - a sort of Seven F*** Up. We can all pretend we'll be watching to raise our awareness of this issue and discover if John can pass on advice to a new generation of sweary young men, but of course we really want to see him screaming profanities in the supermarket and calling his mum a slut (in fact he's now whacking her in the face out of the blue - unless the producers are paying him to invent new symptoms).
The poor bloke has aged really badly - it must be a stressful life, especially when you get the likes of Keith Allen turning up to do a documentary on you (Tourettes De France - Allen and a film crew with a title in search of a programme lead John and other sufferers on a bike ride to the Paris hospital where Doctor Tourette discovered the condition).
Anyway, essential viewing for schoolchildren who want to be up on some very inventive swears. Although, be warned. As Shakespearean actress Eleanor Bron made clear in her original stentorian voiceover: "John doesn't always swear. Sometimes he barks... like a dog."
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