The Bottom Line: Revealing The Full Monty (C4), House Detectives At Large (BBC2)

AFTER the hit film comes the film about the making of the film, although The Bottom Line told us little about The Full Monty that we didn't know already.

This was the fumbling foreplay before C4 went the whole way by screening the movie itself - or Four Weddings, Meat and Two Veg as presenter Mark Kermode suggested of the picture about stripping Sheffield steelworkers.

We were reminded how film-makers recruited 300 local women with an invitation to come and see some film stars remove their clothes. But the nervous actors "got the willies" - their phrase, not mine - before shooting the scene and needed large amounts of alcohol in advance of going on stage.

You'd think people who made a living out of performing in public would take it in their stride.

Few expected The Full Monty to become an enormous international success, but House Detectives At Large can hardly fail to attract good ratings, being full of ingredients lifted from other shows.

There's a bit of Time Team (excavating for a hidden temple), Antiques Roadshow (authenticating a possible Chippendale chair) and Wish You Were Here (a trip to Barbardos) coupled with a historical diversion to discuss slavery and sugar production, plus a guided tour of the house and all the thrill of a detective story.

You could also pick up tips about picking the locks of boxes that have been in the attic for hundreds of years.

Harewood House proved the ideal place for experts Dan Cruickshank, Anna Bennett and Carenza (a name that demands an investigation all to itself) Lewis to dig up the past.

This classical palace in the middle of Yorkshire, described as one of the most beautiful country houses, was built in 1759 and has remained in the Lascelles family ever since.

The BBC experts, who wanted to tell the story that isn't in the guide books, were given the run of the place, by the Earl and Countess of Harewood, to sift through the still-locked boxes in the attic, stuff piled up in rooms and to roam the grounds.

Carenza, determined to find the lost temple of Venus in the woods, also took herself off to another stately home in West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, to view "the sexual landscape" there, only to be told "it's a bit cold up here today for eroticism".

Cruickshank went to sunnier climes, the West Indies, to find the old family sugar plantation and talk to descendants of the slaves who toiled there.

There was no hiding that the house, like many others in this country, was built with "dirty money", the profits from slavery and sugar. Carenza felt it was completely reprehensible morally, but that didn't stop you wanting to find out about the house, and enjoying it. The same might apply to watching strippers in The Full Monty.