The Culture Show (BBC2, 7pm); Fearne and Paris Hilton (ITV2, 10pm); Timeshift: The Golden Age of Liners (BBC Four, 9pm).

ONE of the most popular parts of Simon Mayo’s afternoon show on Radio Five is the Friday film review slot with critic Mark Kermode, in which the pair spar and bicker over the new movies So popular is the double act that when Mayo, pictured, leaves to take over Chris Evans’ Radio 2 drivetime spot next year, the Mayo and Kermode film partnership will continue on Radio 5.

The pair are together again tonight for a one-off special edition of The Culture Show as they find out what’s been going on at this year’s London Film Festival.

George Clooney kicked off the festival by attending the world premiere of the new stop motion animated film, Fantastic Mr Fox, in which he provides the voice of a suave, chicken-stealing fox.

Mayo and Kermode will be reviewing highlights of the festival so far, including an interview with actor David M o r r i s s e y whose feature d i r e c t o r i a l debut, Don’t Worry About Me, is being shown. It’s a boy-meets-girl story set in his home town of Liverpool.

P y t h o n - turned-author and traveller Michael Palin also drops by to discuss publication of Halfway to Hollywood, the latest volume of his diaries.

This new book focuses on the years 1980 to 1988, in which the star concentrated largely on film work.

It was during this time that The Life Of Brian was causing controversy and the Pythons performed at the Hollywood Bowl.

Palin himself appeared in films such as The Missionary and A Fish Called Wanda.

Also in the programme, Toby Young considers the role of critics with newspaper reviewers Cosmo Landesman and Peter Bradshaw.

And it’s not all movie news, as Miranda Sawyer provides all the latest news from the Frieze Art Fair in London’s Regent’s Park.

ITV2 has firmly established itself as the televisual equivalent of Heat magazine – a label it will find hard to shake off with such offerings as Fearne and Paris Hilton.

The Radio 1 DJ, TV presenter and fashion icon jets off to Los Angeles to catch up with everyone’s favourite hotel heiress, Paris Hilton, a woman famous for being famous.

Poor old Paris hasn’t done herself too many favours in her short but high-profile celebrity career.

In fact, she’s openly embraced the notion of setting herself up as a Hollywood cartoon character for celebrity columnists to cast wherever they see fit.

But as with all media-savvy celebrities, she’d like us to think that a different person lurks behind the mask.

In this week’s episode, Fearne gets chummy in a bid to expose the real Paris, the one who enjoys nothing more than putting her feet up at the end of the day with a cup of tea and a bourbon.

I’d have thought she was more of a jammy dodger person myself.

HISTORICAL documentaries make up a big part of BBC4’s schedules, with the latest Timeshift programme providing something for the channel’s Age Of Glamour season.

This is exploring the decadence, design, fashion and glamour of the Twenties and Thirties.

Presented by Antiques Roadshow favourite Paul Atterbury, The Golden Age of Liners looks back at the opulence of some of the great ocean liners of the first half of the 20th Century.

He travels around Britain investigating a time when transatlantic travelling was a sedate and luxurious affair that showcased not just Britain’s shipbuilding prowess, but its sense of style.

A cinema in Scotland built from the interiors of the SS Homeric and a house in Poole where cabins from the Mauretania have been preserved are two of Atterbury’s ports of call as he continues his nationwide tour.

Along the way, he delves into the politics and tragedy that created and ultimately destroyed the era of the ocean liner.