Tall order

SULTAN KOSEN, from Turkey, was crowned the world’s tallest man in September 2009 – and he’s still growing. The 27-year-old, who stands at over 8ft, suffers from gigantism, a life-threatening condition that causes him to grow even further beyond his record-breaking height.

As World’s Tallest Man: Looking For Love discovers, as well as affecting his health, his condition has also hampered his quest for true love and, in the documentary, the cameras follow him as he searches for the girl of his dreams.

Sultan has already made a new best friend in George Bell, America’s tallest man, and things appear to be looking up as he then meets a woman who he takes on his first-ever date.

But there are more challenges ahead for Sultan as he looks into undergoing a potentially life-saving operation by Dr Mary Lee Vance, one of the world’s leading gigantism experts.

It’s not the first time he’s been under the knife. He was born into a poor family, whose members spent most of their money on hospital treatment to remove the tumour on Sultan’s pituitary gland that was causing him to grow taller.

SHOWS looking at new movies are few and far between. The best review show is on the radio on Friday afternoons when Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode discuss the new movies.

Of course, there’s Film 2011, but that’s on its holidays until later in the year – which means it misses commenting on all the summer blockbusters. And indeed, since Claudia Winkleman took over the presenter’s chair from Jonathan Ross, some of us have lost all interest in the programme.

C4’s new entry in the cinematic review stakes The Film Show has Edith Bowman presenting it and I hope she’s more interesting than when she’s covering film premiere red carpets for the TV cameras.

She’ll be looking at the week’s biggest movie releases and kicks off by meeting the cast of The Hangover Part II. The amazing box office success of the original took everyone by surprise, costing a mere $35m to make and taking a whopping $476m worldwide.

No wonder the producers decided to cash in and hastily get a sequel in front of the cameras.

The show also offers profiles of new offerings Screwed and Blitz, all the gossip from the UK premiere of Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, and X Factor finalists JLS talk about their bigscreen debut in a 3D concert movie.

BACK in 1995, Ben Chaplin, star of UK sitcom Game On, crossed the Pond to star in romantic comedy The Truth About Cats and Dogs, with rising star Janeane Garofalo.

Proving that what goes around comes around, Janeane did the reverse trip a couple of years ago when she was invited to star in this award-winning BBC comedy with Johnny Vegas.

She returns for this new run as Moz’s arty neighbour, Tilly, and other familiar faces in this episode include Paul Weller and Strictly Come Dancing winner, Kara Tointon.

The series, penned by Graham Duff, centres on a drug dealer, his assorted mates and associates. Here Moz plots to win back the heart of his true love, Jenny, but when he discovers she has joined the police force, his plans are thrown into disarray.

Mick Miller, Tom Goodman-Hill and writer Graham Duff also star.

THE excellent conspiracy thriller The Shadow Line continues with Stephen Rea’s mysterious and notvery- nice man in a hat playing games with Frieda and the baby.

But not the sort of games you usually play with a child.

Elsewhere, detective Gabriel leads a drug bust after taking a look at Wratten’s files and ends up arresting Harris’ man Stephen. Naturally, the drug baron isn’t best pleased by this turn of events and, acting on a tip-off from Ratallack, he decides that Jay Wratten is to blame.

The plot thickens (and yes, that really is possible) when Gabriel later looks at CCTV footage, and sees Wratten’s dead driver joined by a man in a trilby hat.