THE movie version of Timothy Mo's novel Soursweet (World, 9.30pm), about a family of emigrants from Hong Kong struggling to survive in London, was a success internationally, but is disappointingly stereotypical for anyone who's lived here for any length oftime.
Sylvia Chang (wonderful) plays Lily and Danny Dun An-ning (awful) is Chen, the man she marries in Hong Kong before departing for a new life in London. He works as a waiter, but is forced to flee when Soho triads try to recruit him as a drug-runner to pay off gambling debts he's run up.
He hides out in the East End, opens a takeaway, which also opens the film's happy scenes, and gives director Mike Newell the cue to run through some stock culture shock cliches for each member of the family.
Meanwhile, back in Chinatown the triads have got the choppers out, not only for Chen, but also for each other, and it looks like the idyll is about to end for Lily and her family.
Disappointing, but certainly worth a look. And Sylvia Chang, as always, gives a convincing and touching performance.
THE BBC documentary series 40 Minutes (5.15pm and 1.15am) makes disturbing viewing with an instalment entitled A Child For Hitler. It's the story of Renate, the product of ''Lebensborn'' Himmler's experiment to breed an aryan master race during the Third Reich.
She was never told that her father was one of the thousands of SS officers who answered the call of the Nazi propaganda machine to help ''make a child for Hitler'' - her mother thought the truth too terrible to tell.
