Global Weirding, SBS, 7.30pm

Global weirding goes some way in expanding on and clarifying the concept of global warming – referring not just to the rise in temperatures around the world caused by the emission of greenhouse gases but to the unpredictable warm and cold, and to the increasing frequency and severity of weather events that were once random and extreme, like hurricanes and droughts. In this 2012 BBC documentary, weather experts and those at the coalface of climate change  talk about how global weirding is playing out in their own backyards. It's the small change in average temperature and humidity that's said to be behind the extreme change in weather events, but this painfully dry program – the last in SBS's "disaster doco season" – fails to shed much light on what might be causing that change.

Big Brother, Nine, 8.30pm

We've had just about everything on Big Brother this season, from Derryn Hinch to bizarre reinsertions of housemates from series past to two poodles called Ned and Kelly. Most memorably, an early eviction that involved the type of excruciating public rejection  one usually leaves behind in primary school. All this hoo-ha has failed to detract from the overwhelming sense that this is a show well past its use-by date. In its current incarnation, Big Brother feels like a tawdry, wretched waste of time.

Territory Cops, Ten, 8pm

According to its press release, "this action-packed, 10-part series proves that there's more to see in the Northern Territory than Uluru". Well, yes, if by "more" you mean ice addicts and machete-wielding mentally ill folk. They're probably not the sorts of  "attractions" we'll be seeing in the next Northern Territory tourism campaign, but the country's busiest police force certainly has its work cut out if the colourful characters seen here are any indication. Tonight, a drunk driver offends an officer in the worst possible way – by making comments about her mother – and a smooth-as-sandpaper drug smuggler is busted in the prison car park with a bong and marijuana. The producers make light – and often fun – of the crims featured in this show, while the cops, with nicknames such as Chook and Wombat, are presented as likeable law enforcers. Coincidentally or not, Northern Territory Police are now recruiting.

Annabel Ross

PAY TV

Wheeler Dealers Trading Up, Discovery Turbo Max, 5.30pm

British car trader Mike Brewer heads to Brazil for the third leg of his used-car dealing odyssey – and to provide a fascinating look at the local car culture. He arrives at the end of an era, with the Volkswagen Kombi van – which had been manufactured in Brazil since 1957 – about to go out of production. He visits the factory to watch some of the last Kombis being built, checks out some prize vintage examples (everything from camper vans to pick-up trucks) and then buys an old one to sell for a modest profit. Then he's off to check out the off-roading scene (buying and selling a '62 Willys Jeep) and finally to take a look at some of Brazil's home-grown marques and models. It's a particularly interesting segment as he wanders around a suburban neighbourhood having a stickybeak at the unfamiliar cars that everyday  Brazilians get around in. He eventually buys himself a Brazilian-made Chevrolet Opala – a stylishly daggy old thing that looks a bit like a HK Monaro. Next week he will visit Texas.

Going Deep, National Geographic, 9.30pm

A tiresome science-comedy hybrid in which American humorist David Rees spends most of his time making groanworthy jokes. Tonight  Rees learns a little bit about fly brains and fly-swatter design.

Brad Newsome

MOVIES

The Full Monty (1997), ONE, 9.30pm

It is not uncommon in cinema for characters to do almost anything out of a need to raise money. It is also expected that audiences take sides, reacting with joy at brave initiatives (a cross-nation run, swimming the Channel) or displeasure at "inappropriate" ones (prostitution, crime). Sometimes the endeavour falls in between, which is perfect for filmmakers wishing their audiences to momentarily side with those they might not normally approve of – like men taking off their clothes and swinging their tackle in public view. Such are the options facing steelworkers from Sheffield, England, where the mill has just closed.

A few unemployed men opt for stealing and re-selling sheet metal, but Gaz (Robert Carlyle) has a better, though still controversial, idea. He and his buddies decide to recruit any men willing to strut their naked stuff on stage as part of an act that will hopefully pay life's bills. Peter Cattaneo's film, with a script by Simon Beaufoy, has a fine cast (including Tom Wilkinson, whose career soon blossomed), all of whom agreed to do the full reveal for one take only. Whether the producers used the shot you'll have to see for yourself.

The Full Monty was an unexpected critical and box-office hit, spawning countless fundraising nudie calendars and even a musical – but what doesn't these days? The only souring note came when the producers were sued for allegedly ripping off a similarly themed New Zealand play, Ladies Night, which was settled out of court. It seems that stripping in public can have repercussions.

Scent of a Woman (1992), Romance Movies (pay TV), 8.30pm

A thoroughly Americanised, but still fascinating, remake of Dino Risi's cheeky comedy, Profuma de Donna (1974), about a blind Italian captain who uses his olfactory talents, and a personal aide, to source beautiful women. Thegreatly gifted Martin Brest (Meet Joe Black) directs Al Pacino to scintillating (and Oscar-winning) form.

Scott Murray