Plan your week's TV viewing here - why have a social life?

Scanning the TV page of Metro this morning I was struck by how many programmes people in the children and young people's sector might be interested in watching are on tonight. Then I thought, hang on Media Mum, weren't you thinking of flagging up such programmes on a weekly basis? The answer is, why yes, yes I was.

So if you want to plan your viewing schedule for the week ahead check in here every Monday. And if you watch any of the programmes listed and want to discuss them, feel free to comment! (or if there is something I have missed).

Monday

Channel 4 8pm Is It Better To Be Mixed Race? A geneticist examines controversial claims that the children of mixed-race relationships have biological advantages over their counterparts.

ITV 8pm I'm Paid More Than The PM: Tonight. Jonathan Maitland looks at the high salaries of chief execs in the public domain. The pre-show publicity has focused on the Channel 4 chief exec but there may be a look at services relevant to the sector.

BBC1 8.30pm Panorama: The Child Protectors Panorama follows safeguarding services in Coventry. Are they keeping children safe? Required viewing for all Coventry children's services workers I should have thought, and pretty interesting to everyone else.

Tuesday

ITV 9pm Seven days on the Breadline "In this series, Mel B, Trinny Woodall, Keith Allen and Austin Healey leave their comfortable lives behind to step into the shoes of families struggling to make ends meet in Britain", apparently. In this episode, Austin (who?) "organises a meeting for troublesome teenager Luke with the Prince's Trust, which can find work for young offenders". Tosh, or worth watching? Let me know.

BBC3 8pm The World's Strictest Parents "Unruly British teenagers are sent to experience the parenting of families around the world, beginning with party-mad 17-year-old Bex Keene from Walton-on-Thames, and lazy 16-year-old Chezden Dundee from Bolton. They spend a week living in Atlanta, Georgia, with the Kimbroughs, a God-fearing family with a strict moral lifestyle that emphasises respect and self-discipline."

Wednesday

Channel 4 4am-5.45am. We Are From... Yes, you saw the time right. If anyone is awake at this time in the morning, you can ease the pain by watching nine- to 12-year -olds from different countries including Germany and Turkey talk about their lives and country.

Thursday

Channel 4, 4.10am. 3 Minute Wonder: This Is Our Youth. Another one for the insomniacs - or on demand TV.  A selection of short documentaries examining some of the unusual trends invented by pupils in London secondary schools. Two teenagers believe they have come up with their own style of minimalistic music. If for some reason you are not up at 4.10am, you can watch it on YouTube.

Channel 4, 12.35pm.  3 Minute Wonder: This Is Our Youth. This time girls at an east London secondary school explain how they are pushing the boundaries of retro fashion by dressing in Elizabethan costume. Alternatively you can watch it on YouTube

Channel 4 9pm The Schoolboy Who Sailed the World. Cutting Edge follows 16-year-old Michael Perham as he embarks on a journey to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world.

BBC3 9pm The World's Strictest Parents Single mother Hannah Thorpe from Liverpool, and image-obsessed James Gowing from Leicester are sent to live under the strict rules of a God-fearing family in Utah. As devoted Mormons, the Pecks demand that the 17-year-olds abide by a rigid moral code, attend home-school lessons and help out on a local ranch.

Friday

Channel 4 11.35am Parents & Teens: Welcome to My World. Profile of a 16-year-old who wants to be a music producer - although his father has little faith in him because of his previous brushes with the law. Now he has settled on a career path, the young man hopes to persuade his dad to see him in a new light.