Celebrity Surgery: Who's Had What Done? (ITV1)

Horizon: The Lost Civilisation of Peru (BBC2)

MANY years ago - and the more mature among you will surely remember - people used to wonder which twin had the Toni. Nowadays the speculation is not about permanent waves but breasts and other body parts.

TV joins the debate in Celebrity Surgery, which panders to the inquisitive side of us all concerning the looks of those who are richer and more famous. Newsagents' shelves are packed with magazines devoted to such things.

The opener in the series managed to make a mountain out of a molehill, so to speak, by trying to guess whether Victoria Beckham has had boob jobs and exactly how many Pamela Anderson has undergone.

A few years ago, spending a 30-minute programme discussing such matters would have been unthinkable. Now it passes for mainstream TV.

The format is simple: Alex Karidis, surgeon to the stars, gets a pen and draws circles on photographs of Posh and Pam, highlighting the evidence of breast surgery.

He's careful to add the phrase "in my opinion" at every opportunity to stop the pair rushing to phone their lawyers. Posh has always denied having a boob job, but clever Mr Karidis reckons she's had three, including one to reduce them.

Baywatch star Anderson is more upfront about her breasts. She even bought two of her best friends boob jobs for Christmas. Karidis says - in his opinion, remember - that she's had four boob jobs. Not very good ones, presumably, as he noted that they looked artificial.

A note of caution was introduced with the case of the late Lola Ferrari, a favourite on Eurotrash. She was addicted to plastic surgery, having 18 operations on her breasts to make them 54G. Each one weighed six pounds "which must have crippled her" according to the good doctor.

Funnily enough, Horizon was about "strange shaped mounds" too. These are the legacy of the Moche, a little-known civilisation 2,000 years ago in a remote desert area of Peru sandwiched between the Andes mountains and the Pacific Ocean.

The Moche built huge pyramids in the desert and enjoyed a culture of extravagant wealth and extreme violence. Then, almost overnight it seemed, they vanished from the face of the earth. Horizon tried to discover what happened.

The documentary spent most of the 50 minutes building up a theory involving ritual human sacrifice and an environmental catastrophe, only to shoot it down in the last ten minutes.

The conclusion was that the Moche people survived the elements - a climate of great drought and heavy rainfall - only to kill each other.

The cycle of flooding and drought put great stress on the economy, which collapsed and led to them fighting among themselves. The weather didn't kill them, civil war did.

Macbeth, York Theatre Royal

ANY production that provokes debate must be a good thing, and Damian Cruden's bold, imaginative staging of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth has many talking points.

The Scottish play has been given an Oriental slant with samurai swords, Eastern-style costumes and sliding screens. The stage is covered in black sand. The witches and the opposing armies are played by puppets. Music by drums and percussion forms the soundtrack.

This is a long way from the usual blasted heath, Scottish castles and old crones hubble-bubbling around a cauldron, which will alarm and annoy those who prefer their Shakespeare performed traditionally. I've no objection to directors taking liberties with the Bard, especially not when the concept is executed as effectively as here.

Cruden, who also designs, conjures up a visual wonderland. This is a Macbeth that's stunning to behold, with Malcolm Rippeth's lighting achieving often breathtaking effects.

The danger of this approach is that all the visuals and what purists will consider gimmickry will overwhelm the actors. That doesn't happen here, although certainly on press night, some performances seemed under-powered.

Terence Maynard's Macbeth is a warrior clearly able to take care of himself physically, although prone to having his mind muddled by Barbara Marten's power-obsessed Lady Macbeth.

There are interesting performances too among the rest of the cast, although some more than decent actors are left standing around with little to do.

Those minor niggles apart, Cruden has succeeded in stamping his mark on Macbeth and giving audiences plenty to discuss afterwards.

l Runs until March 19. Tickets (01904) 623568.

Steve Pratt