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If you like your TV disability flavoured, then you'll be spending quite a bit of time in front of the telly next week, with two programmes to decide between at 9.00pm on Monday 29 January.

Channel 4 is showing another programme in its Extraordinary Children series.
The Smallest People in the World tells the "moving story" (and how Crippled Monkey sometimes hates that phrase) of five American children who are Primordial dwarfs, the smallest and rarest type in the world.

Meanwhile, at the same time on Five, the Extraordinary People series - and boy, isn't that going to be confusing, considering that Extraordinary Children will be airing then too - meets The Boy Who Sees Without Eyes, a blind teenager who has "developed a unique strategy to cope with his disability" (it says here). Er, what that "unique strategy" is I can't say. Guess we'll all just have to tune in to find out.

But if all that medical marvel stuff is doing your head in, as it is mine, hang on for Wednesday afternoon on the C´óÏó´«Ã½ Channel. Desperados is a new children's comedy drama series starring Paralympic bronze medallist and TV presenter Ade Adepitan as Baggy Awolowo, a coach who is desperate for new players for his junior wheelchair basketball team.