Independent, The (London): TELEVISION: PICK OF THE DAY

DOCUMENTARY Z Pension Roulette (7.30pm BBC2)

Preview tapes were unavailable for this Money Programme deconstruction of the pensions industry, presumably to avoid frightening any more people than absolutely necessary. The title hints at the fact that the odds are loaded against the working man and woman, but cynics might feel that the tables are actually rigged, as companies ditch final salary schemes in favour of cheaper alternatives where employees' savings are exposed to the stock market. This evening's cautionary tales include a man left with nothing after his employer shut up shop, and a woman who was confident about her wealth in old age - until she was handed a calculator and told the bad news. Essential, if depressing viewing.

SCIENCE Z Teen Species (9pm BBC1)

The phrase about the female of the species being deadlier than the male might have been invented for teenagers. At a time when girls are developing a sophisticated hold on a mostly enchanted world, boys are spending suspicious hours alone in the bathroom, making incompetent passes at teen goddesses, and generally being clumsy. Or was that just my experience?

FILM Z Last Embrace (12.05am BBC1)

Made at the peak of his powers, Jonathan Demme's beautifully judged, Hitchcockian thriller examines the life of a retired assassin. Roy Scheider (above left) is the man in question, whom his previous employers come to regard as a threat. A series of attempts on his life suggest that as he's no longer with them, he must be against them.