Every week our square-eyed reporters take a look at what’s on TV – the highlights and the lowlights – and pick what they think you should watch or avoid.

Live Six Nations Rugby, BBC One, Friday, 7.30pm

The annual northern hemisphere rugby tournament kicks off with Wales hosting England at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.

This year’s series takes on an added significance with the egg chasing World Cup coming up later in the year – the Six Nations will be a good warm-up for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Italy and France and will give a preview of who might be in with a shout in September.

Last time out France won with a grand slam – winning all their games – and ominously the last team to win back-to-back grand slams was France in 1997 and 1998.

I’m not a huge rugby fan but I do enjoy the Six Nations. It has a charm that is missing from more glamorous sports’ major tournaments and the home nations competing against each other gives an added thrill.

Let’s just hope they all leave their fake blood at home.

Juno, Film 4, Friday, 9pm

The ‘teen-comedy’ genre makes me think of films about horny geeks whose pursuit of their chosen women (usually miles out of their league) is always fraught with ridiculous dangers.

There’s notthing inherently wrong with many of those films, in fact some of them – American Pie, Road Trip – are very good, it’s just that over the years the genre has been bled drier than the Gobi Desert.

Enter Juno.

This film breathes fresh life into the concept by being funny charming and, despite some overly whimsical post-Dawsons Creek dialogue, a very realistic and sympathetic take on the complications of being a teenager.

Juno (played brilliantly by Ellen Page) is a girl who gets pregnant after a clumsy dalliance with her awkward on-off boyfriend Paulie Bleeker.

What ensues is the tale of the dilemma she faces and how it affects her relationships with her family, friends and Paulie.

The People’s Supermarket, Channel 4, Sunday, 8pm

Channel 4 continues to demonstrate just how much better than us it is by telling us that where we do our shopping is wrong and we should all be setting up communes so we can run our own super-ethical supermarkets.

Last month I felt like I’d been told off for enjoying battered cod. Now I’m to feel guilty about where I shop.

In this new series Arthur Potts-Dawson tries to set up a supermarket for the people, staffed by the people, run by the people and owned by the people.

In the first episode everything nearly goes all pear-shaped (probably not an organic pear either) when Arthur starts to fear one of the evil established supermarkets has got designs on the building he thought he had dibs on.

Lion Country, ITV1, Tuesday, 8pm

This new series is about lions being set free in the wild.

Head of the pride Zulu and his friends are drugged so that they can be re-homed but there are risks involved. It all gets a bit scary when some of the males start waking up as the conservationists are transporting them.

In my head this is all happening in the back of a normal car. I can just imagine a zoologist in a little Fiat Punto driving along and glancing in his rear view mirror to see the lion that was curled up peacefully on his back seat snarling at him hungrily.

Although it is fairly unlikely that’s what happens, this could be quite an interesting show. 

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