Channel 5, Wednesdays at 8 30 pm, 13 December to 10 January

The first series of Driving Mum Crazy last January (reviewed BMJ 2000;320:388) wasted an opportunity for accurate exploration of issues in child and adolescent mental health. Considerable media and public interest was achieved, however, hence this second series of four programmes about hyperkinetic disorder (attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in the United States). I hoped that the second series would explain that child and adolescent mental health problems, including hyperkinetic disorder, were complex and needed careful dissection of causative biological, psychological, and social …