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October 1 - 7, 2008
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Wednesday (Oct 1)Mini-Series - Five Days on America Plus at 9pm.

HBO Films presents Five Days; a five-part, five-hour thriller with episodes airing on September 30, October 1, 2, 5 and 6.

A mother vanishes into thin air. Her children, abandoned in her car, also end up missing. As police search for clues over three gut-wrenching months, the woman's husband and family learn that nobody's quite what they seem. In the end, five days prove critical in solving the case.

THURSDAY (Oct 2)

Film - National Treasure on Star Movies at 8.30pm.

Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage) has spent his life searching for a treasure that no one believed existed. His journey leads him to the last place anyone would think to look for a treasure map: the back of the US Declaration of Independence. But what he thought was the final clue is only the beginning. Gates realises in order to protect the world's greatest treasure, he must now do the unthinkable: steal the most revered, best-guarded document in American history before it falls into the wrong hands.

FRIDAY (Oct 3)

Film - Shaggy Dog on Star Movies at 8.30pm.

This updated spin on The Shaggy Dog features Tim Allen as Dave Douglas, a deputy district attorney who spends way too much time at the office and way too little time with his family. His son, Joe, feels completely misunderstood and his wife, Rachel, feels neglected. To make matters worse, his teenage daughter, Carly, considers Douglas the enemy because he is representing a pharmaceutical company that supports animal testing. Douglas's life changes in an instant when a friendly pooch bites him, transforming him and drawing him into a dog-eat-dog world.

SATURDAY (Oct 4)

Film - The Client on Cinema City at 7pm.

A district attorney out for a conviction. A new lawyer out of her league. A young boy who knew too much. Eleven year-old Mark Sway knows too much about a killer and the location of a missing Senator's body. The Mafia wants to keep him quiet and has threatened his family. A federal prosecutor wants to learn exactly what he knows. He is an 11-year old boy in a terrifyingly adult world - and he doesn't know who to trust. So he finds himself a lawyer, a woman as willing to fight as Mark is himself. She is smart and tough and she wants to help him, if he can only trust her.

SUNDAY (Oct 5)

Documentary - Somewhere in China: Silk Road on NGC at 8pm.

Heading to the rough and tumble frontier of western China, Jeff and Peter venture to the city of Kashgar - their first stop on the 'Silk Road'. Hoping to fit in with the locals, the boys search for some traditional hats at the marketplace, but find themselves more closely resembling macaque monkeys than rugged Uygur men. The boys take in the violent sport of cockfighting, a sport thousands of years old in China, but quickly leave to participate in a more peaceful, if slightly less than melodic, jam session at a traditional music shop.

MONDAY (Oct 6)

Film - About Adam on Star Movies at 8.30pm.

The Owens, a modern Irish family, have their lives turned upside down after the entrance of a charming yet mysterious young man named Adam (Stuart Townsend). As Adam wins the affections of the entire family, it leads to romantic tensions among the siblings. Does Adam really date all three sisters? Does he love one over the others?

TUESDAY (Oct 7)

Film - Rob Roy on Star Movies at 8.30pm.

Robert Roy MacGregor, a cattle drover and head of a Highlands clan, takes a £1,000 loan from the royal Marquis of Montrose in order to make a profit on some livestock that will keep his struggling people alive through the coming winter but one of the Marquis' henchmen, wily expert swordsman Archibald Cunningham, learns of the loan from the nobleman's factor, Killearn, and steals the money by murdering Rob Roy's best friend MacDonald. Unable to repay the loan and unwilling to give up his land, Rob Roy becomes a fugitive, hunted by none other than Cunningham.







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