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May 12 - 18, 2010
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WEDNESDAY (May 12) Series - Here's Looking at You on BBC Lifestyle at 9.50pm and 10.15pm

Jayne Middlemiss hosts this exciting makeover show where, armed with a blank cheque, makeover experts have just one day to effect a stunning transformation on a lucky nominee. In series two, she presents a brand new line-up of fashion casualties, including 24-year-old Vicky, who's brassy blonde locks make her look more holiday rep than management material, and French frump Sandrine, who never embraces France's passion for fashion

THURSDAY (May 13)

Film - Body of Lies on ShowMovies at 8pm

Though this thriller is the fourth collaboration between Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe it marks the veteran director's first pairing with Leonardo DiCaprio. In this adaptation of a novel by David Ignatius, DiCaprio plays a CIA agent who wants the help of a more experienced agent (Crowe) in his investigation of a Jordanian terrorist.

FRIDAY (May 14)

Series - The Pacific on America Plus at 8pm

This epic 10 part mini-series from producers Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg, HBO's follow-up to the awesome Band of Brothers, continues this month. The Pacific follows three US Marines into combat against the Japanese in 1942, island-hopping across the brutal, blood-saturated battlefields of the Pacific and back home again after VJ Day.

SATURDAY (May 15)

Series - Bones on OSN Arabia at 9pm

After season three's shocking finale in which Zack was found to be an apprentice to the Gormogon serial killer, the Season Four premiere finds Brennan and Booth in London where they are asked by local officials to lend their expertise to a high-profile murder investigation. In the upcoming season Brennan and Booth will also deal with changes among the 'squints' as well as in their own relationship.

SUNDAY (May 16)

Film - Wild Hogs on Fox Movies at 11pm.

Four middle-aged men decide to take a road trip from Cincinnati to the Pacific in order to get away from their lives which are leading them nowhere. Taking their motorcycles, these 'Wild Hogs' tear up the road and eventually stop in New Mexico for a drink not knowing that the bar belongs to the 'Del Fuegos', a mean biker gang. When the Del Fuegos steal a bike that belongs to the Wild Hogs, the four men form a plan to steal their bike back.

MONDAY (May 17)

Film - Monster's Ball on Fox Movies at 11pm

Starring Billy Bob Thornton, Halle Berry, Peter Boyle, Heath Ledger and Sean 'Diddy' Combs, the movie is set in the southern United States and is a tale of a racist white man, Hank, who falls in love with a black woman named Leticia. Ironically, Hank is a prison guard working on Death Row who executed Leticia's husband. Hank and Leticia's interracial affair leads to confusion and new ideas for the two unlikely lovers.

TUESDAY (May 18)

Series - Red Cap on BBC Entertainment at 11.45am

Tamzin Outhwaite stars as Jo McDonagh, the newest and brightest recruit to the Army's Special Investigation Branch (SIB) in Germany. SIB is the elite plain-clothes detective unit of the Royal Military Police and investigates serious crimes connected to members of the British Army.







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