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May 5 - 11, 2010
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WEDNESDAY (May 5) Series - Lie To Me on America Plus at 8pm. The critically acclaimed series starring Oscar nominee Tim Roth returns for an intriguing second season, with new lies and life-changing situations for The Lightman Group as they encounter new cases. The compelling drama series is inspired by the scientific discoveries of a real-life psychologist who can read clues embedded in the human face, body and voice to expose the truth and lies in criminal investigations.

THURSDAY (May 6)

Film - Changeling on Super Movies at 9pm.

Academy Award-winner Clint Eastwood directs this powerful drama in which Oscar-winner Angelina Jolie stars as a mother whose kidnapped son is found alive, only to realise that the child returned to her is not her own. The conflicted mother faces corrupt police and a skeptical public in her relentless pursuit of answers, only to be confronted by a truth that will change her forever.

FRIDAY (May 7)

Series - The Pacific on America Plus at 8pm.

This epic 10-part miniseries 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 8)

Film - Frost/Nixon on ShowMovies at 8pm.

Oscar-winning director Ron Howard brings to the screen writer Peter Morgan's (The Last King of Scotland) electrifying battle between Richard Nixon, the disgraced president with a legacy to save, and David Frost, a jet-setting television personality with a name to make, in the untold story of the historic encounter that changed both: Frost/Nixon.

SUNDAY (May 9)

Film - Breaking and Entering on Fox Movies at 11pm.

Miro, a teen from Sarajevo, lives with his mother; he's nimble, able to run across roofs, his uncle hires him to break into offices, so the uncle can boost computers. They steal from Will's architectural firm, Will stakes it out at night. He follows Miro home and returns the next day and meets Miro's mother. At home, Will's relationship with Liv is strained - he feels outside Liv and her daughter Bea's circle. The stakeout and Amira's vulnerability are attractive alternatives to being at home. The police, too, watch Miro.

MONDAY (May 10)

Series - My Own Worst Enemy on America Plus at 8pm.

Henry (Christian Slater) is a middle-class efficiency expert living a humdrum life in the suburbs with his wife Lily and their kids. Edward (Slater) is an operative who speaks 13 languages, runs a four-minute mile, and is trained to kill. Henry and Edward are polar opposites who share only one thing in common - the same body. When the carefully constructed wall between them breaks down, Henry and Edward are thrust into unfamiliar territory.

TUESDAY (May 11)

Film - The Tale of the Desperaux on Show Movies at 10pm.

Once upon a time, in the faraway kingdom of Dor, there was magic in the air. When a tragic accident leaves the King broken-hearted, the magic disappears, and the world becomes grey. Now the Princess has been kidnapped and it's up to a tiny mouse named Despereaux to find the courage of a knight in shining armour to rescue her, bringing the light back to the kingdom.







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