TV Highlights

MGM – Thursday 3 April, 8.30pm

This much-lauded and analysed hit tells the tragic tale of Ma Yung Cheng, who becomes the first Chinese to defeat a professional Russian wrestler, only to find the fame game more dangerous than he’d ever imagined.
Assistant Director: John Woo (Face/Off).
Directors: Chang Cheh, Baau Hok-lai.
Starring: Chen Kuan-tai, Chin Li.
“It’s Hong Kong’s ‘Scarface’” – www.kungfucinema.com

Sunday 30 March
10.00pm

LIVE ON SKY SPORT 3
Join us for LIVE coverage of the 2008 MotoGP World Championship and experience the speed, noise and emotion of MotoGP with the Gran Premio de Espana at Jerez de la Frontera.

National Geographic – Wednesday 2 April, 10.30pm

From the dawn of time, men have used sharp implements like flint, iron daggers and steel knives to cause each other damage. Their very sharpness reveals a fundamental flaw in humans and animals. In this programme, ex SAS member Bob Spour demonstrates the K-Bar, the most popular blade of the modern soldier. Hosts Monty Halls and Stuart Prior also look at the science behind cutting, and how the process of blacksmithing and the changes in its level of technology have shaped battlefield techniques. After choosing their bladed weapons, Halls and Prior are trained by experts to test them against various targets including a pig carcass, to assess the damage they could cause in battle.

11.30pm Saturday 29 March

Join SKY Sport for LIVE coverage of this 2008 NRL Telstra Premiership match between the Titans and the Sharks from Skilled Park on the Gold Coast.

Food TV – Weeknights from 31 March, 7.30pm

Can home cooks, with no professional experience, convince four of the country’s toughest, and most feared food critics, that home cooking is better than sophisticated restaurant food? Eating With the Enemy plays out as a regional competition which runs five days a week for a month, culminating in a national final. Top TV chef James Martin, mentors and monitors the amateur cooks before they take their dishes on a journey from their own kitchens to a professional kitchen. Then they must face the formidable team of some of Britain’s sharpest restaurant critics including Jay Raynor of The Observer; Toby Young from The Evening Standard; Charles Campion, author of The London Restaurant Guide, and freelance food critic Kate Spicer. Can the home cooks curry favour with the critics that are ruthlessly blunt and show no mercy to those who do not impress their palettes?

SKY Movies – Saturday 29 March, 8.30pm & 10:30pm SM2

The true story of Domino Harvey, daughter of legendary actor Laurence Harvey and a former Ford model who rejected her privileged Beverly Hills life to become a bounty hunter.
Starring: Keira Knightley, Mickey Rourke

Wednesday 2nd April at 7.30pm

On a caring-and-sharing TOP GEAR, the lads try out eco-friendly cars.
Diesel cars are a lot better than they used to be, so Richard, Jemery and James look at a diesel sports car by Peugeot. Other green goodies in the studio include a LPG-powered Bristol and Ford’s Th!nk. Richard road-tested the Saab 9-3, which scored well on eco-friendliness. But, green issues aside, Richard’s reception to the 9-3 was fairly lukewarm. The star guest of the show was Status Quo’s Rick Parfitt.

Sky Box Office – Friday 4 April, from 8.05pm

Rachel comes to stay with her Grandmother Georgia for the summer leaving some obvious problems behind at home. Her alcoholic mother doesn’t even stay the night before rushing back out to California to be with her husband. Rachel shakes up the town, a beautiful girl in the boring Mormon country. Then she reveals her deepest secret to one of her new friends, and her mother comes rushing back to find out if it’s true. In the midst of this crisis the three women become closer than ever and start to understand each other more.
Starring Jane Fonda, Lindsay Lohan, Felicity Huffman

Friday 4 April
7.30pm

RUGBY: VERSATILE RUGBY REBEL SPORT SUPER 14: HIGHLANDERS V LIONS LIVE ON SKY SPORT 1 & THE RUGBY CHANNEL
SKY Sport brings you LIVE coverage from Carisbrook in Dunedin of the 2008 Rebel Sport Super 14 match between the Highlanders and the Lions

Animal Planet – Thursdays from 3 April, 9.30pm

As we embark on series three, Mozart has rejoined her family. Her illicit pups are now but a fading memory as she helps to raise Flower’s autumn offspring Millie, Shelley and Bing. The winter has taken its toll on the whole family. All are now in desperate need of nourishment if the group is to survive. Flower in particular is showing the ravages of age and season, she has now mothered sixteen litters in total. Surely her days as matriarch must be numbered? Younger and fitter females seeing a window of opportunity opening up will create instability in the family. Flower’s leadership will be tested once again and only time will tell whether her skills as a leader will enable her to suppress her adversaries. Added to this there is the ever-present threat of one-eyed Hannibal and his vicious gang the Commandoes. Will they try to encroach further into Whisker’s territory? Perhaps this will be a blessing in disguise for Flower and her family will get behind her in a united battle to see them off for good. And what of the Lazuli? Now back to full strength there are sure to be brushes with the Whiskers and more roving males for Flower and Zaphod to contend with.