SATURDAY

UKTV History

9pm:Hannibal Drama combined with the last historical evidence and computer graphics to tell the story of history's most famous military genius. Hannibal marched on Rome through the Alps.

11pm: Hannibal: The Man, the Myth,.....the Mystery Revealing the life-story of one of the most enigmatic figures of the ancient world, Hannibal. In a series of battles, he brought Rome to the edge of destruction.


SUNDAY

Discovery

1pm: Secrets of Egypt's Lost Queen This one-off special uses the latest forensic technologies, including DNA testing, to attempt to reveal the true identity of Hatshepsut's mummy.


National Geographic Channel


8pm: My Brilliant Brain Make Me A Genius: Susan Polgar is the first ever female chess grandmaster, but she wasn't born with her brilliant brain. Follow her dramatic training, which started at an early age.


9pm: Situation Critical Hunting Pablo Escobar: In Colombia, the cocaine capital of the world, one man held the country in a bloody vicelike grip. Follow the hunt to capture drugs baron Pablo Escobar.


10pm: Trapped Hurricane Hospital: As Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans, patients at Tulane Hospital are stranded. Rising flood water means a desperate rescue attempt to save the sick and bed-ridden.


MONDAY


BBC2

7PM: Inside Burma's Uprising This World. This film follows the blow-by-blow accounts of the Burmese men, bloggers, monks, student leaders and protest organisers who dared to rise up again their military rulers in September.


ITV 1

8PM: Thin Blue Line: Tonight Investigating whether the detection of serious crime has become a lottery, as worrying new evidence suggests that Britain's frontline detectives are nearing breaking point.



Channel 4

8pm: Dispatches: Bottleneck Britain Dispatches conducts its own experiment to find out whether road pricing is indeed the answer to the problem of congestion. Reporter Jason Barlow takes a road trip around the UK to find out.


Channel 5

10pm: The Cannibal That Walked Free Documentary examining the remarkable case of Issei Sagawa, who walked free from prison and became a minor celebrity, despite having killed and eaten a woman in the early 1980s.


TUESDAY

Channel 5

8pm: Jonestown Cult Suicides:......The True Story Documentary examining the events of November 18, 1978, when over 900 members of a religious cult led by US preacher Jim Jones apparently committed suicide in the jungles of Guyana.



History Channel

8pm: The Floating Brothel The extraordinary story of the first all-female convict transport ship sent out to Australia, and the unlikely heroines on board who became the founding mothers of contemporary Australia.

9pm: Secrets Of Mary Magdalene Was she a sinner and a prostitute? Or was she the secret wife of Jesus and the leader of his church? The Da Vinci Code brought this debate onto the world stage, but what is the truth?

10pm: Banned From The Bible: Secrets.....Of The Apostles: Ancient texts shed new light on the many competing Christian sects that sprang up in the first centuries after Christ's crucifixion.


THURSDAY


UKTV History

10pm: Martin Luther King: Memphis 1968 Infamous Assassinations: Compelling documentary about the assassination of Martin Luther King. James Earl Ray was imprisoned for life for the murder, but was he guilty?


FRIDAY

Channel 4

7.35pm:Unreported World Unreported World travels to Central Africa's Great Lakes region to reveal that extremist Hutu groups behind the murder of a million people in Rwanda now hold bloody control over a large area.



ITV1


8PM:[/u]Thin Blue Line: Tonight In the second part of a special report into crime in the UK, the programme looks at the public's experience of falling detection rates.