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  • UK TV Programme Highlights For Sunday, 18 May

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Today's Pick Of The Day

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DOCUMENTARY: A lost-world paradise

After last week's powerful opener, this series just gets better and better. Tonight, there's more tremendous footage of awesome landscapes and fascinating creatures, along with intriguing archive film as the programme focuses on Yunnan Province. It's the area that is said to have inspired the legend of Shangri-La - a lost-world paradise hidden among mountain peaks... (Click to continue reading)

Wild China showing on BBC 2 at 8:00pm


Game Show

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Contenders, you have been warned...

Four daring Contenders prepare to face the might of the Gladiators, as the iconic entertainment series enters its second week. How long will it be before they're left biting the dust? (Click to continue reading)

Gladiators showing on Sky1 at 6:00pm

Game Show

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The Woolpack has seen nothing like this...

Game show in which one plucky challenger goes head to head against a competitive celebrity to win a huge cash prize. Emmerdale actor, endurance cyclist and sports fan Kelvin Fletcher takes on an IT consultant from Kent, who will stop at nothing to take the prize home. (Click to continue reading)

Beat the Star showing on ITV1 at 6:45pm

Film

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Con gone wrong

James Foley's slick thriller is told in flashback by Jake Vig who, with his team, pulls off a scam against accountant Lionel Dolby. Unfortunately, Dolby happens to do the books for unstable mob boss Winston King, and the only way out is to pull off a bigger and more dangerous scam against King's rivals. (Click to continue reading)

Confidence showing on Film4 at 9:00pm

Film

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A tale of suppressed love

Romantic western drama, starring the late Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal. One summer herding sheep in 1963, cowboys Jake and Ennis fall in love. But 1960s Wyoming isn't ready for gay cowboys and the two men face up to a lifetime of loneliness and lies. (Click to continue reading)

Brokeback Mountain showing on Channel 4 at 9:00pm

Documentary

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Set in stone

From the Ming Dynasty, China had tried to shut herself off from the outside world using the Great Wall as a barrier. Would it be the Dynasty's undoing? (Click to continue reading)

Great Wall Of China showing on National Geographic at 9:00pm

Drama

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Picture: BBC/AMC

Is Don's riddle about to be unravelled?

Penultimate episode of the US import drama series, set around the world of advertising in early 1960s New York. It is election night and election fever has gripped the Sterling Cooper agency. The next day Pete has some political power play of his own on his mind. He attempts to blackmail Don, which results in a graphic flashback... (Click to continue reading)

Mad Men showing on BBC 4 at 10:10pm

And don't forget some more for Sunday...