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  • UK TV Programme Highlights For Thursday, 21 August

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Today's Pick Of The Day

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Picture: Dangerous Films/BBC

DOCUMENTARY: How useful is robotic surgery?

Life-and-death decisions are everyday events on the edge of medicine. This new, three-part series, presented by Professor Robert Winston, explores new medical frontiers.

Throughout the series, Professor Winston meets the doctors and scientists working on the cutting edge - as well as the patients brave enough to put themselves, and their lives, on the line. He provides the bridge between doctor and patient, and hears the stories each would never tell the other... (Click to continue reading)

SuperDoctors showing on BBC 1 at 9:00pm


Sport

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Will Idowu get a gold?

More athletics action live from the Bird's Nest Stadium. One of the day's big highlights will be the men's triple jump, in which Great Britain's Phillips Idowu goes for gold. The world indoor champion is the favourite to win the title. He usually produces his biggest jumps in the early rounds, but can he produce on the biggest stage of all? (Click to continue reading)

Olympics 2008 showing on BBC 1 at 12:45pm

Drama

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Things come crumbling down for Sally

Another strong episode of the long-running police drama - in which things go seriously wrong for PC Sally Armstrong - with a lighter subplot about a lost dog to offset the misery. (Click to continue reading)

The Bill showing on ITV1 at 8:00pm

Drama

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High emotions

Emotions are running high in this final episode of the series. A blast from the past could have serious implications for Martha. Ekkow solves a patient's problems without lifting a finger. Robert and Quinn come to blows over a patient. Robert may win this argument - but will Quinn have the last laugh? (Click to continue reading)

Harley Street showing on ITV1 at 9:00pm

Film

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Determined to go straight

Powerful, unflinching drama. Maggie Gyllenhaal plays Sherry Swanson, who has just finished three years inside on drugs charges. She's determined to go straight and stay clean for the sake of her eight-year-old daughter Alexis, but it's not an easy road... (Click to continue reading)

SherryBaby showing on Film4 at 9:00pm

Film

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"I'll be back..."

Sci-fi action-thriller sequel, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. A supercomputer that sought to destroy humankind sends a near-indestructible cyborg back to our time to kill the human resistance leader in his youth. Aided by another cyborg, the boy and his mother try to alter the events that led to the computer's creation and the war it triggered. (Click to continue reading)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day showing on ITV2 at 9:00pm

Comedy

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Picture: BBC/Hartswood Films

Dreaming of football glory

New comedy series, shot in a documentary style, about Bolton-based Ashburn United Football Club and their quest to win the North and Midlands Under-11s Cup in Birmingham. It rapidly becomes apparent that the real story is the selfish and obsessive behaviour of the kids' parents as they try to live their own dreams through their children. (Click to continue reading)

The Cup showing on BBC 2 at 9:30pm

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