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Coronation Street
Omnibus. Furious with Audrey for announcing their plans, Lewis stalls over finances - until she reveals that money would not have been an issue. Molly urges a reluctant Tyrone to hand in his notice, and John uses Chesney's birthday party to cover up his lies to Fiz. Meanwhile, Nick and Carla continue to clash.
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Emmerdale
Omnibus. Marlon is taken aback by Zak's anger toward Shadrach, and Sam is horrified to discover what appears to be a body while out with Alfie the dog, and immediately calls the police. Elsewhere, Diane decides to fly to Spain to tell Victoria the news about her and Charlie, and Nathan emerges from the woods carrying a shovel.
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Coronation Street
Omnibus. Furious with Audrey for announcing their plans, Lewis stalls over finances - until she reveals that money would not have been an issue. Molly urges a reluctant Tyrone to hand in his notice, and John uses Chesney's birthday party to cover up his lies to Fiz. Meanwhile, Nick and Carla continue to clash.
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The Planet's Funniest Animals
Rib-tickling collection of home-video howlers, in which troublesome pets reveal the wild animals lurking beneath their cute, fluffy exteriors.
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Holiday Showdown
Two families who have never met before spend a fortnight sharing their favourite holidays. The Townsends from Solihull subject Gloucestershire's Cox family to the spartan rigours of a no-frills camping trip on remote Shell Island off the Welsh coast. Then the Coxes treat their counterparts to a tour of the artistic glories of Florence - but the cultural feast does not go down at all well.
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Holiday Airport: Cyprus
At Larnaca Airport, a Russian couple on honeymoon couple are stuck in their wedding outfits after discovering their luggage is missing. An elderly passenger loses track of time when he forgets to adjust his watch to local time, and Take That member Howard Donald makes a guest appearance at an Ayia Napa club in his role as a DJ.
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America's Got Talent
Nick Cannon presents as the fourth and last quarter-final takes place, with the 12 contestants competing for one of the five remaining semi-final spots. Sitting in judgement are David Hasselhoff, Piers Morgan and Sharon Osbourne.
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America's Got Talent
Host Nick Cannon announces which of the 12 acts from the last of the quarter-finals have qualified for the next stage, and reveals the complete line-up for the semi-finals of the talent contest. Plus, country singer Reba McEntire performs.
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
After Batman and Planet of the Apes, Tim Burton continues to rewrite a generation's childhood with a new adaptation of Roald Dahl's much-loved book. A fashionable but superfluous back story aside, Burton sticks faithfully to the text: poverty-stricken Charlie Bucket (Finding Neverland's Freddie Highmore, the film's heart) is one of five competition winners on a guided tour of Willy Wonka's sweet factory. Johnny Depp's camp, childlike Wonka - weirdly reminiscent of Michael Jackson - is fun but ultimately too distant to recapture the love generated by Gene Wilder in the original. The production design looks good enough to eat, however, and it is here that Burton exposes the technical limitations of the once-definitive 1971 musical, employing computer animation to dazzling effect. Dahl's trademark black humour remains, but ultimately this can't decide if it's a timeless fairy tale or, with its video games, S&M and MTV-influenced dance routines, a modern parable.
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Troy
This period adventure attempts to retell the first half of Homer's epic poem The Iliad in gory Gladiator style and, for the most part, succeeds handsomely. The Trojan War was fought for the love of a woman, the legendary beauty Helen, Queen of Sparta (played by Diane Kruger), who was seduced away from her much older husband, Menelaus (Brendan Gleeson), by the impulsive Paris, Prince of Troy (Orlando Bloom). Here the aggrieved Greek forces demanding her return are led by Brian Cox's Agamemnon, who numbers the near-invulnerable Achilles (a physically imposing if rather uncomfortable-looking Brad Pitt) among his allies. On the Trojan side, Eric Bana excels as noble Hector, the older brother of Paris. Having proven he can do claustrophobic chills with Das Boot, director Wolfgang Petersen shows tremendous command of wide-open spaces, with the battle scenes being particularly stupendous. Purists may complain about the amount of dumbing down - the dialogue is occasionally more Hollywood corn than Greek tragedy - and the performances are uneven, but overall this is a visceral and exciting epic.
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