Triple bill of police thrillers. 'Big Bang' (2011) stars Antonio Banderas as a Los Angeles private detective handed an unusual assignment. When Ned Cruz (Banderas) is approached by a Russian boxer (Robert Maillet) to find his missing girlfriend (Sienna Guillory) and the $30 million worth of diamonds in her possession, it is clear that this will not be an everyday job. Can Cruz make sense of the bizarre circumstances and track down the missing girl? 'Bad Cop' (2010) is an action thriller set in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans. Johnny Strong stars as Sean Riley, a beleaguered police detective struggling to cope with the recent death of his young son and the subsequent breakdown of his marriage. After a call goes horribly wrong, Riley looks set to lose his job - unless he can solve a series of brutal murders that have sent the city spiralling into gang warfare. In 'Operation Endgame' (2010) a top-secret facility underneath Washington D.C. finds two competing teams of assassins - code-named according to a deck of Tarot cards - at work. When a new employee known only as The Fool (Joe Anderson) arrives for his first day of work, he is alarmed to find his new boss murdered and the entire building rigged with explosives. The Fool must race against the clock to identify the killer and make his escape. Zach Galifianakis, Brandon T. Jackson and Maggie Q co-star.

Robert Fucilla and Billy Zane star in this low-budget British special forces action thriller. Former SAS man turned mercenary Andy Marlow (Fucilla) is sent into the Balkans to rescue an American ambassador and his aide in the wake of a military coup.

The first seven episodes from the second season of the animated series following a team of superheroes as they battle against some of the deadliest villains in the known universe. Iron Man, Thor, Captain America, the Hulk, Ant-Man, the Wasp, Hawkeye and the Black Panther unite to defeat various enemies, including Loki and The Masters of Evil. The episodes are: 'The Private War of Doctor Doom', 'Alone Against A.I.M.', 'Acts of Vengeance', 'Welcome to the Kree Empire', 'To Steal an Ant-Man', 'Michael Korvac' and 'Who Do You Trust?'.

Chris Rock presents this documentary offering an insight into the fiercely competitive world of Afro-American hairdressing. The film includes a visit to the Bronner Brothers International Hair Show, the annual trade show for the African-American hair care industry. It also looks into the dangers of many common hair-straightening treatments, reveals the alarmingly high cost of regular hair 'relaxing' and weaves, and asks what the ongoing pursuit of straight hair says about African-American cultural identity.

Follows the bestselling and multi-award winning The Final Year "Well-written, authentic and very moving." David Almond on The Final Year Nate’s eleven and has just finished Primary School. After a challenging final year, life is looking up. His brother has recovered from a life-threatening heart condition, he’s got the love of his mum, brothers and Auntie San, and he’s off to Secondary School with his two best mates. But while he's making new friends and avoiding the fists of Turner, his old nemesis, and struggling to come to terms with a strict new teacher and a sense of isolation from his brothers, a sudden surprise appearance in Nate's life threatens to throw him completely off course. And The Beast - the anger he tries so hard to control - reappears. Will Nate find a way to keep himself and his family together?

Four episodes from the children's animation following a little girl who becomes a princess. When her mother marries the king, Sofia (voice of Ariel Winter) becomes a member of the royal family overnight and moves into their grand palace. In this instalment, after receiving a book of secrets from her Aunt Tilly (Bonnie Hunt), Sofia finds her destiny is to become the new Story Keeper of the castle's secret library. The episodes are: 'Princess Adventure Club', 'The Secret Library', 'The Princess Ballet', 'The Secret Library: Olaf and the Tale of Miss Nettle'.

Eight more animated adventures for children from the underwater town of Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob (voice of Tom Kenny) is an enthusiastic sea sponge who embraces life and all its challenges. Among his fellow inhabitants of Bikini Bottom are Mr Krabs (Clancy Brown), a miserly crab, Patrick Star (Bill Fagerbakke), an amiable sea star, and Squidward (Rodger Bumpass), an octopus. A number of the town's inhabitants, including SpongeBob, work at the local fast food restaurant, Krusty Krab, where Bob attempts to perfect his burger flipping technique. Episodes are: 'Back to the Past', 'The Bad Guy Club for Villains', 'Keep Bikini Bottom Beautiful', 'A Pal for Gary', 'Yours, Mine and Mine', 'Kracked Krabs', 'A Day Without Tears' and 'Summer Job'.

British comedy horror. In the dead end seaside town of Rainmouth, Jamie (Ed Speleers) finds himself stuck running his pothead mother's B and B for the entire summer holidays. His summer starts to look a little brighter when he meets smart and sexy American Juliana (Jessica Szohr) but not long after her arrival, strange things start happening and local teens start to go missing one by one. Jamie is warned by a mysterious stranger that a werewolf is in town, preying solely on virgin flesh. The only protection appears to be to get laid as quickly as possible... Kierston Wareing, Luke Pasqualino and Timothy Spall co-star.

British sci-fi drama. After an asteroid crashes into Earth, aliens invade the ravaged planet to depopulate its surface. As the invaders' spacecraft hangs ominously in the sky above them, survivors of the first cull Cole (Richard J. Danum) and Maya (Gillian MacGregor) frantically search for their missing daughter. As they embark on their search, the couple's relationship yields to the conflict of survival in the apocalyptic event's aftermath.

University physicists Leonard and Sheldon know whether to use an integral or a differential to solve the area under a curve. But they don’t have a clue about girls. Or dating. Or clothes. Or parties. Or having fun. Or, basically, life.

So when a pretty blonde named Penny moves in the apartment across the hall, the guys decide to get an education outside of the classroom. Boys, you have a lot to learn.

With series creators Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady concocting the right mix of logic and lunacy and stars Johnny Galecki and Jim Parsons turning geekdom into Phi Beta fun, The Big Bang Theory is big on laughs. And life.

Triple bill of zombie films. 'Zombie Apocalypse' (2011) is a made-for-TV horror starring Ving Rhames in which a group of human survivors of a zombie outbreak set out to make it to an uninfected island. Ramona (Taryn Manning), Billy (Eddie Steeples) and Kevin (Gerald Webb) are almost killed when they head out to search for food. Fortunately for them, they meet a tough group that includes Henry (Rhames) and Cassie (Lesley-Ann Brandt), who take on the zombies with weapons as diverse as a sledgehammer and a samurai sword. 'Abraham Lincoln Vs Zombies' (2012) is a tongue-in-cheek zombie horror in which Abraham Lincoln is distracted from his composition of the Gettysburg Address by a more pressing concern - an outbreak of the undead. Lincoln (Bill Oberst Jr.) leads a team of Secret Service agents to the area to try and contain the disaster. There is a suggestion that Lincoln may have some experience of dealing with zombies from his past and he takes under his wing a youngster by the name of Teddy Roosevelt (Canon Kuipers), who may have a role of his own to play in the American story. 'The Dead' (2010) is a zombie horror set in West Africa. Robert Freeman stars as Lieutenant Brian Murphy, a military engineer who finds himself stranded in the wilderness of Burkina Faso after a zombie outbreak lays waste to civilisation. Eventually he teams up with Sergeant Daniel Dembele (Prince David Oseia), a local soldier who has gone AWOL from the army to search for his missing son.

Trible bill of the TV animation series following builder Bob (voice of Neil Morrissey) and his gang of vehicles. In 'Can-do Crew' the team fix an old pier and build a surf school. The episodes are: 'Scratch's Hidden Treasures', 'Scrambler's Best Idea', 'High Tide for Lofty', 'Scoop the Artist' and 'Lofty the Monster'.

The next seven episodes from the first series of the children's CGI-animated cartoon tracing the origins of the sewer-dwelling, superhero foursome Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael and Michelangelo. The episodes are: 'I, Monster', 'The Alien Agenda', 'The Pulverizer', 'TCRI', 'Cockroach Terminator', 'Baxter's Gambit' and 'Enemy of My Enemy'.

Three-part British drama starring Dawn Steele and Ronni Ancona. Following members of a Clydeside clan headed by Mary Corrigan (Steele and later June Watson), the programme follows three generations of the family over the course of one hundred years as they face some of the most trying circumstances in British political history including Bloody Friday of 1919 where workers marched through Glasgow demanding a 40-hour working week and the pandemonium of the miner's strike of 1984.

Gritty action thriller starring Cuba Gooding Jr. as a reporter trying to stop a serial killer. After discovering the dismembered body of his girlfriend, crime journalist Lewis Hicks (Gooding) finds a diary, seemingly left by the murderer, detailing a list of his next victims and the gruesome methods he will use to kill them. Realising his own name is on the list, Hicks must use all of his experience to track down the serial killer in a desperate race against time before the madman strikes again.

Will Canon directs this paranormal horror starring Maria Bello and Frank Grillo. The film follows Detective Lewis (Grillo), a Louisiana police officer, as he is tasked with investigating a multiple murder case at a secluded house in the countryside. With only one survivor left to tell the tale, Detective Lewis and police psychologist Dr. Elizabeth Klein (Bello) try their best to uncover what went on at the house...

Documentary-style sci-fi feature. In 2031, ten years after aliens first invaded the Earth, a film crew follows an elite infantry unit as they try to repel the invaders' daily attacks. After the world's armies are united with the formation of the United Defence Force, soldiers have managed to reduce the number of murderous extraterrestrials and patrol them from the remote Outpost 37. But unbeknown to them, the aliens are planning a second invasion and the team stationed at the outpost are about to find themselves massively outnumbered and outgunned when their foes' reinforcements arrive...

All the best bits from series 1-9 of the comedy panel game show. Along with all the clips that were too rude for TV, the show features host Keith Lemon, team captains Holly Willoughby and Fearne Cotton and guest appearances from, among others, Dermot O'Leary, Davina McCall, Ant and Dec, JLS, Kelly Brook, Jason Manford, Mo Farah and The Wanted.

Whit Stillman helms this offbeat romantic-musical-comedy following a group of social misfits as they negotiate the minefield of college life. Greta Gerwig stars as Violet, the emotionally fragile yet overbearing leader of a pretentious group of girls who imagine themselves superior to everyone else when in fact they are for the most part ignored by their fellow students. Everyday concerns such as dating disappointments, essay grades and social mores give way to the more perilous pitfalls of female friendship after the girls take it upon themselves to befriend new student Lily (Analeigh Tipton).