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  • UK TV Programme Highlights For Tuesday, 20 May

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Today's Pick Of The Day

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Picture: BBC/Silver River

HISTORY DOCUMENTARY: A war of nutrition

Having teamed up last year for a week gorging on early 20th-century fare (in Edwardian Supersize Me), restaurant critic Giles Coren (pictured) and writer and comedian Sue Perkins (pictured) are back. Their new series is part-history lesson, part-cookery class... (Click to continue reading)

The Supersizers Go... showing on BBC 2 at 9:00pm


Film

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Losing their heads

Tim Burton's rollicking adaptation of Washington Irving's tale stars Johnny Depp as Constable Ichabod Crane, sent to the tiny village of Sleepy Hollow where a headless horseman is leaving a trail of decapitated bodies. Crane believes in the science of detection, but will his skills solve the mystery, or is there really a supernatural explanation? (Click to continue reading)

Sleepy Hollow showing on Film4 at 9:00pm

Film

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The name's Craig, Daniel Craig...

Superb spy action and a blistering return for the new Bond: Daniel Craig is the ruthless double 0 with orders to crush terrorist banker Le Chiffre in a high-stakes poker game. (Click to continue reading)

Casino Royale showing on Sky Movies Action/Thriller at 9:00pm

Science Fiction Series

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The President in peril

President Roslin's leadership takes a knock when Galactica joins forces with Cylon rebels to bring down the Resurrection Hub. (Click to continue reading)

Battlestar Galactica showing on Sky One at 9:00pm

Cookery

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More food for thought

Gordon Ramsay continues his new 12-part food magazine series. In the second episode, Channel 4 News anchor Krishnan Guru-Murthy and his family are faced with cooking for 50 hungry diners, TV presenter Kate Garraway challenges Gordon to beat her recipe for bread and butter pudding, and boxer Ricky Hatton gets some wise words about his eating regime. (Click to continue reading)

The F Word showing on Channel 4 at 9:00pm

Documentary

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It's a small world...

Following the death of 71cm Nelson de la Rosa in 2006, a number of possible contenders for the title of World's Smallest Man emerged. Broacaster Mark Dolan sets off to meet them, trying to discover what such a title might mean to them and their families. (Click to continue reading)

The World's Smallest Man and Me showing on Channel 4 at 10:00pm

Documentary

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Picture: BBC Scotland/© Wellpark Productions/Brian Sweeney

Difficult, but uplifting times

This documentary - which focuses on film-maker Sue Bourne's mother, who has Alzheimer's, and how the family has coped with her condition - has had a mixed critical reaction. (Click to continue reading)

ONE Life Special: Mum and Me showing on BBC 1 at 10:35pm

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