UFC Fight Night 38 represents the first true test of the UFC’s new Fight Pass service. It’s a card hardcore mixed martial arts fans won’t want to miss, and so this important question will likely be answered: Are fans willing to subscribe to an Internet-only service in order to see one of the best fighters in the world?
A restaurateur has it all–a successful business, a beautiful house and a loving family–until a ravishing femme fatale with stiletto heels and an axe to grind walks into his life.
Ellen DeGeneres hosts the 86th annual ceremony at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood. “American Hustle” and “Gravity” lead the nominees with 10 each, followed closely by “12 Years a Slave” with nine. All three are up for Best Picture, along with “Captain Phillips,” “Dallas Buyers Club,” “Her,” “Nebraska,” “Philomena” and “The Wolf of Wall Street.” U2, Pharrell Williams, Idina Menzel, Karen O and Bette Midler are scheduled to perform.
Phillips and the crew of the Maersk Alabama are rescued after being taken hostage by Somalian pirates.
In a doomsday scenario, the race is on to escape annihilation. If we had 75 years warning, would humankind be capable of evacuating the planet? This programme examines how you could flee your home habitat: from building a 25km-long spaceship capable of travelling trillions of kilometres to deciding which unlucky souls get left behind. Go with National Geographic Channel on a mission to Evacuate Earth.
“An End to Killing,” an epic movie about the real story of the infamous Mongolian warrior Genghis Khan. It tells the story of Khan’s conquest of western countries in the 13th century, killed numerous people in the process. By that time, Qiu Chuiji was the leader of Chinese Taoism. He caught up with the Mongolian army and talked to Khan. Legend has it that Khan stopped his killing rampage after he heard only one sentence from Qiu.
He’s the deadliest weapon on the battlefield, but his next shot could be his last. Outnumbered… Outgunned… Behind enemy lines… What happens when the tables are turned and the hunter becomes the hunted? This is SNIPER: DEADLIEST MISSIONS. From the treacherous jungles of Vietnam and the bloody war zones of Iraq, to danger high in the skies of the Alaskan wilderness, this two-hour special puts you behind the scope with the men who pulled the trigger on some of the deadliest missions in military and law enforcement history. Gripping firsthand accounts, 3-D graphics and jaw-dropping shooting demonstrations take you inside the shadowy world of top snipers and the missions that made them living legends. Outmanned and outgunned – will the next shot be their last?
When 7 aliens crash land in the desert, Stan Lee realises that they are being chased by the military. So he decides to teach the aliens how to become superheroes in an attempt to save Planet Earth from the Teagon invaders.
Ronda Rousey v Sara McMann. Action from the Mandalay Bay Events Centre in Las Vegas, where the women’s bantamweight title fight was the main attraction.
“Those Who Kill” is a Danish format based on the bestselling work of author Elsebeth Egholm. A&E has secured the U.S. format for the critically acclaimed crime series in Denmark. The series is about violent criminals who are surrounded by fear and mystique- the serial killer. When murders are not grounded in traditional motives and patterns of behavior, it takes a very particular kind of person to catch the serial killer; someone who knows and understands the killer’s dark side and the fantasies that plague him. Someone like the two lead characters- a police detective that is trying to understand her own mysterious personal connection in to the mind of a serial killer, and a “profiler” (forensic psychiatrist), who both in very different ways possess a deep psychological understanding that connects them to the killer’s victims and to the killer himself, driving them to pursue each case to the end of the line, again and again.
“Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond” takes a no holds barred look at Ian Fleming, the man behind the James Bond legend whose real life was as exciting, eventful and sexually charged as his famous creation.
