HDTVUK: What's on TV - Monday 23rd February 2009
Here's a selection of the best high definition content available on UK TV today.
Documentaries
Tonight's Who Do You Think You Are? (10pm, BBC HD) follows Zoë Wanamaker. Zoë knows that her American actor father Sam fled to the UK at the time of the anti-communist witch hunts in the 1950s, when she was three. But a visit to the FBI's Washington headquarters reveals the extent of the risk he would have faced had he stayed. In Chicago, Zoë finds out how a series of tragedies suffered by her grandfather Maurice, a Russian émigré Jew, may have influenced Sam's politics.
Drama
Series three of Heroes resumes tonight at 9pm on BBC HD. In A Clear and Present Danger, the heroes are trying to build new lives after the explosions at Pinehurst and Primatech.
Alternatively, there's a new series of Law & Order: UK (9pm, ITV HD) -- starring Bradley Walsh. A tragic death is uncovered during the evacuation of a hospital.
Being Human continues at 11.15pm on the BBC HD channel.
Films
Channel 4 HD is showing The Frogmen at 1.40pm. This Second World War action drama stars Richard Widmark. The uncompromising methods of a frogman commander cause unrest among his men when he takes over an underwater demolition team.
KM 31: Kilometro 31 (12.15am tomorrow, Channel 4 HD) is a horror starring Iliana Fox. A woman runs over a child along a deserted road and, while she investigates, she is also hit - which turns out to be no accident. Spanish with English subtitles.
Pick of the films across the Sky network tonight include Rushmore (11.05pm, Sky Comedy HD), From Russia With Love (8pm, Sky Modern Greats HD), The Lives of Others (12.20am tomorrow, Sky Drama HD), Breach (7pm, Sky Action/Thriller HD) and Eastern Promises (11.10pm, Sky Screen 2 HD).
Sport
There's Live football league action between Wycombe Wanderers and Rotherham United from 7.30pm on ky Sports 1 HD.
Alternatively, catch some wrestling action from 10pm on Sky Sports 3 HD.
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