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Tuesday 24 June

Kara goes to Washington to look for her missing crystal, but is captured after she breaks into the lab. She’s interrogated with a memory-revealing serum that has kryptonite in it, which makes her relive a trip to Earth from the past. In this past trip she followed Lara, Clark’s biological mother, to the Kents’ farm.

Monday 23 June

Things are shaken up when the male beauty and the female geek finally move into the mansion. Meanwhile, the Geeks are challenged to write an autobiographical rap to be performed for Three 6 Mafia, and the Beauties must study politics and later put their newfound knowledge to the test while debating each other.

Monday 23 June

Haley tries to encourage a trouble maker student to join the Ravens. Nathan goes and visits Dan in prison. Brooke opens her store in the old Karen’s Cafe and Peyton signs her first band.

(2003) Sean Connery stars in this all-action fun-filled adventure set in an alternative Victorian world.

Saturday 21 June

The world is struck by inexplicable phenomena – Rome’s Colosseum explodes, London’s pigeons go berserk – until it becomes apparent that the planet’s core has stopped moving, causing electro-magnetic mayhem. The only hope lies in a crack team of scientists (led by Aaron Eckhart and including Stanley Tucci, Hilary Swank and Delroy Lindo) burrowing to the core and re-starting earth’s engine.

Friday 20 June

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie star as John and Jane Smith, a typical suburban couple attending marriage counselling sessions in an attempt to reignite the spark in their relationship. What neither of them knows is that the other is a highly skilled assassin until, separately, they get a call for their next job. Accidentally double-booked, they each discover the truth about their spouse’s secret existence; now they’re in danger not only from their respective organisations but also from each other. But it’s amazing what the frisson of danger can do for a jaded marriage…

Thursday 19 June

Andy Garcia plays Byron Tiller, a novelist whose latest tome has gone straight to the remainder bin. Trying to hide his lack of money from his wife Dena (Julianna Margulies), he takes up an offer from Luther Fox (Mick Jagger), who runs an elite male escort agency to help satisfy Andrea Allcott (Olivia Williams), the wife of impotent writer Tobias Allcott (James Coburn), who is Byron’s hero. When Tobias learns that Byron is an author, he asks for his help on his latest book, placing Byron in the enviable position of satisfying his lust both for Andrea and literary fame.

Wednesday 18 June

Peter Weir’s Oscar and BAFTA-winning maritime epic, based on Patrick O’Brian’s novels, stars Russell Crowe as Captain Jack Aubrey, captain of HMS Surprise . But Aubrey is the one surprised by the attack of French ship Acheron , off the coast of Brazil. Barely surviving, Aubrey repairs the Surprise and sets off in pursuit of the Acheron for the decisive battle.

Tuesday 17 June

In the Films to See Before You Die strand, Paul Kaye introduces one of cinema’s most iconic films, as Bette Davis stars in Joseph Mankiewicz’s drama as Margo Channing, acid-tongued star of the stage who takes the young, innocent, mousey Eve Harrington (Anne Baxter) under her wing only to find her protege quietly betraying her at every turn.

Monday 16 June

Edward Norton and Brad Pitt star in David Fincher’s Oscar-nominated drama, the former as a bored executive, the latter as Tyler Durden, a stranger he meets on a plane who introduces him to a world of ennui-alleviating physical pain: Fight Club, a semi-secret society where men vent their frustrations in bare-knuckle fighting in dingy basements. But as Norton becomes more involved, he starts to learn about the shadowy and subversive organisation behind it all…