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When: 9.30pm, Monday
Where: TV One
What: Underworld investigations
ROSS KEMP ON GANGS
While this Bafta-winning programme won't do anything to halt the hand-wringing about gangs in New Zealand, it will at least make people feel things could be a lot worse. Actor Ross Kemp (EastEnders, Ultimate Force) travels the world to talk to members from some of the most brutal gangs in operation, as well as their victims and the authorities trying to combat them.
In upcoming episodes Kemp infiltrates Moscow's vicious neo-Nazi gangs to discover who is behind a recent wave of racist attacks; he examines Middle-America's gang culture with a visit to St Louis, Missouri; and finds out more about Cape Town's vicious Numbers Gang, which has an initiation ritual involving killing police officers.
In the first episode, Kemp visits El Salvador, the home of MS 13, which claims to have more than 100,000 members across the United States and throughout Central America.
7.30PM, TV2
ULTIMATE MITRE 10 DREAM HOME
Another all-nighter might be on the cards as the teams encounter unexpected obstacles during their hall and laundry makeovers.
8.30PM, TV2
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES
You gotta hand it to Wisteria Lane's reigning Queen of Naughtiness, because tonight John the gardener decides he wants Gaby back. Meanwhile, Bob and Lee's contemporary water sculpture incites a call to arms.
9.30PM, TV2
PUSHING DAISIES
Pushing Daisies goes to the races, where several jockeys are trampled to death - allegedly by a horse ridden by the ghost of a dead rider.
9.30PM, TV3
PRISON BREAK
Lincoln and Sofia try to save their loved ones; Susan's mysterious employer is revealed; and as Lechero's power is compromised loyalties shift.
MOVIES
8.30PM, SKY MOVIES
Herald rating: * * * *
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE
David Cronenberg-directed noir, starring Viggo Mortensen as a small-town cafe owner and family man with a big secret. When he is challenged by the sudden appearance of underworld figures from his past, he is forced to respond with violence. Also stars Ed Harris and William Hurt. (2005)
8.30PM, SKY MOVIES GREATS
Herald rating: * * * *
THE ENGLISH PATIENT
Sweeping romance based on the novel by Michael Ondaatje and set during World War II. A horribly burned mapmaker (Ralph Fiennes), cared for by a nurse (Juliette Binoche), slowly reveals his past, including an affair with a colleague's wife. From writer-director Anthony Minghella. (1996)
8.30PM, MGM SKY DIGITAL
Herald rating: * * * *
CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS
An outrageous comedy-drama from Woody Allen about two adulterous relationships. Martin Landau plays a New York doctor who, under pressure from his mistress to marry her, is encouraged by his brother to arrange her murder. Woody Allen provides the lighter moments as a depressive who is trying to resist temptation. (1989)
