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15 maltatoday | SUNDAY • 19 MAY 2019 LISTINGS TV & FILM TODAY Jenny Morris Cooks Morocco – 2 back-to-back Episodes 8pm on Food Network (Channel 353) Jenny Morris, also known as 'The Giggling Gourmet', is a celebrity chef and radio personality from South Africa. Jenny is taking you on a culinary adventure, exploring the diverse dishes of Morocco and showing you how to recreate authentic-tasting, fresh Moroccan meals at home. In these two episodes, she visits a small city called Ouarzazate and an epic landscape that attracts movie-makers from all over the world. MONDAY Earthstorm (2006) 6.30pm on AMC Channel (Channel 312) Earthstorm opens with an interstellar catastrophe. A massive asteroid slams into the moon, dramatically altering the Earth's ocean tides and triggering sweeping storms. At closer glance, however, scientists learn that the moon's structure is now entirely unstable and that large chunks of it will soon fly off and hit the Earth, damaging all life on that planet. With no other answer in sight, scientists solicit the help of a demolitions man (Stephen Baldwin), who promises to devise a workable solution. TUESDAY 300 (2006) 9.26pm on Italia 1 (Channel 155) In 480 B.C. a state of war exists between Persia, led by King Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), and Greece. At the Battle of Thermopylae, Leonidas (Gerard Butler), king of the Greek city state of Sparta, leads his badly outnumbered warriors against the massive Persian army. Though certain death awaits the Spartans, their sacrifice inspires all of Greece to unite against their common enemy. WEDNESDAY Blowing Up History [Documentary] 9pm on Discovery Science (Channel 402) How were the most iconic and historic buildings of the ancient and medieval worlds built? This documentary series uses stunning 'blow apart' CGI animation to reveal how these incredible structures were constructed. Using details from the latest archaeological investigations combined with X-Ray and LiDar scanning technologies, the series reveals fresh insights into the myths and mysteries behind ancient civilizations and the iconic megastructures they built. From how ancient Egyptians built the giant obelisks of Thebes to the dark secrets and rituals of the mysterious people who built the world's largest stone circle, this series explores the mysteries of ancient and modern wonders, as investigators work to both preserve and understand these iconic monuments. THURSDAY Weird or What: Human Popsicle [Documentary] 8.10pm on Discovery Science (Channel 402) In Weird or What? Discovery Science investigate all that is mysterious and weird in the world and ask – Is it really inexplicable? Or can we find a logical, scientific explanation? Each story will contain a remarkable and real personal story where we meet actual people who experience the bizarre, mysterious and unexplainable. Using impressive experiments and expert opinion, Weird or What? will test different theories, rule out those that do not stand up and attempt to recreate mysterious events in the laboratory to corroborate the theories that we are left with. At the end of each investigation there is always a conclusion. In many cases science provides a definitive explanation. In others, there is a strongest contender theory that is not completely proven. Sometimes, we just have to hold our hands up and accept that there is no explanation – it is just weird! In this episode: How did a child frozen solid and pronounced clinically dead for two hours, survive? And are lights in the mountains of North Carolina native American ghosts? FRIDAY Ultimate Pools – 2 back- to-back Episodes [Travel/ Adventure] 9pm on Travel Channel (Channel 410) Taking a dip in a pool is a refreshing way to cool off on a hot day. Most pools are basic and rectangular or circular in shape with few embellishments. Then there are the pools featured on this show, which are anything but basic. Take a peek at some of the most extravagant pools money can buy, from one that allows you to float above the lights of downtown Denver to another that allows its owner to swim through a private aquarium. Whatever they look like, the extravagant pools allow their designers to bring their most imaginative ideas to life. SATURDAY Dark Angel (1990) [Film] 8.45pm on AMC Channel (Channel 312) Renegade cop Jack Caine (Dolph Lundgren) is intent on snuffing out a dangerous gang of drug traffickers known as the "White Boys." When the gang makes off with a cache of heroin from federal custody and destroys the building to conceal evidence of their crime, Caine investigates with straight-arrow FBI agent Arwood Smith (Brian Benben). But bizarre new clues reveal that the Boys' criminal enterprise extends much further than anyone had previously imagined. Ÿ What to watch this week Streaming picks Your guide to the best shows on streaming platforms Wine Country Netf lix It 's Rebecca's 50th bir thday, and with Abby, Rebecca, Naomi, Val, Jenny, and Catherine rarely together as a group, Abby pushes them all to show up. Problem is, as their host Tammy predicted, the more wine they drink, the more time they spend together, and thanks to Abby's ver y strict schedule, a lot of secrets and hushed issues come out. Leading to the 20+ year friendship unraveling and leaving you to wonder, could it recover? New Amsterdam Amazon Dr Max Goodwin is brilliant, charming – and the new medical director at America's oldest public hospital. While he's set on tearing down the bureaucracy to provide exceptional care, the doctors and staf f are not so sure. They've heard this before, and no one else has delivered on those promises. Not taking "no" for an answer, Max disrupts the status quo and proves he will stop at nothing to breathe new life into this understaf fed, under-funded and under-appreciated hospital. Lucifer Netf lix Lucifer Morningstar has decided he's had enough of being the dutiful ser vant in Hell and decides to spend some time on Ear th to bet ter understand humanit y. He set tles in Los Angeles - the Cit y of Angels. Lucifer, bored from his sulking life in hell, comes to live in Los Angeles. 300 ON ITALIA 1 AT 9.26PM