Are you bored of the same old TV shows? Tired of the mainstream? Then check out this round-up of alternative movies and series showing on UK television tonight…
8.00pm Freddy’s Nightmares (Horror Channel)
Haunting series featuring surreal nightmares. Judy Miller is desperate to win the lottery, so much so that her greed could be her undoing. Season One, episode 5.
9.00pm The Pacific (Sky Movies Premiere / Premiere HD)
Part Nine: As the Japanese forces are pushed back towards their homeland, Sledge and his comrades face the fiercest fighting yet on the war-ravaged island of Okinawa.
10.00pm Demolition Man (Sky Movies Action & Thriller)
Frozen in 1996, Simon Phoenix a convicted killer is ‘thawed’ pending parole some time in the 21st century. Revived into a crime free society, Phoenix resumes his murderous rampage, and no one can stop him. Spartan, the cop who captured Phoenix in 1996 has also been cryogenically frozen, this time for a crime he didn’t commit. In desperation they turn to John Spartan to help recapture Simon Phoenix.
11.00pm Double Team (Five USA)
Thriller about a CIA agent who is interned for failing in a mission to kill an international terrorist. Escaping from his island exile, he teams up with a flamboyant arms dealer and together they set out to find the terrorist and rescue the agent’s wife and son. The first American production for acclaimed Hong Kong director Tsui Hark.
12.10am Bikini Car Wash Company (Movies4Men)
A group of young women decide to help out at the local carwash. To attract more customers and increase profits the girls opt for a simple uniform… the bikini. Cars queue up for miles, but the authorities aren’t happy with the way women are operating.
1.10am Surveillance (Sky Movies Crime & Thriller)
Following a gruesome killing spree in the Santa De desert, FBI agents Sam Hallaway and Elizabeth Anderson arrive at a small town to interview the witnesses. Someone in the room knows the truth, but who is it? Directed by Jennifer Lynch.
