Sky UK TV Guide

10:00 Bailey's Billions
Film Family comedy. When his rich owner dies, a lucky labrador receives her entire billion-dollar fortune in her will. However, he soon becomes the target of a dognapping plan by his late owner's nefarious nephew.

12:00 Imaginary Playmate
Film Supernatural thriller. Suzanne and her stepdaughter Molly move to a new house after the death of Molly's mother. The young girl soon acquires an imaginary friend named Candace, but all is not what it seems. Is Candace a way for Molly to cope with her grief and lonliness, or is she the evil ghost of a murdered child who once lived in their new house?

13:45 How To Lose Friends and Alienate People Special
Interests A behind-the-scenes look at Simon Pegg's latest comedy about a British writer struggling to fit in at an American magazine.

14:15 Georgia Rule
Film Comedy drama. Rebellious teenager Rachel pushes her mother too far and is sent to live with her estranged grandmother Georgia for the summer. Little do they realise that learning to live with each other will force all three generations of women to face up to their problems. Furthermore, mother, daughter and grandmother will finally start to realise the importance of family above everything else.

16:15 Bailey's Billions
Film Family comedy. When his rich owner dies, a lucky labrador receives her entire billion-dollar fortune in her will. However, he soon becomes the target of a dognapping plan by his late owner's nefarious nephew.

18:00 The Children of Huang Shi
Film Drama set in the 1930s about a young British journalist who travels to China in search of a big story. However, when he stumbles upon the savage treatment of orphans under the Japanese occupation, he soon becomes a part of the story himself as he teams up with a courageous Australian nurse and a local warrior to try to save them.

20:00 Run Fatboy Run
Film Simon Pegg squeezes into some very small shorts for this cheeky romance directed by David Schwimmer (with whom he co-starred in Big Nothing). As titular "fatboy" Dennis, Pegg looks doomed to failure when he signs up for a marathon to prove his love to former flame Libby (Thandie Newton). She's tough to please though, which is understandable as Dennis left her pregnant at the altar five years earlier. Schwimmer gets plenty of comedy mileage out of Dennis's shortcomings - including the inevitable locker-room scene where he cops an eyeful of Libby's hunky new fiancé (Hank Azaria) in the buff. A few of the gags are obvious and lazy, but overall there's a good balance of laughs and emotion, with Pegg managing to be endearing even as he molests a shop mannequin. The last leg of his journey (a race across London), while a bit contrived, will surely raise some hearty cheers.

22:00 American Gangster
Film As this true-life New York crime saga (set between 1968 and 1974) evocatively unfolds, master director Ridley Scott makes "big" look easy. Denzel Washington brings a suave tranquillity to his role as emerging Harlem drugs lord Frank Lucas (all the better to explode into sudden violence), while, in parallel, Russell Crowe's honest New Jersey cop Richie Roberts juggles divorce, pariah status within a corrupt police department and, eventually, the logistics of bringing Lucas down. It's as if The Godfather, GoodFellas and Scarface met TV's The Wire: grand overstatement combined with procedural detail and junkie sleaze. Beyond Josh Brolin's poisonously bad cop, a fine supporting cast struggles to make any meaningful impact in the wake of a dominant Washington - not least in the poorly sketched female roles - and fidelity to events takes the dramatic sting out of an operatic climax. Nevertheless, this is still a classy crime fable that succeeds despite sidestepping the electric set pieces of such genre maestros as Martin Scorsese or Brian De Palma.