Best on television - May 17, 2008

Love's Long Journey
Today, Rete 4, 5 p.m.

Missie is pregnant as she and her husband finally settle a new home after two years of travel westward since their departure at the end of Love Endures Forever. While starting up as newly-weds in a new home a cattle ranch, Missie and Willie must deal with the wild lawlessness of the West - including Indians and bandits.

Around the World in 80 Days
Today, Italia 1, 9 p.m.

As an adventurer, Passepartout ends up accompanying time-obsessed English gentleman, Phileas Fogg on a daring mission to journey around the world. Fogg has wagered with members of his London club that he can traverse the world in 80 days. Along the way, they encounter many interesting 19th century figures and have many exciting and suspenseful situations in their voyage around the world.

Marked for Death
Monday, Rete 4, 9.10 p.m.

Chicago DEA agent John Hatcher has just returned from Colombia, where his partner was killed in the line of duty by a drug dealer who has since been taken down. As a result of his partner's death, John has decided to retire, but his retirement may not be permanent. On the next day, after reuniting with his sister Melissa and Melissa's daughter Tracy, John gets into a shootout against a Jamaican drug kingpin known as Screwface, taking down some of Screwface's men. John brings himself out of retirement when Screwface retaliates by attempting to kill Melissa and Tracy. After the shooting, John is reunited with two old friends - a local high school football coach named Max, and a Jamaican Chicago cop named Charles. John and Max set out to hunt Screwface down, only to discover that Screwface has gone back to Jamaica. John and Max take Charles with them to Jamaica for an all out war against Screwface and his drug empire.

Man of the West
Tuesday, La 7, 2 p.m.

On his way to hire a schoolteacher, a homesteader is left a hundred miles from anywhere when the train he is on is robbed. With him are an attractive dancehall girl and an untrustworthy gambler and he decides to get shelter nearby from outlaw relatives he used to run with. They don't trust him and he loathes them but they decide he can help them with one last bank job.

Mindhunters
Thursday, Italia 1, 9.10 p.m.

On a remote island, the FBI has a training programme for their psychological profiling division, called "Mindhunters", used to track down serial killers. The training goes horribly wrong, however, when a group of seven young agents discover that one of them is a serial killer, and is setting about slaying the others. Can the few that are left figure out who the killer is in time?