Best on television - May 31, 2008

Hostage
Tomorrow, Canale 5, 9.30 p.m.

Jeff Talley, a former LAPD hostage negotiator, has moved himself away from his failed career outside of Los Angeles, and away from his wife and daughter. When a convenience store robbery goes wrong in his turf, the three perpetrators move in on an unsuspecting family. But the family's father has a secret which might compromise his kin, and one of the criminals is about to jump over the edge. Jeff Talley has to get everybody to survive the night... if he can.

Bewitched
Monday, Canale 5, 9.10 p.m.

Isabel Bigelow arrives in California with the objective of having a normal life without spells. Meanwhile, in Hollywood, the egocentric actor Jack Wyatt is trying to retrieve his former prestige in the cinema industry playing Darrin in a remake of the successful TV series Bewitched. When Jack meets Isabel by chance and sees her moving her nose, he immediately decides to invite her to perform Samantha. His second intention is to cast an unknown actress and overshadow her performance. When Isabel finds his real intention, she becomes upset and her aunt puts a hex on Jack. But Isabel is in love with Jack and decides to tell him the truth about her.

National Treasure
Tuesday, RaiUno, 9.10 p.m.

Benjamin Franklin Gates descends from a family of treasure-seekers who have all hunted the same thing: a war chest hidden by the Founding Fathers after the Revolutionary War. Ben is close to discovering its whereabouts, as is his competition, but the FBI is also hip to the hunt.

Taking Lives
Friday, RaiDue, 9.05 p.m.

A successful FBI profiler, Illeana Scott, is summoned to help out Canadian law enforcement in Montreal, to hunt down a serial killer who assumes the lives and identities of the people he kills as he travels across North America. This forces Illeana to adjust to working in a strange city with a police team with which she doesn't really fit in.