Saturday, 12th April 2008 - 00:00CET

Best on Television

NOWHERE TO HIDE
Today, Rete 4, 9.30 p.m.

An escaped convict fights for his rights while hiding out from the law in this action drama. Sam is a thief who, despite his criminal past, is an essentially decent man; he ended up behind bars after taking a murder rap for his partner. Sam escapes from prison in a daring jailbreak, and he hides out on a remote farm while on the run from police. A young boy named Mookie finds the fugitive and takes him in; it seems that the farm belongs to his mother Clydie and soon Mookie and his sister Bree have become friends with Sam, and Clydie and Sam fall in love. However, Franklin Hale, an unscrupulous land developer, wants to buy Clydie's farm and isn't taking no for an answer.

THE LAST HUNT
Tuesday, Italia 7, 2 p.m.

Set in the early 1880s, this is the story of one of the last buffalo hunts in the Northwest. Sandy McKinzie is tired of hunting buffalo, and tired of killing-Charley on the other hand relishes the hunt and enjoys killing buffalo and Indians. When Charley kills an Indian raiding party, and takes their squaw as his own, tension develops between the two hunters, and matters will only be settled in a showdown.

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Tuesday, Italia 1, 9.10 p.m.

An extreme sports athlete with a bad attitude is recruited by the US government to infiltrate and defeat a Russian crime ring. Explosions and bone-breaking stunts ensue.

TRUE LIES
Wednesday, Rete 4, 9.10 p.m.

Harry Tasker is a secret agent in the Bond style. But his wife Helen and family think he is a computer salesman. When Helen seeks out a life of excitement in the arms of another man, Harry sets out to give her the excitement she craves while simultaneously battling Arab terrorists in possession of an atomic bomb and causing his rival in love to change his trousers.

EXCAPE TO VICTORY
Thursday, RaiTre, 9.05 p.m.

In World War II, a group of Nazi officers come up with a propaganda event in which an all star Nazi team will play a team composed of Allied Prisoners of War in a football game. The Prisoners agree, planning on using the game as a means of escape from the camp.

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Thursday, Italia 1, 9.10 p.m.

NSA Agent Augustus Gibbons, fresh off the success of his last renegade recruitment, once again finds himself in need of an outsider. Gibbons and his new agent must track a dangerous military splinter group that is conspiring to overthrow the US government in the nation's capital.