Saturday, 10th May 2008 - 00:00CET

Best on television

The Art of War
Today, Rete 4, 9.30 p.m.

Shaw is an operative for the United Nations' covert dirty-tricks squad, using espionage and quasi-ethical tactics to secure peace and cooperation. When a shipping container full of dead Vietnamese refugees turns up on the docks and China's ambassador is gunned down at a dinner celebrating a new trade agreement with China and the US, Shaw is framed for the murder and must evade the FBI and Triad gangsters to find out what is really going on.

The Missing

Tomorrow, Rete 4, 9.30 p.m.

Set in 1886 New Mexico, Maggie Gilkeson is a young woman who is raising her two daughters in an isolated and lawless wilderness. When her oldest daughter is kidnapped by a psychopathic killer with mystical powers, Maggie is forced to re-unite with her long estranged father to rescue her. Maggie and her father are in a race against time to catch up with the renegades and save her daughter, before they cross the Mexican border and disappear forever.

Speed
Tuesday, Rete 4, 9.10 p.m.

A mad bomber with a vendetta against a young cop plants a bomb on a bus in Los Angeles. The hero, with the help of a beautiful passenger, must diffuse the explosive device which is set to detonate if the bus slows to under 50 miles per hour.

Prime

Wednesday, Canale 5, 9.10 p.m.

Photography producer Rafi is badly bruised from her recent divorce and is addressing her emotional scars by confiding her innermost thoughts to her rational and understanding Jewish therapist Lisa Metzger. When 37-year-old Rafi meets 23-year-old aspiring artist David, everything seems to change for them both as they rush headlong into a mad, passionate affair. Dr Metzger continues to reassure Rafi about her new relationship and overcoming her fears of intimacy, until she realises that Rafi's new lover is, in fact, her only son. And she is intent on him marrying a nice Jewish girl.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Friday, RaiDue, 9.05 p.m.

Indiana Jones discovers the history of another biblical artifact called The Holy Grail. He was also informed that his father Henry is missing. Jones has to find his father who is looking for the Grail. However, Jones becomes involved in the search of the Holy Grail along with his father, as well as fighting the Nazis to reach it.