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Friday, 03 August, 2012, 10:13pm

Man's Heritage: The Real Fight Club


Pearl, 8pm


The rough seas of Patagonia on the South American coast have created one of the harshest environments on Earth. To live there animals need to be tough and every year, a host of fighters visit to breed. The arrival of penguins, sea lions and elephant seals is a signal to let the games begin. From a vicious battle to the death by the penguin featherweights to a clash of the titans - enormous four-tonne seals that wrestle for ownership of the beach - only the champions can decide who lives and who dies in the gritty underworld of the real fight club.


Gary Rhodes Cookery Years: March


World, 8pm


In this new series, British celebrity chef Gary Rhodes (above) shows us how to choose the best homeproduced food for delicious recipes all year round. Rhodes kicks off with the best March has to offer. Recipes include softly roasted pork belly with steamed purple sprouting broccoli in wild garlic and orange butter and softened rhubarb with orange mascarpone cream.


Buffy The Vampire Slayer


Star World, 8pm


This is the most highly anticipated episode from the annals of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, one that will have you tapping your toes and humming along - it even spurred the release of its own CD.


Series creator Joss Whedon - a self-professed life-long musical theatre enthusiast - wrote, directed and composed the music for this episode in which a mysterious force impels the Scooby Gang to burst into song. Tara (Amber Benson) sings about her love for Willow (Alyson Hannigan), Xander (Nicholas Brendon) and Anya (Emma Caulfield) perform a duet while Buffy (Sarah Michelle Gellar, above with James Marsters) croons about her lack of direction in life. Who's behind the music? Dawn (Michelle Trachtenberg) provides the key.


Hannibal


HBO, 11pm


Part three in the Hannibal Lecter trilogy finds Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) in hiding in Florence, Italy, disguised as an art scholar. In America, an old victim, Mason Verger (Gary Oldman), seeks revenge. Disfigured and confined to a life-support system, Verger plans to draw Lecter out of his hiding place using the one thing Lecter truly cares for: Agent Clarice Starling (Julianne Moore). Also starring Giancarlo Giannini and Ray Liotta. (2001)


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