Wild New World: Land Of The Mammoth
World, 9pm
This new series takes us on a journey into the prehistory of North America to a time 14,000 years ago when people were first entering this vast and beautiful continent. They encountered a land very different from today's. Nearly half the continent was buried deep beneath vast, inhospitable ice sheets inhabited by elephant-like mammoths and mastodons, giant short-faced bears, sabretoothed cats and tree-sized ground sloths.
Galileo's Battle For The Heavens
World, 10pm
This is the story of the father of modern science and his struggle to get church authorities to accept the truth of his astonishing discoveries. Based on David Sobel's best-selling book, Galileo's Daughter, which reveals a new side to the famously stubborn scientist - that his closest confidante was his illegitimate daughter, Sister Maria Celeste, a cloistered nun.
