Saturday January 2, 2010

I notice some fine British drama/acting on the tube tonight:

6:45pm ET BBC America Doctor Who: The End of Time Part One It's the Tenth Doctor's final journey - but his nemesis, The Master, has been reborn. With both determined to cheat death, they battle from London to the mysterious Immortality Gate. A terrible shadow falls across the Universe as great danger approaches. 75 min.

8:30pm ET BBC America Doctor Who: The End of Time Part 2 The Doctor faces the end of his life as the Master's plans hurtle out of control. With an ancient trap closing around the Earth, the Doctor and Wilf must fight alone. But sacrifices must be made, and the deadly prophecy warns: "He will knock four times." 90 min.

8pm ET TCM Lolita (1962) A classic Stanley Kubrick film. Humbert Humbert (James Mason), a divorced British professor of French literature, travels to small-town America for a teaching position. He allows himself to be swept into a relationship with Charlotte Haze (Shelley Winters), his widowed and sexually famished landlady, whom he marries in order that he might pursue the woman's 14-year-old flirtatious daughter, Lolita (Sue Lyon), with whom he has fallen hopelessly in love. (Peter Sellers has a small role)

10pm ET BBC America Demons: They Bite The series opens as an ordinary teen (Christian Cooke) learns a shocking family secret: His great-great-grandfather was legendary vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing. Luke Rutherford's world is thrown upside down when he learns this startling revelation about himself. With the help of his godfather and best friend, Luke must now fight the coldest of cold wars: against the undead.