Blood Diamond

    7:40 p.m. on HBO

    Danny Archer is a mercenary smuggler searching for a priceless diamond amid the chaos of Sierra Leone’s civil war. He meets a desperate father searching for his lost son; and a reporter searching for the truth behind the trade in “conflict diamonds.” Forced to confront the brutal human cost of the diamond trade, Archer changes his search for financial reward to a quest for redemption.

    Buried Secrets of the Buddha

    8 p.m. on National Geographic

    With hundreds of millions of followers worldwide, Buddhism is one of the world’s great religions — yet relatively little is known about its early history. One of the holiest sites in the religion is at Lumbini, long believed to be the actual birthplace of the Buddha and the only site connected to his life that hasn’t been destroyed or covered completely.

    In “Buried Secrets of the Buddha,” Dr. Robin Coningham and an international team of archaeologists have been granted special access to dig at this UNESCO World Heritage Site. They’ll work to solve some of the biggest mysteries about the first days of Buddhism.  TVB Pearl

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    9 a.m. ETV

    10:00 Market Update

    10:30 Inside the Stock Exchange

    12 p.m. CCTV News Live

    1:00 Market Update

    2:00 Inside the Stock Exchange

    4:00 Peg + Cat

    4:30 Care Bears Welcome to Care-A-Lot

    4:55 Monsters vs Aliens

    5:30 Help! My Supply Teacher Is Magic

    6:25 Financial Report

    6:35 Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook Cosmopolitan Cook

    7:00 America’s Funniest Home Videos

    7:25 Today in History

    8:00 Million Dollar Critic

    8:55 Video Cookbook

    9:00 The Pearl Report

    9:30 Today in History

    9:35 So You Think You’d Survive? (I)

    10:40 Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (II)

    11:30 Video Cookbook

     ATV World

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    7 a.m. Music 120

    7:30 Culture Express

    8:00 Melody Lingnan Culture (Eng/Cant)

    9:00 Super Kids Land

    9:30 Mega Quiz

    11:30 Dialogue

    12 p.m. Melody Lingnan Culture

    1:00 Music 120

    4:00 In the Night Garden

    4:30 Super Kids Land

    5:00 Latest Buzz

    5:30 ATV Putonghua News

    5:45 Ramble Round the Southern Guangdong Green Way (Eng/Cant)

    6:00 Culture Express

    6:30 Icon

    7:00 Uncovering Tibet

    7:50 144 Hours Journey —Visa Free to Guangdong (Eng/Cant)

    8:00 Melody Lingnan Culture (Eng/Cant)

    8:30 Tracing Origin Around Guangdong

    9:00 Stories From Afar

    10:00 Uncovering Tibet

    11:20 144 Hours Journey — Visa Free to Guangdong

     Star Sports

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    7 a.m. Australian Open Tennis 2014 Official Film

    8:00 Australian Open Tennis 2016 Cn Day 1

     National Geographic

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    6 a.m. Buried Secrets of the Buddha

    7:00 Megastructures: EP25: Shanghai Super Tower

    7:55 Lawless Island: EP4: Dead Standing

    8:50 Big Fish, Texas: EP6: All Fish and No Play

    9:45 World’s Toughest Fixes S2: EP7: Mass Transit

    10:40 Prospectors: EP9: A Monster Pocket

    11:05 Prospectors: EP1: Breaking the Dry Spell

    11:35 Inside the Mega Twister

    12:30 p.m. How to Win At Everything

    12:55 How to Win at Everything: EP2

    1:25 80s: The Decade That Made Us: EP4: Masters of the Universe

    2:20 World’s Toughest Fixes S2: EP18: Deep Space Antenna

    3:15 Lawless Island: EP4: Dead Standing

    4:10 Primal Survivor: EP3: Cannibal Legend

    5:05 Rebuilding Taiwan: Beyond the Storm

    6:00 80s: The Decade That Made Us: EP5: Tear Down These Walls

    7:00 How to Win at Everything: EP1: Ep 1

    7:30 How to Win at Everything: EP12: Ep 12

    8:00 Buried Secrets of the Buddha

    9:00 Lawless Island: EP5: The Widow-Maker

    10:00 Primal Survivor: EP2: Savage Jungle

    11:00 The Next Mega Tsunami

     Discovery Channel

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    6 a.m. Big Fish Man: Canada

    7:00 World’s Biggest Ship

    7:55 The Gadget Show: World Tour: USA West — California (Part 1)

    8:20 The Gadget Show: World Tour: USA West — California (Part 2)

    8:50 Belief: The Practice

    9:45 Deadliest Catch: We Have Not Yet Begun to Fight

    11:35 Marooned With Ed Stafford: Australia

    12:30 p.m. How Do They Do It? 11

    12:55 How Do They Do It? 11

    1:25 Belief: The Practice

    2:20 First Time Filmmakers: Singapore Story

    2:45 Korea Next: The Return of Royal Cuisine

    3:15 Incredible Engineering Blunders: Fixed

    4:10 Marooned With Ed Stafford: Australia

    5:05 How Do They Do It? 8

    5:30 How Do They Do It? 9

    6:00 Pacific Warriors

    7:00 Marooned With Ed Stafford: Botswana

    8:00 Ed Stafford: Into The Unknown: Pre Show

    9:00 Bering Sea Gold: Under The Ice: Gold Don’t Care

    10:00 Pacific Warriors

    11:00 Ice Cold Gold (Season 2)

     HBO

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    7:45 a.m. Manhattan Murder Mystery

    9:30 Ex Machina

    11:45 The Mummy Returns

    1:55 p.m. Edge of Tomorrow

    3:45 Dear God

    5:35 True Crime

    7:40 Blood Diamond

    10:00 Sex Tape

    11:30 Get On Up

     CCTV News

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    8 a.m. Biz Asia America

    9:00 CCTV News

    10:00 News Update

    10:30 Story Board

    11:00 News Update

    11:30 China Insight

    12 p.m. News Hour

    1:00 Dialogue

    1:30 Story Board

    2:00 News Update

    2:30 Journeys in Time

    3:00 News Update

    3:30 Sports Scene

    4:00 Biz Asia

    4:30 Nature and Science

    5:00 News Update

    5:30 China Insight

    6:00 Africa Live

    6:30 Culture Express

    For full listings visit pearl.tvb.com, www.hkatv.com, tv.foxsportsasia.com, www.hboasia.com, natgeotv.com/asia, english.cntv.cn and www.discoverychannelasia.com. Program schedule correct at the time of going to press.