The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

    6:20 p.m. on HBO

    Born as an 80-year-old man in New Orleans just after World War I, Benjamin Button proceeds to grow younger as time passes. And unable to stop time like any other man, Button experiences life and love oddly out of sync with the rest of humanity. This Academy Award winning film is a time traveler’s tale of the people and places Button encounters, the loves he loses and finds, as well as the joys of life and the sadness of death and what lasts beyond time.

    The Water Diviner

    11:15 p.m. on HBO

    Russell Crowe’s directorial debut, “The Water Diviner” is an epic adventure set four years after the devastating battle of Gallipoli during World War I. Australian farmer Joshua Connor travels to Turkey in 1919 to discover the fate of his three sons, reported missing in action. Arriving in Istanbul, he is thrust into a vastly different world where he encounters others who have suffered their own losses in the conflict: Ayshe, a strikingly beautiful but guarded hotelier raising a child alone; her young spirited son Orhan, who finds a friend in Connor, and Major Hasan, a Turkish officer who fought against Connor’s boys and who may be this father’s only hope. With seemingly insurmountable obstacles in his path, Connor must travel across the battle-scarred Turkish landscape to find the truth, and his own peace.

    HBO

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    9:15 a.m. Reign of Fire

    11:00 The Night

    12:30 p.m. American Sniper

    2:45 Scooby-Doo! Moon Monster Madness

    4:10 The Blind Side

    6:20 The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

    9:00 Unbroken

    11:15 The Water Diviner

     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

    1:00 Market Update

    2:00 Inside the Stock Exchange

    4:00 The Furchester Hotel

    4:30 Care Bears & Cousins

    4:55 Odd Squad

    5:25 Mia and Me

    6:05 Football Asia

    6:35 Gillette World Sport

    7:00 Perfect Puzzle

    7:25 Today in History

    8:00 The Food Files

    8:30 Rachel Khoo’s Kitchen Notebook Melbourne

    9:00 Dolce Vita and Countdown to Rio

    9:30 Today in History

    9:35 Well Being:Trust Me I’m a Doctor

    10:40 Quantico

     Star Sports

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    8 a.m. FIH Hockey Champions Trophy (Men’s) India vs. Great Britain

    9:30 FIH Hockey Champions Trophy (Men’s) Australia vs. South Korea

    11:00 Wimbledon 2016 Best Match: Men’s Doubles Final Herbert/Mahut vs. Benneteau/Roger-Vasselin

    12 p.m. Monster Jam 2016

    1:00 Sports Unlimited

    2:00 Bundesliga Archive Matches Schalke vs. Dortmund

    4:00 One Championship: Global Rivals

    5:00 Sports Unlimited

    6:00 TCR International Series 2016 Highlights

    6:30 Mobil 1 the Grid

    7:00 Kotv Classics 2015/16

    8:00 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series 2016 Inside Magazine

    9:30 Countdown to Rio

    10:00 Sport Confidential 2016/17

    10:30 Gillette World Sport 2016

    11:00 Motul FIM Superbike World Championship 2016 Race 1

     National Geographic

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    8:50 a.m. Science of Stupid

    9:45 Incredibly Small World:

    10:40 Money Meltdown: Cash In The Chem Lab

    11:05 Money Meltdown: Fight of Flight

    11:35 Terraced Fields

    12:30 p.m. Explorer: Eyes Wide Open

    1:25 Salmon Wars

    2:20 Incredibly Small World

    3:15 Inside: Reinventing Taipei

    4:10 Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey: Standing Up In The Milky Way

    5:05 Life on Mars: The Amazing Rovers

    6:00 UFOs: The Untold Stories

    7:00 Brain Games: Seeing Is Believing

    7:30 Brain Games: Illusion Confusion

    8:00 Hacking The System: Personal Security

    8:30 Hacking The System: Restaurant Ruses

    9:00 Machine Impossible: Robot Revolution

    10:00 Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey: The Clean Room

    11:00 Fly Me To The Stars: Japan’s Space Challenge

     Discovery Channel

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    6 a.m. How Do They Do It?

    6:25 How It’s Made

    6:50 Saltwater Heroes

    7:40 World’s Biggest Ship

    8:30 World’s Top 5

    9:20 NASA’s Unexplained Files

    10:10 Gadget Man

    10:35 Gadget Man Series 2

    11:00 How Do They Do It?

    11:25 How It’s Made

    11:50 Man, Woman, Wild

    12:40 p.m. Destroyed in Seconds

    1:30 Fast N’Loud

    2:20 How Do They Do It?

    2:45 How It’s Made

    3:10 Saltwater Heroes

    4:00 World’s Biggest Ship

    4:50 SW 2016: Air Jaws: Hunting by the Moon

    5:40 How Do They Do It?

    6:05 How It’s Made

    6:30 Man, Woman, Wild

    7:20 Destroyed in Seconds

    8:10 Fast N’Loud

    9:50 Idris Elba: King of Speed

    10:40 Against the Odds

    11:30 Fast N’Loud

     Cinemax

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    9:45 a.m. Operation Rogue

    11:10 7 Seconds

    12:40 p.m. Se7en

    2:45 Batman: Assault on Arkham

    4:00 Justice League: War

    5:20 Hollywood on Set

    5:45 America’s Sweethearts

    7:25 Hollywood on Set

    7:55 Batman

    10:00 The 13th Warrior

    11:40 Transcendence

     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

    7:00 News Update

    7:30 Dialogue

    For full listings visit pearl.tvb.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.