For the first time since Super Bowl XLIV, and just the second time in the past twenty seasons, the number 1 seeds from each conference met to decide the championship. The game featured the league’s top offense (Denver) against the top defense (Seattle), the first time this has occurred since Super Bowl XXXVII.
Shaken by a recent scrape with death, big-city detective Joe Cashin is posted to a quiet town in on the Australian coast. But soon the whole community is thrown into unrest by the murder of a local philanthropist, a man with some very disturbing secrets. The Broken Shore is a brilliantly intricate crime procedural, and a moving novel about a place, a family, politics, and power.
Get ready for a Super Bowl Weekend fight card extravaganza that will put two championship titles on the line. Also, UFC 169 will feature a colossal clash of two former heavyweight champions when the world’s largest mixed martial arts (MMA) promotion returns to “The Garden State” in 2014.
The story follows the childhood and teen years of Gabby Douglas, the first black gymnast in Olympic history to become the Individual All-Around Champion and the first American gymnast to win gold in both the individual all-around and team competitions at the same Olympics.
In an effort to continue his rise up the European rankings, Lee Selby (17-1, 6 KO) will battle fellow Englishman Rendall “2 Tone” Munroe (27-3-1, 11 KO) on Saturday night for the vacant EBU featherweight title and Selby’s BBBofC British featherweight title.
In 1971, on a flight from Portland to Seattle, a man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked a plane and requested $200,000. After the FBI complied with the requests the plane reentered the air with just the crew and Cooper. Somewhere over Nevada, Cooper parachutes from the plane with the money and is never seen or heard from again. Now, with help of modern forensics, experts hope DNA analysis of Cooper’s tie and recovered ransom money will solve the mystery of this infamous heist.
The programme contains previously unseen footage of the horrific 1941 massacre at Babi Yar, Kiev. Where some 33,000 Jewish people were shot and killed by the Nazis in the space of just two days. This, alongside newly-discovered documents and films of the Nazi genocide at Kerch, leads historians to wonder whether the East was effectively used as a testing ground for the industrial scale killing which later took place in Auschwitz and other concentration camps in Europe. Inevitably it makes for harrowing but essential viewing as Hicks seeks to uncover the true extent of The Unseen Holocaust.
On a scorching, hot summer day in 1892 in Fall River, Massachusetts, Lizzie Borden returns home to the house she shares with her father Andrew, stepmother Abby and sister Emma. But, unlike any normal day, Lizzie encounters the bloody scene of her parents violently murdered. Police quickly question multiple suspects in town, but evidence keeps pointing back to the Borden’s youngest daughter Lizzie, the seemingly wholesome Sunday school teacher, as the prime suspect…
LL Cool J hosts the 56th annual event, held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Scheduled to perform: Lorde; Katy Perry; Taylor Swift; Paul McCartney; Ringo Starr; John Legend; Macklemore and Ryan Lewis; Keith Urban; Kacey Musgraves; Metallica; Pharrell Williams; Daft Punk; Sara Bareilles; Carole King; Stevie Wonder; Blake Shelton; Pink; Kendrick Lamar; Imagine Dragons; Robin Thicke; Chicago; Merle Haggard; Willie Nelson; Kris Kristofferson; Nate Ruess; Lang Lang; Nile Rodgers.
In this new three-part series for BBC Two, Dr Thomas Asbridge presents his revelatory account of the Crusades, the 200-year war between Christians and Muslims for control of the Holy Land. The story of the Crusades is remembered as a tale of religious fanaticism and unspeakable violence, but now fresh research, eyewitness testimony, and contemporary evidence from both the Christian and Islamic worlds shed new light on how these two great religions waged war in the name of God.
In an outback town, Jay Swan, an Indigenous cowboy detective, returns home to solve the murder of a teenage Indigenous girl whose body is found under the highway trucking route out of town. Jay is alienated from both the white-dominated police force and the Indigenous community, including his teenage daughter, whom he discovers is connected to the murdered girl. Starring Aaron Pedersen, Hugo Weaving, Jack Thompson, Ryan Kwanten, and Tasma Wilson, MYSTERY ROAD is a gripping murder mystery with a cultural perspective.
Scheduled: Benson Henderson vs. Josh Thomson in a lightweight bout in Chicago. Also: Stipe Miocic vs. Gabriel Gonzaga; Donald Cerrone vs. Adriano Martins; and Darren Elkins vs. Jeremy Stephens.
