What's on the box this week?

WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? USA (RTE 1, THURSDAY, 10.25pm) - This show, which is based on the award-winning BBC television series, takes viewers on an inspiring and personal journey into the past of America's best-known celebrities, sharing their emotion and surprise as they uncover stories of heroism, tragedy, love and betrayal that lie at the heart of their family story. The first programme in the series looks at 'Sex And The City' star Sarah Jessica Parker. Parker has always assumed that her ancestors were recent immigrants to the United States. She knew that her mother was born and raised in Cincinnati's German community, like her parents and grandparents before her, but didn't know much more than that. However, a visit to her mother reveals a distinctly non German sounding ancestor - Lillian Hodge. Intrigued by this, Sarah Jessica heads to Cincinnati, where she discovers her ancestor, John Hodge, died on a journey to California in 1849. Wanting to know more, Sarah Jessica travels to the gold fields of northern California. Other celebrities featured in the coming weeks will be Susan Sarandon, Matthew Broderick, Lisa Kudrow, Brooke Shields and Spike Lee. _____________________________________________________________ 'Bones' (Sky One, Thursday, 10pm) - The fifth season of this hit crime drama starring David Boreanaz and Emily Deschanel comes to a close with fans promised a big surprise by the show's producers. Season five has kept viewers as gripped as ever by the sizzling 'will they, won't they' chemistry between forensic anthropologist Dr Temperance Brennan and FBI Agent Seeley Booth, and things look set to come to a dramatic head in the finale. The final episode sees the team work to uncover clues buried under a life's worth of possessions saved by a hoarder in order to solve the mystery of his death. Meanwhile, it becomes clear that Angela's father has a specific purpose for his most recent visit, whilst Brennan and Booth are both confronted with unique opportunities. Created by real-life forensic anthropologist and best-selling novelist Kathy Reichs, 'Bones' follows Brennan and Booth's work at the Jeffersonian Institute solving unusual crimes when the bodies are so badly decomposed, burned or destroyed that only the victim's bones can provide clues to their fate. _____________________________________________________________ 'Clowning Around Lesotho' (RTE 2, Monday, 11.30pm) - This documentary looks at the nature of aid in the developing world through the eyes of a troupe of clowns. Directed by Ballinasloe native Mike Casey and featuring Galway actor Jonathan Gunning, it follows a troupe of clowns, volunteers with Clowns Without Borders Ireland, as they travel across the HIV-ravaged mountainous Kingdom of Lesotho, performing to thousands of children in hospitals, schools, streets and mountainsides. The three clowns - Jonathan Gunning, Bryan Quinn and Daniela Biancardi - bring a very personal approach to their encounters with the local children and adults. Clowns Without Borders Ireland is a volunteer organisation that offers laughter to relieve the suffering of all people, especially children and their carers, who live in areas of crisis, including refugee camps, war zones, and countries in emergency situations. ____________________________________________________________ Movie Of The Week: 'One Million Years BC' (ITV, Friday, 2.25am) - Caveman Tumak is banished from his savage tribe, only to find a home among a group of seacoast-dwelling cave people until he is banished from them as well. Missing him, one of their women, Loana, leaves with him, deciding to face the harsh prehistoric world with its monsters and volcanoes as a couple. Raquel Welsh in the 1966 movie that established her as a global sex symbol. It's not a film that will ever make any critic's best of list, but Welsh in a loincloth is a piece of cinema history.