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Hit & Miss

Starts May

Sky Atlantic brings you a sure-fire hit with a brand new exclusive British drama, Hit & Miss! Academy award nominee Chloë Sevigny is Mia, an undercover contract killer with an even bigger secret to conceal. Under the guidance of criminal lynchpin Eddie (Peter Wright), Mia has lived a secluded, repetitive existence. However, the arrival of revelations penned by her ex Wendy threatens to throw things off balance. Created by Shameless and State of Play writer Paul Abbott, Hit & Miss is definitely one you don't want to miss!

The South Bank Sky Arts Awards

1^st May, 9pm

Lord Melvyn Bragg returns to salute the very best of British culture. Nominees for this year's coveted awards include artists Grayson Perry and David Hockney, whilst Kate Bush will challenge two-time Mercury prize winner PJ Harvey and international superstar Adele for the Pop Music accolade. The award-winning talent this year promises to be just as diverse as last year's nods to rapper Plan B and the Welsh National Opera - perfect viewing for those anticipating the return of the legendary The South Bank Show later this month.

Playhouse Presents

Thursdays, 9pm

Sky Arts' season of new comedy drama continues with some stellar talent. The biggest highlight of this month must be double Oscar winner Emma Thompson joined by Russell Tovey and Eddie Marsan in Walking the Dogs (May 31st), a dramatization of the moment an intruder paid a visit to the Queen in her own bedroom. Alison Steadman and Brenda Blethyn will join the living legend, Sir Tom Jones, in his first acting role in domestic drama King Of The Teds (3rd May). Later this month Olivia Williams gets vocal about the London riots in City Hall (10th May), Gina McKee faces home truths as a nurse on an impoverished council estate in Care (May 17th) and finally Whilst Douglas Henshall battles his way through a post-apocalyptic Britain as The Snipist (May 24th).

Freddie Flintoff Goes Wild

24^th May 9pm

Freddie Flintoff joins the African tribes of the Serengeti, the Northern Territory Aborigines and the people who call the Borneo Jungle home to learn more key survival skills - and let's face it, he's going to need them if he wants to survive blisteringly hot conditions, poisonous plants, the world's most ferocious predators and lethal creepy crawlies! It's all part of the Adventure Season brought to you by Discovery this summer.

Glee, Final Episode

31^st May, 9pm

It's time for season 3 of Glee to graduate, and with it seniors Finn, Rachel and Kurt — but will all three manage to make the transition out of McKinley High? And how will the Glee Club survive without them? Meanwhile, it might be the end of school for some, but it doesn't mean that our favourite Glee Clubbers will be going out without a bang! Expect star cameos, and spectacular song-and-dance numbers before school breaks for summer.

Steps Concert

28^th May, 9pm

For those of you who are forever dancing inside, you can set your inner divas free with a little help from Steps Concert over on Sky 3D.

A League Of Their Own

Fridays, 9pm

Join host James Corden as he welcomes Blue Team recruit Jack Whitehall to joke about all things sports-related on the fifth series of A League Of Their Own. As team captain Freddie Flintoff is recently returned from the wild (see above), you can expect some serious critiquing of his hunting skills, while delectable ex-footballer Jamie Redknapp heads up the rivals. As if that wasn't enough, newly-appointed F1 guru Georgie Thompson has promised to make more than a few appearances…

Megastructures: London's Olympic Stadium

3^rd May, 9pm

There have been countless debates about what to do with the behemoth London 2012 Olympic stadium in the wake of the games this summer. But while the authorities ponder offers from massive football clubs for the 80,000 capacity venue, the structural engineers have ingeniously developed a structure that can be taken apart, Meccano-style, and downsized into a positively dinky 25,000 seater post-games.

Trevor McDonald's Queen & Country

Sundays from 13^th May, 9pm

Join Sir Trevor McDonald as he celebrates the quintessential traditions that define Britain. He'll be exploring everything from the history behind royal buildings that have become iconic around the world, to the flower-lined streets of state parades that regularly honour our monarchy. As an extra special treat to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, you'll also be able to catch the series on Sky 3D. So gather the family around and recapture the moment the public crammed into their front rooms to watch the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II sixty years ago on their strange, new televisions.

Kung Fu Panda 2

Friday, 4^th May, 8pm

Dream Warrior Po and the high-kicking Furious Five are back for more hilarious Academy-Award nominated adventures, and this time they're taking on proud peacock Lord Shen (Gary Oldman), who just happens to be a bit of a twisted firestarter! The original cast of Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie and Lucy Liu all return for more hilarious hijinks, promising explosive fun fit for the whole family.

Red Riding Hood

Friday 4^th May 9.45pm

The infamous fairy tale gets the Twilight treatment with a help of former vamp franchise director Catherine Hardwicke. Mamma Mia's Amanda Seyfried stars as the eponymous Red (here named Valerie), whose scarlet robes have earned her a deadly admirer in the shape of a predatory werewolf. Will potential suitors, woodcutter Shiloh Fernandez and blacksmith Max Irons, be able to stop bickering long enough to save Val? Or will the wolf outwit them all?

War Horse

The hotly anticiated - epic finally hits the silver screen, and who better to direct it than Hollywood's biggest director, Steven Spielberg? Newcomer Jeremy Irvine plays teenager Albert, who follows the horse he nurtured and trained onto the deadly battlefields of World War I. With man and beast separated in the line of duty, will either make it back to British shores? Unlike Spielberg's previous military movies, Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan, War Horse is a movie for all the family but, similar to its predecessors, still hits a powerful message home.

The Iron Lady

Meryl Streep gives the phenomenal performance of her career so far as Margaret Thatcher in Abi Morgan's long-awaited biopic. In portraying the private life of Thatcher, Streep is equally successful as in her championed reconstructions of Thatcher's battleaxe performances in the House of Commons. Jim Broadbent as Thatcher's late husband Dennis and Olivia Coleman as daughter Carol provide terrific support. A moving and controversial Brit flick worth watching for Streep's Oscar-winning turn alone.

Hugo

Rising star Asa Butterfield (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas) and Chloë Moretz (Kick Ass) star in Martin Scorsese's Academy-Award nominated masterpiece. Lonely orphan Hugo has kept the clocks of the Parisian train station where he lives ticking since his father died in a museum fire. When his uncle goes missing and his father's timekeeping diagrams disappear, Hugo goes on a journey that may bring him closer to his father than he could have dreamed.

Big Bugs Band

Brand new show starts 5^th May

With spectacular animations and a unique soundtrack, this series introduces children to a diversity of musical styles from jazz to bossa nova, hip-hop and even rap. The Big Bugs Band puts on a show in the middle of the woods using improvisation, various instruments, and crafty dance moves to share their music and style with the audience.

Special Agent Oso

New episodes start 5th May - Friday's, 6.10pm

Oso is a very special agent, a lovable bumbling bear in training to be a spy, who needs help from the viewers to complete his missions. Oscar nominated actor Sean Astin stars as the voice of Oso.

Tickety Toc

Weekdays, 8.15am

Enter the old clock shop and discover the Tickety Toc Clock, a mechanical wonder that announces the time with a magical chime, every hour of every day. But it's not just cogs and wheels that keep this clock ticking; behind the face of the Tickety Toc Clock is an extraordinary wooden world, the home of Twins Tommy and Tallulah Tockety. They'll never miss a chance to keep your kids laughing and learning as they race against time to keep things running like clockwork.

Fireman Sam Marathon

All-day episodes on 7th May from 8am

Fireman Sam lives in accident-prone Pontypandy, where he helps with fighting fires, manning the lifeboat, helping the mountain rescue, or joining up with the emergency medical services. Even when Sam has no official role in the rescue, he is always there to help!

Lab Rats

New episodes start 3^rd May - Thursday's, 5pm

"Lab Rats," is a live-action comedy about a teenager, Leo, who discovers three teen super-humans with bionic powers in the basement of his home, which he shares with his mom, Tasha, and inventor stepdad, Donald Davenport. The bionic trio soon convince Leo to take them along to high school so they too can experience normal life.

Austin and Ally

New episodes start 4^th May - Friday's, 5.35pm

This multi-camera comedy series follows the partnership between two polar opposites - Austin, an extroverted musician/singer, and Ally, a brilliant yet shy songwriter - and their two best friends, Trish and Dez. Unbeknownst to Ally, Austin and Dez "borrow" one of her songs, record it, create a video and post it on the Internet, after which it and Austin become overnight sensations. When Trish convinces Ally to tell the world she wrote the song, Austin pleads with her to write another hit for him. Instead, the two combine their talents to create a true musical tour-de-force.

House of Anubis

New episodes start 1^st May Weekday's, 6pm

The mysterious soap opera continues throughout May as new episodes follow a group of teenagers who live together in Anubis House, an early 1900s-era building that serves as a dormitory for an elite English boarding school. Shortly after settling into her new home, American student Nina hears that one of the most popular students has inexplicably disappeared. With twists and turns at every corner, House Of Anubis grows more suspenseful than ever this month.