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Air Crash Investigation – Crash Course
National Geographic Channel, Saturdays, 11p.m.
Air Crash Investigation follows survivors, family members and investigators as they piece together the causes of each disaster. The series takes you to the scene of the crash like no other show. On November 12, 1996 shortly after take off from New Delhi, Saudi Airways Flight 763 levels off at 14,000 feet. As the crew waits for clearance to climb to their cruising altitude, the plane is hit by a Kazakhstan Airlines jet. The collision cripples both planes. They spiral violently to the ground, killing all 349 people on board. It’s the worst mid-air collision in the history of aviation. The two wreckage fields are five miles apart. As investigators comb through the charred debris for evidence, they try and answer troubling questions: Why did the two planes collide? Who’s responsible? And can they stop it before it happens again? Bitter SweetheartNDTV Lumière, Saturday, 7.15 a.m.
Directed by Hella Joof, Bitter Sweetheart is adapted from a novel by Emma Hamberg. It revolves around a 15-year-old girl, Lina Berglund, who desires to be like her carefree and popular friends. With self esteem issues, Lina believes she isn’t as pretty or popular as her friends and fears that she may never be kissed. She experiments with alcohol and even her sexuality to help boost her esteem but little does she know that ultimately she needs to make her own choices, irrespective of what her peers think. Zing’s Bold Zing Ne Bana Di Jodi,
Zee Studio, Saturday, 7 p.m.
Celina will soon be seen playing cupid between heterosexual couples in this new reality series, “Zing Ne Bana Di Jodi”. The show will have eight “small town hunks” trying to woo eight uptown girls. As a celebrity judge on the show, Celina eggs the boys and girls to just let their hair down and have some harmless fun.
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