Saturday 12 April, 11.00am - 1.00pm, Film4
Thursday 17 April, 1.05pm - 2.55pm, Film4

FIVE CHILDREN AND IT (2004, UK/Fr/US)
Children's fantasy adventure based on the novel by E Nesbit. Five children are sent to their eccentric uncle's seaside estate during the First World War, where they find a sand fairy who grants them one wish per day that will always end at sunset. The children include Robert (Freddie Highmore), Anthea (Jessica Claridge) and Jane (Poppy Rogers). Videocaps

Saturday 12 April, 11.40am - 1.30pm, Movie Mix

3 NINJAS: HIGH NOON AT MEGA MOUNTAIN (1998, US)
After a martial arts training session with their Japanese grandfather, brothers Rocky (Mathew Botuchis), Colt (Michael O'Laskey II) and Tum Tum (James Paul Roeske II) have to defeat a criminal gang who have invaded the Mega Mountain amusement park. Chelsey Earlywine plays their friend Amanda and Lindsay Felton plays Rocky's girlfriend Jennifer. Videocaps

Saturday 12 April, 1.00pm - 3.00pm, True Entertainment

LOVE COMES SOFTLY (2003, US TVM)
When a woman is widowed while on the wagon trail West, she decides on a marriage of convenience to a widower with a bratty 9-year-old daughter, Missie (Skye McCole Bartusiak). Videocaps

Sunday 13 April, 1.05pm - 3.25pm, BBC2

GYPSY (1962, US)
Seattle in the early twenties: determined to make a vaudeville star of her daughter 'Baby' June (Suzy Cupito), her ambitious mother Rose Hovick steals from her father to fund a trip to Los Angeles; however, it's her other daughter, 'Baby' Louise (Diane Pace), who eventually succeeds in burlesque as 'Gypsy Rose Lee'. Best bit: 'Baby' June's song and dance routines during the first half hour.

Monday 14 April, 9.00pm - 11.20pm, Film4

KNOWING (2009, Aus/US/UK)
In 1959, a class of elementary schoolkids make drawings of future life for a time capsule, except for Lucinda (Lara Robinson), an odd child who writes a series of apparently random numbers. Fifty years later the capsule is opened and the drawings distributed to the current children and Lucinda's 'drawing' given to Caleb (Chandler Canterbury), the son of an astrophysicist who decides that the numbers represent the dates of disasters, past and future. (Lara Robinson also plays Lucinda's granddaughter, Abby.) Videocaps

Tuesday 15 April, 1.10pm - 2.50pm, Film4

ALIENS IN THE ATTIC (2009, US)
Sci-fi comedy. A family discovers four small aliens in their holiday home, planning to conquer Earth, and only the younger members can stop them, including Hannah (Ashley Boettcher) and twins Art and Lee (Henri & Regan Young). Videocaps

Tuesday 15 April, 4.45pm - 6.50pm, Film4

The GRINCH (2000, US/Ger)
Comic Fantasy. It's Christmas in Whoville and the usual extravagant preparations are under way. Meanwhile, in his mountain lair, the Grinch, a cold-hearted hermit, plans to wreck the Whos' Christmas. But then he's befriended by a little girl, Cindy Lou (Taylor Momsen)... Videocaps

Tuesday 15 April, 9.00pm - 11.40pm, Film4

The KARATE KID (2010, US/China)
Work requires a single mother to move to China with her 12-year-old son Dre (Jaden Smith) where he is bullied by the locals until taught kung fu by the apartment maintenance man, while pursuing local girl Meiying (Wenwen Han). Videocaps

Tuesday 15 April, 10.00pm - 12.15am, ITV4

MONTY PYTHON'S THE MEANING OF LIFE (1983, UK)
A set of comic sketches, notably including "Every Sperm is Sacred", a large scale musical number featuring a father with an unfeasibly large number of children. (Some of the girls stand up naked in a bath tub.) Some of the children also briefly appear in the endpiece set in Heaven. Videocaps (no nudies)

Wednesday 16 April, 11.00am - 1.50pm, Film4

ANNA AND THE KING (1999, US)
Romantic drama set in Bangkok, 1862. The king of Siam hires Anna, a recently widowed Englishwoman, to tutor his son. She ends up teaching all 69 of his children. Tom Felton plays Anna's son, Louis. Videocaps

Wednesday 16 April, 4.40pm - 6.25pm, Film4

The SPY NEXT DOOR (2010, US)
Action comedy about a secret agent who is pitted against both the Russian mafia and the children of the single mother he's fallen for, 13-year-old Farren (Madeline Carroll), Ian (Will Shadley) and 4-year-old Nora (Alina Foley). Videocaps

Wednesday 16 April, 7.10pm - 9.00pm, Movie Mix

The BALLAD OF LUCY WHIPPLE (2001, US TVM)
When her mother uproots the family to California during the Gold Rush, teenager California Whipple (Jena Malone) learns about life the hard way. Michael Welch plays her younger brother Butte and Celeste Leary her younger sister Prairie. Videocaps

Friday 18 April, 11.40am - 1.25pm, More4

BUGSY MALONE (1976, UK)
Spoof gangster musical with a cast of children, featuring Scott Baio as Bugsy, Jodie Foster as Tallulah and Florrie Dugger as Blousey. Videocaps

Friday 18 April, 12.15pm - 3.00pm, Movie Mix

LITTLE BUDDHA (1993, It/Fr/UK)
A Tibetan monk travels to Seattle in search of the reincarnation of his dead teacher and finds 8-year-old Jesse Conrad (Alex Wiesendanger). However, there are two other candidates: Raju (Raju Lal), a waif from Kathmandu, and Indian girl Gita (Greishma Makar Singh). Videocaps

Friday 18 April, 1.45pm - 3.30pm, CITV

The LITTLE VAMPIRE (2000, Ger/Neth/UK/US)
Children's fantasy about 8-year-old Tony (Jonathan Lipnicki), who feels isolated when his family move from California to Scotland but soon finds friendship and spooky adventures with Rudolph (Rollo Weeks), a little vampire boy. Anna Popplewell plays Rudolph's vampire sister Anna. Videocaps

Friday 18 April, 2.45pm - 5.35pm, ITV

HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE (2001, US)
aka Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
On his 11th birthday, Harry Potter (Daniel Radcliffe) discovers that he is the orphaned son of two powerful wizards and goes to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, where he has adventures with Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) and Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint). Videocaps

Friday 18 April, 11.50pm - 1.50am, ITV4

VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED (1995, US)
Inferior remake of the 1960 film about a group of strange children conceived during a blackout in a village. They develop telepathic powers which threaten the adults who are faced with the problem of how to destroy the children. Videocaps