Saturday 19 July, 9.00am - 11.00am, Movie Mix
Friday 25 July, 3.00pm - 4.55pm, Movie Mix

ANNIE: A ROYAL ADVENTURE! (1995, US TVM)
Annie (Ashley Johnson) travels to London with her guardian, Daddy Warbucks, who is to receive a knighthood in this inferior non-musical sequel. Emily Ann Lloyd and Camilla Belle play Annie's companions, Hannah and Molly. Videocaps

Saturday 19 July, 8.30pm - 11.00pm, ITV

STAR WARS EPISODE I: THE PHANTOM MENACE (1999, US)
aka The Phantom Menace
When the evil Trade Federation blockades the peaceful planet of Naboo, two Jedi knights are despatched to mediate in the dispute. They are forced to withdraw, taking 14-year-old Queen Amidala (Natalie Portman), and land on the desert planet Tatooine to repair their ship. There they find 9-year-old slave boy Anakin Skywalker (Jake Lloyd), who has incipient Jedi powers. (Sometimes Queen Amidala assumes the role of a handmaiden, Padmé, while handmaiden Sabé (Keira Knightley) disguises herself as the Queen as a decoy.) Videocaps

Sunday 20 July, 2.40pm - 5.10pm, C5

LOST IN SPACE (1997, US)
In 2058, with Earth in terminal decline, the Robinson Family embark on a mission to colonise the planet Alpha Prime. But an act of sabotage during their ten-year journey leaves them Lost in Space. Lacey Chabert plays cute teenage daughter Penny, and Jack Johnson 10-year-old brainbox son Will. Videocaps

Sunday 20 July, 3.05pm - 4.55pm, Film4

The LAST MIMZY (2007, US)
Siblings Noah (Chris O'Neil) and Emma (Rhiannon Leigh Wryn) develop special powers after finding a box of mysterious 'toys' on the seashore which they learn have been sent from the future and play a vital role in the future of humanity. Videocaps

Sunday 20 July, 8.00pm - 10.10pm, E4

The GOLDEN COMPASS (2007, US/UK)
12-year-old orphan Lyra (Dakota Blue Richards) lives in a parallel universe (where everyone is accompanied by a companion animal called a daemon) and journeys to the far North to save her best friend and other kidnapped children from terrible experiments by a mysterious organisation, aided by an alethiometer, or golden compass, that helps her see the truth. Videocaps

Monday 21 July, 1.00pm - 3.00pm, True Entertainment

INVISIBLE CHILD (1999, US TVM)
Family drama about Annie, potty mother of 10-year-old 'Doc' (Mae Whitman) and 4-year-old Sam (David Dorfman), who believes in the existence of imaginary 5-year-old daughter Maggie. Her husband and daughter humour her and Sam thinks he has an invisible sister. But a new nanny is too concerned for the family's welfare to allow the fantasy to continue. Videocaps

Monday 21 July, 2.55pm - 5.00pm, Movie Mix
Friday 25 July, 9.00am - 11.05am, Movie Mix

MAGIC IN THE WATER (1995, Can/US)
Children's adventure. On holiday in Canada, 9-year-old Ashley (Sarah Wayne) claims to have seen the local lake monster.

Tuesday 22 July, 12.30pm - 3.15pm, Movie Mix

The ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN (1989, UK/W Ger)
Fantasy film about the teller of tall tales. Sarah Polley plays Sally, a little girl who accompanies the Baron on his adventures. Videocaps

Tuesday 22 July, 6.55pm - 9.00pm, Film4

The SECRET LIFE OF BEES (2008, US)
During the turbulent civil rights era of 1960s America, white 14-year-old Lily Owens (Dakota Fanning) flees the home of her bullying father with their black maid.

Tuesday 22 July, 10.50pm - 1.55am, Film4

ALIENS (1986, US)
Science fiction sequel. Having overcome a terrifying alien predator, Ripley has spent 57 years asleep, drifting through space in a life-pod. She is rescued, but discovers that the planet where the creature was originally found has been colonised. When contact with the planet is lost, Ripley and a platoon of marines are sent to investigate, and they find that the only survivor is 10-year-old "Newt" (Carrie Henn). Videocaps

Thursday 24 July, 9.00am - 10.50am, Movie Mix

SECRET SANTA (1998, US)
A man who is struggling to balance work and family life is made to walk in Santa's boots by a mischievous elf, keen to teach him what Christmas is all about. Harrison Myers plays the man's young son Teddy and Ariana McClain Teddy's friend Margo. Videocaps

Thursday 24 July, 5.00pm - 7.05pm, Movie Mix

HEIDI (2005, UK)
In this adaptation of the classic novel, Emma Bolger plays 8-year-old orphan Heidi who is sent to live with her curmudgeon grandfather in the Swiss Alps, where she makes friends with local boy Peter (Sam Friend). She is just settling in when she is sent to Frankfurt as a companion to 11-year-old crippled girl Clara (Jessica Claridge). Videocaps

Thursday 24 July, 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

Friday 25 July, 1.00pm - 2.50pm, Movie Mix

MADELINE (1998, US/Ger)
Orphan Madeline (Hatty Jones) faces her greatest challenge when the owner of the school she attends announces he wants to sell the property. Features twelve 10-year-old girls! Videocaps

Friday 25 July, 7.10pm - 9.00pm, Movie Mix

BERMUDA TRIANGLE (1996, US TVM)
A family is stranded on a mysterious uncharted Bermudan island when their boat is wrecked in a storm. Lisa Jakub plays Annie, the teenage daughter, David Gallagher plays Sam, the 10-year-old son and Michael Campillo plays Mala, a native boy. Videocaps