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Sharpe's challenge
BBC America Monday. Sept. 4 (12 a.m., other times)
British actor Sean Bean has played plenty of villains, terrorists and cowards, but he is in full hero mode in Sharpe's Challenge , the latest installment in the BBC America series about the adventures of Richard Sharpe, a soldier in the British army during and after the Napoleonic Wars.
In these colorful costume dramas that don't stint on dirt, gore and damsels in distress and deshabille, Sharpe, who as a mere sergeant managed to save the life of the Duke of Wellington, undertakes a variety of missions with his Irish sidekick, Sgt. Patrick Harper (Peter Hugo-Daily). Here, he is off to India...