NEW YORK (AP) — Three half-sisters meet for the first time at their father’s funeral.Then, when the will left behind by their cattle-baron dad is read, the women are startled by the terms for collecting their inheritance: They must spend 12 months together on his ranch.

The will is ironclad: If any of the trio bolts before the year is out, the $24 million estate will be donated to a nature conservancy, and the daughters will each get $100.

Then, as if that weren’t peculiar enough, they discover their father may have left enemies behind who are dead set on sabotaging the women’s efforts to make their rightful claim.

“Montana Sky”, a film based on the best-seller by Nora Roberts, stars Ashley Williams as cowgirl rancher Willa, Charlotte Ross as sexy Hollywood writer Tess, and Laura Mennell as introverted Lily — three chilly strangers-turned-adversaries who must learn to work together or lose everything.

Also starring is Diane Ladd and John Corbett.

The film airs 10 p.m. Bermuda time on Monday on Lifetime.

Other shows this week to look out for (all times Bermuda):

[box] Shades of “Dreamgirls” and “Ray”! In the grand tradition of backstage musicals and show-biz biopics, cable’s G4 network presents “X-Play: The Musical”. Billed as the most expensive musical about video games in the history of mass entertainment, this cast-of-dozens extravaganza offers a fresh twist on the network’s “X-Play”, which for three years has reviewed and explored video games through the eyes of co-hosts Morgan Webb and Adam Sessler. For their musical edition, Webb and Sessler count down the best video-game soundtracks of all time — while joined by the X-Play Dancers in performances of five original songs, including “The Devil Went Down to X-Play” and “A Game is Born”. The whole song-and-dance airs at 9 p.m. on Monday.

[box] In 1942, the United States began a highly classified program meto research and develop bioweapons, its first in a series of steps that took the US down a path to develop a new weapon of mass destruction. Then, 27 years later, the programme came to an abrupt halt when President Richard Nixon declared that “the United States will renounce the use of any form of deadly biological weapons that either kill or incapacitate”. What happened in those intervening years? A new “American Experience” documentary, “The Living Weapon”, offers a look at more than two decades of closed-door meetings, secret tests, determined scientists and human subjects that attempted to turn some of the world’s most potent germs into some of the world’s most effective weapons. It airs at 10 p.m. on Monday on PBS (check local listings).

[box] Percy Julian won worldwide acclaim for his work in organic chemistry and, after forming his own private lab, became a self-made millionaire. He was also a black man, the grandson of Alabama slaves who met with countless barriers in a highly segregated nation. But as the first black director of an industrial chemistry research lab, he broke the colour barrier in American science more than a decade before Jackie Robinson did the same in major league baseball. A special two-hour “NOVA” tells the story of a man who, despite his tremendous achievements, remains largely unknown after his death a quarter-century ago at age 76. With Courtney B. Vance narrating, “Forgotten Genius” gathers archival footage and interviews, while Tony winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson stars as Julian in period re-enactments. The portrait airs at 9 p.m. on Tuesday on PBS (check local listings).

[box] The relationship between celebrities and paparazzi has traditionally been one of give-and-take, but as fees have risen in recent years, so have the stakes for this cat-and-mouse game. “THS (as in True Hollywood Story) Investigates: Paparazzi” uncovers the complex love-hate relationship — fuelled, of course, by the public’s insatiable appetite for photos of the stars. Offering a glimpse of the day-to-day routine of paparazzi, host Rob Nelson tags along with freelance photographer Giles Harrison, who has been taking celebrity pictures for more than a decade.

Nelson also delves into legal issues, including legislation to deal with dangerous paparazzi behaviour that was signed into law by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. It airs at 7 p.m. on Saturday on E! Entertainment.