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The Reel Australia: Celia |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Saturday, 24 July 2010 ' |
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| Time: | 8:30pm |
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Celia is a fiercely independent and imaginative 9-year-old who lives uncomfortably with her buttoned-down family in suburban Melbourne.
Her church-going parents are troubled by sexual frustrations and irrational fears about the rise of Communism, causing Celia to find refuge with her treasured, tolerant grandmother.
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Spectacle: Elvis Costello With... |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Friday, 23 July 2010 ' |
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| Time: | 9:30pm |
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On tonight's final episode of Spectacle: Elvis Costello With... Elvis continues his in-depth conversation and performs with legendary singer songwriter Bruce Springsteen.
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beached az: The Sea Slug |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Thursday, 22 July 2010 ' |
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| Time: | 9:25pm |
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| A helpless whale is stranded on a New Zealand beach and is subjected to often pointless, but always comical conversations with a variety of passing wildlife. |
Outnumbered |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Tuesday, 20 July 2010 ' |
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| Time: | 8:00pm |
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| Pete and Sue find themselves in every parent's nightmare - trapped in a foreign airport with three bored young children (and an increasingly bewildered grandad). Six-year-old Karen grills her Dad about Al Qaeda, and Security grill eight-year-old Ben about the worrying objects in his bag. |
Learning From Light: The Vision of I. M. Pei |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'from Sunday, 18 July 2010' |
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| Time: | 7:30pm |
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Culture. Nature. Light, These elements provide the structure for a documentary film that explores the vision of one of the world's master architects, I.M. Pei and his newest creation, the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar.
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Robin Hood: Something Worth Fighting For: Part Two |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Saturday, 24 July 2010' |
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| Time: | 7:30pm |
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| Robin (Jonas Armstrong) leads the Outlaws and the village men to hold the Castle against the Sheriff's (Anthony O'Donnell) attack and successfully dismantles the Sheriff's trebuchets. Reeling from Kate's (Joanne Froggatt) news that the King has been captured and his troops aren't coming to relieve them, rouses the men to fight for freedom. |
Being Human |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Friday, 23 July 2010' |
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| Time: | 8:30pm |
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| Annie (Lenora Crichlow) gets a job working with a stage psychic and finds a new sense of purpose by helping ghosts resolve their issues with their living relatives. But things take a turn for the worse when Annie's mum appears in the audience. |
The British In Bed |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday, 21 July 2010 ' |
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| Time: | 9:30pm |
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| What makes - or breaks - a relationship? Seven British couples of varying ages, backgrounds, races and religions, drop their guard and talk with remarkable openness about what they feel for each other as they lie together in bed. |
E2: Transport: Aviation: The Limited Sky |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday, 21 July 2010' |
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| Time: | 8:00pm |
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| Even if regional transportation becomes more efficient, people and goods will still need to travel the world. The final episode of E2 Transport looks at new technologies and policies that could offset the aviation industry's substantial greenhouse gas emissions. |
10 Items Or Less |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Monday, 19 July 2010' |
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| Time: | 8:00pm |
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| Final Greens & Grains and their rival, Super Value Mart, plan to run a grocery-bagging competition with a $5000 prize for the fastest. |
The Undercover Princes |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday, 21 July 201' |
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| Time: | 8:30pm |
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| Three exotic bachelor princes travel from afar to find true love with an English rose. However, so the people they meet will love them for themselves and not their wealth and status, they are going undercover, living and working as ordinary people for the first time in their lives. |
Am I Normal?: Spirituality |
| Venue: | ABC1ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday, 15 June 2011' |
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| Time: | 9:30PM |
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| We live in one of the least religious societies on earth. Yet most of us still cling to the idea of life after death, spirits and the supernatural. |
Victorious |
| Venue: | Nickelodeon Australia |
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| Date: | 'Tuesdays in September' |
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| Time: | at 5.30pm |
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Cool School |
| Venue: | Nickelodeon Australia |
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| Date: | 'September 25 ' |
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| Time: | at 7pm |
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Three young Australians (Hayley Warner, Australian Idol, indigenous AFL player Malcolm Lynch & indigenous Australian Narelle Long) embark on an adventure of a lifetime to participate in the worlds first environmental school, E-Base in Antarctica. This Cool School led by polar explorer and environmentalist Robert Swan OBE (Order of the British Empire) takes 40 international young people from 15 countries into the breath-takingly harsh
elements of the Antarctic to learn the real lessons of global warming first hand. Swan's revolutionary E-Base located at the Bellingshausen Russian Base on King George Island took six years to build. |
iCarly iPsycho |
| Venue: | Nickelodeon |
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| Date: | 'Saturday September 4 ' |
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| Time: | 6pm |
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| In iPsycho, Carly (Miranda Cosgrove), Sam and Freddie decide to make a slight detour on their way to a web conference to visit a fan of the show on her sixteenth birthday. When they arrive, they discover that their super fan Nora is lonely and awkward, and no one has shown up for her birthday party. |
SpongeBob SquarePants |
| Venue: | Nickelodeon Australia |
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| Date: | 'Monday September 6 - Friday September 10' |
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| Time: | 5pm |
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| Enjoy all new episodes of SpongeBob, kicking off with The Great Patty Caper, when Mr. Krabs gives SpongeBob the only key to the vault holding the Krabby Patty's secret recipe, SpongeBob vows to guard it with his life. But as soon as SpongeBob and Patrick board the train to retrieve the recipe, the key is mysteriously missing. Who could have stolen the Key? Was it the sneaky Plankton? Or was it the butler? Will SpongeBob, Patrick and Plankton solve themystery on a runaway train! |
Penguins of Madagascar |
| Venue: | Nickelodeon Australia |
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| Date: | 'Monday September 20 - Friday September 24' |
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| Time: | 5pm |
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On a mission without permission! The birds are back in September in an action-packed week full of wishes, relocations, practical jokes, upgrades and training exercises.
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Big Time Rush |
| Venue: | Nickelodeon Australia |
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| Date: | 'September 11-25th' |
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| Time: | 6.30pm |
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Dinosaur Train |
| Venue: | Nick Jr |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday September 1' |
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| Time: | 8.25am & 5.30pm |
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Nick Jr. invites preschoolers to hop on board the fun and fantastical Dinosaur Train, a new CGI-animated series from The Jim Henson Company. Dinosaur Train embraces and celebrates the fascination that preschoolers have with both dinosaurs and trains while encouraging basic scientific thinking and skills as the audience learns about natural science, natural history and palaeontology.
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Wild Rides: Crashing Kathmandu |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Friday, 17 June 2011' |
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| Time: | 8:00PM |
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| Halfway through India, Buddy is travelling hell-for-leather towards Kathmandu and the finish line - or at least, he hopes he is. |
Insight: Beauty Race |
| Venue: | SBS ONE |
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| Date: | 'Tuesday 16 August' |
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| Time: | 7.30pm |
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There's a growing trend for people to alter their ethnic features - from double eye-lid surgery, to chin implants, to skin lightening or darkening. In some cases, patients undergoing such ethnic cosmetic surgery say they are doing so to achieve a more 'western look'. Others say it has nothing to do with trying to look more Caucasian - it's just about being more beautiful.
Insight looks at the growing number of people who are willing to change their racial features in the quest for beauty, what is spurring them to go to such lengths, and what is considered 'beautiful' today. |
World's Toughest Driving Tests: Scotland |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday, 15 June 2011' |
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| Time: | 7:30PM |
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| The competition is hotting up between rival 'petrol heads', Will Mellor and Kirsten O'Brien. It's week three and with the scores level at 1-1, they are about to go head-to-head in one of the world's biggest vehicles, the Terex TR100, a dumper truck the size of a house. |
Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures |
| Venue: | Nickelodeon |
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| Date: | 'from Friday October 19th' |
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| Time: | 6pm |
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Brace yourselves for an epic new series set to hit television screens this October only on Nickelodeon. Bucket & Skinner's Epic Adventures is a comedy about two inseparable surfer dudes from Southern California who live and sleep for the perfect surf day, and maybe a taco or two!
These two best friends have three main goals in life: stay friends forever, always be near a beach, and never have a job that requires pants! But they're not slackers. They're just laidback boys with awesome surf skills who approach life, school, and surfing with pure enthusiasm. Although they may sometimes seem like they've had too much exposure to the sun, they're not really stupid, they just march to the beat of a different drum! |
The Trail Of Genghis Khan: In The Skin Of A Wolf |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday, 28 July 2010' |
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| Time: | 8:00pm |
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Stacey Dooley Investigates |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday, 15 June 2011' |
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| Time: | 8:30PM |
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| In 2007, fashion fanatic Stacey Dooley's life took an unexpected turn when she travelled to India for Blood, Sweat And T-Shirts to live and work alongside the people in the Indian fashion industry making clothes for the UK high street. In the cramped backstreet workshops of the Mumbai slums she came face to face with child labour and what she saw there changed her life. |
Kendra Season 3 |
| Venue: | E! Channel 121 on FOXTEL |
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| Date: | 'Tuesdays beginning 16th November' |
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| Time: | 9:30pm |
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| Kendra and Hank move their new family to Philadelphia as Hank starts the new football season with the Eagles. |
Dance Academy |
| Venue: | ABC3 |
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| Date: | 'Sunday, 11 July 2010' |
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| Time: | 3:40pm |
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| Tara (Xenia Goodwin) is elated when Ethan (Tim Pocock) asks her to dance in his choreographic assessment piece. Is he finally beginning to see her as a romantic potential? But when she arrives at the studio to find Ethan engrossed in conversation with his mentor - the talented, gorgeous and much older Dana Strong (Melanie Vallejo) - it's obvious who Ethan has his sights on. Eager to impress Dana with his talents as a choreographer, Ethan pushes Tara mercilessly to dance better. Meanwhile, Kat (Alicia Banit), Sammy (Tom Green), Abigail (Dena Kaplan) and her younger sister Paige (Zoe Loannou) head to Luna Park for the day. Abigail struggles to connect with Paige who would prefer to be in the company of Kat and Sammy. |
The Tribe |
| Venue: | ABC3 |
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| Date: | 'Tuesday, 13 July 2010' |
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| Time: | 7:35pm |
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| The Tribe has been rediscovered by a new generation of kids on ABC3 proving that a good story never gets old. The screening of series 3 is a topic that generates pages of discussion on ABC3's message board and facebook page. And why shouldn't it? This program is the stuff dreams are made of for most children. Now ABC3 is giving Australian kids what they have been asking for... The Tribe Series 3! |
Katsura Rikyu: Imperial Villa Of The Moon |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Sunday, 25 July 2010' |
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| Time: | 8:25pm |
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| A first time glimpse inside the beautiful Katsura Rikyu Imperial Villa in Kyoto shows why it is renowned for being the quintessence of Japanese aesthetics. |
The Undercover Princes |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday, 28 July 2010' |
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| Time: | 8:30pm |
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| Three exotic bachelor princes travel from afar to find true love with an English rose. However, so the people they meet will love them for themselves and not their wealth and status, they are going undercover, living and working as ordinary people for the first time in their lives. |
Total Drama Action: CM |
| Venue: | ABC3 |
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| Date: | 'Monday, 26 July 2010' |
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| Time: | 5:25pm |
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| Welcome to ABC3's Total Drama Week, this two-part special introduces the next exciting series; Total Drama World Tour. |
Being Human |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Friday, 30 July 2010' |
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| Time: | 8:30pm |
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I Know What I Saw |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday, 28 July 2010' |
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| Time: | 9:30pm |
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| A documentary following renowned filmmaker and UFO researcher James Fox (Out of the Blue) on his mission to break through government secrecy and uncover the startling truth behind UFO sightings. |
Outnumbered |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Tuesday, 27 July 2010' |
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| Time: | 8:00pm |
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| On tonight's episode of Outnumbered, Mum and Dad try to escape the house and have a quiet meal out. But it's not easy given that their six-year-old daughter feels they're being financially irresponsible by dining out during the global financial crisis. |
Review With Myles Barlow |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Thursday, 29 July 2010' |
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| Time: | 9:30pm |
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The Reel Australia: Death In Brunswick |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Saturday, 31 July 2010' |
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| Time: | 8:30pm |
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Drinking heavily and stuck as the cook for a seedy rock club, Carl desperately hopes that a romance with Sophie, a Greek-Cypriot barmaid, will alter his luck.
Instead, the death of his drug-dealing, Turkish kitchen hand embroils him in a black comic nightmare involving an inconvenient body, a sadistic bouncer, and Sophie's Club-owner finance. |
The Goodies: Kitten Kong Special |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | '8:00pm' |
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| Time: | Monday, 26 July 2010 |
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A successful comedy series that features Graeme Garden, Bill Oddie and Tim Brooke-Taylor participating in a variety of sketches.
This episode was based on the original 1971 Goodies' Kitten Kong episode and was first broadcast in 1972. The Goodies won the Silver Rose in 1972 for this special episode at the Festival Rose d'Or held in Montreux, Switzerland. |
Jerseylicious Weekend Marathon! |
| Venue: | The Style Network |
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| Date: | 'October 30th and 31st' |
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| Time: | Saturday (12pm - 7:35pm) Sunday (1:45pm - 10:20pm) |
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beached az: The Clams |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Thursday, 29 July 2010' |
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| Time: | 9:25pm |
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A helpless whale is stranded on a New Zealand beach and is subjected to often pointless, but always comical conversations with a variety of passing wildlife.
In this second series, there's a bunch of new characters that cross his path, including a home-swapping hermit crab; koalas with a sensitivity to being called bears; and a walrus with a coconut for a best friend. |
Married to Rock |
| Venue: | E! Channel 121 on FOXTEL |
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| Date: | 'Tuesdays beginning 16th November' |
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| Time: | 10pm |
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| Married to Rock chronicles the sometimes funny and sometimes heart-breaking lives of three women who are married to Rock Stars - and one who is trying to join those ranks. |
Victorious |
| Venue: | Nickelodeon Australia |
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| Date: | 'Australian Premiere Saturday May 14th, 21st, and 28th' |
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| Time: | 7pm |
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iCarly |
| Venue: | Nickelodeon |
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| Date: | 'Fridays from October 5th' |
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| Time: | Fridays at 5:30pm |
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| The iCarly gang is back in all new episodes this October. Don't miss all the hilarious action as Sam and Gibby open a restaurant, Carly and Spencer get evicted, Freddie lands a dream job and the whole crew celebrates Halloween twice! |
Jerseylicious Season 2 |
| Venue: | The Style Network |
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| Date: | 'Thursdays' |
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| Time: | @ 8:30pm |
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| Another season of the hair-raising drama surrounding the staff and clients of a New Jersey Beauty Salon. |
United States Of Tara: You Becoming You |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday, 14 July 2010' |
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| Time: | 9:30pm |
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Grand Designs Revisited: Peterborough |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Thursday, 15 July 2010' |
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| Time: | 6:05pm |
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| John and Terri Westlake never intended to self-build. They were looking to buy a house near Peterborough, in the county of Cambridgeshire, when they came across a tumbledown cottage backing onto woodland, with great views across open countryside. |
Miracles: Miracle In The Jungle |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Thursday, 15 July 2010' |
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| Time: | 8:30pm |
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Fashion Police |
| Venue: | E! Channel 121 on FOXTEL |
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| Date: | 'Saturdays' |
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| Time: | @ 7pm |
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| A weekly half hour in which Joan Rivers and her fashion team dissect the week's celebrities, events, and of course, style, all showcasing Joan's uniquely hilarious point of view. |
Little Dorrit |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Sunday, 11 July 2010' |
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| Time: | 8:35pm |
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| The Dorrits make their triumphant departure from the Marshalsea. Mr Dorrit (Tom Courtenay) instructs Amy (Claire Foy) that her friendship with Arthur (Matthew Macfadyen) is over. He wants to leave the past, and everyone in it, behind him. |
The Turtles |
| Venue: | Nickelodeon |
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| Date: | 'Mondays from October 8th' |
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| Time: | 4:30pm |
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| Prepare to be shell-shocked this October when Nickelodeon Australia debuts the all-new, CG-animated series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles with a one-hour special event on Monday, October 8 at 4.30pm. The 26-episode, half-hour action-comedy series breathes new life into the wildly popular band of reptile brothers played by Jason Biggs (American Pie) as 'Leonardo,' Sean Astin (Lord of the Rings) as 'Raphael,' Greg Cipes (Teen Titans) as 'Michelangelo' and Rob Paulsen (Planet Sheen) as 'Donatello' (Paulsen also voiced the original 'Raphael' from 1987-1996 in the very first TMNT series). |
Catalyst and Feral Peril |
| Venue: | ABC |
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| Date: | 'Thursday, 16 July 2009 ' |
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| Time: | 8:00pm-8:30pm |
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Catalyst
8:00pm
On 16th July 1969, exactly forty years ago, Apollo 11 blasted off to the moon, where Neil Armstrong took the 'great step for mankind' of first walking on its surface. This episode of Catalyst looks back at one of man's greatest achievements and takes another look at the moon.
Feral Peril
8:30pm
Tasmania is one of the world's last great wildlife havens but its struggling native species are under threat from a feral fox invasion. Or are they? |
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