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Dora the Explorer |
| Venue: | Nick Jr. |
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| Date: | 'Saturday October 29th' |
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| Time: | 5pm |
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Deadwood: Amateur Night |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Monday 25 July 2011' |
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| Time: | 9:30PM |
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| With its unflinching realism, adult themes and wickedly inventive storylines, Deadwood is an intense, character-driven drama that takes elements of the traditional western and turns them upside down. |
Bubble Guppies |
| Venue: | Nick Jr. |
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| Date: | 'Saturday October 22nd and 23rd' |
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| Time: | 10am-12 pm |
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| Nick Jr. is diving into the bubbly world of Bubble Guppies with two new episodes and two mini marathons on Saturday October 22 & Sunday October 23, 10am - 12pm. Join Gill, Molly, Goby, Deema, Nonny, and Oona on their daily discoveries that lead games, dancing, music, jokes and loads of fun adventures. |
Cook Yourself Thin |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Monday, 25 July 2011' |
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| Time: | 7:30PM |
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| Food writer Gizzi Erskine, food stylist Harry Eastwood, food consultant Sal Henley and chef Sophie Michell are four British cooks who regularly have their cake, eat it and still manage to look good. |
SpongeBob SquarePants |
| Venue: | Nickelodeon |
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| Date: | 'Saturday October 1st' |
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| Time: | 9:30am - 5pm |
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| Come on a crazy ride with the world's favourite sea sponge; SpongeBob SquarePants, and his best friend Patrick the starfish as they try to solve the whodunnit, whereisit 'Krabby Patty recipe' mystery as only two hapless friends can! In the Australian Premiere episode, 'The Great Patty Caper' Mr. Krabs gives SpongeBob the only key to the vault holding the Krabby Patty's secret recipe, and 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? |
The Choir: Unsung Town |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Sunday, 24 July 2011' |
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| Time: | 7:30PM |
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| Having created a choir in the Hertfordshire housing estate of South Oxhey, choirmaster Gareth Malone sets out to take it places. South Oxhey suffers from a poor reputation in surrounding neighbourhoods but Gareth believes his choir can hold its own among Hertfordshire's best. |
MTV December Highlights |
| Venue: | MTV |
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| Date: | 'Thursday December 8th - Sunday December 11th' |
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Teen Mom 3: Australian Premiere Sunday December 11 @ 5pm
Flash Prank: Australian Premiere Thursday December 8 @ 9pm
199 Lives: The Travis Pastrana Story: Channel Premiere Thursday December 8 @ 9:30pm |
The Thick Of It |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Thursday, 28 July 2011' |
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| Time: | 10:30PM |
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| Clever and biting British political satire reaches a new height when Nicola Murray MP faces a crisis after just one week in the unpopular role of Secretary of State. Someone at the Department of Social Affairs and Citizenship has wiped the immigration records of 170,672 people. |
MTV Hits December Highlighs |
| Venue: | MTV Hits |
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| Date: | 'Thursday December 1st - Saturday December 31st' |
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Top 50 Hits of Summer: Channel Premiere Thursday December 1 @ 6:30pm
Top 50 Eminem and Crew: Channel Premiere Friday December 2 @ 12pm
Top 100 of 2011: Channel Premiere Saturday December 31 @ 5pm |
MTV Classic December Highlights |
| Venue: | MTV Classic |
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| Date: | 'Saturday 10th December - Saturday 24th December' |
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Foo Fighter Fest: Saturday 10 December @ 12pm
Mastered by Molly: End of Year Special: World premiere Saturday 24 December @ 12pm
Xmas Eve Karaoke: Saturday 24 December @ 8pm
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The Wildest Dream: Conquest Of Everest |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Sunday, 21 August 2011' |
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| Time: | 8:30PM |
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| Mount Everest - twenty-nine thousand feet - the highest point on Earth - captivating and deadly. |
INSIGHT: Accidental Addicts |
| Venue: | SBS ONE. |
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| Date: | 'Tuesday 31st July' |
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| Time: | 8.30pm |
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Prescriptions for some pain-killers and anti-anxiety medications have jumped alarmingly over the past decade, particularly for the drugs Oxycontin and Xanax.
The medications are very effective. Scores of people use them successfully to alleviate excruciating pain after a car accident, or to dampen crippling feelings of anxiety and panic. |
Camp Orange |
| Venue: | Nickelodeon |
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| Date: | 'Tuesdays' |
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| Time: | 5pm |
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Nickelodeon enjoyed record ratings for the premiere of its award-winning local production Camp Orange: Castle Mountain on Tuesday night, which featured brand new comedic hosts Luke & Wyatt, and a surprise visit from The Commando (Biggest Loser), who dropped in to advise the kids to "play nice or pay the price".
The first episode of Castle Mountain garnered its biggest audience ever for a Camp Orange premiere, reaching almost 80,000 people - and the episode maintained its viewers with an average Time Spent Viewing of 28 minutes amongst 5-12 year olds. |
Mountain Gorilla: Safe In Our Hands |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Sunday, 19 June 2011' |
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| Time: | 7:30PM |
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| In this final episode meet the youngest and most vulnerable of the mountain gorilla population, including the two orphans whose mothers were callously murdered in execution-style killings: the young female battling with new emotions, and the new gorilla king struggling to keep hold of the group he fought so hard to win. |
50 Years Four Corners |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Monday, 22 August 2011' |
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| Time: | 8:30PM |
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| On Monday 22 August, Four Corners will celebrate 50 years on air with a special program that highlights the power and the passion of television current affairs journalism. |
Inspector George Gently: Gently Evil |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Sunday, 19 June 2011' |
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| Time: | 8:30PM |
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| Martin Shaw returns for series three as the classic unsung hero detective in Inspector George Gently, with two feature-length films written by Peter Flannery (The Devil's Whore, Our Friends In The North) and Jimmy Gardner (The Cops, This Life). |
MTV Hits January Highlights |
| Venue: | MTV Hits |
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MTV Hits Top 10 Ones to Watch in 2012: Channel Premiere Tuesday 10th January @ 5:30pm
Top 50 Holiday Hits: Channel Premiere Thursday 26th January @ 10:30am
10 Biggest Tracks Right Now: Monday-Thursday @ 4:30pm |
The Avengers |
| Venue: | ABC3 |
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| Date: | 'Tuesday,8 March 2011' |
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| Time: | 7:10AM |
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| When the planet is threatened by Super Villains, and when the forces of evil are so overwhelming that no single hero has the power to save the world, when there is no hope left... the AVENGERS assemble! |
Time Team |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Monday, 20 June 2011' |
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| Time: | 6:00PM |
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| Episode Eleven - The quiet village of Litlington in Cambridgeshire gets the full Time Team treatment as Tony Robinson and the digging team hunt for the missing remains of one of Britain's biggest Roman villas. |
Fake Or Fortune?: Monet |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Tuesday, 23 August 2011' |
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| Time: | 8:30PM |
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| Journalist Fiona Bruce teams up with art expert Philip Mould to investigate mysteries behind paintings. It is a world of subterfuge and intrigue as they grapple with complex battles often unseen beneath the apparently genteel art establishment. Their sleuthing takes them from New York to Cairo and Cape Town as they unpick clues behind stolen and contested works of art, and unmask the work of a master forger along the way. |
MTV Classic January Highlights |
| Venue: | MTV Classic |
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On The Record: Australian Premier Sunday 8th January @ 9pm
Classic Men: Saturday and Sunday 7th and 8th January @ 12pm
Top 200 Greatest Albums of All Time: Sunday 1st January @ 8am |
The Young Ones |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Tuesday, 21 June 2011' |
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| Time: | 8:30PM |
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| What if it were possible to turn back time? Could it be that we all have the power to think ourselves young again? That's the extraordinary claim of an experiment first conducted 30 years ago which the BBC is now re-staging. |
Riese: Hunt |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Friday, 20 May 2011' |
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| Time: | 9:15PM |
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| In a faraway land, Eleysia, a young princess named Riese is fleeing for her life. |
Tuesday, 23 August 2011 |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Tuesday, 23 August 2011' |
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| Time: | 9:35PM |
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| Welcome to the QI zoo for this week's episode all about animals that start with the letter H. Joining QI Master Stephen Fry are panellists Sean Lock, Ross Noble, Ruby Wax and Alan Davies. |
MTV January Highlights |
| Venue: | MTV |
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| Date: | '16th - 31st of January' |
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Death Valley: Australian Premiere Tuesday 31st January @ 9:30pm
When I was 17 Season 3: Australian Premiere Monday 16th January @ 4:30pm
Chelsea Settles: Australian Premiere Sunday 22nd January @ 6pm
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Three Boys Dreaming |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Tuesday, February 1st ' |
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| Time: | 8.30pm |
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QI: Espionage |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Tuesday, 21 June 2011' |
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| Time: | 9:25PM |
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| Welcome to QI Spy, where tonight's code word is Espionage. Joining QI master Stephen Fry are undercover man Clive Anderson, Counterintelligence Operative Vic Reeves, Special Agent Jo Brand and spy in the ointment Alan Davies. |
The Tribe |
| Venue: | ABC3 |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday, 18 August 2010' |
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| Time: | 7:35pm |
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| The series follows a group of teenagers searching for answers about a deadly virus that has wiped out all the adults on earth. With no adults to guide, rule or protect them, the children of the world are on their own. Living in a world of anarchy, confusion, danger and fear the children must do all they can to survive. The series begins with the city being invaded by the Techno's, a new and much more advanced tribe. |
The Legend Of Dick And Dom |
| Venue: | ABC3 |
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| Date: | 'Monday, 16 August 2010' |
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| Time: | 7:05pm |
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| The Legend of Dick and Dom is an adventure-comedy that features magic and monsters galore. Set in the year 1207, it follows the princes of Fyredor in Bottom World, Princes Dick (Richard McCourt) and Dom (Dominic Wood). The city of Fyredor is a happy place - or at least it used to be. |
Russian Standard Vodka Live At The Chapel for 2011: Eskimo Joe and PNAU |
| Venue: | Channel GO! |
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| Date: | 'December 4th, 2011' |
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Outback 8 |
| Venue: | ABC3 |
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| Date: | 'Thursday, 19 August 2010' |
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| Time: | 6:30pm |
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| Eight children, from Australia and the UK, are taken to the Australian outback, a place where kids lend a hand as soon as they can ride a horse or care for animals. How difficult would it be for a modern child to cope with outback life away from modern technologies? Could they endure the physicality of the bush? The kids have been taken to Longreach, Queensland where they will attend Australia's oldest agricultural college. |
Movie: Once Upon A Time In The West |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Saturday, 21 August 2010' |
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| Time: | 8:30pm |
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| The railroad is pushing deep into the Western wilderness and Brett McBain knows the route it will have to follow. He buys up this useless desert land, builds a ranch and waits for his new wife, Jill, whom he secretly married in New Orleans. But Frank, a brutal gunman working for the railroad also sees the value of the land and an easy way to get it. |
The Goodies: The Winter Olympics |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Monday, 16 August 2010' |
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| Time: | 8:05pm |
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Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie are The Goodies and never has there been such a dynamic trio.
In this episode, the Minister of Sport (Peter Jones) is unable to find anything like a winning team so he recruits the Goodies to represent Britain at the Winter Olympics
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Review With Myles Barlow |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Thursday, 19 August 2010' |
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| Time: | 9:45pm |
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| The Critic. By giving us impressions of their experiences, critics can prepare us for certain life encounters before we commit to them ourselves. They help us navigate a seemingly endless maze of food, wine, literature, music, film, art, travel - the list is vast. But not entirely comprehensive. Until now... |
Mister Maker |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Thursday, 19 August 2010' |
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| Time: | 2:45pm |
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Five Weddings Five Funeral |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday, 18 August 2010' |
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| Time: | 9:30pm |
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| Dubbed The Black Widow, Betty Neumar is either the unluckiest widow in the world, cursed by a series of gruesome coincidences, or a cold and calculating killer. |
Paparazzi: Next Generation |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Paparazzi: Next Generation Wednesday, 18 August 2010' |
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| Time: | 8:30pm |
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| A new breed of paparazzi is swarming around London's celebrity circuit and they're hungry, aggressive and competitive. |
The Trail Of Genghis Khan: No Place for Nomads |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday, 18 August 2010' |
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| Time: | 8:00pm |
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| Inspired by the nomads of Mongolia whose ancestors created the largest empire in history, Australian adventurer Tim Cope set out alone to ride by horse from Mongolia, 10,000kms across the great Eurasian steppe to Hungary. |
Deadwood |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Tuesday, 17 August 2010' |
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| Time: | 9:30pm |
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Swimming: IPC World Championships 2010 |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Monday, 16 August 2010' |
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| Time: | 6:30pm |
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| Throughout the world swimming is the number one solo sport among people with a disability. ABC TV will screen a daily highlights package of the 2010 IPC Swimming World Championships from Eindhoven, Netherlands. |
Carmen And Geoffrey |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Sunday, 15 August 2010' |
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| Time: | 7:30pm |
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| American artists, Carmen de Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder stepped forward in the 1950s to play a vital part in the newly energised worlds of modern dance and have enjoyed a 47-year marriage and creative partnership that has sustained their accomplishments. |
Artscape: Annie Liebovitz In Conversation With Virginia Trioli |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Tuesday, 21 June 2011' |
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| Time: | 9:55PM |
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| In Conversation with Virginia Trioli features revealing, in-depth interviews with icons of the arts. |
Poh's Kitchen on the road |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday, 24 August 2011' |
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| Time: | 8:00PM |
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| Poh's on the road clocking up some fantastic food experiences - some definitively not for the faint-hearted |
Style Channel December Highlights |
| Venue: | Style Network |
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The O'Neals: Wednesdays, starting December 7th @ 8:30pm
Docu-series following father and daughter acting dynasty, Ryan and Tatum O'Neal, as they reclaim their relationship after over 25 years of estrangement. Ryan and Tatum find themselves in family therapy, where deep and complex resentments surface. Through all the humour and heartache, a new understanding is delicately built, and they re-kindle the dynamic that made them Hollywood darlings. Through this intimate expose of a famous family;s dysfunction, we watch the O;Neals; last chance for reconciliation.
Clean House New York Australian TV Premiere: Mondays, starting December 5th @ 6:30pm
Each week, the Clean House team helps families in messy homes by exploring the underlying causes of the clutter, removing the mess, selling it at a yard sale and using the profits to make over the overwhelmed spaces.
Momster of the Bride: Friday, December 2nd and 9th @ 8:30pm & 9:00pm
A half-hour series, following a bride and her very opinionated mother as they plan all the details of the wedding day, without trying to kill each other in the process.
Style Exposed: Sperm Donor: 74 Kids and More: Friday, December 16th @ 8:30pm
Follow Ben, a former sperm donor, on his journey to meet the 70+ children his donations have created. Additionally, Adrienne and Karis, half-sisters from a separate donor, reunite.
How Do I Look? Season 12: Thursdays @ 7:30pm
In the twelfth season of How Do I Look, Jeannie Mai will tackle the most challenging fashion victims ever. She will take 20 deserving ladies from drab to fab all while changing lives from the inside out.
How Do I Look? Worst Dressed in America: Thursday, December 22nd @ 6:30pm
HDIL travels the country in search of the worst dressed in America. Jeannie and her team scour the nation for the most awesomely atrocious clothing challenged. We will highlight the 'runners up' in their respective cities with on site reveals and ambush our 'worst dressed' and bring them back to the heart of Hollywood to have the makeover of the year.
Glam Fairy: Thursdays @ 8:30pm
Jersey's hottest make-up artist Alexa Prisco transforms everyday women into glamazons in this spin-off series.
Wicked Fit: Tuesdays @ 8:30pm
With her no-nonsense attitude and brash personality, Katie Boyd trains pageant contenders and everyday women at her growing boutique gym in Boston.
Videofashion News: Monday - Friday @ 5:30pm
If it's making waves in fashion, Videofashion News is covering it. From the catwalks to the sidewalks and everywhere in between, Videofashion News tracks designer collections, the designers themselves, the models, and the behind-the-scenes celebrities of the fashion universe at shows, parties, and other cool-kids-only events.
Giuliana and Bill Marathon: Saturday, December 24th from 11:30am - 10:00pm
Tia and Tamera Marathon: Sunday, December 25th from 12:30pm - 9:00pm
Jerseylicious Marathon: Monday, December 26th from 12:30pm - 6:30pm
Wicked Fit Marathon: Tuesday, December 27th from 3:30pm - 9:30pm
The O'Neals Marathon: Wednesday, December 28th from 5:30pm - 9:30pm
Glam Fairy Marathon: Thursday, December 29th from 1:30pm - 9:30pm
Big Rich Texas Marathon: Friday, December 30th from 12:30pm - 9:30pm
How Do I Look? Marathon: Saturday, December 31st from 12:30pm - 9:00pm |
The Backyardigans |
| Venue: | Nick Jr. |
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| Date: | 'Weekdays from October 4' |
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| Time: | at 3.35pm |
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Camp Orange: Wrong Town |
| Venue: | Nickelodeon Australia |
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| Date: | ' July 19 - August 16' |
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| Time: | Every Tuesday at 5pm |
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| Nickelodeon's most gross, most shocking, most WRONG season Camp Orange ever continues in August, with the finale on August 16 revealing which team will win the coveted title of Champ Orange. |
Planet Sheen |
| Venue: | Nickelodeon Australia |
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| Date: | 'Monday August 1 ' |
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| Time: | 4.30pm |
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| Planet Sheen is the intergalactic tale of Sheen Guevera Estevez, the hyperactive, attention span-challenged kid from Nickelodeon's hit movie and animation series Jimmy Neutron who finds himself on a planet a million light-years from Earth. |
Poh's Kitchen |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday, 25 August 2010' |
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| Time: | 6:30pm |
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| This week Poh has a Russian theme happening in her kitchen. During these colder months of the year, she is a sucker for a good winter soup and dumplings and is making her version of Pirozhki and Borscht. Poh's Pirozhki are baked and filled with a sensational filling of cabbage, mushroom, carrot, chicken and pork mince. |
Catalyst: Australian Museum Eureka Prizes |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Thursday, 26 August 2010' |
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| Time: | 8:00pm |
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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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