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My Place: 1798 Sam

Venue:ABC3
Date:'Sunday, 21 August 2011'
Time:5PM
Sam is a child convict, arrested in London for stealing a jacket. Now, having lived his whole life in towns and cities, he's been sent to an isolated farm on the edge of the bush. Keen to impress, Sam tells his new master, Mr Owen, that he knows all about farming.

Momster Of The Bride

Venue:Style Channel: Channel 122
Date:'December 2nd and 9th, 2011'
Time:8:30pm
From the surprise proposal to walking down the aisle, brides relish making the important decisions that will ensure a magical wedding. That is, until one frustrating and even infuriating roadblock gets in the way - her meddling mother! On Style's all-new two-part event, 'Momster of the Bride,' cameras follow brides-to-be and their domineering mums as they battle for control of the big day.

Viewers get a sneak peek into the complicated dynamics that exist between mother and daughter while trying to pull off one of the most important events in both their lives. Will mum prove that it's her wedding to plan as much as it is her daughter's? Or will the bride win the test of wills to create a glorious event based on her own vision? A bridezilla is nothing compared to the 'Momster of the Bride' when Style premieres part one on Friday, December 2 with two episodes back-to-back.

Even Stevens: Stevens Genes

Venue:ABC3
Date:'Tuesday, 23 August 2011'
Time:3.30PM
Starring a young Shia LeBeouf as Louis, the comedy series Even Stevens follows Louis as he tries to shine through the shadow of his successful family. His family are over-achievers: his dad's a big-time lawyer; his mum's a state senator; his big brother's an all-star athlete and his big sister Ren (Christy Romano) is, well, a model student, citizen, neighbour... you name it.

AAA: Splendour in the Grass

Venue:MTV Channel 124
Date:'Saturday 13 August '
Time:10.30pm
AAA: Splendour in the Grass will be an Access All Areas pass to Splendour in the Grass, where viewers will be able to see not only what it's like to attend Australia's greatest festival, but also to see it from the point of view of some of the talented artists performing there, including Warpaint, Foster The People and Kaiser Chiefs.

Tune in for an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at the artists' experience of the event, from deciding on set lists through to pre-and post-show rituals.

Rove to Present an ASTRA Award

Venue:Sydney Theatre in Walsh Bay
Date:'Thursday 21st July '
The ASTRA Awards are back in 2011 to be held at the acclaimed Sydney Theatre in Walsh Bay. With finalists announced yesterday, the ASTRA Awards are delighted to reveal that Rove McManus will fly home to participate in the event and David Speers of SKY NEWS will return to the ceremony that he hosted last year.

Ice Loves Coco

Venue:E! Channel 121 on FOXTEL
Date:'Sunday, July 10th'
Time:10:30
This week, Coco launches her new business venture, Licious clothing line, while Ice trains Spartacus (the couple's bulldog) for his first acting job.

Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards 2010

Venue:Nickelodeon Australia and The Entertainment Centre, Sydney
Date:'Friday, October 8th'
Time:7pm
Nominations are open at Nickelodeon.com.au

Who will be this year's kids' choice for Fave TV Star, Fave Movie Star, Fave Song or Awesome Aussie?

Gardening Australia

Venue:ABC1
Date:'Saturday, 6 August 2011'
Time:6:30PM
Indigenous presenter Clarence Slockee visits a local primary school and helps the pupils start their new garden, while Jane Edmanson visits Victoria's oldest native plant garden to look for her favourites for winter colour.

2011 MTV EMA

Venue:MTV Australia
Date:'Monday 7th of November, 2011'
Time:3pm
Featuring: Coldplay, Jessie J, LMFAO, Snow Patrol, Jason Derulo, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Selena Gomez!

Horrible Histories

Venue:ABC3
Date:'Wednesday, 22 June 2011'
Time:6:25PM
Based on the best-selling book series by Terry Deary, Horrible Histories is an energetic, surprising and unconventional take on history's most gruesome, unpleasant yet funniest moments. From the Savage Stone Age right up to World War II, via Rotten Romans, Terrible Tudors, Vile Victorians and the all-new Incredible Incas and Awesome USA, history has never been so naughty!

Grand Designs: Stowmarket

Venue:ABC1
Date:'Sunday, 31 July 2011'
Time:7:30PM
Simon Bennett and his wife Jill gave up a life abroad to return to Simon's home county of Suffolk. They bought two timber framed barns ripe for conversion, but barely was the ink dry on the contract of sale before they discovered one wasn't quite what it seemed. The smaller building they'd taken to be a dilapidated cowshed turned out to be one of the smallest surviving medieval Guildhalls in the UK, and of national importance.

Stay Tuned: Album Covers

Venue:ABC3
Date:'Friday, 24 June 2011'
Time:8:00PM
Access all areas of the music industry during the hottest online and on-air interactive music show, Stay Tuned. Hosts Joel Phillips and Nicole Singh do whatever it takes to hook you up with the answers to viewers' music-related questions while treating your ears to some new tunes.

Wonders of the Universe: Falling

Venue:ABC1
Date:'Tuesday, 2 August 2011'
Time:8:30PM
In the third episode of this groundbreaking series, Professor Brian Cox takes on the story of the force that sculpts the entire universe - gravity.

QI: Hanatomy

Venue:ABC1
Date:'Tuesday, 2 August 2011'
Time:9:35PM
Welcome to this week's QI 'Hanatomy' lesson where the panel are discussing heads, hands, hips, hearts and indeed any other part of the body beginning with H. Joining QI Master Stephen Fry are four prime specimens of the human body - Alan Davies, Bill Bailey, Gyles Brandreth and Sue Perkins.

Insight: Eating Animals

Venue:SBS ONE
Date:'Tuesday, 9 August'
Time:7.30pm
From foie gras to kangaroo, whale meat to shark-fin soup, dinner dishes and
delicacies have long been the subject of heated debate. What's fine in one
country can be considered shocking in others, depending on your cultural, ethical or religious beliefs.

The Gruen Transfer

Venue:ABC1
Date:'Wednesday, 3 August 2011'
Time:9:00PM
The Gruen Transfer returns...
...because we've been away long enough and really, because we've missed you. And there's so much to catch up on: crazy mining ads, Big Tobacco campaigns, gambling messages invading every sport program on TV, the social media monster of Vodafail, NAB pretending it has no friends...

Judith Lucy's Spiritual Journey: Nothing

Venue:ABC1
Date:'Wednesday, 3 August 2011'
Time:9:30PM
As a young theatre arts student in 1980s Perth, Judith's faith is diminishing rapidly. Dropping out of uni, she moves to Melbourne, becomes a stand-up comedian, abandons the church and finds a new religion - booze!

Restoration Man: Bath Lodge

Venue:ABC1
Date:'Thursday, 4th August 2011'
Time:6:00PM
Architect George Clarke works with romantics who have bought one of the thousands of forgotten building gems in the UK that are rotting, neglected and tied up with development red tape, to turn it into a unique home.

Crownies

Venue:ABC1
Date:'Thursday, 4 August 2011'
Time:8:30PM
Tatum (Indiana Evans) deals with a case of criminally transmitted HIV, and discovers that the area is a legal and social minefield. She also discovers that internet access has been blocked for all those under suspicion of leaking the AG memo. That night, Tatum's father Danny (Marcus Graham) is appalled when she tells him of the treatment of those under suspicion of leaking the file. It's not the way he'd do business.

Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands

Venue:ABC1
Date:'Thursday, 4 August 2011'
Time:9:30PM
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Hustle

Venue:ABC1
Date:'Friday, 5th August 2011'
Time:9:30PM
The team is in deep trouble when a con goes wrong and they're left with a priceless diamond necklace. The famous Josephine necklace was given to Empress Josephine by Napoleon on their 10th anniversary, but recently stolen to order at the behest of millionaire recluse Toby Baxter, who is determined to complete his coveted collection, at any cost.

The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency: A Real Botswana Diamond

Venue:ABC1
Date:'Sunday, 6 November 2011'
Time:8:30pm
The detective agency is hit by a string of break-ins and Grace is left to inspect the damage while Precious attends to an unexpected and unnerving visitor from her past.

Compass: Life's Big Questions: Di Fingleton

Venue:ABC1
Date:'Sunday, 6 November 2011'
Time:10:00pm
What makes a good life? Why are we here? Is there a God? Whether you believe or not, many of us search for answers...

Silent Witness: Lost: Part 2

Venue:ABC1
Date:'Friday, 5 August 2011'
Time:8:30PM
Although the autopsy on Kelly Summers confirms a copycat killing, using her profiling skills Janet suggests that the 1980s murders, the bog body and Kelly Summer's murder have all been carried out by the same person, implying that Karl Bentley may have been wrongly convicted


The Fifth Annual Guys Choice Awards

Venue:Movie Extra
Date:'Saturday 9 July, 2011'
Time:8.30pm
The star-studded event will bring together Hollywood's hottest leading ladies, premier action stars and standout comedians to honour the most 'man-tastic' achievements of 2011. Not your usual award ceremony, The Guys Choice Awards presents a host of unique accolades with categories including Biggest Ass Kicker and Best Girl on Girl Scene.

Bill's Tasty Weekends: Layer Marney, Essex

Venue:ABC1
Date:'Friday, 5 August 2011'
Time:6:00PM
Australian chef Bill Granger, celebrates his move to England by spending the summer weekends staying in some of the country's tastiest retreats. He's off to discover the beauty of the UK's countryside and coast, seeking out locations known only to an enlightened few. These are gastronomic breaks with a difference, and Bill is cooking up a storm for his family and friends using the fresh local produce. And to get the very best produce Bill will have to get his hands dirty - he might have to dig potatoes, fish for sardines or dive for scallops.

Breathing Fire: Secret Weapon of the Somme

Venue:ABC1
Date:'Monday, 7 November 2011'
Time:6:00pm
Ebullient presenter Tony Robinson and a team of experts travel to a famous World War 1 battlefield in northern France to search for a top secret tunnel and a 60-foot flame thrower lost for almost a century.

The Trophy Room's Australia Day Special

Venue:ABC1
Date:'Wednesday, January 26th'
Time:8.30pm
Hosted by Australia's most affable armchair athlete, Peter Helliar, - grab a lamington - the games begin at 8.30pm on ABC1.

Wednesday's special guests include: Lauren Jackson (Olympic basketballer - Australia's best all-time female player), Lee Kernaghan (Singer/Aust of Year 2008), Tom Gleeson (Comedian)and Rebecca DeUnamuno (Comedian).

Vampire Knight

Date:'Weeknights from Monday 28th March'
Time:8:00pm
Cross Academy is attended by two groups of students: the Day Class and the Night Class. At twilight, when the students of the Day Class return to their dorm, they cross paths with the Night Class on their way to school. Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are the Guardians of the school, there to protect the Day Class from the Academy's dark secret: the Night Class is full of vampires.

The Avengers

Venue:ABC3
Date:'Weekdays from Tuesday 8th March'
Time:7:10am
If you want to stop a mugger or a bank robber, call Spider-Man. If some weird other dimension has opened up in Times Square, call the Fantastic Four. If a child wakes up one day and is sneezing electricity call the X-Men.

But if the planet is threatened by Super villains, time travelling conquerors, alien invaders, mythical beasts or robots bent on total destruction of humanity, if the forces of evil are so overwhelming that no single hero has the power to save the world, when there is no hope left...you assemble The Avengers - Ironman, Thor, Ant-Man, Wasp and the Incredible Hulk. The Avengers are the best of the best in the Marvel Universe, the greatest heroes who take on the unbeatable foes. On their shoulders rests the fate of the world.

What Do You Know?

Venue:ABC3
Date:'Weeknights'
Time:7.10pm
What Do You Know? Is a fun, irreverent game show where the contestants, aged between 12-15 years old, are placed in two teams of three. Each team has a captain who has a real passion for a topic of their choice - be it Bollywood dancing, whales, soccer, Italian cooking or a love of birds. The rest of the team is the 'brain trust' with strengths in topics such as history, sport and pop culture. Hosted by Studio 3's roving reporter, Ben Crawley this game show will also feature some cool beats spun by resident DJ, Dr Rhythm.

The Private Life Of: Chickens

Venue:ABC1
Date:'Tuesday, 8 November 2011'
Time:6:00pm
Farmer Jimmy Doherty reveals the hidden lives of farmyard animals which are so taken for granted. He visits a farm in Devon to investigate the humble chicken and find out what goes on inside their bird brains.

Midsomer Murders: Echoes Of The Dead

Venue:ABC1
Date:'Sunday, 31 July 2011'
Time:8:30PM
A 23-year-old woman is drowned in a bath, wrapped in net curtains and made to look like a bride. A chilling lipstick message is written on the mirror. She wears a ring and a bouquet of cheap flowers is placed on the toilet seat - but murder victim Dianne Price had no plans to marry.

Rome Wasn't Built In A Day

Venue:ABC1
Date:'Tuesday, 8 November 2011'
Time:8:30pm
The final push is on to get the Roman villa completed before the winter weather sets in making building impossible. But there are problems. The plaster in the showpiece main room won't set, so the painting of the frescoes can't begin.

United States Of Tara: Chicken 'n' Corn

Venue:ABC1
Date:'Tuesday, 8 November 2011'
Time:9:30pm
A scare at a local corn maze prompts Tara (Toni Collette) to transition into Chicken and run off, only to be found crying by Noah (Aaron Christian Howles). When Marshall's (Keir Gilchrist) film gets accepted into the New York High School Film Festival, Marshall asks Max (John Corbett) to escort him to New York but there's only one problem: Max is deathly afraid of flying. En route to New York, Kate escorts Max and Marshall to St. Louis, where they are introduced to Evan (Keir O'Donnell) and his unruly son, prompting Kate (Brie Larson) to question her commitment to Evan.

Artscape: Ballroom Rules

Venue:ABC1
Date:'Tuesday, 8 November 2011'
Time:9:55pm
Ballroom dancing is the ultimate traditional sport. With a reputation for being overtly heterosexual and inflexible rules that bar same-sex couples from competitions, it should be the last sport on earth in which gay men and lesbians would participate. But at a small studio in Melbourne a passionate group of same sex ballroom dancers is defying the rules.

Country House Rescue: Heath House

Venue:ABC1
Date:'Wednesday, 9 November 2011'
Time:6:00pm
This week Ruth is in Staffordshire at the Heath House. John Philip's family have lived on the estate since the 16th century, and the house has stood since 1840. John and wife Flavia took over the property on his mother's death, but now in their 70s they are finding the property, along with over 480 acres of land, a financial and physical drain.

Poh's Kitchen on the road

Venue:ABC1
Date:'Wednesday, 9 November 2011'
Time:8:00pm
While Poh loves to bake a cake, what she loves even more is to decorate it and this week she's on the road to Perth to meet Rochelle Adonis, a woman who has decorated cakes for clients like the British and Saudi royal families. Inspired by Rochelle's beautiful work, Poh decorates a wedding cake using her own hand-made sugar flowers to produce a truly stunning cake any bride would be delighted to have.

Connor Undercover: The Eye Of Cordoba

Venue:ABC3
Date:'Sunday, 20 February 2011'
Time:2:00PM
Connor Undercover follows the exciting life of Connor Heath (Max Morrow), a 15-year-old spy-buff, whose life kicks into overdrive the day Gisela (Lola Tash), the first daughter of a small island nation, shows up to live with his family. But even though she was sent there to escape growing dangers back home, intrigue and mystery followed her anyway. So now, action-packed stories with bodyguards, spies, moles, choppers and chase scenes aren't just part of Connor's favourite movies - they're part of his life!

Degrassi: The Next Generation: Weddings, Parties, Anything

Venue:ABC3
Date:'Monday, 21 February 2011'
Time:8:35PM
Now in series 5, Emma (Miriam McDonald), the teenage daughter of Degrassi Junior High alumnus Spike, (Amanda Stepto) and her schoolmates encounter the same pressures, temptations and issues that their parents' generation did.
Degrassi: The Next Generation explores the issues affecting teens as they struggle between being kids and being adults - be it a first kiss, coming to terms with new siblings in a recently blended family, or deciding whether or not to cheat on that French test.

The Super Hero Squad Show

Venue:ABC3
Date:'Thursday, 24 February 2011'
Time:7:10AM
The Super Hero Squad is back and there is a new villain in town - Thanos! Iron Man and his squad of the best heroes around (Wolverine, Hulk, Thor, Falcon, and Captain America) battle it out with Thanos to try and stop him from unleashing his Infinity Gauntlet and wreaking havoc across the Universe! Can Iron Man lead the squad to victory again?

My Place: 1828 Alice

Venue:ABC3
Date:'Sunday, 31 July 2011'
Time:5PM
When Alice's father, Sam, declares a half day picnic for the workers, Alice and George propose a pig race between their pigs, Wilhelmina and Benny, as part of the entertainment. Alice's siblings, Maryann and Little Sam, enter a third pig in the race, a lumbering old sow named Oink.

Mastercrafts: Stonemasonry

Venue:ABC1
Date:'Thursday, 10 November 2011'
Time:6:00pm
Monty looks at stonemasonry. Carpenter Nigel Woodford, 45, electrical testing engineer Simon Tack, 40, and art and design tutor Suzanne Jones, 39, take up their places as passionate amateurs in the shadow of a stately Elizabethan home - Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire.

Horrible Histories

Venue:ABC3
Date:'Weekdays from Monday,1 August 2011'
Time:6.25PM
Series three of Horrible Histories, the award-winning historical comedy series, welcomes you to the world of the Rotten Romans, Awesome Egyptians, Vicious Vikings, the Terrible Tudors, the Fabulous French and the Angry Aztecs.

Monkey Thieves: Return Of The Rebel

Venue:ABC2
Date:'Saturday, 27 August 2011'
Time:7:00PM
The exiled Galta monkey gang member Zamir nurses his grudge against the tribe and sets out to acquire a new troop so he has enough support to take them on.

QI: Hocus Pocus

Venue:ABC1
Date:'Thursday, 10 November 2011'
Time:8:00pm
This week QI has conjured up a Christmas special heaving with magic as tonight's episode is all about 'Hocus Pocus'. Joining QI master Stephen Fry are panellists Graham Norton, Lee Mack, Daniel Radcliffe and Alan Davies.

In Real Life

Venue:ABC3
Date:'Weekdays from Tuesday, 2 August 2011'
Cooler experiences, more drama and crazier twists make for an exciting second season of In Real Life, the 20-part adventure series on ABC3.

Valemont

Venue:ABC2
Date:'Tuesday, 23 August 2011'
Time:10:20PM
Valemont University is like any other exclusive Massachusetts college. Rich students. Excellent faculty. Impressive alumni.

The Slap: Manolis

Venue:ABC1
Date:'Thursday, 10 November 2011'
Time:8:30pm
As a man approaching the end of his life, Manolis hates what the slap is doing to his family. His wife is full of vitriol, Hector and Aisha are being torn apart by their split loyalties, and Aisha, furious with Harry, will have nothing to do with the family. When Manolis notices Hector still harbouring resentment towards Harry after the court case, he tries to reach out to him, but Hector rejects his efforts. Hector, as always, is consumed with his own problems. He's getting anonymous text messages calling him a rapist.

Catalyst and Feral Peril

Venue:ABC
Date:'Thursday, 16 July 2009 '
Time:8:00pm-8:30pm
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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