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The Day The Immigrants Left |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday, 4 May 2011' |
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| Time: | 9:30PM |
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| An audacious social experiment was carried out at a British market town in Cambridgeshire, where 11 immigrants were temporarily removed from their jobs and the work given to unemployed locals. |
The Tudors |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Friday, 6 May 2011' |
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| Time: | 9:30PM |
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| As Katherine (Maria Doyle Kennedy) nears death, Anne (Natalie Dormer) is obsessed with her own future. Though George Boleyn (Padraic Delaney) cautions against doing anything to cause Katherine harm, Anne makes it clear to Henry (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) that she sees her as a threat. Meanwhile, Cromwell (James Fraine), Cranmer (Hans Matheson), and Boleyn (Nick Dunning) push for religious houses' wealth to be confiscated and transferred to the crown. Then, at Cramner's wife's urging, Cromwell enlists an army of mercenaries from France to forcibly rid the kingdom of Catholicism. |
Meet the Natives USA: The Cowboy People |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Saturday, 7 May 2011' |
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| Time: | 7:30PM |
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| For years, anthropologists have travelled to the South Pacific to live with local tribespeople and observe their traditional ways of life. |
Swingtown |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Monday, 2 May 2011' |
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| Time: | 8:30PM |
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| Swingtown is a world where three mid-western couples wade into the rising waters of sexual freedom that swept America during the mid-1970s. |
Deadwood: Amalgamation And Capital |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Monday, 2 May 2011' |
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| Time: | 9:30PM |
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| Eagar for the latest news from Yankton, Swearengen (Ian McShane) enlists Farnum (William Sanderson) to keep tabs on Blazanov and his telegrams, and admonishes Merrick (Jeffrey Jones) for over-hyping the Montana rumours in his paper. |
Bananas In Pyjamas The Magic Trick |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Monday, 2 May 2011' |
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| Time: | 8:00AM |
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The long running and phenomenally successful Bananas In Pyjamas
is set for another landmark in May with the debut of a new animated series. |
New Time Slot For Pre-School Programming |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Monday, 2 May 2011' |
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| From May 2, ABC1's morning children's programs will be replaced by ABC News Breakfast. The move allows ABC2 to extend its children's pre-school programming to 13 hours airing daily from 6am-7pm. |
Grand Designs: Stowmarket |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Sunday, 24 July 2011' |
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| Time: | 7:30PM |
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| 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. |
Hustle |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Friday, 12 August 2011' |
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| Time: | 9:30PM |
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| Caught out while posing as lawyers, the team is placed in an awkward position when they are asked to help save community centre The Pulse, which is under threat of demolition. The centre's manager Lennie (Roger Griffiths) has been betrayed by ruthless local MP Rhona Christie (Kate Fleetwood), who negotiated the building's sale in a dirty development deal. The grifters are quick to spot the potential for a mark in the midst of the questionable goings on. |
Grand Designs: Isle Of Wight |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Sunday, 3 July 2011' |
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| Time: | 7:30PM |
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| Design expert Kevin McCloud returns with a new series of Grand Designs, the series that charts the process of ambitious design and building projects in the UK. Kevin follows the projects from the initial details of architectural drawings and planning, to the long and often arduous task of turning the designs into dream homes. |
Silent Witness: First Casualty: Part 1 |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Friday, 12 August 2011' |
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| Time: | 8:30PM |
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| Forensic pathologists Professor Leo Dalton (William Gaminara), Dr Harry Cunningham (Tom Ward) and Dr Nikki Alexander (Emilia Fox) return for another series of Silent Witness. |
iCarly |
| Venue: | Nickelodeon |
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| Date: | 'Fridays from Monday July 6th' |
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| Time: | 5:30pm |
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Nick brings kids four fantastic new episodes of number one show iCarly every Friday in July, including a special episode featuring hit boy band ONE DIRECTION!
iCarly's 'iGo One Direction' episode guest starring One Direction will screen on Tuesday July 24 at 4:30pm. |
How Sex Works: Playing The Field |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Friday, 20th July 2012' |
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| Time: | 9:30pm |
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| The second episode of the series looks at the highs and lows of different tales of sexual adventure as they happen. New scientific insight is revealed as to why humans crave and enjoy sex and the chemicals that influence the choices we make. |
QI: England |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Tuesday, 5 July 2011' |
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| Time: | 9:25PM |
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| Joining QI master Stephen Fry for tonight's 'E' themed episode devoted to England, are panellists Sean Lock, Charlie Higson, Phill Jupitus and Alan Davies. |
Bill's Tasty Weekends |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Friday, 12 August 2011' |
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| Time: | 6:00PM |
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| 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. |
House of Anubis Season 2 |
| Venue: | Nickelodeon |
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| Date: | 'Weekdays from Monday May 7th' |
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| Time: | 5:30pm |
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New Students. New Secrets. New Season.
House of Anubis returns exclusively to Nickelodeon in a one hour premiere special, Monday May 7th at 5:30pm then airs every weekday afternoon at 5:30pm. |
Bubble Guppies |
| Venue: | Nick Jr. |
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| Date: | 'Monday May 21st - Friday May 25th' |
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| Time: | 9am |
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| A themed, interactive variety show for children aged 2-5 that's set in a vibrant aquarium-inspired underwater classroom. Bubble Guppies features an ensemble cast of energetic kids with colourful tropical fish tails who will sing, dance, tell jokes, play games, and have wonderful watery adventures! |
Louie: Dogpound |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Monday, 16th July 2012' |
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| Time: | 10:00pm |
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| Louie is onstage complaining that the hardest part about having kids is the part of the day that he spends with them. He grumbles about having to get up at six in the morning, adding that he's blown off entire careers because he didn't want to get up that early. |
The Young Ones |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Tuesday, 5 July 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. |
Grand Designs: Ipswich |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Sunday, 7 August 2011' |
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| Time: | 7:30PM |
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| When Jonathan Belsey's marriage ended, he left the family home and bought a plot of land just down the road. He's on a mission to build a house that will be exciting to look at, cheap to run, and ecologically sound. Jonathan is a scientist and this project is the great experiment he's dreamt of. |
Dora the Explorer |
| Venue: | Nick Jr. |
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| Date: | 'Thursday May 17st' |
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| Time: | 9:30am |
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Lawrence Leung's Unbelievable: Magic |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday, 6 July 2011' |
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| Time: | 9:30PM |
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| The new adventures of intrepid sceptic and comic Lawrence Leung are revealed in a fascinating and fun series that investigates the unbelievable. Its Mythbusters meets Ghostbusters as Lawrence embarks on a mind-bending quest to examine the irrational and the impossible. |
Wonders of the Universe: Messengers |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Tuesday, 9 August 2011' |
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| Time: | 8:30PM |
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| In the last episode of Professor Brian Cox's epic journey across the universe, he travels from the fossils of the Burgess Shale to the sands of the oldest desert in the world to show how light holds the key to our understanding of the whole universe, including our own deepest origins. |
Bored To Death |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Monday, 16th July 2012' |
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| Time: | 9:30pm |
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| Taking time out from his new gig as a night-school creative-writing teacher, Jonathan is hired by a policeman to infiltrate an S&M dungeon after learning the business is about to be raided - and that the officer's name is on their computerised client list. |
Leaky Boat |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Thursday, 7 July 2011' |
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| Time: | 8:30PM |
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| In late winter 2001, the crew of the Norwegian tanker the Tampa pulled more than 400 refugees out of a fishing boat that was sinking off the north-west coast of Australia. The refugees demanded to be taken to Christmas Island. As the captain complied, the Australian authorities radioed. They threatened to seize his ship and throw him in prison if he entered Australian waters. The order had come from the very top. |
Clean House New York |
| Venue: | Style Channel |
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| Date: | 'Monday, December 5th, 2011' |
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| Time: | 6:30pm |
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| For as long as anyone can remember, New York's mayoral candidates have made promises to 'clean up the city.' Style is now taking that mantra - literally. One apartment, condominium, and home at a time, 'Clean House New York' will be dusting off the city that never sleeps and performing the makeover miracles that have saved more than 190 (and counting!) homes to date. |
SpongeBob SquarePants Runaway Road Trip |
| Venue: | Nickelodeon |
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| Date: | 'Monday July 2 - Friday July 6' |
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| Time: | 8am - midday with premiere episodes airing at 8am each day. |
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| These July holidays pack your bags and join SpongeBob SquarePants on his 'Runaway Road Trip' to Australia's Great Barrier Reef! With three brand new episodes plus loads of the best SpongeBob SquarePants episodes, Nickelodeon is hitting the road for the perfect runaway school holiday adventure. |
Tribal Wives: Thailand |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Monday, 16th July 2012' |
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| Time: | 8:30pm |
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| Six British women swap their everyday lives for life as 'Tribal Wives' in some of the most remote communities on earth. Like many women today juggling career, home and family, they feel that something is missing. By spending time in societies where female roles are very different they hope to find answers that could change their lives. |
Blood, Sweat And Luxuries: Blood, Sweat And Me |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday, 11 May 2011' |
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| Time: | 8:30PM |
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| After five long weeks this final episode sees the Brits due to return home, but not before they learn the level of sacrifice the workers make to support their families, and are able to reunite a young woman with her two-year-old son. |
Wild Rides: To Russia With Love |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Friday, 13 May 2011' |
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| Time: | 8:00PM |
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| British stand-up comic Jonathon Hunt, 'Buddy' brings a wild spirit of alternative adventure to this series of odd and reckless journeys that mix challenge, hardship and self-sufficiency with the culturally bizarre. |
Stay Tuned |
| Venue: | ABC3 |
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| Date: | 'Friday, 13 May 2011' |
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| Access all areas of the music industry during the hottest new online and on-air interactive music show, Stay Tuned. By uploading your music-related video questions to the ABC3 website, hosts Joel Phillips and Nicole Singh will do whatever it takes to hook you up with the answers while treating your ears to some new tunes... |
Genius Within: The Inner Life Of Glenn Gould |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Sunday, 8 May 2011' |
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| Time: | 8pm |
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| An enigmatic musical poet, world-renowned pianist Glenn Gould continues to captivate 27 years after his untimely death. |
Deadwood: Advances, None Miraculous |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Monday, 9 May 2011' |
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| Time: | 9:30PM |
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| The camp waits for Doc Cochran's (Brad Dourif) prognosis of William Bullock. Martha (Anna Gunn) regrets her move to Deadwood after her son is severely injured. |
Swingtown: Double Exposure |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Monday, 9 May 2011' |
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| Time: | 8:30PM |
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| Come inside the bedrooms of the edgy 1970s sex-swap series Swingtown as the Millers' house-warming party heats up. |
Taggart: The Ends Of Justice |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Friday, 8 July 2011 Final' |
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| Time: | 8:30PM |
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| Stabbed in a dark alley of Glasgow city centre, a busker desperately tries to drag himself to help but dies amongst a swarm of shocked pedestrians. With footprints and the victim's dog's bloody paws contaminating the site, the crime scene is a nightmare for forensic pathologist Duncan Clark (Davood Ghadmi), and for DCI Burke (Alex Norton) and his team. |
Chris Humfrey's Wild Life |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Sunday, 8 May 2011' |
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| Time: | 6:30PM |
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| Meet Chris Humfrey, a zoologist who lives with his young family and their really big dog in an idyllic bush haven in country Victoria. But the Humfreys also share their home with a few other pets - more than 2000 and each one of them needs care and attention 24/7. This isn't your average family home. It's a private zoo where human and animal sagas unfold on a daily basis. Follow Chris in this chaotic, animal-crazy series that captures the drama, the danger, the animal antics and the sheer exhilaration of Chris Humfrey's Wild Life. Every day, a new saga unfolds at the zoo. |
Hustle |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Friday, 8 July 2011' |
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| Time: | 9:20PM |
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| Albert (Robert Vaughn) is on holiday in Vegas, trying as hard as possible to keep a low profile. But he comes to the attention of Johnny Maranzano - the son of the late mafia boss Frank Maranzano - whose casino Albert has ripped off and been banned from in the past. |
How To Be Indie: How To Make Your Rep |
| Date: | 'Friday, 12 August 2011' |
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| Time: | 4:25PM |
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Indie (Melissa Shankar) is like any 13 year old, trying to fit in at high school - but it's not easy when her traditional South-Asian parents are fond of old-school values. Their idea of a proper school-dance outfit is a ruffled plaid dress, and Saturdays are reserved for remedial Hindi.
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QI: Engineering |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Tuesday, 10 May 2011' |
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| Time: | 9:25PM |
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| Tonight on QI we are 'quite interested' in engineering so joining QI master Stephen Fry are some of the sharpest tools in the box - Jimmy Carr, Rob Brydon, Bill Bailey and Alan Davies. |
Moby Dick |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Sunday, 8 May 2011 ' |
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| Time: | 8:30PM |
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| Nantucket. The little island off the east coast of the United States is the capital of American whaling in 1850. Sailors, traders, harpooners - they all hope to make big money on land or on a whaler - and if not, then at least to have big adventures. One of them is Ishmael (Charlie Cox), who wanders through the bustling harbour in search of a whaling boat that will take him out to sea. Together with the homeless boy Pip (Daniel Gordon) and the fear-inspiring Polynesian harpooner Queequeg (Raoul Trujillo), he signs on as a crew member of the Pequod. |
My Family's Crazy Gap Year: The Lawrences |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Tuesday, 10 May 2011' |
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| Time: | 8:30PM |
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Yachting fanatic Jason Lawrence fulfils his lifelong dream of sailing around the world, taking with him his wife and two small children.
This reality program captures their adventure, from Britain to Australia, from the preparations to the eventual return. |
Human Planet: Cities: Surviving The Urban Jungle |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Sunday, 8 May 2011 ' |
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| Time: | 7:30PM |
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| The final episode of Human Planet looks at the environment which has been made by humans for humans. Cities are our greatest success story and now over half the world's population lives in the urban jungle. They are built to keep untamed nature out, but nature cannot be pushed away. From bed bugs sucking our blood at night, to rats in our restaurants, gangs of monkey muggers and rutting elks in downtown USA, many animals have adapted to living in a world of bricks and steel. |
Artscape: Man On The Move |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Tuesday, 10 May 2011' |
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| Time: | 10:00PM |
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| Chunky Move has been a giant on the Australian contemporary dance landscape since 1995. Artscape: Man On The Move, tracks the 16-year history of this seminal Melbourne-based dance company through the eyes of its founder, and outgoing Artistic Director, Gideon Obarzanek. The program follows Obarzanek and takes a behind-the-scenes look at the preparations of two major new works, Connected and Faker. |
Spicks And Specks |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday, 11 May 2011' |
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| Time: | 8:30PM |
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| Joining Adam, Myf and Alan this week are comedian, and one half of Lano and Woodley, Colin Lane; the man with one of the finest voices in Australia Anthony Warlow; singer/songwriter Grace Woodroofe; and Spicks and Specks favourite Hamish Blake. |
Angry Boys |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday, 11 May 2011' |
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| Time: | 9:00PM |
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| The world premiere of the highly-anticipated 12-part comedy series Angry Boys, starts Wednesday 11 May, 9pm on ABC1. The chameleon of character invention, writer/performer Chris Lilley brings to life six vastly different characters, but they all have one thing in common - they will entertain and intrigue, as their private worlds are revealed. |
Jandamarra's War |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Thursday, 12 May 2011' |
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| Time: | 8:30PM |
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| Jandamarra's War is the story of an Australian Aboriginal man who should be as famous as Ned Kelly. In 1894, Jandamarra led a rebellion against invading pastoralists in defence of his people's ancient land and culture. Until his death in brutal retribution, this formidable Bunuba warrior waged a 3-year guerrilla war, earning him both the admiration of his people and international notoriety. |
Machete Maidens Unleashed! |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Thursday, 12 May 2011' |
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| Time: | 9:30PM |
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| Karate-kickin' midgets! Papier-mache monsters! Busty babes with blades! Filipino genre films of the '70s and '80s had it all. Boasting cheap labour, exotic scenery and non-existent health and safety regulations, the Philippines was a dreamland for exploitation filmmakers whose renegade productions were soon engulfing drive-in screens around the globe like a tidal schlock-wave! |
Gardening Australia |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Saturday, 14 May 2011' |
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| Time: | 6:30PM |
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| Stephen Ryan shows how to train climbers around trees to add seasonal colour and protect fruit crops and Jane Edmanson drops in on an old friend to see some of the tricks he has mastered over a lifetime of gardening. |
Spooks |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Saturday, 14 May 2011' |
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| Time: | 8:30PM |
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| Lucas (Richard Armitage) is plunged further into the depths of his past when Vaughn (Iain Glen) takes his manipulations to a new level. |
A Quiet Word With Catherine Tate |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Saturday, 14 May 2011' |
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| Time: | 9:30PM |
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| In A Quiet Word With Catherine Tate, comedian Tony Martin leads the British comic actress on a merry dance through her award-winning career, from her early work on The Bill - accurately recreated here - to her massively successful three seasons of The Catherine Tate Show and popular tenure as the Doctor's assistant on Doctor Who. |
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