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Curious George |
| Venue: | Nick Jr. |
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| Date: | 'Friday June 1 - Friday June 8' |
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| Time: | 8:45am |
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| Curious George is an Emmy award-winning animated series based on the popular books by Margret and H.A. Rey that were first published in 1941. While remaining true to the look and feel of the beloved books, the daily series expands George's world to include a host of colourful new characters and locales. |
The Penguins of Madagascar |
| Venue: | Nickelodeon |
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| Date: | 'Weekdays from Monday June 25 - Friday June 29 ' |
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| Time: | 4:30pm |
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| Nighty Night Ninja: Watching too many ninja movies has brainwashed Leonard the koala. During the day, as he sleeps, he terrorises everyone by sleep fighting (as opposed to sleepwalking). |
Didi and B. |
| Venue: | Nick Jr. |
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| Date: | 'From June 1st' |
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| Time: | 7am & 6pm also throughout the day |
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| Didi and B. is a brand new local production for pre-schoolers, featuring an original puppetry format created by Nick Jr. Australia. |
House of Anubis Season 2 |
| Venue: | Nickelodeon |
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| Date: | 'Weekdays from Monday June 4th' |
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| Time: | 5:30pm |
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| House of Anubis series continues exclusively to Nickelodeon in a one hour premiere special, Monday June 4 at 5:30pm then airs every weekday afternoon at 5:30pm. |
Ouran High Host Club |
| Venue: | ABC3 |
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| Date: | '8:40pm' |
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| Time: | Sunday, 22nd July 2012 |
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| Ouran High Host Club is a Japanese anime series set in Ouran High School, an institution of extravagance and prestige where learning is secondary to luxury. |
INSIGHT: Trained to Kill |
| Venue: | SBS ONE |
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| Date: | 'Tuesday 27th March' |
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| Time: | 8.30pm |
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Almost every species has a resistance to killing its own kind, and many psychologists believe humans have a built in aversion to it.
However, for some, it is part of the job. |
Dina's Party |
| Venue: | Style Network |
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| Date: | 'Thursday, April 5th 2012' |
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| Time: | 9:30pm |
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Following two tumultuous seasons on The Real Housewives of New Jersey, interior designer and special events planner, Dina Manzo is back and ready to show the world what she does best in Style's new series 'Dina's Party'.
Each episode sees Dina and her team at Designer Affairs create bespoke events for clients within their very own homes. Dina works to transform everyday personal spaces into something breathtaking, specific to each client's needs, whether it's an anniversary celebration, a Vegas-themed birthday bash or an elaborate wedding extravaganza, Dina's parties are not to be forgotten. 'Dina's Party' premieres Thursday, April 5th 2012 at 9:30pm AEST only on Style. |
Biggest Scandals Ever |
| Venue: | E! Channel |
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| Date: | 'Sunday, May 6th 2012 ' |
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| In Hollywood, personal and professional scandals are like glossy headshots - everybody's got one. However, some scandals are so outrageous that they generate a media frenzy that dominates the news for weeks at a time. With more than 500 tales in the Hollywood vaults, E! selected seven of the most staggering scandals ever for a brand new E! True Hollywood Story, premiering Sunday, May 6th 2012 at 8:30pm AEST only on E! |
Dance Academy |
| Venue: | ABC3 |
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| Date: | 'Monday's in April, 2012' |
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| Time: | 6:30pm |
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Prank Patrol Road Trip |
| Venue: | ABC3 |
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| Date: | 'Sunday, 1st April 2012' |
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| Time: | 2:10pm |
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| Australia's favourite prankster, Scotty Tweedie, and the prank-loving ninja's are back with the explosive Prank Patrol Road Trip. They've kitted out the Spyvan and are on a mission to prank as many Aussie kids in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth as possible! |
Country Town Rescue |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Tuesday, 17th April 2012' |
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| Time: | 8:00pm |
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| Country Town Rescue is the compelling story of how ordinary Australians come together to save the small rural town of Trundle, whose falling population threatens its very existence. |
Tower Prep: New Kid |
| Venue: | ABC3 |
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| Date: | 'Thursday, 26 July 2012' |
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| Time: | 7:00pm |
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| Tower Prep, a 13 x 43 minute teen drama series, follows the journey of Ian Archer (Drew Van Acker, Greek), who wakes up one morning to find himself at a mysterious academy for teens with special abilities. These abilities are not quite in the realm of superheroes but far outside what most people are able to do. |
Auction Room |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Sunday, 15th April 2012' |
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| Time: | 6:00pm |
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| Hosted by author and actor William McInnes, and produced by the team that brought you Collectors, Auction Room is all about the emotion, the drama and the personal stories of people compelled to sell off their cherished possessions. There is always a reason, either bitter or sweet, why owners subject themselves to the nail-biting business of waiting for the hammer to drop. |
Australia: The Time Traveller's Guide: The Big Island |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Sunday, 15th April 2012 ' |
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| Time: | 7:30pm |
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| The story of Australia is the story of endless change: life, climate, and location. Seas come and go. Mountains rise and fall. Whole kingdoms of life triumph and disappear. |
Shirley |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Sunday, 15th April 2012' |
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| Time: | 9:25pm |
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| This 70 minute biopic looks at the life of music legend Shirley Bassey. |
6:30pm Compass: Hospital Chaplains: It's A Tough Job |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Sunday, 15th April 2012' |
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| Time: | 6:30pm |
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| Every day in Australia over 40,000 patients are in hospital. While medicine tends their bodies, hospital chaplains tend their souls. Over eight episodes we follow our chaplains' journeys alongside the patients and their families at three major hospitals. They are Catholic, Protestant, Muslim, Jewish and Buddhist. Regardless of their faith, they all meet the same challenges - to help make sense of the mystery of illness, pain, suffering and despair. This series offers a unique bedside view of the daily life and death drama of hospital life through our chaplains' eyes |
Waking the Dead: Solidarity: Part 2 |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Sunday, 15th April 2012' |
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| Time: | 8:30pm |
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| Boyd (Trevor Eve) and his team burrow deep into the paranoid, polarised world of early 80s British national security, uncovering sabotage that goes to the heart of government today. |
Time Team: Gateholm |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Tuesday, 17th April 2012' |
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| Time: | 6:00pm |
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| From delving into early Christian history at the heart of Westminster Abbey to unearthing an entire Roman town in Wiltshire, the team's unrelenting pursuit of all things archaeological takes them the length and breadth of the UK in the most exciting series, Time Team. |
10:05pm Artscape: Philip Treacy In Conversation With Virginia Trioli |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Tuesday, 17th April 2012' |
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| Time: | 10:05pm |
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| Virginia Trioli talks with milliner to the stars and fashion icon Philip Treacy OBE. |
Wild Life At The Zoo |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday, 18th April 2012' |
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| Time: | 8:00pm |
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| Narrated by Alan Brough (Spicks And Specks) Wild Life At The Zoo is a fly-on-the-wall look into the workings of one of the world's most renowned zoos, Taronga - home to 340 species and 3,400 animals across 52 acres of prime real estate on the shores of Sydney Harbour. |
Agony Uncles |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday, 18th April 2012' |
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| Time: | 9:30pm |
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| Tonight our Uncles tread the rocky path of a break-up when Agony Uncles continues. It was all going so well, but now it's time for the Uncles to hold out a strong hand and guide you through the agony of a relationship that is going quickly south. |
River Cottage: Summer's Here |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Thursday, 19th April 2012' |
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| Time: | 6:00pm |
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| Hugh is upset when he discovers that slugs have been gorging on his soft cabbages, so he plans some drastic revenge. Snails have long been on the River Cottage menu and Hugh wonders if he can turn slugs into a culinary hit too? The results are, at best, mixed! |
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries: Queen Of Flowers |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Friday, 20th April 2012' |
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| Time: | 8:30pm |
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| The Honourable Miss Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis) has been chosen to refine a group of delinquent flower maidens for the annual flower parade. |
Australia On Trial: Massacre At Myall Creek |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Thursday, 19th April 2012' |
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| Time: | 8:30pm |
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| In Sydney in December 1838, seven men stand accused of the mass killing of a group of unarmed Aborigines. The massacre of about 30 Wirrayaraay people at Myall Creek was the culmination of a series of conflicts between settlers and Aborigines in the Liverpool Plains region of NSW. The men responsible for the massacre included freed and assigned convicts who had spent a day unsuccessfully pursuing a group of Aborigines. When they came to Henry Dangar's Myall Creek Station, they discovered a group of Wirrayaraay who they rounded up and tied together. The Aborigines were then led off and massacred. Two days later, the men responsible for the massacre returned to the scene of the crime to burn the bodies. |
A Very Short War |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Thursday, 19th April 2012' |
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| Time: | 9:30pm |
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| A Very Short War follows the life of pioneering Australian aviator, Cliff Carpenter, one of many Australians whose life was lost to war. The story is told through the eyes of Cliff's nephew and Australian actor, Bill Young (The Pacific, Hollowmen), as he embarks on a personal trek - travelling from Australia to New Zealand, Wales and Norway - to unearth the truth behind the uncle he never knew, and the details surrounding his lonely death in a country half a world away from home. |
QI: Incomprehensible |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Friday, 20th April 2012' |
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| Time: | 8:00pm |
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| In keeping with tonight's theme this episode of QI is utterly 'Incomprehensible'. QI master Stephen Fry is joined by Alan Davies, Prof Brian Cox, Ross Noble and Sue Perkins. |
The Shadow Line |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Friday, 20th April 2012' |
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| Time: | 9:30pm |
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| Lessing, an American visiting Dublin, recognises the owner of an antique clock shop as his old partner in crime, Peter Glickman (Sir Anthony Sher). Glickman denies it's him, follows and kills him. Meanwhile, 'Gatehouse' (Stephen Rea) has tracked Glickman down to Dublin, but Glickman is waiting for him. There's a showdown, with each blaming the other for 'Counterpoint' and Wratten... |
Whitechapel |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Saturday, 21st April 2012' |
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| Time: | 8:30pm |
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| Miles and Chandler are on the hunt for Marcus Salter, who has mysteriously escaped from prison after being arrested for the murder of four people, including his half-brother Ben Salter. |
Bindi's Bootcamp |
| Venue: | ABC3 |
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| Date: | 'Sunday, 8th of July 2012' |
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| Time: | 5:00pm |
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| Australia's favourite wildlife conservationist, Bindi Irwin, returns to our screens as host of Bindi's Bootcamp - an action-packed, adrenalin pumping 26 x 24 minute game show. Set at Bindi's home, Australia Zoo, 132 teams of two bootcampers have their knowledge, inner strength and stamina tested as they compete in wildlife-based challenges with the aim of making it into the Grand Final and being named 'Bindi's Wildlife Warriors'. |
Bindi's Bootcamp |
| Venue: | ABC3 |
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| Date: | 'Sunday, 22nd July 2012' |
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| Time: | 5:00pm |
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| Australia's favourite wildlife conservationist, Bindi Irwin, returns to our screens as host of Bindi's Bootcamp - an action-packed, adrenalin pumping 26 x 24 minute game show. |
New Tricks: Setting Out Your Stall |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Saturday, 21st April 2012' |
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| Time: | 7:30pm |
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| The UCOS team reinvestigates a highly sensitive case when new information links the unexplained death of popular market trader Kathy Green to a series of drug rapes in East London. |
Five Days |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Saturday, 21st April 2012' |
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| Time: | 9:20pm |
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| A commuter train in the north of England is brought to a sudden halt when a young woman jumps from a bridge in an apparent suicide. At a local hospital, a new born baby is discovered abandoned in a toilet by an African cleaner. |
rage Silver Jubilee |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Saturday, 21st April 2012' |
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| Time: | 10:20pm |
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| After hundreds of hosts, thousands of music videos and millions of viewers waking up in front of a still-blaring TV, rage is turning 25 and celebrating its Silver Jubilee. |
Bored To Death: The Gowanus Canal Has Gonorrhea |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Monday, 30 July 2012' |
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| Time: | 9:30pm |
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| George goes to see his new female urologist, Dr Kenwood, who gives him the test results of his penis examination. The results leave George with a sobering diagnosis - and a new level of intimacy with Dr Kenwood. |
The 99: Darr, The Afflicter |
| Venue: | ABC3 |
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| Date: | 'Sunday, 8th of July 2012' |
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| Time: | 8:00pm |
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| Based on the superhero comic series The 99, this 26 x 22 minute animated action series follows the adventures of 99 youngsters from across the globe who've come into possession of one of the 99 mystical and ancient Noor Stones (Stones of Light). Gifted with superhuman powers, they're gathered into teams by the benevolent Dr. Ramzi Razem, to fight injustice and evil around the world. Their goal: to realise Dr. Ramzi's vision of a world of peace, harmony, enlightenment and diversity. |
Noel Fielding's Luxury Comedy: King Tutta |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Thursday, 19th April 2012' |
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| Time: | 10:30pm |
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| Noel Fielding's wild and weird comedy fuses live action and animation. It's like Salvador Dali and Mick Jagger recreating The Jungle Book. |
Seven Dwarves: Jamie |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday, 18th April 2012' |
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| Time: | 9:30pm |
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| Jamie John is the third of the seven dwarves living in a shared house for the Christmas pantomime season. |
My Great Big Adventure: Friendship |
| Venue: | ABC3 |
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| Date: | 'Saturday, 21st April 2012' |
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| Time: | 11:00am |
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| Hosted by ABC3's Kayne Tremills, My Great Big Adventure tackles some of the most pressing issues kids face today, such as bullying, family conflict and everyday stress. By sharing real stories from kids and celebrities, the series sends a message that, no matter how difficult the challenge, with the right tools there's always a way to make your own big adventure better. |
Being Human |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Tuesday, 17 April 2012' |
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| Time: | 9:30pm |
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| Hal, Leo and Pearl - another werewolf, vampire and ghost - turn up at the house. Leo is dying and this supernatural triumvirate believe the secret to saving the old werewolf's life resides in Honolulu Heights. |
Sunday Best: To Be Heard |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Sunday, 15th April 2012' |
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| Time: | 8:30pm |
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Sunday nights on ABC2 is the home of Sunday Best, an outstanding collection of game-changing and thought-provoking feature length documentaries. We've done the work to bring you the best must-see intelligent docos that are just 2 good to miss.
Put on your Sunday Best... |
Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends: Body Building |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Monday, 16th April 2012' |
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| Time: | 8:30pm |
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| The world of extreme bodybuilding - a subculture of people who push their bodies to the limits of human capacity - but just how far are they prepared to go. And is Louis prepared to go there too? Louis travels to California, home of the body beautiful, to see if he can join the world of extreme bodybuilding. |
The Tudors |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Monday, 16th April 2012' |
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| Time: | 9:30pm |
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| Henry (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is forced to surrender Boulogne, his great prize, as part of a peace treaty with France. But where in the past he might have felt anger, his feelings now turn melancholic with the news that King Francis, his long time friend and sometimes foe, is dying. |
Whisker Wars |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Tuesday, 17th April 2012' |
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| Time: | 9:00pm |
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| Bearded wonders across the USA travel the country to prepare for the World Beard Championship in Norway. |
Franklin And Friends |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday, 18th April 2012' |
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| Time: | 1:00pm |
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| Hey, it's Franklin and Friends new episodes! Based on the award winning books by Paulette Bourgeois and Brenda Clark, this minute CG-animated series follows the more mature and confident Franklin as he makes his way through daily challenges and adventures, learning life lessons along with pals Snail, Rabbit, Beaver, Fox, Goose and his best buddy Bear. |
Young Soldiers: The Theatre Of War |
| Date: | 'Friday, 20th April 2012' |
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| Time: | 9:30pm |
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| As A Company deploy to Afghanistan for their six-month tour of duty, the training's finally over for Darren and Andrew as they are about to get their first taste of combat. |
Louie: God |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Monday, 30th July 2012' |
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| Time: | 10:00pm |
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| Louie is onstage pondering the existence of God, noting that if He does exist, He must be a jerk. He jokes that God is essentially a bad girlfriend: constantly making you prove your love, but never being satisfied with your actions. |
Quest: Old Beijing |
| Venue: | ABC3 |
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| Date: | 'Thursday, 12th July 2012' |
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| Time: | 12:15pm |
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| Follow the action-packed journey of co-hosts Jaimee Taylor-Nielsen, from Australia, and Huang Wei, from China, as they explore iconic and exotic locations in one another's countries while completing exciting and adrenalin-pumping challenges and promising to 'do anything, eat anything, feed anything and go anywhere!' |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation |
| Venue: | TV1 |
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| Time: | 7.30pm |
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| CSI: NY premieres Monday 16th of April and CSI: Miami on Thursday 19th of April, both at 7.30pm. |
7:00pm Stay Tuned: Touring |
| Venue: | ABC3 |
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| Date: | 'Friday, 13th July 2012' |
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| Time: | 7:00pm |
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| Hosted by Joel Phillips and Nicole Singh, ABC3's awesome music show, Stay Tuned (30 x 30minute) returns for a second series. Offering an insight into the music industry, the show is based on online audience interaction whereby viewers send in their music-related video questions for Nicole and Joel to answer. |
INSIGHT: Aboriginal or Not |
| Venue: | SBS ONE |
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| Date: | 'Tuesday 7th of August 2012' |
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| Fee: | 8.30pm |
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More Australians than ever are identifying in the Census as Indigenous. The number has risen more than 20 per cent since 2006.
But there is debate in some Aboriginal communities over who should be able to call themselves Aboriginal, whether appearance or postcode should have anything to do with it, and whether the current certification system is working as well as it should be.
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