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dirtgirlworld returns to ABC1 and ABC 2 |
| Date: | '8th March 2010' |
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| Time: | 8AM ABC 1 & 1:30 PM ABC 2 |
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dirtgirlworld, has returned in a new time slot, following it's 'try out' on ABC1 and ABC2 in December.
8am Mon-Friday on ABC 1 and replayed on ABC 2 at 1.30pm.
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I Rock |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Monday, May 3rd' |
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| Time: | 9pm |
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Movie: The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Saturday, 3 April 2010' |
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| Time: | 8:30pm |
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| In an 18th century European city besieged by the Turkish army, a theatrical performance of The Adventures of Baron Munchausen is interrupted by an old man who claims to be the Baron himself. No one believes him except for 10-year-old Sally, who joins him on a quest to prove his claims and save the city from the Turks. |
Get Your Face On |
| Venue: | Discovery: Home and Health |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday evening' |
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| Time: | at 8.30pm |
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Bring on the waterproof mascara. Watch as 12 makeup artists vie to be the protege of Napoleon Perdis.
Filmed in Los Angeles, Get Your Face On With Napoleon Perdis is equal parts elimination series, makeup instructional and tear-inducing soap opera as the contestants strive to impress the master and rise to the top. To stand out in this competitive arena, the aspiring artists need to demonstrate their flair with a makeup brush and also showcase their passion during a sequence of Herculean tests.
"I'm going to be fair, but I'm going to be tough," says Perdis. We wouldn't expect anything less. |
Michael Buble Meets Madison Square Garden |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Friday, 2 April 2010' |
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| Time: | 10:30pm |
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| Award-winning singer Michael Buble completes his two-year world tour with a stunning, sell-out concert at Madison Square Garden New York. |
Sex: The Revolution: Tainted Love |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday, 31 March 2010' |
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| Time: | 9:30pm |
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| The late 1970s appear to be the peak of sexual lunacy. Sex clubs begin spreading. By 1978, New York has at least a dozen where on any given night the floorshow is an all out orgy. And then there's the notorious Studio 54, where cocaine and quaaludes were as prevalent as the disco music that provided the soundtrack. |
True Jackson VP: Testing True |
| Venue: | Nickelodeon |
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| Date: | 'Saturday May 8 ' |
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| Time: | 6pm |
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School is back in session, and True gets her dream assignment at work but finds it difficult balancing her school life and her work responsibilities.
True Jackson VP centres around 15-year-old True Jackson (Keke Palmer Akeelah and the Bee) who is hired to head the youth division of a major fashion label, Mad Style. True soon learns that corporate life has the same highs and lows as high school, complete with cliques, mean girls and crushes. |
Big Time Rush |
| Venue: | Nickelodeon |
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| Date: | 'Every Saturday from May 15 ' |
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| Time: | 6.30pm |
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| Big Time Rush follows the journey of 16-year-old Kendall Schmidt (Gilmore Girls), who is inadvertently discovered by eccentric record executive Gustavo Rocque during a nationwide casting call and must choose between staying home in Minneapolis with his friends and pursuing a singing career in Hollywood. Not seeing himself as a solo act, Kendall strikes a deal with the Hollywood image-maker and agrees to undergo 'pop group 101' training in exchange for giving his best friends - James Maslow (iCarly), Logan Henderson and Carlos Pena (Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide) - the opportunity to be in a music group with him. |
E!'S Doomed By Lust Premiere! |
| Venue: | E! Channel 121 for Foxtel Subscribers |
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| Date: | 'Monday, 12th April' |
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| Time: | @ 8:30pm |
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High-profile men and women who had everything to lose but still gave in to carnal desires...and paid for it. We'll explore the scandalous details behind headline grabbing affairs.
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Selling Houses Australia Series 3 |
| Venue: | The LifeStyle Channel |
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| Date: | 'from March 31' |
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| Time: | Wednesdays at 8.30pm |
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Winner of two ASTRA Awards, Most Outstanding Lifestyle Program and Favourite Program as voted for by viewers, the series delves into the real issues facing property owners, providing current and practical advice as Australians navigate through a volatile market.
Residential property expert and LifeStyle Channel presenter, Andrew Winter is back at the helm of the third Australian series with a real estate reality check that will equip home owners with much needed advice to help them sell quickly and for the best possible price. Throughout the series he tours some of the nations hardest to sell homes and meets the stressed homeowners behind them facing overwhelming issues like huge mortgages, rising interest rates and falling property markets. Anxious for a sale and unable to work out why no one wants to buy their home, they are desperate for a solution.
Andrew is joined again by interior designer extraordinaire, Shaynna Blaze-Vaughnn and garden designer Charlie Albone. Together they take every day Australians through the process of transforming their homes that no-one want to buy into saleable properties with spectacular results. |
Shreducation |
| Venue: | Nickelodeon |
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| Date: | 'weekdays from January 18 ' |
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| Time: | at 7.30pm |
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Shreducation is a high-flying reach for the top of the snowboarding world, for a team of talented and spirited young riders.
Get to know the talented athletes as they are guided by legendary ex-pro snowboarder Jesse Fulton, who created the elite snowboard school that has become their training ground for the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Shreducation takes viewers on a globe-trotting ride with these talented young snowboarders as they seek international success and learn some life lessons along the way. |
Reese Witherspoon Goes Head To Head With The Ever Clever Chelsea Handler |
| Venue: | E! Channel |
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| Date: | 'Tuesday, February 14th 2012' |
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| Time: | 11:00pm |
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Reese Witherspoon is back and the tables have turned. Reese is utterly charming the 'Chelsea Lately' staff - a complete 180 from her last visit to the office in season one when Witherspoon and the writers didn't exactly rub each other the right way. 'After Lately' star Brad Wollack says, "It was nice to finally work with a famous blonde woman who wasn't yelling at me or telling me how ugly I am."
Heather McDonald adds, "Reese and I really hit it off being that our kids are about the same age, so I'm sure that a play date at the park is just around corner." All in all, the 'After Lately' crew adores the beautiful actress. |
Simon Schama's Power Of Art: David |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Sunday, 28 March 2010' |
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| Time: | 7:30pm |
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| In 1789 French painter Jacques-Louis David, who had been treated well by King Louis XVII and the aristocrats, decrees that Art must no longer be the amusement of the mighty and the leisured; it has an altogether higher calling. It must make Citizens of mere people; it must shock, inspire and educate. It should make everyone Better. |
Mariinsky Theatre 1783 - 2008 |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Sunday, 28 March 2010' |
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| Time: | 8:30pm |
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| A stunning and sumptuous celebration of the 225th anniversary of the world famous Russian Mariinsky Theatre contains archival material seen for the first time on screen. It provides a unique insight into how the arts have flourished in Russia under many different regimes. |
The Academy Season: Platoon |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Saturday, 26 February 2011' |
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| Time: | 8:30pm |
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| Winner of 4 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and based on the first-hand experience of Oscar-winning director Oliver Stone, Platoon is powerful, intense and starkly brutal. |
The 38th CMAA Country Music Awards of Australia |
| Venue: | Southern Cross Television and Network Ten nationally |
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| Date: | 'Saturday, 13 February, 2010' |
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| Time: | at 1.30pm |
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The Young Ones: Flood |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Tuesday, 30 March 2010' |
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| Time: | 8:00pm |
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There's nothing quite like The Young Ones.
Often described as a sit-com with a difference the landmark British comedy series features the lunatic exploits of four college students: Vyv, the punk (Adrian Edmonson); 'socially aware' and 'politically conscious' Rick (Rik Mayall); Neil, the hippy (Nigel Planer); and Mike, the well-dressed smoothie (Christopher Ryan). |
The 38th CMAA Country Music Awards of Australia |
| Venue: | CMC on Foxtel Digital and Austar |
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| Date: | 'Thursday, 11 February, 2010' |
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| Time: | 7.00pm |
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Alex: A Passion For Life |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday, 31 March 2010' |
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| Time: | 8:30pm |
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| Alex: A Passion For Life continues the story of inspirational, cystic fibrosis sufferer Alex Stobbs. Alex is now 18, and the incurable lung disease he has suffered since childhood, is steadily getting worse. But against incredible odds Alex has achieved his ambition to study music at King's College in Cambridge University, where he also sings as a choral scholar in one of the most celebrated choirs in the world. |
Fashion Police |
| Venue: | E! Channel 121 on FOXTEL |
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| Date: | 'Saturdays' |
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| Time: | 7pm |
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| A weekly half hour in which Joan Rivers and her fashion team dissect the week's celebrities, events, and of course, style, all showcasing Joan's uniquely hilarious point of view. |
Laid |
| Venue: | ABC1 |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday, 23 February 2011' |
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| Time: | 9:30PM |
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| Roo is a-flutter when Charlie asks her to fill in on his indoor cricket team - but is it a date or not? |
Big Time Rush Big Time Movie |
| Venue: | Nickelodeon |
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| Date: | 'Sunday September 23rd' |
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| Time: | 6pm |
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| Hit boy band Big Time Rush have just completed a massive US tour with UK pop band One Direction. Now it's their turn to take the UK by storm in their first original TV movie Big Time Movie! |
Chelsea Interview Special |
| Venue: | E! Channel 121 on FOXTEL |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday, December 29th' |
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| Time: | 9pm |
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Dirtgirl |
| Venue: | ABC1 and ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Begins December 4th. Monday-Friday ' |
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| Time: | ABC1 (3:45pm) and ABC2 (11:45am) |
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| Get read to get grubby! |
Sarah Jane Adventures Series 3 |
| Venue: | Nickelodeon, Foxtel |
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| Date: | 'Weekdays from Tuesday February 23 ' |
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| Time: | at 7pm |
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Life on Earth can be an adventure, too.
From the team behind Doctor Who, The Sarah Jane Adventures is back for a third series of alien-busting adventures, full of humour and drama. Investigative journalist Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen from the original Dr. Who series) is accompanied by her adopted son, Luke, his streetwise pal, Clyde Langer, and their schoolmate, Rani, who has wants to be just like Sarah Jane.
Together, they must face the threat posed to Earth by a host of intergalactic creatures up to no good.
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The Sarah Jane Adventures: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith |
| Venue: | Nickelodeon, Foxtel |
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| Date: | 'Saturday February 27 ' |
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| Time: | 7pm |
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Luke, Clyde and Rani investigate Sarah Jane's suddenly suspicious behaviour and discover something beyond their expectations. Sarah Jane has a boyfriend and she announces she is going to marry him!
As the power of the Pantheon of Discord grows in strength, The Doctor joins the battle to save his old companion and the Earth. With time itself working against them what price will be paid for rescue?
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Kisses and Misses Special Valentine's Day mini-marathon |
| Venue: | Nickelodeon, Foxtel |
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| Date: | 'Saturday February 13 ' |
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| Time: | at 6pm |
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Featuring new episodes of iCarly as well the best of True Jackson VP and Drake and Josh.
This Valentine's Day Nickelodeon is sharing the love with your fave Nick original shows during the 'Kisses and Misses' mini-marathon. Featuring the Australian premiere episode of iCarly, iThink They Kissed as well the most loved-up and teen crush episodes from iCarly, True Jackson VP and Drake and Josh. |
iCarly iGo to Australia week |
| Venue: | Nickelodeon, Foxtel |
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| Date: | 'From Monday February 1 to Friday February 5 ' |
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| Time: | at 5.30pm |
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| Catch Miranda Cosgrove hosting her favourite episodes of iCarly all week long from Australia's Sydney harbour. |
SpongeBob SquarePants Mermaidman & Barnacle Boy Special episode |
| Venue: | Nickelodeon, Foxtel |
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| Date: | 'Saturday February 19 ' |
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| Time: | at 5.30pm |
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Plus an all day SpongeBob SquarePants marathon from 10am leading up to the special episode SpongeBob and Patrick try to meet the stars of their favorite superhero series, 'Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy', who currently reside in the local rest home.
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Ni Hao, Kai-lan Series 2 |
| Venue: | Nick Jr. Foxtel |
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| Date: | 'Daily from Monday February 1 ' |
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| Time: | at 7.30am |
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Ni Hao, Kai-lan is a play-along, think-along series starring Kai-lan Chow, a playful, adventurous bi-lingual preschooler with a big heart, who speaks both English and Mandarin.
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ABC Exclusive Interview with President Barack Obama |
| Date: | '15th April 2010' |
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| Time: | 7:30PM |
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| Direct from Washington, Kerry O'Brien interviews President Barack Obama on ABC1 this Thursday 7:30 and streamed live at abc.net.au/news. |
Ni Hao, Kai-lan: Kai-lan Goes to China |
| Venue: | Nick Jr. Foxtel |
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| Date: | 'Saturday February 13 ' |
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| Time: | at 5.00pm |
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Join Kai-lan as she goes on an overseas adventure in the new hour-long special which takes Kai-lan, Yeye and friends on a trip to China to visit Kai-lan's great aunt and attend the naming ceremony of a baby panda.
Kai-lan and her friends travel around the village to search for the baby panda's gifts and are amazed by all of the interesting things they see in China. Along the way, the viewers must help Rintoo, Tolee, Hoho and the baby panda overcome their fears of trying something new so they don't miss the special naming ceremony at sundown.
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The Fairies Series 3 |
| Venue: | Nick Jr. Foxtel |
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| Date: | 'Daily from Monday February 1' |
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| Time: | at 10.30am |
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Harmony and Rhapsody are back with their friends Barnaby and Wizzy, who are their usual silly selves, but this time they are giving important messages about the environment in their new 'Fairy Green' segment. With a Green step each day, our Earth can be saved!
Fairy Princess Minuet warms up our bodies every episode with gentle and fun exercises, and she teaches the dance steps to the 'Fairy Song of the Day'. Rainbow Fairy makes her debut as the specialist Activity Fairy! And new to Series 3 is our Fairy Tale segment, with stories read out loud in 'FairyMagination', and pantomimes performed with hilarious antics by all of our fairy friends.
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Dora's Pirate Adventure Special Pirate Week episode |
| Venue: | Nick Jr. Foxtel |
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| Date: | 'Saturday Feb 27 ' |
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| Time: | at 5pm |
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In Dora's Pirate Adventure Dora, Boots, Diego and the rest of their pals are planning to put on a big musical pirate show for an audience of their family and friends. Just as the play is about to start, the Pirate Piggies sail in and take their treasure chest filled with costumes. Dora and her friends then set off on an advIn Dora's Pirate Adventure Dora, Boots, Diego and the rest of their pals are planning to put on a big musical pirate show for an audience of their family and friends.
Just as the play is about to start, the Pirate Piggies sail in and take their treasure chest filled with costumes. Dora and her friends then set off on an adventure to get their pirate costumes back so the show can go on. They sail across the Seven Seas and through the Singing Gate on their way to Treasure Island, all the while singing catchy tunes that kids will love. enture to get their pirate costumes back so the show can go on. They sail across the Seven Seas and through the Singing Gate on their way to Treasure Island, all the while singing catchy tunes that kids will love. |
Dora the Explorer: Dora's Dance Recital |
| Venue: | Nick Jr. |
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| Date: | 'Saturday September 24th' |
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| Time: | 5pm |
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| The world's beloved Latina heroine trades her sneakers for ballet slippers in the new Dora the Explorer special episode, Dora's Dance Recital premiering exclusively on Nick Jr. Saturday September 24 at 5pm. |
E! ES Taylor Swift |
| Venue: | E! Channel 121 on FOXTEL |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday, December 22nd ' |
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| Time: | 9pm |
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| Taylor Swift truly seems to be the girl who's got it all: talent, beauty, money and personality to spare. In 2008, she was the best-selling musician in America, not bad for someone who still hasn't turned 21. That was also the year Taylor had a high profile romance and breakup with teen heartthrob Joe Jonas. This year, Swift is single but still racking up hits and raking in the dough - her recent concert tour grossed more than $30 million dollars. The E! Special examines how Taylor's childhood and family life created the foundation for her amazing success. |
Bubble Guppies |
| Venue: | Nick Jr. |
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| Date: | 'Saturday September 3, 10 & 17th' |
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| Time: | 10am |
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| ItsTimeForBubbleGuppiesAnunderwaterthemedinteractivevarietyshowforchildrenaged25yearsoldBubbleGuppiesissetinavibrantaquariuminspiredclassroominhabitedbyenergetickidswithcolourfultropicalfishtailswhowillsingdancetelljokesplaygamesandhaveadventures. |
Great Ormond Street |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday, 3 November 2010' |
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| Time: | 8:30pm |
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| Filmed over the course of a year, Great Ormond Street features unprecedented access to doctors from one of the top children's hospitals in the world as they make some of the hardest choices in medicine. |
Poppy Cat |
| Venue: | Nick Jr. |
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| Date: | 'Weekdays from Thursday September 1st' |
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| Time: | 3:30pm |
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| From the beloved books by Lara Jones comes Poppy Cat: the tales of an inquisitive, excitable, and energetic marmalade cat! The colourful and appealing characters in Poppy Cat spring to life from the page to the small screen in stories of friendship and fantasy play, aimed at the highly creative and active preschooler, but suitable for children of all ages. |
T.U.F.F. Puppy |
| Venue: | Nickelodeon Australia |
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| Date: | 'Monday September 5th' |
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| Time: | 4:30pm |
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| Nickelodeon hit-maker and creator of the Emmy Award-winning The Fairly OddParents and Danny Phantom, Butch Hartman's latest animation is the comedy action-packed T.U.F.F. Puppy. It centres around Dudley Puppy (voiced by iCarly's Jerry Trainor), an energetic and enthusiastic, but dim-witted dog, who finds himself accidentally thrust into the role of secret agent when he's recruited by the super-secret, crime-fighting organisation, T.U.F.F. (Turbo Undercover Fighting Force). |
Hi-5 |
| Venue: | Nick JR. |
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| Date: | 'Monday September 10th - Friday September 21st ' |
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| Time: | 10am |
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| Brand new episodes of Australian produced Hi-5 bounce into Nick Jr. this September starring Casey Burgess, Fely Irvine, Lauren Brant, Tim Maddren and Stevie Nicholson. The hit preschool series features a decade worth of Hi-5 hits for the new generation of fans. |
Gavin And Stacey |
| Venue: | ABC2 |
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| Date: | 'Thursday, 1 April 2010' |
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| Time: | 9:30pm |
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| The wedding day has arrived for Gavin and Stacey and the Shipmans and the Wests are beside themselves. Smithy's attempt to deliver the best man's speech doesn't quite go to plan and Uncle Bryn is still acting strangely around Stacey's brother Jordan. |
League of Super Evil |
| Venue: | ABC3 |
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| Date: | 'Weeknights from Monday 6th December ' |
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| Time: | 5.30pm |
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| Get ready to root for the bad guys, here comes the League Of Super Evil (L.O.S.E). Armed with a whole new approach to badness, these four Super Villains have set their sights on nothing less than total neighbourhood domination. Between battling obnoxious traffic cops, flogging watered-down lemonade, or scheming to be first in line for the new iDestruct, L.O.S.E. struggles ever-onward toward its goal of total mindless fun! |
THS Adam Lambert |
| Venue: | E! Channel 121 on FOXTEL |
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| Date: | 'Wednesday, December 15th' |
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| Time: | 9pm |
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iCarly's iSam's Mom |
| Venue: | Nickelodeon Australia |
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| Date: | 'Saturday April 2nd' |
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| Time: | 6pm |
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| iCarly fans will finally be able to put a face to the much talked-about name when Emmy Award-winning actress Jane Lynch (Glee) guest-stars as Pam Puckett, Sam's never-before-seen, eccentric mother in iSam's Mom, premiering Saturday April 2 at 6pm. |
Winx Club |
| Venue: | Nickelodeon Australia |
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| Date: | 'Saturday September 10th' |
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| Time: | 11:30am |
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Winx Club is an animated modern fantasy adventure series that follows six best friends - Bloom, Stella, Flora, Musa, Tecna and Aisha - who attend the finest fairy school in all of Magix, the Alfea College. When trouble arises, the six best friends transform into beautiful Winx fairies and use their unique magical powers to fight villains and save the world from evil.
Sometimes evil comes in the form of Lord Darkar, Valtor and/or The Trix, a trio of witches from Cloudtower Academy who continually try to thwart the Winx Club and rule Magix. Joining the fairies on their adventures are The Specialists, a group of brave and dreamy teenage boys from Redfountain School. |
The Legend of Korra |
| Venue: | Nickelodeon |
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| Date: | 'Mondays from September 3rd' |
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| Time: | Mondays at 4:30pm |
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| The Legend of Korra takes place 70 years after the events of Avatar: The Last Airbender and follows the next Avatar after Aang, a girl named Korra (Janet Varney) who is from the Southern Water Tribe. |
Planet Sheen |
| Venue: | Nickelodeon Australia |
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| Date: | 'Monday September 19 - Friday September 23' |
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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. The story follows Sheen as he deals with Zeenu's bizarre customs and strange-looking creatures including a jealous villain, Dorkus, a 10-foot tall, 2-headed princess with a crush on him, and a NASA-trained, talking chimp, Nesmith, who joins Sheen in his ultimate quest to return home. |
Girls Of The Playboy Mansion |
| Venue: | E! Channel 121 on FOXTEL |
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| Date: | 'Friday, Dec 24th' |
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| Time: | 10:10am - 10:30pm |
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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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