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Fri / Sat / Sun Jan 26 / 27 / 28

FRIDAY 26
[Ten/4:30pm] Australian Of The Year Awards. Happy Australia Day everyone. Ten gets in on the act once more with the lovely Sandra Sully on hand to assist.
[Ten/7:30pm] Smallville “Fragile.”
[Ten/10:35pm] Veronica Mars “The Quick And The Wed”

[ABC/8:30pm] Agatha Christie’s Poirot. Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) is enjoying a country weekend and observes the strange family of Sir Henry Angkatell (Edward Hardwicke). John Christow (Jonathan Cake), a handsome and charismatic doctor, is there with his plain and docile wife, Gerda (Claire Price). But is there a relationship going on between John and Henrietta (Megan Dodds), a vibrant young artist and member of the Angkatell clan? The charming but slightly batty Lady Angkatell (Sarah Miles) is doing her best to set up Henrietta with Edward Angkatell (Jamie de Courcey) while Midge (Caroline Martin) watches on sadly. She has been in love with Edward for as long as he has been in love with Henrietta. The next day, Poirot, having noticed the family’s love of games, is annoyed to find a murder tableau arranged around the swimming pool. Gerda stands over John’s bleeding body holding a gun while the rest of the family appears from different paths leading to the pool. Poirot suddenly realises that it is actually real. John moans Henrietta’s name and dies. Poirot springs into action but not before Henrietta grabs the gun from Gerda and accidentally drops it into the pool. The police arrive and begin their enquiries. It seems obvious that Gerda did it but she claims that she did not. Could it all be a set up? Sir Henry asks Poirot to do his own investigating. It seems everyone has his or her own motives for killing John. But nothing seems to add up. Henrietta admits to having an affair with John, and Poirot has evidence that she had been in the pavilion on the fateful morning.

[ABC/10:50pm] Nick Cave. (CC, PG, Rpt) The extraordinary story of one of the music world’s most original and enduring cult figures. Australian born Nick Cave has written over two hundred songs, a novel, poems, and screenplays, and has acted in several movies.

[Seven/12:30am Sat] Movie: Dirty Pictures (US) A Cincinnati museum director goes on trial in 1990 for exhibiting sadomasochistic photographs taken by Robert Mapplethorpe. Starring JAMES WOODS, CRAIG T NELSON, DIANA SCARWID, LEON POWNALL, MATT NORTH, DAVID HUBAND, JUDAH KATZ, RACHAEL CRAWFORD, MARNIE MCPHAIL, R D REID and ALLEGRA FULTON.

[SBS/12:45am Sat] Movie: A Wreck, A Tangle – When a sexy streetwise couple crash their borrowed car into Orson and Rita’s prized Mercedes, two worlds collide. Out of civic kindness and a little excitement, Orson and Rita take Benjamin and Max temporarily into their home after the accident. The invasion of the younger couple shakes up their more conservative housemates’ carefully structured world, as both couples yearn for what can never be theirs, and the wreck becomes a complicated tangle. Directed by Scott Patterson and stars Damian Walshe-Howling, Anna-Lise Phillips and Rebecca Frith. (Commissioned by SBS Independent, in English) (Drama) (1999) MA (L,S,D) (Rpt) CC

[Ovation/7:00pm] The Scene

[CI/7:30pm] The Man That Slept for 19 Years

Cable marathons: McLeod’s Daughters, Kingswood Country, Prison Break

SATURDAY 27
[Seven/7:30pm] Cirque Du Soleil: La Nouba. An unforgettable journey through our universe – both threatening and exhilarating, frightening and familiar. Featuring two groups of characters performing clowning, high wire, flying trapeze, aerial ballet, gravity-defying balancing acts and more. The magic and fantasy of the colourful Cirques (circus people) clash with the monochromatic world of the Urbains (urbanites). But as in fables, it is not so much this contrast as the interplay between the two groups which sparks our curiosity and feeds our imagination.

[Seven/11:0pm] Movie: The Match (UK 2000) This delightful comedy, set in Scotland is centred around the soccer field and one match that will finally settle a century-old wager between the town’s only two pubs. In the remote pastoral village of Inverdourne, a bet between the original owners of Benny’s Bar and Le Bistro was made long before anyone living in the village today can remember. The score is now to be settled with the result of one match on the hundredth anniversary that will finally determine which bar is to be closed forever by the winning side. Starring MAX BEESLEY, RICHARD E GRANT, IAN HOLM, TOM SIZEMORE and LAURA FRASER.

[Seven/12:50am Sun] Movie: Hello, Dolly! (US 1969) Story of a New York matchmaker, Dolly Levi who finds herself in love with a ‘half-a-millionaire’. Starring BARBARA STREISAND, WALTER MATTHAU, MICHAEL CRAWFORD, MARIANNE MCANDREW, DANNY LOCKIN, E J PEAKER, JOYCE AMES, TOMMY TUNE, JUDY KNAIZ and DAVID HURST. Rpt.

[Ten/6:00pm] The Simpsons. “Homer’s Phobia.” Rpt.
[Ten/8:30pm] Saturday Night Movie: 2 Fast 2 Furious.

[Nine/9:30pm] Movie: Visitors (2003) After six months at sea on a solo trip around the world, Georgia Perry’s sail boat sits idle with no wind in her sails for several days. Cabin fever sets in and the border between fact and fantasy begins to trickle away. Are uninvited visitors bordering the vessel, or is her mind deceiving her? One things for sure, once one “visitor” is allowed on board, all hell breaks loose! Stars Radha Mitchell, Dominic Purcell and Ray Barrett. Adult Themes [A] Strong Violence [V] Some Coarse Language

[SBS/9:50pm] Marquee Movie: Spanish Apartment – (L’AUBERGE ESPAGNOLE) – As part of a job that he is promised, Xavier (Romain Duris), an economics student in his twenties, signs on to a European exchange program in order to gain working knowledge of the Spanish language. Promising that they will remain close, he says farewell to his loving girlfriend Martine (Audrey Tautou), then heads to Barcelona. Following his arrival, Xavier is soon thrown into a cultural melting pot when he moves into an apartment full of international students. He finds himself living with an Italian, an English girl, a young man from Denmark, a young woman from Belgium, a German and a girl from Tarragona. They all join him in a series of adventures that serve as an initiation to life. Written and directed by Cedric Klapisch and also stars Cecile De France, Judith Godreche and Kelly Reilly. This film won the Audience Award at the 2003 Sydney Film Festival and a 2003 César Award for Most Promising Actress (Cécile De France). (From France, in French, Spanish and English, English subtitles) (Comedy) (2002) CC WS

[Movie Extra/8:30pm] Nightmares and Dreamscapes. (ep 4) A young genius, Bobby Fornoy, comes up with a chemical cure for human violence. With the aid of his brother Howie, he comes up with a way to implement it worldwide. But the “cure” comes with a horrible side effect. Ron Livingston. Rebecca Gibney.

SUNDAY 28
[ABC/2:00pm] Living Famously : Laurel And Hardy (CC, G, Rpt)
The story of the lives and loves of the best loved comedy duo of all time, Laurel and Hardy, from their origins in British vaudeville to their heyday as the first real comedy stars of the sound era.

[ABC/3:00pm] Countdown Spectacular. (CC, G, Rpt) Get ready to re-live the leather pants, big hair, and even bigger sound in this special, re-screening of the Countdown Spectacular.

[ABC/8:30pm] Shakespeare Retold. Final. A Midsummer Night’s Dream Proud parents Polly (Imelda Staunton) and Theo (Bill Paterson) are holding a weekend party at a holiday park to celebrate their daughter Hermia’s (Zoe Tapper) engagement to her childhood sweetheart, James (Wlliam Ash). As the guests are about to toast the happy couple, a young man crashes the party and Hermia announces that in fact it is this man – Zander (Rupert Evans) – that she truly loves. The disgraced couple run off into the woods together, followed by Hermia’s best friend Helena (Michelle Bonnard) and James. Helena confesses to James she has always loved him, but horrified, he runs away, leaving her in tears. Meanwhile, the maintenance men are rehearsing their cabaret acts for Saturday night’s engagement party. Bottom (Johnny Vegas), the security guard and wannabe comedy impressionist, will lead the show. Theo starts having hallucinations. A gang of fairies, led by their King, Oberon (Lennie James), is haunting him, trying to give him marital advice. The fairies then return to the woods where Oberon, angry with his wife Titania (Sharon Small), tricks her into falling in love with Bottom and orders Puck (Dean Lennox Kelly) to use his love juice to put things right between James and Helena. Under the light of the moon however, Puck can’t resist making a little mischief with the four young lovers. And as Bottom enjoys the night of his life, Helena, Hermia, James and Zander find their affections shifting rapidly. Can Oberon restore the balance before the new day dawns?

[ABC/12:50am Mon] Tipping The Velvet. (CC, Rpt, MA* Contains coarse language, sex scenes and adult themes) Part 2 of Andrew Davies’ adaptation of Sarah Waters’ vibrant tale of love in eccentric fin-de-siecle London society. Nan is heartbroken when she learns Kitty is to marry Walter and turns to the streets, dressed as young soldier.

[Nine/7:30pm] Sneak Peek 2007. Well it’s a dressed upa dvertorial, but I think also a great idea to tease the audience with what’s coming, and Nine surely needs to build the excitement.

[Nine/1:15am Mon] Movie: Kiss Me Guido (US 1997) One hilarious mix-up follows another as straight-arrow Frankie, a pizza maker from the Bronx , comes to terms with Greenwich Village gay culture…and his new roomie Warren, comes to terms with Frankie. Stars Nick Scotti and Anthony Barrile. Frequent Coarse Language [L] Sexual References [S] Sex Scenes [S]

[Ten/1:05am Mon] Battlestar Galactica “Sacrifice” Dana Delaney.

[National Georgraphic/7:30pm] Marine Boot Camp. Hosted by Daniel McPherson.

Cable: Entourage, King Kong

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