Fri / Sat / Sun Mar 9 / 10 / 11

Friday 9
[SBS/10:00pm] Sex N Pop – It Ain’t Necessarily So – Homosexuality & Pop Music – This documentary series hits the gay dance floor and traces the history of gay emancipation. Spearheaded by early androgynous role models Lou Reed and David Bowie, the behaviour of pop stars has played a major part in the acceptance of homosexuals. During the 1980s a wave of homosexual emancipation swept through the music charts with artists such as Boy George, Jimmy Somerville, Marc Almond and different forms of androgyny influenced the pop universe. Today, artists like the Scissor Sisters and R&B-singer Ari Gold lead a new wave of openly gay artists. (From Germany, in English, German and French, English subtitles) (Part 3) M (L,N,S) (Rpt) CC WS
[SBS/11:05pm] Movie: Spasm (Thailand 2003) Tomboy student Tao (Pimpaporn Leenutapong) supports her studies by writing for her uncle’s racy magazine Sayew , but faces the sack unless she can sex up her prose to help fend off the challenge from glossy adult photo magazines. She tries writing fantasies based on her neighbours, and then (on the advice of an uncle) starts reaching for first-hand experience to draw on. Directed by Kongdej Jaturanrasamee and Kiat Songsanant and also stars Nuntawat Arsirapojcharnakul, Anon Saisangchan and Nirut Vichitwongcharoen.(From Thailand, in Thai, English subtitles) (Comedy) (2003) MA (S,A,N) WS

[ABC/8:30pm] Dalziel and Pascoe. Final. When a ram raid at a transit office in Wetherton results in the murder of one of the security guards, Dalziel (Warren Clarke) and Pascoe (Colin Buchanan) are called in to investigate. The dead man is linked to a local restaurant and a close-knit group of friends led by the charming smooth-talker Steve Pitt (Steve John Shepherd). The group, who met at university, are as tight knit as a family. But when Steve is killed, the ties are unpicked to reveal the most dysfunctional, incestuous family in Wetherton. And there’s more than one person with a motive to kill Steve.
[ABC/11:00pm] Little Britain. Final. Sir Norman Fry has some explaining to do following an incident with a glace cherry, Vicky Pollard is displaying her woeful child-minding skills and Sid Pegg is up in arms about the defacing of a street sign. Rpt.

[Nine/8:00pm] Airport. Flamboyant cabin steward Axel jets in from Iceland.
[Nine/8:30pm] Movie: Ocean’s 12. (US 2004).

[Ten/7:30pm] 2007 NAB Cup (LIVE) Semi Final – Brisbane Lions v Geelong

[Biography/7:30pm] An Audience With. Cliff Richard.
[Arena/8:00pm] Boys Will Be Boys.
[UKTV/9:30pm] Bad Girls. New Series.
[Ovation/8:30pm] A Tribute to Bob Fosse.

SATURDAY 10
[Nine/11:30am] The Scene. Music, fashion, lifestyle with Damian Nicholas.
[Nine/12:30pm] Kellogg’s Nutrigrain Ironman Series.
[Nine/7:30pm] Movie: A Cinderella Story (US 2004). Hilary Duff, Jennifer Coolidge.

[Seven/9:45pm] Movie: The Whole Ten Yards. (US 2004) BRUCE WILLIS and MATTHEW PERRY are back in the hilarious sequel to the hit comedy THE WHOLE NINE YARDS. Thanks to falsified dental records, retired hit man Jimmy ‘The Tulip’ Tudeski faked his own death and has taken up a new line of work as a homemaker for his wife Jill, a novice assassin who has yet to pull off a clean hit. Suddenly, an uninvited and unwelcome connection to their past appears, it’s their former neighbour Oz who begs them to help rescue his wife from the Hungarian mob. Oz, Jimmy and Jill spring into action and will have to go the whole nine yards – and then some – to manage the mounting Mafioso mayhem that’s about to be unleashed. Also starring AMANDA PEET, KEVIN POLLAK, NATASHA HENSTRIDGE, FRANK COLLISON, JOHNNY MESSNER, SILAS WEIR MITCHELL, TASHA SMITH, ELISA GALLAY, JOHNNY WILLIAMS and TALLULAH BELLE WILLIS.

[ABC/9:30pm] The West Wing. On the eve of Ellie Bartlet’s (Nina Siemaszko) White House wedding, a military situation in Central Asia takes President Bartlet away from rehearsal festivities. Meanwhile, the election is 6 weeks away and Santos is trailing by 7 points. Josh, Leo and Santos plot over where to spend their rapidly dwindling monetary resources. Some Democrat Party loyalists want Santos to replace Josh, but Leo advises against it. President Bartlet finally takes a break from being President to walk his daughter down the aisle. Leo struggles through debate practice and makes Josh and Lou (Janeane Garofalo) extremely nervous. Santos gets a brief respite from the campaign trail to see his family – with the press in tow.

[Ten/6:30pm] Celebrity Dog School.
[Ten/7:30pm] Movie: Honey (US 2003). Honey is a 22 year old hip hop dancer who dreams of making it big as a music video choreographer. After meeting a famous video director with only one thing on his mind, she’s given the push to make it on her own terms. Starring: Jessica Alba, Mekhi Phifer, Lil’ Romeo

[SBS/10:20pm] Classic Albums: Nirvana – Nevermind. There possibly isn’t an album in history that is as genre defining as Nirvana’s Nevermind. Released in 1991, it single-handedly was responsible for the birth of what became known as grunge and has gone on to sell over 8 million copies in the US alone. As part of the SBS VIP Pass music season the documentary Classic Albums: Nirvana – Nevermind shows us the history and making of this highly influential second album from the American grunge band. Classic Albums: Nirvana – Nevermind catapulted Nirvana from relative obscurity to the heights of commercial and critical success virtually overnight. It radically altered the musical landscape, shifting the focus away from the hair metal of the 1980s, and giving rise to the grunge movement which dominated the first few years of the 1990s. In the wake of its success, other Seattle bands such as Pearl Jam and Soundgarden would go on to have hit albums as well, and other alternative rock artists were suddenly being played on the radio and courted by record labels. This documentary Classic Albums: Nirvana – Nevermind features interviews with surviving band members, producer Butch Vig, members of the DCG promotions team, and representatives from Sub Pop records. Collectively, they deconstruct the creation of the landmark album and give insight into the luminary Kurt Cobain who touched millions of dysfunctional and disillusioned youths. They delve deeper into the architectural design Kurt envisioned for the album by describing how Kurt’s vocals acted as a glue to bring the tracks together by utilising their sounds even more so than their meanings, all along focusing on a child-like simplicity. Classic Albums: Nirvana – Nevermind features live footage of key tracks such as Lithium, Polly, Drain You, and Smells Like Teen Spirit which complement the various interviews. Nirvana’s surviving members Krist Novoselic (bass) and Dave Grohl (drums) talk candidly about the past, the recording of Nevermind and about Kurt Cobain and the legacy that he has left behind.
[SBS/9:20pm] Rockwiz. Betty Harris And John Paul Young
[SBS/11:05pm] SOS – Shorts On Screen –THE SAVIOUR (Aust Oscar Nominee 2006) – Malcolm is a gentle, effective door-to-door evangelist who is in love with a married woman. With pressure mounting from his church to convert her, Malcolm decides his Bible is the very weapon he needs to destroy the marriage that is keeping him from his true love. (From Australia, in English) (Rpt); OUR MAN IN NIRVANA – An animated homage to psychedelic art, music and Asian shadow puppet plays.(From Germany, no dialogue); BOY MEETS GIRL STORIES – JEALOUSY – All in bed together; two boys compete for the attention of one girl. (From the Netherlands, in Dutch); ADOLESCENT – A stylised documentary film that gives us a glimpse into what teenagers get up to at a party. (From Australia, no dialogue); UNINVERSO – Saulo is displaced in a devouring megalopolis that is, literally, upside down. But he sticks to his routine, ignoring the abnormal gravitational force. (From Brazil, in Portuguese) M (Rpt) WS

[Biography/7:30pm] Inside the Actors Studio. Cast of Everybody Loves Raymond.
[World Movies/10:20pm] Movie: Story of the Weeping Camel (Germany/ Mongolia 2003)

SUNDAY 11
[Seven/11:00am] Dragons: A Fantasy Made Real
Imagine dragons as real animals. Working with scientists, artists and animators, we envision how these mythical animals would have evolved into a number of different species through the ages and around the globe. How dragons found mates, raised their young, protected their territory and struggled to survive human encroachment, just as animals have done throughout history. Narrated by PATRICK STEWART.
[Seven/6:30pm] Australia’s Got Talent.
[Seven/7:30pm] Ugly Betty. Justin gets to spend a day at Mode Magazine – practically the little kid’s dream come true. There’s a telling moment when the older, if effeminate, Marc compliments him on his Ralph Lauren vest. Marc: So, the kids at school, do they like it? Justin: No. They don’t really get me. Marc: A word of advice, be who you are, wear what you want. Just learn how to run real fast.
[Seven/8:30pm] Grey’s Anatomy. WHAT I AM. Addison begins to doubt her abilities as a doctor. Cristina pushes Burke’s rehabilitation. One of the interns suffers their own medical emergency, and Izzie receives the surprise of her life. Guest starring CHRIS O’DONNELL and FRED WARD.
[Seven/9:30pm] What About Brian? THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING BRIAN. It’s Saturday and everyone wants something from Brian, but no one can find him. Nicole’s got car trouble, Deena and Dave need help at a kids party, Adam wants some guy time and Marjorie wants to talk about their relationship. But Brian has decided that he would rather spend the day with his new love, Lisa B.

[Ten/6:30pm] Thank God You’re Here. Rpt.
[Ten/7:30pm] The Biggest Loser.
[Ten/8:30pm] Movie: School of Rock
[Ten/10:00pm] Movie: Super Size Me. Rpt.

[Nine/6:30pm] 20 to One. Mistakes, Madness and Mayhem.
[Nine/7:30pm] 60 Minutes.
[Nine/8:30pm] CSI. “Double cross.”
[Nine/9:30pm] CSI: Miami. “Death Pool 100” 100th episode.
[Nine/10:30pm] True CSI.

[ABC/7:30pm] Planet Earth. Final. Oceans cover two thirds of the planet, yet remain largely unexplored. For animals that dwell on the surface or within the deepest abyss, it’s finding food and conserving energy that is paramount. Off Venezuela, a 30 tonne whale shark is filmed gorging on a school of fish rather than its normal plankton diet. Then the fearsome oceanic white tip shark, fast becoming a global rarity, hunts the uppermost 100 metres of the sea alone, whilst fast-moving pods of dolphins charge en masse in search of prey. Planet Earth’s unique overhead heli-gimbal camera reveals the impressive swimming prowess of ocean dwelling common dolphins as they rocket at more than 30 kilometres an hour. The nocturnal upward migration of billions of plankton near Hawaii is eagerly awaited by giant manta rays gorging in the darkness. In Costa Rica, the night hides squadrons of squid, desperately dodging the sonar of hunting spotted dolphins. Off the coast of Mexico the first ever time lapse footage taken 2,000 metres down reveals eels and crabs. Giant woodlice-like isopods devour a large carcass, completely consuming it within three hours. Finally, extraordinary images capture the moment when more than 100 exquisite, three-metre sailfish hunt down their prey in a perfectly choreographed dance of death.
[ABC/8:30pm] Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple. New Series. “Sleeping Murder”. Gwenda Halliday (Sophia Myles) arrives in England from India and is met by Hugh Hornbeam (Aidan McArdle), who works for her fiancé. The bride-to-be is strangely drawn to a picturesque house called Hillside and decides to buy it. As Gwenda sets about redecorating Hillside strange things start to happen. And Hornbeam seeks family friend Miss Marple (Geraldine McEwan) who realises that Gwenda is recalling a repressed memory of a murder she witnessed as a child. Further investigation reveals that Gwenda did live in Hillside when she was very young, and that her father Kelvin (Julian Wadham) had moved there after the death of her mother. That is, until his new fiancée Helen (Anna-Louise Plowman) suddenly disappeared. Kelvin then took his own life and Gwenda was sent to India to live with relatives. Miss Marple tracks down Gwenda’s uncle Dr James Kennedy (Phil Davis) and Mrs Paggett (Una Stubbs), the previous cook at Hillside, who tells them that Helen was a singer in a musical troupe called The Funnybones. One by one, Gwenda and Hornbeam seek out the group members to quiz them. They meet Dickie (Paul McGann) and Janet Erskine (Dawn French), who were in charge of the troupe and now run a guest house, Jackie Afflick (Martin Kemp), the sleazy pianist, and Evie Balantyne (Sarah Parish), who now headlines at the Palladium. They also meet shy local solicitor Walter Fane (Peter Serafinowicz), who was The Funnybones’ devoted fan and close friend of Helen’s. Miss Marple and her fellow sleuths are convinced that Helen was murdered and waste no time in coaxing local detective Inspector Primer (Russ Abbot) into re-opening the case. Miss Marple eventually encourages Inspector Primer to gather all the suspects in a room and from there explains what happened on the fateful night the Funnybones parted company and their beautiful singer disappeared forever.
[ABC/10:35pm] 4 Emperors And 1 Nightingale And A Ballet That Was Lost. In 1925 the ballet ‘Le Chant du Rossignol’ was commissioned. Alicia Markova danced the part of the Nightingale. It was lost until, in 1999 two English dance historians researched and recreated it for the Monte Carlo Ballet. Rpt.

[SBS/8:30pm] A Day In The Life Of A Cigarette – Today, 1.1 billion people will smoke a cigarette, 40,000 people will embark on their first day of kicking the habit, 12,500 kids will try their first cigarette and 370 smokers will be diagnosed with lung cancer. A Day In The Life Of A Cigarette teases apart perhaps the strangest affair we’ve ever had – our love/hate relationship with the cigarette. A love, a need, for this intoxicating drug is one thing that unites people across the globe. Personal stories highlight the hypocrisy, irony and absurdity of our planet’s fixation with the cigarette. Why do we continue to smoke despite everything we know? Will this warped affair ever end? (From the UK, in English, Japanese and Mandarin with English subtitles) (Documentary) M CC WS
[SBS/9:30pm] Hooray For Bollywood: The Rising – The Ballad Of Mangal Pandey – This film follows the life of Mangal Pandey a sepoy (Indian infantryman) and his progression from a disciplined, conscientious soldier into a violent mutineer. The trigger for his mutiny was the army’s introduction of a new gunpowder cartouche that was greased with cow and pig fat, making it off-limits for both the Hindu and Muslim sepoys. Pandey’s long-standing, close friend, William Gordon, a young Scottish officer, had assured Pandey that the cartouches were free of animal products but when this was revealed to be untrue, Pandey abruptly severed his links with his friend and began his revolt against the British. Ultimately it was this revolt that brought down the East India Company and eventually India’s rule reverted to the British Crown. Directed by Ketan Mehta and stars Aamir Khan (Lagaan) and Toby Stephens. (From India, in Hindi and English with English subtitles) (Drama) (2005) M (S, V, A) CC WS

[Discovery/7:30pm] True Asian Horror. The new wave of Asian horror filmmakers.
[Biography/9:30pm] Chippendales: A Secret History.