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Tue July 24

[Seven/7:30pm] RSPCA Animal Rescue.
[Seven/8:00pm] Medical Emergency
[Seven/8:30pm] All Saints. “Bad Blood / Push Me Pull You”. A man’s relatively minor injuries are seriously compounded by a rare blood disease. Dan is starting to worry that his ability to be a good nurse has been compromised by his recent injury. Gabrielle fears that the situation between Charlotte and Zoe is set to explode, and Frank is forced to intervene. And in tonight’s second episode a twenty-year feud between two brothers lands them in the ED impacting on Zoe who has her own feud with Charlotte to deal with. At the same time, Charlotte learns how difficult choices can be when she deals with a transsexual whose life threatening blood clot becomes a no- win situation for either her or her wife.

[Nine/12:00pm] Movie: Love Letter (US 1999) Tom Selleck, Blythe Danner and Ellen DeGeneres. Some Coarse Language [L] Sex Scenes [S]
[Nine/7:30pm] Things to Try Before You Die. Livinia and Jules bring you all the adventures from New Zealand. Livinia swims with dolphins and learns to sail an America’s cup yacht with SailNZ. Jules learns the Haka and tells us the traditional story of the Haka and also visits New Zealand’s only geothermal mud bath and spa facility.
[Nine/9:30pm] CSI: NY “Tri-Borough”

[Ten/7:30pm] All New Simpsons. ‘Sleeping with the Enemy’
[Ten/8:30pm] NCIS rpt.
[Ten/9:30pm] Numb3rs. “Contenders”

[SBS/7:30pm] Insight reports on the ‘National Emergency’ in the Northern Territory, involving the sexual abuse of Indigenous children in remote communities.
[SBS/8:30pm] Cutting Edge: Kidnapped To Order – An exposé of a new phase in America’s war on al Qaeda: the detention of women and children. Last year, President Bush confirmed the existence of a CIA secret detention program, but refused to give details and said it was over. The program reveals new evidence confirming fiercely-denied reports that many of the CIA captives were held and interrogated in Europe. Those prisons may now be closed, but the program is by no means over, it’s just changed. A new front has opened up in the Horn of Africa and America has outsourced its renditions to its allies. (From the UK, in English) (Documentary) M CC WS
[SBS/10:00pm] Hot Docs: Wide Awake – Filmmaker Alan Berliner, examines his struggle with insomnia in this personal documentary. The film takes aim at a debilitating affliction that affects many people at some point in their lives. According to the American National Sleep Foundation, 70 million Americans suffer from some form of sleep problem, and 50 percent of the adults who responded to their poll claimed they don’t sleep as well as they’d like to. Berliner reveals his secret life as a ‘night owl’, and how he has turned the very obsessive energy that keeps him up at night into a source of fuel and inspiration for his creative work. (From the US, in English) (Documentary) M (L) CC

[ABC/8:00pm] Carbon Cops : The Lane Family. Mum, dad and four grown-up children live in a sprawling weatherboard with every conceivable ‘mod con’. Dad is a climate change sceptic – but Mum wants the cops to help her get her family thinking about the subject.
[ABC/8:30pm] The Bill. With her undercover mission blown, and her associate missing, DC Jo Masters goes against the DCI’s orders. CAST: Sally Rogers, Graham Cole.
[ABC/9:20pm] Foreign Correspondent. It’s extremely dangerous, there’s more than half a million people living just below here and they could all be killed. Professor Benedetto De Vivo told reporter Anne Maria Nicholson as they stood looking down on Naples from the summit of Mt Vesuvius.

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