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Saturday switcheroo at SBS

Wild Burma, Saturday night movies and a new time for Duck Quacks Dont Echo.

2014-08-07_2345SBS ONE is making some changes to Saturdays from tomorrow.

It will now air movies at 8:30pm instead of 9:30pm. As a result Duck Quacks Dont Echo moves to 10:15pm tomorrow night.

Tomorrow’s movie is
Death At A Funeral (2007)
Chaos ensues when a man tries to expose a dark secret regarding a recently deceased patriarch of a dysfunctional British family. Directed by Frank Oz. Starring Matthew Macfadyen, Alan Tudyk, Kris Marshall and Peter Dinklage.

It also launches 3 part doco Wild Burma at 7:30pm, previously titled Expedition Burma.

Wild Burma: Nature’s Lost Kingdom
For the first time in over 50 years, a team of wildlife filmmakers and scientists have been granted access to venture deep into Burma’s impenetrable jungles. Their mission is to discover whether these forests are home to iconic animals, rapidly disappearing from the rest of the world. On the first leg of their journey, wildlife filmmakers Gordon Buchanan and Justine Evans, set out to discover whether the mountains of western Burma are home to a population of Asian elephants that could prove critical to the survival of the species. Finding elephants in a dense bamboo forest is a challenge. It’s a race against time as the world eyes up Burma’s natural riches – what the team finds could change the future of Burma’s wilds forever.

Upcoming movies are:

Movie: Attack The Block (2011)
From the producers of Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, Attack the Block follows a gang of tough inner-city kids who try to defend their turf against an invasion of savage alien creatures, turning a South London apartment complex into an extra-terrestrial warzone.

Movie: The Queen (2006)
After the death of Princess Diana, Queen Elizabeth II struggles with her reaction to a sequence of events nobody could have predicted. Directed by Stephen Frears, starring Helen Mirren and James Cromwell.

One Response

  1. SBS might as well merge with ABC given more English programming appearing in the schedule. Where is the point of difference to define SBS as a “multicultural” broadcaster? They’re just giving the “merge ABC-SBS” brigade more ammunition to work with.

    Last week SBS1 had Bend It Like Beckham on. I mean I know it features an Indian family and about soccer/football but is this really what SBS should be doing… rehashing English-language movies already played numerous times on commercial TV?

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