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Melbourne Observer - Wednesday, August 8, 2012 - Page 23
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TV Times
7-DAY TV GUIDE LIFTOUT
Wednesday, August 8 - Tuesday, August 14
Cyclops
Olympics Closing Ceremony ■ Leila McKinnon and Eddie McGuire will host the Closing Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games, to be telecast on Channel 9 from 6am on Monday (Aug. 13). The telecast will be repeated at 9.30pm on Monday night. The ceremony includes the handover from one host city to the next )Rio de Janeiro), and the extinguishing of the Oly-mpic Flame. Channel 9 is rumoured to have lost in the order of $40 million with its Olympics coverage, but it is using the large audience as a platform to launch a number of new showsnext week including Underbelly Badness, Howzat and Anger Management. The Closing Ceremony of the Olympic Games will be titled A Symphony of British Music, to celebrate the fact that music has been one of Britain’s strongest cultural exports over the past 50 years.
● Leila McKinnon
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Peter Sellers Bye Audrey
KERRY PACKER AT WAR ● ‘Audrey Gordon’ ■ Rhubarb Crumble is on the menu when the final episode og Audrey’s Kitchen goes to air at 6.25pm on Sunday (ABC1). ‘Audrey Gordon’ is billed as a writer, cgef, life coach and choreographer. If you want to get an idea of the show, see its pedigree: It is produced by Working Dog Productions. Executive producers are Santo Cilauro, Tom Gleisner, Michael Hirsh and Rob Sitch.
● Geoffrey Rush ■ The Life And Death of Peter Sellars, the 2004 film starring Geoffrey Rush, will air on Seven at 10.30pm on Friday (Aug. 10). The Golden Globe-winning movie also stars Charlize Theron and Miriam Margoyles.
Doctor Death
Rosemary’s Baby
● Lachy Hulme at Kerry Packer in Nine’s new mini-series Howzat ■ Channel 9’s after-Olympics offerings include Howzat! Kerry Packer’s War at 8.30pm on Sunday, August 19 and August 26. Lachy Hulme plays Kerry Packer fighting a cricket ■ Nine is heavily promoting a series of shows to be war where he secretly signs up to 50 of the world’s greatlaunched next week, following the Olympics. est cricket players to form a breakaway tournament. ■ Big Brother, to be hosted by Sonia Kruger, will start at 7pm on Monday (August 13). Some 14 housePacker took on the Australian Cricket Board and MCC mates will be locked away for up to 100 days. on in a wart over TV rights and threw the cricket world into ■ Underbelly: Badness starts at 8.30pm on Monday. turmoil. Jonathan LaPaglia stars as Anthony Perish. Matt John Cornell is played by Abe Forsythe. It also stars Nable is Det. Sgt Gary Jubelin. Damon Gameau (as Greg Chappell), Brendan Cowell ■ Charlie Sheen features in the new series, Anger (Rodney Marsh), Clayton Watson (Ian Chappell), MatManagement,which goes to air at 8.30pm on Tuesday thew Le Nevez (Dennis Lillee), Richard Davies (David (Aug. 14). Hookes0 and Alex England (Tony Greig).
● Aribert Heim ■ The SBS series, As It Happened (9.35pm, Friday) examines the hunt for ‘Doctor Death’, Aribert Heim. In 1941, the young Austrian doctor was assigned to the Mauthausen Concentration Camp. In just weeks, he murdered hundreds of inmates by carrying out horrific and needless experiments.
Exciting shows launch
Media Briefs
Movers, Shakers
Taking to the stage
■ The Nova Network is hosting a 24 hour national Dance Off, ahead of the launch of Network Ten’s Everybody Dance Now, commencing on Thursday (Aug. 9) from 5pm. Nova’s national Drive show, Meshel, Tim and Marty, have set the challenge for five dancers from each state to participate in a 24 hour dance off around the country. ■ The Last Days of Michael Jackson will screen on Seven at 11.45pm tonight (Wed.). Viewers are taken inside the last days of the US music legend.
■ TV performer Shane Bourne will star as Senez in A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum, to be staged at Her Majesty’s Theatre. Other TV names to appear are Magda Szubanski (Domina), Hugh Sheridan (Hero), Gerry Connolly (Marcus Lycus), and Bob Hornery (Erronius). ■ Living With The Enemy, the second in a four-part series, goes to air at 3.30pm this Sunday (Aug. 12) on SBS. This episode, Hunger And Hope, tells the story of the founding of the two German states, 1945-1949.
● Meshel Laurie
● Mia Farrow ■ ABC1 will screen Rosemary’s Baby at 11.35pm on Sunday. Mia Farrow stars with John Cassavetes in this 1968 classic. Directed by Roman Polanski, it portrays an actor’s wife being impregnated with the devil after unwittingly becoming friendly with diabolists.
■ The popular History of Scotland (SBS, 8.30pm, Friday), hosted by Neil Oliver, has the third part of five this week, looking at the second half of the 18th Century. It was transformed from a por backwater to one of the richest nations on earth.
TV Times Tele-Grams
There is more André Rieu this week when SBS airs Maastrict III, at ★ 1pm on Friday. The violin virtuoso performs an evening concert in a traditional evening concert in Vrijthof Square. Channel Nine debuts its new Farmer Wants A Wife series at 8pm on ★ Wednesday next week (Aug. 15). The farmers are Matt, Tom, Paul, Nikko, Sam and Todd. Channel 10’s struggling Breakfast program, hosted by Paul Henry, ★ now features advertorials, once the province of The Circle (now axed). comedian David Mitchell traces his Scottish roots in the next ★British episode of Who Do You Think You Are? (7.30pm, Tuesday, SBS).