Wed Jan 10
Editorial comments in blue.
[Ten/6:30pm] Neighbours Pepper is at odds with her mother who recently came out. It’s a bit cliché and dumbed down to the audience demographic. But at least they are going there..
[Seven/9:30pm] The Unit. Final. "The Wall."
[Nine/10:35pm] Men in Trees.
[ABC/8:35pm] We Can Be Heroes: Finding The Australian Of The Year (CC, Rpt, M* Coarse Language) It's a nervous wait for the nominees as the Australian of the Year State finalists are officially notified.
[ABC/11:30pm] Movie: Citizen Kane. (CC, G, 1941, Rpt) A newspaper tycoon dies, and a magazine reporter interviews his friends in an effort to discover the meaning of his last words. CAST: Orson Welles
[ABC/1:25am Thu] Movie: Affair With A Stranger (G, 1953, B&W;, Rpt) When a TV gossip columnist wrongly announces a successful playwright and his wife are breaking up, New York friends reminisce about how the two met and married. CAST: Jean Simmons, Victor Mature
[SBS/8:00pm] INSIDE AUSTRALIA: ELVIS LIVES IN PARKES – For three days each year, Parkes, in central NSW is taken over by the Elvis Festival. Elvis devotees, Bob and Anne Steel intended the festival to help the struggling town’s economy through the slow summer months. However, over the next ten years the Elvis Festival would have to contend with bushfires, floods, financial loss, dwindling numbers, exhaustion, and continuing community indifference to their efforts. At the last minute help came from the local newspaper – whose editor was a huge Elvis fan. With his campaign the local council came on board and the Tourism Officer embraced the Elvis Festival – bringing in record numbers of people. Combining energetic storytelling with the playful narration of Elvis (or at least someone who looks a lot like him!) this film tells the story of the most unlikely community festival in Australia and the loveable, sometimes eccentric, people that made it possible. (Commissioned by SBS Independent, in English) PG CC WS
[SBS/10:00pm] FESTIVAL MOVIE: DIRTY PRETTY THINGS – This Oscar nominated film, from director Stephen Frears (The Queen) takes you into the shadowy world of illegal immigrants living in Britain. Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kinky Boots) is a Nigerian illegal immigrant living in London, working as a hotel-porter by night and a taxi driver by day. Senay (Audrey Tautou, Amelie), a young Turkish woman, is also an illegal immigrant, earning a pittance as a maid in the hotel where Okwe works. One morning, Okwe is instructed by the sinister hotel manager (Sergi Lopez, Janis And John) to clean up a room where a guest has been staying with a prostitute. Okwe finds the lavatory overflowing with blood and he soon realises that he has uncovered something far more sinister than just a common crime. This film won several British Independent Film Awards and won the Sergio Trasatti Award at the 2002 Venice Film Festival. (From the UK, in English) (Drama) (2002) MA (L,V,A) CC WS
[Movie Extra/8:30pm] Movie: Mysterious Skin (US 2004) Gregg Araki's tough but affecting drama with the wonderful Joseph Gordon Levitt. The film they tried to ban.
[UKTV/9:00pm] The Catherine Tate Show. Premiere. Absolutely hilarious fun. Think Jennifer Saunders protege. Wicked sketches, wicked fun. But why are all 6 eps airing over 3 nights?
