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Sun Herald Sunday 22/1/2012 Brief: WDSTAFF Page: 26 Page 1 of 4 Section: TV Guide Region: Sydney Circulation: 410,407 Type: Capital City Daily Size: 982.92 sq.cms. Frequency: ------S PAY TV THIS WEEK BRAD NEWSOME IV 7 Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, January 22 January 23 January 24 Design Star Superweapons of the Ancient World Mech Men LifeStyle Home, 6.30 pm Discovery Science, 8.30pm National Geographic, Tonight, the American interior Engineers build a Roman tortoise- 7.30pm designers competing for the chance style battering ram to see if they can An interesting look at the progress to host their own TV show are demolish a replica city wall. being made in designing powered working on real people's houses. exoskeletons of the kind usually Somewhere out in New York's Jono: What if My Baby Is seen in Japanese cartoons. Eye- commuter belt they are split into Born Like Me? opening demonstrations show the two teams of five, each doing over LifeStyle You, 9.30pm inventions really can endow their two rooms for one lucky home An affecting and respectful operators with superhuman owner. What follows is equal parts documentary in which young Briton strength, speed and endurance. inspiration and frustration but the Jono Lancaster and his partner, Their potential looks great for use in personalities of the contestants do Laura, weigh up whether or not to rescue operations, for helping not so much clash as slowly chafe have a child who could inherit Jono's soldiers carry heavy equipment over against each other. The changes are Treacher Collins syndrome. Treacher long distances and even for helping imaginative and most of them wind Collins is a rare genetic disorder that the wheelchair-bound to walk again. up being impressivethough not causes facial deformities, such as a the feature wall, described by one lack of cheekbones and ears, along Monster Bug Wars judge as "the colour of organ meat". with other problems. As Jono and Animal Planet, 7.30pm Laura investigate their options Close-up footage of insects and The Aussie Way Up which include IVF with pre- arachnids fighting to the death is Nat Geo Adventure, 8.30pm implantation genetic screening always awesome so we can forgive By the end of tonight's second they also visit children who have the producers tricking this up with episode, the four Australian mates Treacher Collins to see how they spooky theremin music and the travelling from Hobart to Darwin in manage. One happy little girl is so sounds of big mammals growling bio-diesel vehicles have not even badly affected that she can't talk. and roaring over the invertebrate made it out of Tasmania. Oh well, action. The first showdown pits a maybe the trip will start to get Sicily's Mummies praying mantis against a spiny leaf interesting at some stage. Tonight, it History, 9.30pm insect. It's not giving much away to is just about mechanical and A documentary about the hundreds say that this leads to the mantis logistical hassles and the scrounging of embalmed bodies that populate hungrily chowing down on the other of used cooking oil. the catacombs beneath Sicily's bug's gooey innards while it's still Catholic churches. The embalming alive. Later, a bull ant takes on a Enlightened vogue seems to have started among redback spider and a water spider Showcase, 8.30pm ascetic Capuchin monks in the late takes on a water strider. Great stuff. Amy (Laura Dern, pictured) is not 1500s. During the ensuing centuries finding her newly acquired New Age it spread to well-fed church leaders Green Porno outlook all that much help in whose skeletons show signs of Stvdio, 8.30pm adjusting to life on a lower rung of obesity, gout and diabetesand This is that bizarre series in which the corporate ladder. Reconnecting well-to-do laity. Isabella Rossellini re-enacts the with former hubby Levi (Luke mating rituals of various animals. Wilson) is not easy either. Worth a look Quite educational, actually. Balls of Steel Australia Worth a look (Comedy, 6pm) Worth a look Frogs: The Thin Green Line Bomb Hunters: Afghanistan Boardwalk Empire (National Geographic, 5.30pm) (National Geographic, 8.30pm) (Showcase, 8.30pm) Curiosity: Your Body on Drugs Bon Jovi: When We Were Dance Moms (Discovery, 7.30pm) Beautiful (BBC Knowledge, (LifeStyle You, 9.30pm) Unlikely Animal Friends 9.35 pm) A documentary filmed Seven Ages of Rock: Heavy (Nat Geo Wild, 7.30pm) during the band's 2007 world tour. Metal (BBC Knowledge, 9.45pm) Copyright Agency Ltd (CAL) licenced copy Ref: 130744114 Sun Herald Sunday 22/1/2012 Brief: WDSTAFF Page: 26 Page 2 of 4 Section: TV Guide Region: Sydney Circulation: 410,407 Type: Capital City Daily Size: 982.92 sq.cms. Frequency: ------S Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, January 25 January 26 January 27 American Idol Australia Day stand-up Warehouse 13 Fox8, 7.35pm Comedy, various times Sci Fl, 8.30pm Jennifer Lopez, Randy Jackson and The Comedy Channel celebrates This serviceable science-fantasy the ever-hilarious Steven Tyler head Australia Day by sprinkling stand-up drama returns for a third series to San Diego as auditions continue. specials by various comedians with Secret Service agent Pete through the day's schedule, Lattimer (Eddie McClintock) I Survived... Stories including Jimeoin (3.30pm), Fiona needing a new partner to help of Australians O'Loughlin (5.30pm), Carl Barron retrieve the dangerous magical Bio, 8.30pm (8.30pm) and Akmal (9.30pm). artefacts that happen to be lying The first sentence uttered sets the all over the US. His old partner, tone: "I got trapped under a building Convict Australia Myka Bering (Joanne Kelly), has with a car on my leg and I remember History, 3.30pm quit but still pops up tonight to help saying to myself, 'You're gone.'" This was made way back in 1998 but solve the main mystery. Before that, Those are the words of Sydneysider don't let that put you offthere is though, there's the small matter of Dianne Boardman, pictured, who, plenty of interesting stuff as Jimi Hendrix's haunted guitar. It with husband Les, survived when presenter Ian Wright traces the ain't exactly The X-Files but it has the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami history of convicts in this country. a following. smashed into the Thai town of He seeks out an Aboriginal Patong. Equally horrific is the ordeal perspective and looks at how the My Big Friggin' Wedding of former Australian army major white perceptions of convicts have LifeStyle You, 8.30pm Matina Jewell, who was stationed at changed over the yearswhere More Jersey Shore-style arguments a tiny United Nations post in families once hid their convict and orange tans as five young Lebanon when war broke out ancestry for generations, many now American couples move closer to between Israel and Hezbollah in happily boast of it. their wedding days. 2006, and the case of a concreter who spent hours impaled on a metal Tough Nuts: George Stafford Brothers bar after an accident that killed two Freeman Fox8, 8.35pm of his workmates. As always,/ CI, 7.30pm This tiresome reality show following Survived eschews sensation. The best thing about Tough Nuts is the exploits of Australian nightclub that it features cops, journalists and DJs Matt and Chris Stafford is back Ladies and Gentlemen: others who tangled with the crooks for a second series. The brothers the Rolling Stones in question. Tonight these include have decided Asia should be the Stvdio,10.45pm the crusading journalist Bob Bottom, next continent to fall in their This feature-length documentary who can perhaps consider himself campaign to conquer the world, so captures the Rolling Stones at their lucky he wasn't murdered on the they establish a beachhead on peak, over four nights in Texas in orders of Sydney crime boss Koh Samui, getting smashed and 1972, touring to support their Freeman in the 1980s. The doco carrying on like typically boorish, greatest album, Exile on Main Street. does a good job of tracing Freeman's boozed-up tourists. Their ill- It's a stunning set played with life and career to his apogee as tempered manager, Joey, magisterial swagger honed by Sydney's illegal-gambling kingpin. meanwhile, is giving himself garlic- months on the road. Guitarist Mick water enemas at a wanky health Taylor would leave the band shortly Worth a look resort. Back in Sydney, Matt's after this tour, precipitating the Tony Robinson Explores girlfriend, Brooke, has landed a job band's long, slow decline. Australia (History, 7.30pm) Three at a lad's mag. episodes in which Robinson looks Worth a look at the European discovery and Worth a look Teen Mom (MTV, 8.30 pm) settlement of Australia. Outrageous Fortune (W, 7.30 pm) Grimm (Fox8, 8.35pm) Inside Marijuana Polar Bears: Spy on the Ice David Suchet on the Orient (National Geographic, 8.30pm) (BBC Knowledge, 7.35pm) Express (13th Street, 9.30pm) All Worked Up (Cl, 9pm) The Corner (Showcase, 10.20pm) Copyright Agency Ltd (CAL) licenced copy Ref: 130744114 Sun Herald Sunday 22/1/2012 Brief: WDSTAFF Page: 26 Page 3 of 4 Section: TV Guide Region: Sydney Circulation: 410,407 Type: Capital City Daily Size: 982.92 sq.cms. Frequency: ------S iF' ;unday, January 29 Pay TV show of the week Last Man Standing Fox8, 7.30pm More than a decade after Home Improvement finished, Tim Allen makes his big return to the small screen in another primetime family sitcom. Unfortunately, it's a pretty bad one.