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TWENTY/20 CRICKET

Delayed coverage of the Twenty/20 match between the State Northern Knights and Bangladesh.

TWENTY/20 CRICKET, Sunday 23rd December at 9.30pm

LISA WILLIAMS – LIFE AMONG THE DEAD
REALITY
Tonight Lisa connects with a young girl with a school friend who died in a car crash.

Lisa heads to the office where she gives a reading to Donna. Lisa connects her with both her biological mother and the grandmother who raised her. Lisa also has the difficult task of revealing that Donna was the product of a sexual assault, giving Donna the ability to finally put together the pieces of her puzzling childhood and move forward. Lisa then travels over to Morgan’s house where she is able to connect her with her dad who died of cancer and in an unexpected twist, brings in Morgan’s cousin who wants Morgan to know that her death was not an accident. Later, Lisa stops by a clothing store and tells a customer that her mother doesn’t want her to worry about her. The customer gets emotional and explains that her mother has been ill and she just came back from visiting her. Lisa ends her day at the Landmark 78 restaurant, where she meets the owner Darlene. Lisa is able to connect with Rosa, a friendly spirit who likes Darlene and her family and is unwilling to leave. Lisa helps Rosa pass over to the other side, giving Darlene the comfort of knowing she’ll be okay when the family moves.

LISA WILLIAMS – LIFE AMONG THE DEAD, Sunday 23rd December at 8.30pm

RICK STEIN’S MEDITERRANEAN ESCAPES
LIFESTYLE
In tonight’s episode Rick leaves the island of Corfu and heads to the Spanish island of Mallorca, where he eats what he describes as the most succulent lamb he has ever tasted.
Rick interprets Mallorcan-style cooking with his chicken with sobrasada, a soft and spreadable Mallorcan sausage made with pork loin and fat, paprika, salt and cayenne pepper. Rick then travels to Barcelona’s La Boqueria market of St Joseph, which he says is the best place to eat Catalan food. With Catalonia in mind, he cooks the local food of salt cod fritters with allioli (a punchy garlic sauce).

RICK STEIN’S MEDITERRANEAN ESCAPES, Sunday 23rd December at 7.30pm

NEW – BONDI RESCUE
REALITY

Bondi, Australia – the most famous and busiest beach in the world, where the beautiful people surf and bathe.
This hot new reality show allows exclusive access to the elite lifeguards – full time council employees who patrol 24/7. These are the unsung heroes. In one year they may conduct 2,105 rescues – three times as many as the better-known volunteer lifesavers who wear the red and yellow. Whilst they work in tandem, the lifeguards have the ultimate responsibility for looking after the 2.5 million visitors that come to Bondi Beach every year. A single lifeguard will sometimes save 20 people from drowning in one day. These professional watermen pull swimmers, surfers and fishermen from treacherous seas in a job where minutes, even seconds, matter. A day can involve anything from dealing with bag thieves, major first aids, drunken and drug affected people, lost children, punch-ups, spinal injuries, body retrievals and even sharks. Tonight, despite being female in a male domain, former Iron Woman Brooke Cassell is a solid inclusion to the pre-season training squad. The same can’t be said of slightly built Penrith local Blake McKeown, whose board skills come under immediate scrutiny.

As summer kicks off a shark visits swimmers between the flags, nude swimmers refuse to change their dress code, and in a near-death experience, soon-to-be-married Londoner Terry Smith, realises how quickly the sea can take the life of the unwary.

BONDI RESCUE, Sunday 23rd December at 7:00pm

SUNDAY 23rd DECEMBER

DOCUMENTARY

This road is built for speed. It’s a fast-paced, high-octane fantasy come true. This is the Autobahn. When the freedom of no speed limit intersects with the precision of German engineering, the result draws drivers from all over the world.
The German Autobahn is renowned for precise engineering and infamous for unlimited speeds. Most of the Autobahn system has no speed limit and the average speed is about 130 kilometres per hour but at any time those that can, do. About 10 percent or so are going 160 km per hour and up. The Autobahn is nearly 11,700 kilometres in length, which is enough to cross the United States twice. MEGASTRUCTURES: AUTOBAHN profiles what it takes to build, operate, maintain and drive the world’s ultimate super highway.
MEGASTRUCTURES: The Autobahn, Sunday 23rd December at 6:00pm

RETURNS – MIDSOMER MURDERS
DRAMA

Blackmail, intrigue, deceit, adultery and murder abound, as the dastardly goings on in the seemingly idyllic county of Midsomer are unravelled by DCI Barnaby.
A couple who have been searching the Midsomer area for a suitable property to renovate, are found brutally garrotted in their car outside a supposedly haunted dilapidated old cottage in the woods near Midsomer Newton. There are several other people interested in buying the house, but are they desperate enough to murder potential rivals? Barnaby (John Nettles) investigates, with the assistance of PC Ben Jones (Jason Hughes) who he temporarily appoints Detective Constable, in the absence of DS Scott. Joyce Barnaby is helping a local group of conservationists identify architecturally important buildings in the area, and is asked to investigate the same cottage, potentially putting her in danger. Barnaby then discovers that there is something odd about the person selling the cottage.

MIDSOMER MURDERS, Saturday 22nd December at 8.30pm

WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE: David Baddiel

DOCUMENTARY

Comedian, writer and performer David traces the persecution of the Jew’s before and during World War II in Germany and Eastern Europe and discovers how those who escaped the Nazis to Britain were treated as enemy aliens.

Standing in a windswept, industrial Russian wasteland, writer and comedian David Baddiel surveys the insignificant remnants of his heritage – one blackened fragment of a factory wall.

“My mother’s family were wealthy industrialists until 1933. But they were German Jews and the Nazis stripped them of everything,” he reveals. “They were amongst the last Jews to leave Germany – just three weeks before war was declared.

Baddiel had already begun this poignant and emotional voyage of discovery by writing a novel about his grandparents’ experiences during the war. “My head was choc full of family history, and I’d also just turned 40,” he explains. “When you’re younger you think you’re this self-enclosed short story, then you realise you’re a chapter in a book and that you want to read the rest of the book. “My history on both sides of my family involves persecution and people fleeing in horror.

“This creates mystery – and the human response to that is you want to crack the mystery.”

Baddiel’s mission was to try and uncover the truth about his mother’s parentage – she had always believed herself to be adopted, possibly the daughter of her uncle. But he also discovers huge amounts about his past, not least the fact that he is far from being the only David Baddiel in London.
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, Saturday 22nd December at 7:30pm

QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY

REALITY

He’s a real-life Dr Doolittle who cares more about his animals than his own personal grooming. So the Fab Five give zookeeper Carlos a life-changing makeover.

It’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it. Carlos has been a zookeeper at the world famous

Bronx Zoo for the past seven years. This animal lover spends his days maintaining and caring

for zoo animals that include camels, rhinos, deer and giraffes. On his off-hours, he spends his

nights in his new apartment with his new roommates Ken and Jack – along with their pets: Luna, Ken’s dog (crested Doberman); Jack’s two scorpions and their offspring; Giant fish tanks; and Carlos’ stray cat Felix and his two ferrets, three cockatiels, two tarantulas, one gecko, and one horn frog.

QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY, Saturday 22nd December at 6.00pm

COMING SOON:

BONDI RESCUE

Sydney’s Bondi Beach is one of the most famous strips of white sand in the world. Thousands of people flock there each year to surf, sunbathe and to be seen. Keeping an eye on them all are the unsung heroes, the Bondi Lifeguards. This hot new reality series follows characters like Reidy, Yatesy, Corey and Hoppo who deal with anything from shark scares to mass rescues, resuscitations, lost children and thieves. Bondi Rescue promises to be one of the hottest shows on television this summer.

SURVIVAL OF THE MEANEST

DOCUMENTARY

As you first enter the endless series of metal gates and security checks at California State Prison, Sacramento – a level 4, maximum-security men’s prison, there are a few rules. You do not wear blue – that’s for inmates. You do not carry a cell phone – that’s a security risk. And if you are taken hostage your freedom will not be negotiated if it means releasing a prisoner.

There are an estimated 2 million people incarcerated in the US – that’s more than anywhere else in the industrialised world. SAC houses close to 3,500 men, locked up for the most heinous crimes, murder, rape, child molestation, assault…the list goes on. Inside this fortress, and others like it, exist the most extreme of environments. This is a place where society’s rules don’t apply and where everything is all about respect. Inmates live by a code of silence imposed on them by other inmates. It’s a dangerous and secretive world to which even prison officials aren’t privy. Though the job of prison officials is to control the facility, they are the first to admit that it’s the inmates who really control things. Our cameras capture our exclusive and unprecedented access – for one month nowhere in the prison was off-limits.

SURVIVAL OF THE MEANEST, Friday 14th December at 9:30pm