FRIDAY JUNE 19

The body of a boy of 12 is discovered in a drainage ditch in Silent Witness, ABC1 at 8.30pm. At 10pm on SBS1, Russia’s St. Petersburg has a training school for modern-day gold diggers: Vixen Academy: How to be a Bitch. Subtitled.

SATURDAY JUNE 20

The New Tricks team investigates the death of a member of a 1970s rock band, ABC1 at 7.30pm.

SUNDAY JUNE 21

Behind the Dracula Legend, SBS1 at 7.30pm, looks at the almost hysterical dread of vampires that developed in the 18th century. Some subtitles. Julia McKenzie takes over the lead role in a new series of Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple, starting on ABC1 at 8.30pm.

MONDAY JUNE 22

Harry gets his hands bloody in Spooks, ABC1 at 9.35pm.

TUESDAY JUNE 23

The very popular Grand Designs returns with a new series on ABC1 at 8.30pm. Award-winning journalist, Peter Taylor traces the modern development of terrorism through four major Acts of Terror over the last 30 years. Part one, SBS1 at 8.30pm. Some subtitles.

THURSDAY JUNE 25

Mad Men, SBS1 at 8.30pm. Back Home, ABC1 at 9.25 is a film made by a 1994 Rwandan genocide survivor who went home. Gripping, and horrifying. The 2006 Swedish thriller, Exit is played out in Stockholm's world of finance. Subtitled.

FRIDAY JUNE 26

The Silent Witness team go to Zambia for this finale of the present series. ABC1 at 8.30pm.

SATURDAY JUNE 27

A strange death in a brewery tests the New Tricks team in more ways than one, ABC1 at 7.30pm.

SUNDAY JUNE 28

Blackbeard was the most feared of pirates, but what became of his flagship The Queen Anne’s Revenge? Blackbeard's Lost Pirate Ship, SBS1 at 7.30pm. A stranger tells Miss Marple she fears for her life – and then she dies. Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple, ABC1 at 8.30pm. At 9.30pm on SBS1, Tax Me if You Can looks at how much more the taxation department could collect by closing off tax havens where critics say the rich hide their money.

MONDAY JUNE 29

MI5 fights to prevent al Qaeda bombings in London in Spooks, ABC1 at 9.35pm.

TUESDAY JUNE 30

Astronomers have discovered a new planet called Gliese 581c and it is the most Earth-like planet ever found. Are We Alone in the Universe?, SBS1 at 7.30pm. A Welsh couple plan to restore a castle tower in Grand Designs, ABC1 at 8.30pm. At 11.05pm on SBS1, a woman receives the video diary of her sister who killed herself 16 years earlier, in the Italian award-winning thriller, Quo Vadis, Baby? Subtitled.

WEDNESDAY JULY 1

Considering the horror of his childhood, it's amazing dancer/actor Noel Tovey survived at all. His story in Australian Biography, SBS1 at 10pm.

THURSDAY JULY 2

It’s Nixon v Kennedy election night. Have the Mad Men promoted the winning candidate? SBS1, at 8.30pm. A reflective and moving doco, Beyond the Wall, gets to the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on ABC1 at 9.25pm. Superbly done. And the final ep. in series one of Mad Men at 10pm.

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