The Pope will be thrilled! The Chaser Boys are returning to again blight national television this fortnight. Silent Witness returns and SBS has promised never to show Eurovision again (well, no they haven’t, actually). Whatever, enjoy!
FRIDAY MAY 22
Friday on My Mind, SBS at 7.30pm, is a profile of top 60s Aussie group, The Easy Beats. The 12th series of Silent Witness begins on ABC1 on 8.30pm. A new 6-part series begins on SBS at 8.30pm, Behind Closed Doors, details how Roosevelt and Churchill tried to handle Russian dictator and murderer of millions, Joseph Stalin in the last days of WW2.
SATURDAY MAY 23
Experts now think they know what Stonehenge is all about. Stonehenge Decoded, Ch7 at 6.30pm. At 8.30pm, SBS premieres a hilarious, home-grown sports quiz series, The Squiz. At 9.50pm, the multi-award winning 2006 UK movie, Breakfast on Pluto. A lad leaves his Irish town, partly to look for his mother and partly because his transgender nature is beyond the town's understanding.
SUNDAY MAY 24
Michael Palin reflects on where he’s travelled in the last two decades in Around the World in 20 Years, ABC1 at 7.30pm. On SBS at 7.30pm, a 2-part series And Man Invented Animals, showing how humans managed to turn wild animals into tools that could be possessed, used, exploited, eaten, manipulated and sometimes loved. In the final of Dirt Game, ABC1 at 8.30pm, the forces behind the plan to bring down CCR are unmasked, but new perils are at hand.
MONDAY MAY 25
In Dave in a Life, SBS at 8.30pm, Dave looks at how a pensioner gets through a day. Ros Myers must redeem herself in Spooks, ABC1 at 9.35pm. With Monica’s departure, Norma is left contemplating her own future on the Chatsworth estate, in Shameless, ABC1 at 10pm.
TUESDAY MAY 26
Monty visits the world’s oldest continuously maintained garden at 8.30pm on ABC1 in Around the World in 80 Gardens. Terri hires an actor to give Teknobables phone operators clearer English accents, in Mumbai Calling, ABC1 at 9.35pm. In 2001, three Pakistani Britons, set out from the Midlands for a wedding in Pakistan, only to wind up in a now notorious US base in Cuba. The Road to Guantánamo, SBS at 10pm. Some subtitles.
WEDNESDAY MAY 27
Food Investigators, SBS at 7.30pm, is a new series exploring the myths, the hidden nasties, and looks at what is good, or not good, for us in our diet. Dead Tired is a 2-part doco beginning on SBS at 8.30pm which suggests sleep deprivation is now the number one killer in the Western World. Those headline-grabbing stuntmakers, the Chaser boys are back with a new series of The Chaser’s War on Everything, ABC1 at 9pm.
THURSDAY MAY 28
Power-packed, The Ascent of Money is a new 6-part series beginning on ABC1 at 8.30pm. See Pick of the Fortnight. A rift develops in Mad Men, SBS at 8.30pm.
FRIDAY MAY 29
Tom mentors a young medical student who gets too involved in a murder and who is herself killed, in Silent Witness, ABC1 at 8.30pm.
SATURDAY MAY 30
That bunch of lovable, ageing crocks is back in a new series of New Tricks, ABC1 at 7.30pm.
SUNDAY MAY 31
Famed director Stanley Kubrick died and left behind a 1000 boxes filled with... what? Journalist and fan Jon Ronson is determined to find out. Stanley Kubrick’s Boxes, ABC1 at 3pm.
MONDAY JUNE 1
The Gallaghers receive a letter from Liam's school summoning both his parents to the head teacher, in Shameless, SBS, at 10pm.
TUESDAY JUNE 2
Terri thinks Mumbai Calling’s phone operators are too submissive, so a crash course in self-confidence is organised. ABC1 at 9.35pm. Eight ordinary people are given a million dollars, a fortnight of intensive training and two months to run their own hedge fund, in a new 3-part series, Million Dollar Traders, beginning on SBS at 7.30pm. Transsexual in Iran examines how religious fundamentalism leaves ‘diagnosed’ transsexuals alone, while outlawing homosexuality. SBS at 10pm. Some subtitles.
THURSDAY JUNE 4
Forget presidents and prime ministers! Real global power is controlled by the men in charge of the world’s bond markets. The Ascent of Money, ABC1 at 8.30pm. Don is tormented as pieces of his secretive past begin to haunt him in Mad Men, SBS at 8.30pm. At 10.50pm on ABC1, Reel Bad Arabs is a TV adaptation of author Jack Shaheen’s searing exploration of Hollywood’s endless vilification of Arabs.
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