Not much on this week, but here's a few selections.
Sunday
10.30pm: Pride and Prejudice (1995) on ABC1. The best, if you haven't already seen it two or three times. And even if you have, I hope you'll agree it's worth another round, with part 1 starting tonight. Beautifully acted, beautifully scripted and with a first-class wise and witty heroine, Lizzy Bennett.
Monday
10.30pm: The Blue Kite (1993) on SBS2: A Chinese family survive the hardships of life in Beijing from 1953 to the Cultural Revolution in 1968 as the Communist Government sought to crash industrialise the country and suppress the rights of the working class. Banned in China. A humanist sentiment pervades the film.
Tuesday
10pm: Gaddafi: Our Best Enemy on SBS1: a documentary which traces how Gaddafi was rehabilitated by the West as he became a useful "asset" to the West in the War on Terror and control over the region's oil supplies. Tony Blair and Condoleezza Rice get skewered.
Friday
8.30pm: Friday Night Lights on ABC2: the fortunes of the local football team dominate life in small town Texas in this long-running series (it's been on weekly since August, but you can quickly catch up with the basic story). Rather more involving than your average story about football jocks, the characters are all well developed, the businessmen are venal, the players are a pretty mixed bunch and are all dealing with tricky family issues as well. It doesn't set the world on fire but it's a good use of 45 minutes on a Friday night.
Sunday
10.30pm: Pride and Prejudice (1995) on ABC1. The best, if you haven't already seen it two or three times. And even if you have, I hope you'll agree it's worth another round, with part 1 starting tonight. Beautifully acted, beautifully scripted and with a first-class wise and witty heroine, Lizzy Bennett.
Monday
10.30pm: The Blue Kite (1993) on SBS2: A Chinese family survive the hardships of life in Beijing from 1953 to the Cultural Revolution in 1968 as the Communist Government sought to crash industrialise the country and suppress the rights of the working class. Banned in China. A humanist sentiment pervades the film.
Tuesday
10pm: Gaddafi: Our Best Enemy on SBS1: a documentary which traces how Gaddafi was rehabilitated by the West as he became a useful "asset" to the West in the War on Terror and control over the region's oil supplies. Tony Blair and Condoleezza Rice get skewered.
Friday
8.30pm: Friday Night Lights on ABC2: the fortunes of the local football team dominate life in small town Texas in this long-running series (it's been on weekly since August, but you can quickly catch up with the basic story). Rather more involving than your average story about football jocks, the characters are all well developed, the businessmen are venal, the players are a pretty mixed bunch and are all dealing with tricky family issues as well. It doesn't set the world on fire but it's a good use of 45 minutes on a Friday night.
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