What to Watch on TV Tonight, Sunday October 30, 2011

7.30 QANTAS Special, ABC1, 7.30pm (and live 7.30pm AEDT on ABC News 24)
ABC News 24 and Sky New have aired rolling coverage of the QANTAS crisis since the announcement of all air craft being grounded yesterday at 5pm. This special sums up the events, pushing all ABC1 programming back half an hour from 7.30pm.

Sunday Best: Born into Brothels, ABC2, 8.35pm
An Oscar-winning portrayal of children who live in the Calcutta brothel district. A New York photographer gives each of the children a camera and teaches them to look at the world with new eyes.

Mobbed. Ten, 8.30pm
Pilot. Thousands of strangers help guests on the show plan surprises for their friends, family, loved ones or co-workers. Note – Terra Nova is off for a week due to break in US – it returns bext Sunday.

Virtual JFK: Vietnam If Kennedy Had Lived, SBS ONE, 9.30pm
Investigates one of the most debated “what if” scenarios in the history of US foreign policy: What would President John F. Kennedy have done in Vietnam if he had not been assassinated in 1963 and had he been re-elected in 1964? The resulting film assesses the plausibility of counterfactuals – “what ifs” – and the outcomes they might have produced. The film makes use of an array of resources including recently declassified and never-before-seen archival footage, documents and audio tapes from the Kennedy and Johnson administrations.

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, ELEVEN, 9.00pm
Kazakh TV personality, Borat, goes to the USA to report on the greatest country in the world.

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