This week Foxtel will show favourites such as LA Law, Privete Practice Season 2 and Law & Order Season 20, while premiering America’s Next Top Model All Stars and Come Dine With Me Canada. Here are this week’s premieres on Foxtel.Sunday May 6
THOR – SHOWTIME PREMIERE
8.30pm – Subscription TV Premiere
This epic adventure spans the Marvel Universe from present day Earth to the realm of Asgard. At the centre is The Mighty Thor, a powerful warrior whose reckless actions reignite an ancient war.
EMERGENCY BIKERS – CRIME & INVESTIGATION NETWORK – Season 3
Sundays at 4.30pm – Australian Exclusive Premiere
Action-packed documentary series following the work of emergency bike crews. Follow the work of the UK’s police and paramedic bikers as they protect the public and save lives. The series follows the bikers from the West Midlands Ambulance service as they respond to the city of Birmingham’s emergency medical needs and the bikers from the South Central Ambulance Service as they tend to patients in and around Oxford.
ART DECO ICONS – HISTORY
Four-Part Series
Sundays at 6.00pm
Art Deco arrived in Britain in the 1920s and brought some glamour to people’s lives during the Depression. In this series, David Heathcote visits four Art Deco gems which broke the mould and captured a new egalitarian spirit in design. He goes behind the scenes in Claridges Hotel, still the epicentre of Art Deco chic today, visits London Transport HQ at 55 Broadway – the first skyscraper in Britain – and explores the design of the Tube. He discovers Casa del Rio, a hidden Art Deco gem of a house in Devon, and travels to Venice in the most glamorous style imaginable – on the Orient Express.
TRUE HOLLYWOOD STORIES: BIGGEST SCANDALS – E!
8.30pm – Australian Exclusive Premiere
The series has been known for getting the inside story on celebrity scandals, and in this special, it takes a look at some of the most jaw-dropping wrong turns in recent memory.
PRIVATE PRACTISE – UNIVERSAL – Season 2
At Oceanside Wellness, friendships are tested and secrets revealed when Addison discovers that Naomi is concealing the practice’s financial problems. Meanwhile, Violet wonders what secret Cooper is keeping from her, while Cooper himself has to decide whether or not to reveal a medical secret to a patient.
SPARTACUS: BLOOD AND SAND – SHOWCASE – Season 1
8.30pm – Subscription TV Premiere
Betrayed by his country. Beaten into slavery. Reborn as a warrior. This is the graphic story of Rome’s most famous gladiator, as he is forced to perform in the gruesome and bloodthirsty arena.
Monday May 7
LAW & ORDER – W – Season 20 (Final Season)
Mondays at 10.30pm BREAK FREE – Subscription TV Premiere
Now in its 20th and final season, LAW & ORDER is the longest-running crime series and the second-longestrunning drama series in the history of television. The investigations are challenging, prosecutions are complicated, and decisions about legal procedures and plea-bargaining are vexing. In the arduous and complex process of determining guilt and innocence, lives often hang in the balance.
COME DINE WITH ME CANADA – LIFESTYLE FOOD
9.30pm – Australian Exclusive Premiere
In this premiere, Holly Rasky is taking her turn to serve up a three-course meal for four strangers on the first night of a week-long dinner party competition. Will justice be served for this bubbly lawyer when Holly’s guests present their scores?
RAYMOND BLANCS KITCHEN SECRETS – LIFESTYLE FOOD
8.30pm – Australian Exclusive Premiere
Cakes and Pastry: In this episode Raymond pays tribute to the sweetly satisfying extravagance of cakes and pastries. To kick off, a feather-light lemon tea cake, generously coated in sticky apricot jam and a tangy lemon glaze.
THE BOY WHO SAILED THE WORLD – BIO
8.30pm – Australian Exclusive Premiere
More people have been into space than have sailed non-stop around the world alone and in this programme, Bio. follows Michael Perham’s record attempt as, aged just 16, he takes on the biggest challenge in sailing: a solo nonstop circumnavigation. We follow Michael’s dramatic and, at times, almost unbearable struggle with wild seas, failing equipment and loneliness, while his parents, friends and girlfriend Beckie anxiously await his return.
DEALS FROM THE DARK SIDE – A&E – Season 1
Mondays at 8.30pm – Australian Exclusive Premiere
Follow eccentric relic collector Steve Santini on his quest to buy and authenticate dark and haunted items for his unusual collections. Steve scours high and low looking for the rare, unusual and tragic. A Titanic deck chair, Jack the Ripper’s knife, a monk’s cloak from the Spanish Inquisition. All objects that are undeniably supernatural and are connected to iconic events and infamous people who have long since passed.
DEADLY WOMEN – CRIME & INVESTIGATION NETWORK – Season 5
Mondays at 9.30pm - Subscription TV Premiere
Deadly Women explores the psychological motivation that drives women to become murderers. Male killers are often driven by anger, impulse and destruction. But women often have more complex, long-term reasons to kill.
THE FBI FILES – CRIME & INVESTIGATION NETWORK – Season 6
Mondays at 7.30pm
Hard evidence. Hard science. Whether it handles bullets or bombs, fingerprints or fibers, the FBI’s crime lab – the largest such facility in the world – takes on tough cases, grappling with fraud, drug trafficking, kidnapping and murder, extortion and terrorism. Produced with the full cooperation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and introduced by James Kallstrom. The FBI Files takes viewers behind-the-scenes of major crime investigations and enters what, until now, has been the world’s least accessible crime lab.
STEPHEN FRY IN AMERICA – HISTORY
Mondays at 7.30pm
In this six-part documentary series, Stephen Fry travels across America, visiting each state, hearing its song, visiting its landmarks and distinctive sites, looking at its unique and quaint laws, talking to its citizens and discovering the true natures of the 50 individual parts that make up the whole.
Tuesday May 8
RPA – 2011 Season
Weeknights at 7.30pm – Subscription TV Premiere
For over 16 years, we’ve gained an intimate and, at times, incredibly moving insight into the stories behind the frenetic emergency department, hushed operating theatres and bustling wards at one of Australia’s leading public hospitals, Royal Prince Alfred in Sydney. After so many years that have seen drastic changes in healthcare and technology, RPA is still taking viewers bedside for some of the most emotional stories on Australian television.
SANDHOGS: THE GREATEST TUNNEL EVER BUILT – A&E
9.30pm – Australian Exclusive Premiere
For more than 150 years, a legendary band of mostly unknown urban miners has toiled in obscurity far below the streets of New York, risking their lives to enable the daily workings of the world’s most well-known city. They are the builders of water and sewage tunnels, subway systems and bridge footings, all of which are the most crucial and underappreciated elements of the city’s infrastructure. Their union, leadership and brotherhood reflect the age-old spirit of the American dream.
Wednesday May 9
FOXTEL ON DEMAND
Available in High Definition and On Demand
THE DESCENDANTS (M) – DAY & DATE PREMIERE
SHERLOCK HOLMES: A GAME OF SHADOWS (M) – DAY & DATE PREMIERE
DOLPHIN TALE (PG)
TAKING THE KEYS AWAY – BIO
10.00pm – Australian Exclusive Premiere
Getting old presents many challenges an perhaps hardest of all is the threat of losing your independence. For most people, that means one thing – your car. But what happens when you worry you are too old to drive? How do you know it’s time to stop? And how does a family deal with the problem if granny or granddad refuses to hang up their keys?
TEENAGE VAMPIRES – CRIME & INVESTIGATION NETWORK
Wednesday May 9 at 9.30pm – Australian Exclusive Premiere
Vampires are being resurrected across popular culture from Twilight to True Blood, spawning a new phenomenon of bloodthirsty real-life teen vampires. The internet is helping to bring together those with an interest in the occult, some of whom are forming vampire cults. Filming with a pack of teens from San Antonio, Texas, this documentary follows the vampires in their daily lives, observing everything from friends and family to feeding, all to get a deeper understanding of what draws these young people to vampires or wolves.
Thursday May 10
LA LAW – 111 HITS – Seasons 1 – 3
Weeknights at 10.30pm – Channel Premiere
It’s the series that made actors Jimmy Smits, Corbin Bernsen, Harry Hamlin and Blair Underwood household names… and heart throbs!
BILLY THE EXTERMINATOR – A&E- Season 4
Weekdays at 6.00pm – Australian Exclusive Premiere
Billy is back in action for a feisty fourth season. Follow Billy Bretherton and his family who make up Vexcon, one of Louisiana’s busiest pest removal companies, as they balance family life with the drama of running a successful business together. Follow the Vexcon team in their search and rescue efforts to rid clients of their most extreme pest cases, while also taking care to release as many animals as possible back into the wild.
Friday May 11
CRACKER NIGHT 2012 – THE COMEDY CHANNEL
8.30pm – Australian Exclusive Premiere
Join local and international comedians as they come together to open the 2012 Sydney Cracker Comedy Festival.
RHYS DARBY STANDUP SPECIAL – THE COMEDY CHANNEL
9.30pm – Australian Exclusive Premiere
Rhys Darby, best known for his role in Flight of the Conchords, performs his brand of energetic physical comedy in front of a packed audience.
AXE MEN – A&E – Season 5
Weekdays at 5.00pm – Australian Exclusive Premiere
Axe Men returns to A&E with a brand new exclusive series, more dangerous than ever! Deep in the woods of the Pacific Northwest, rugged men make their living doing one of the deadliest jobs in the world, logging. Their mission is to retrieve timber perched on mountainsides too steep to access with machines, it is no easy task. Plagued by mechanical failures, relentless weather, and unpredictable terrain, these brave men risk their lives retrieving the timber with which we built our country.
Saturday May 12
AMERICA’S NEXT TOP MODEL: ALL-STARS – FOX8
Saturdays at 7.30pm – Australian Exclusive Premiere
America’s Next Top Model is back, but this time it features fourteen returning models from previous seasons, competing in high-fashion photo shoots and other amazing challenges. There’ll be tears, tantrums, bonding and backstabbing – but one thing is for sure, only one of them can take out the title of America’s Next Top Model: All – Stars! The winner will receive a $100,000 contract with CoverGirl Cosmetics, the cover of Beauty In Vogue and fashion spreads in Vogue Italia and Beauty In Vogue.
SALEM FALLS – UNIVERSAL CHANNEL
8.30pm – Australian Exclusive Premiere
Based on the Jodi Picoult novel and starring James Van Der Beek, a man with a troubled past tries to settle down in a small town, finds love and then ends up being the target of a witch hunt.
NB – Inside The Actors Studio With Brad Pitt will not screen on Thursday May 9th and will be re-scheduled for a later date
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