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9:05pm – Monday, March 15 on ABC2

Krish gets jealous and angry when she is scooped by Tika, who lands the plum assignment to cover Jay-Z’s arrival on the red carpet for the launch of ‘Reasonable Doubt’.

Krish copes by vocalising her personal mantra, “I am the star and I shine” and by writing it on post-it-notes.

Meanwhile, Krystal interviews Slug from ‘Atmosphere’ and uses the fact that he hits on her to her advantage.

Tika might have the red carpet gig, but will she pick the right question to ask Jay-Z.

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9:05pm – Monday, March 15 on ABC2

Krish gets jealous and angry when she is scooped by Tika, who lands the plum assignment to cover Jay-Z’s arrival on the red carpet for the launch of ‘Reasonable Doubt’.

Krish copes by vocalising her personal mantra, “I am the star and I shine” and by writing it on post-it-notes.

Meanwhile, Krystal interviews Slug from ‘Atmosphere’ and uses the fact that he hits on her to her advantage.

Tika might have the red carpet gig, but will she pick the right question to ask Jay-Z.

http://abc.net.au/iview/

6:30pm – Monday, March 15 on ABC2

Grimy, gritty, gooey and just plain gross, the new series Dirty Jobs gets down and disgusting with some of the dirtiest jobs around. Host Mike Rowe isn’t afraid of getting his hands dirty as he travels around America, showing off some really dirty jobs.

First stop is Texas where Mike accompanies a bat biologist into a hot, humid and dangerous bat cave. Home to over 40 million bats, the cave is filled with bat droppings and flesh eating beetles. Next Mike travels to a New Jersey swamp to meet a man who harvests some top secret mud. Where it ends up is amazing. Mike then pays a visit to a seafood factory where nothing goes to waste. He helps slice, dice and mangle his way through a variety of seafood that ends up as liquid fish.

In episode two, Mike hooks up with some good ol’ boys to go catfish noodling. With no rods or reels, catfish noodling is illegal in most states and is dangerous and dirty. Next Mike meets a man who sucks sewage from underground pipes, a really disgusting job. Finally he travels to a Florida worm ranch, where he buries millions of worms under tonnes of manure to help produce worm poop.

6:30pm – Monday, March 15 on ABC2

Grimy, gritty, gooey and just plain gross, the new series Dirty Jobs gets down and disgusting with some of the dirtiest jobs around. Host Mike Rowe isn’t afraid of getting his hands dirty as he travels around America, showing off some really dirty jobs.

First stop is Texas where Mike accompanies a bat biologist into a hot, humid and dangerous bat cave. Home to over 40 million bats, the cave is filled with bat droppings and flesh eating beetles. Next Mike travels to a New Jersey swamp to meet a man who harvests some top secret mud. Where it ends up is amazing. Mike then pays a visit to a seafood factory where nothing goes to waste. He helps slice, dice and mangle his way through a variety of seafood that ends up as liquid fish.

In episode two, Mike hooks up with some good ol’ boys to go catfish noodling. With no rods or reels, catfish noodling is illegal in most states and is dangerous and dirty. Next Mike meets a man who sucks sewage from underground pipes, a really disgusting job. Finally he travels to a Florida worm ranch, where he buries millions of worms under tonnes of manure to help produce worm poop.

9:30pm – Sunday, March 14 on ABC2

In this third series of the popular British comedy series Cold Feet, about a group of Manchester-based thirtysomethings, Jenny and Pete are now living apart. Pete has been house sitting for Adam and Rachel whilst they have been on holiday and Karen and David have had twins much to Josh’s dismay.

David and Karen rediscover the joys of parenthood. David as always is working all hours so Karen’s mother Heather arrives from Spain apparently to help out Karen with the twins. However, Heather, with a fag in one hand, a glass of wine in the other and complaints about her husband, gets Karen wondering what her mother’s real motive is.

Rachel and Adam return from holiday to find their house a tip. Rachel pleads with Adam to get rid of Pete. With nowhere to go, Pete manages to persuade Jenny that he should move back home purely as a lodger. Reluctantly Jenny agrees to give it a go. Pete happily thinks that this is the beginning of reconciliation. Meanwhile, Jenny becomes more independent and starts to look for a job. Things run far from smoothly when she is employed by a funeral parlour.

Karen and David are worried about Josh showing ‘antisocial tendencies’ to the twins that could be seen by some as attempted murder. Rachel and Adam agree to look after Josh for a couple of days. Despite Josh shaving his own head and demanding to sleep with them, Rachel and Adam realise that they are both ready to have children.

As ever, David seems more concerned with business and requests that they throw a dinner party to entertain prospective clients. Karen ropes in Jenny to make numbers equal. To Karen’s horror her mother hits it off with one of the guests. Meanwhile Jenny gets chatted up by another guest, Robert, a good looking internet millionaire who is quite taken with her.

9:30pm – Sunday, March 14 on ABC2

In this third series of the popular British comedy series Cold Feet, about a group of Manchester-based thirtysomethings, Jenny and Pete are now living apart. Pete has been house sitting for Adam and Rachel whilst they have been on holiday and Karen and David have had twins much to Josh’s dismay.

David and Karen rediscover the joys of parenthood. David as always is working all hours so Karen’s mother Heather arrives from Spain apparently to help out Karen with the twins. However, Heather, with a fag in one hand, a glass of wine in the other and complaints about her husband, gets Karen wondering what her mother’s real motive is.

Rachel and Adam return from holiday to find their house a tip. Rachel pleads with Adam to get rid of Pete. With nowhere to go, Pete manages to persuade Jenny that he should move back home purely as a lodger. Reluctantly Jenny agrees to give it a go. Pete happily thinks that this is the beginning of reconciliation. Meanwhile, Jenny becomes more independent and starts to look for a job. Things run far from smoothly when she is employed by a funeral parlour.

Karen and David are worried about Josh showing ‘antisocial tendencies’ to the twins that could be seen by some as attempted murder. Rachel and Adam agree to look after Josh for a couple of days. Despite Josh shaving his own head and demanding to sleep with them, Rachel and Adam realise that they are both ready to have children.

As ever, David seems more concerned with business and requests that they throw a dinner party to entertain prospective clients. Karen ropes in Jenny to make numbers equal. To Karen’s horror her mother hits it off with one of the guests. Meanwhile Jenny gets chatted up by another guest, Robert, a good looking internet millionaire who is quite taken with her.

8:30pm – Sunday, March 14 on ABC2

This is the personal story of achievement by the remarkable Adrian Anantawan, a brilliant young Canadian solo violinist, born without a right hand.

Adrian’s mentor Pinchas Zukerman, music director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra and artistic director of the NAC Young Artists Program in Ottawa, Canada, said when he first met Adrian he was bewildered because he didn’t know how he created a sound.

This documentary captures the awesome solo debut performance of Adrian Anantawan, in which he plays the Tchaikovsky violin concerto with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conducted by maestro Peter Oundjian.

This program brings music and the human spirit to life as the extraordinary musician takes you down a path into his world, and talks about the journey to fulfilling his dream.

Featuring footage of his musical development from his first teachers to his studies at the renowned Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia; his special bond with the War Amps CHAMP Program, the miracles achieved at Toronto’s Bloorview Kids Rehab, to his rehearsal and historical performance with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Peter Oundjian.

Adrian Anantawan: The Story Behind The Notes will be repeated on ABC1 – Sunday March 21 at 4:30pm.

http://abc.net.au/iview/

8:30pm – Sunday, March 14 on ABC2

This is the personal story of achievement by the remarkable Adrian Anantawan, a brilliant young Canadian solo violinist, born without a right hand.

Adrian’s mentor Pinchas Zukerman, music director of the National Arts Centre Orchestra and artistic director of the NAC Young Artists Program in Ottawa, Canada, said when he first met Adrian he was bewildered because he didn’t know how he created a sound.

This documentary captures the awesome solo debut performance of Adrian Anantawan, in which he plays the Tchaikovsky violin concerto with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, conducted by maestro Peter Oundjian.

This program brings music and the human spirit to life as the extraordinary musician takes you down a path into his world, and talks about the journey to fulfilling his dream.

Featuring footage of his musical development from his first teachers to his studies at the renowned Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia; his special bond with the War Amps CHAMP Program, the miracles achieved at Toronto’s Bloorview Kids Rehab, to his rehearsal and historical performance with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Peter Oundjian.

Adrian Anantawan: The Story Behind The Notes will be repeated on ABC1 – Sunday March 21 at 4:30pm.

http://abc.net.au/iview/

7:30pm – Sunday, March 14 on ABC2

Gian Lorenzo Bernini arrived in Rome in 1605, just as Caravaggio’s street-drama art was electrifying the Church.

Bernini was considered a boy wonder, then adult prodigy – sculptor, architect, composer; as well as dashing cavalier, and the personal friend of Pope Urban VIII. He was charming, witty, well-connected and cultured: all the attributes needed to succeed.

By his early 20s Bernini was a superstar. The physical intensity of Bernini’s work transformed sculpture. In his hands stone seems to move and ripple. No one before Bernini managed to make marble so carnal.

But Bernini did not have the field of fame to himself. There was another maker of architectural marvels breathing down his neck: Francesco Borromini. The two men hated each other.

In the late 1640s, abruptly, Borromini’s star ascended while Bernini’s fell. Pope Urban VIII had died and the new Pope, Innocent X, was Borromini’s patron. To make matters worse, cracks had appeared in the bell-tower Bernini had built for St. Peter’s.

Bernini needed a miracle to restore his fortune, so he made one: The Ecstasy of St Theresa, for the Conaro family chapel in the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria. This would be the work that would change what sculpture would do.

Simon Schama’s Power Of Art: Bernini will be repeated on ABC1 – Sunday, March 21 at 3:30pm.

7:30pm – Sunday, March 14 on ABC2

Gian Lorenzo Bernini arrived in Rome in 1605, just as Caravaggio’s street-drama art was electrifying the Church.

Bernini was considered a boy wonder, then adult prodigy – sculptor, architect, composer; as well as dashing cavalier, and the personal friend of Pope Urban VIII. He was charming, witty, well-connected and cultured: all the attributes needed to succeed.

By his early 20s Bernini was a superstar. The physical intensity of Bernini’s work transformed sculpture. In his hands stone seems to move and ripple. No one before Bernini managed to make marble so carnal.

But Bernini did not have the field of fame to himself. There was another maker of architectural marvels breathing down his neck: Francesco Borromini. The two men hated each other.

In the late 1640s, abruptly, Borromini’s star ascended while Bernini’s fell. Pope Urban VIII had died and the new Pope, Innocent X, was Borromini’s patron. To make matters worse, cracks had appeared in the bell-tower Bernini had built for St. Peter’s.

Bernini needed a miracle to restore his fortune, so he made one: The Ecstasy of St Theresa, for the Conaro family chapel in the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria. This would be the work that would change what sculpture would do.

Simon Schama’s Power Of Art: Bernini will be repeated on ABC1 – Sunday, March 21 at 3:30pm.