Throng

9:20pm - Saturday, April 3 on ABC1

In this episode, Private Sins: Part 1, Janine and the team are riding high when DS Shap's evidence convicts a high-profile murderer. However, their revelry is short-lived when the body of private investigator Peter Williams is found. Peter's friend and colleague Tanya Lucas (Vera Filatova) disappears and Shap makes it his mission to find her.

Meanwhile, the rest of the team look into clients that Peter had been working for, including convicted criminal Terry Camerton (Kieren O'Brien). On being released from prison, Camerton had asked PF Investigations, Williams's employer, to find his daughter, Hannah (Felicity Grant). But Shap is a few steps ahead of his colleagues and, having found Tanya and brought her in, he begins privately pursuing Camerton, desperate to get to him first.

8:30pm - Saturday, April 3 on ABC1

In her first case as a uniformed sergeant, Jo Masters (Sally Rogers), and her team are called to an aggravated burglary to find the homeowner near death.

Suspicions arise when forensics find a blood pattern that doesn't fit the scenario as told to them by the man's wife Tanisha Baker (Nisha Nayar) and her son Ian, (Misha Crosby).

DC Grace Dasari (Amita Dhiri) discovers the widow has been on the missing persons register for 20 years, and concludes that her Indian heritage might have seen her leave her family to be with a man they disapproved of.

Investigations reveal that the dead man had been having an affair, and that his son, Ian, had found out about it in the past few days. His mistress Jenny Marton (Gabrielle Glaister), tells police that Baker had moved in with her three days before after being confronted by his son, but had gone home to get some more clothes the night before.

7:30pm - Saturday, April 3 on ABC1

Tim (Philip Quast) and Gavin (Andrew S. Gilbert) break the news to the team; they're selling the newspaper to Wentworth Regional Press. Tim surprises Louisa by asking her to come with him to a new and better job in the city. Louisa is anxious... Tim... Nick... the job of a lifetime in the city or her life now at Rainbow's End - what does the future hold? What does she want.

At the mining office, Wendy (Kallista Kaval) announces that no trace of the lizard has been found. She strongly implies Louisa's (Kerry Armstrong) photos are not authentic. It looks like Louisa and Holly (Hanna Mangan-Lawrence) might be in real trouble. Louisa picks Minna (Julia Blake) and Sandy (Bud Tingwell) up from the hospital; his health is deteriorating and Minna has decided he'll move in with her.

9:20pm - Friday, April 2 on ABC1

Based on the novel by award-winning author Val McDermid, Place Of Execution is a taut psychological thriller that explores, exposes and explodes the borderline between reality and illusion in a multi-layered narrative that turns expectations on their heads.

On a freezing December night in 1963, the worst kind of fear strikes the secluded Derbyshire hamlet of Scardale. Thirteen-year-old Alison Carter has vanished without a trace. Against all their instincts, the self-sufficient villagers are reluctantly forced to ask the outside world for help.

8:30pm - Friday, April 2 on ABC1

The streets of Whitechapel are still awash with blood. A murderer is picking off vulnerable women and leaving them brutally butchered.

Tipped-off by 'Ripperologist' Edward Buchan (Steve Pemberton), DI Chandler (Rupert Penry-Jones) realises that this modern day killer is copying the infamous Whitechapel murders, down to the very last detail.

Chandler - a novice in the business of murder, but an expert in the politics of policing and three day courses, continues to clash with his team, led by the archetypal cynical, seen-it-all detective DS Ray Miles (Phil Davis).

Suspects lead to dead-ends as the detectives attempt to penetrate the conspiracies and myths that surround the legend of Jack the Ripper.

Frustrated, Chandler pins his hopes on trapping their latest suspect, a solider named Private Leary (Ben Loyd-Holmes), but the operation goes horribly, tragically wrong.

8:00pm - Friday, April 2 on ABC1

A life-drawing class comes to an early end when it's revealed that the life model Courtney Nash (Annalise Brackenseck) is actually a notorious criminal. She is also quite dead, and has been for some time. Can guest detective Hamish Blake draw himself away from the photo of the body long enough to solve the crime.

Who knew Courtney aka Nikki Gleason, was a criminal on the run? Even so, what motive for murder could there be? Did husband and wife team Ern (Nicholas Bell) and Jean (Tracey Harvey) sign up for something more sinister than just the art class? Ern does have a temper and is capable of flying off the handle, could he also be capable of murder.

Perhaps fellow classmate Duncan (Nick Farnell) with his healthy appetite for the ladies, also have an unhealthy appetite for murder? Or maybe the art teacher Bea (Heidi Arena) an ex-nun, was harbouring some not so holy intentions.

8:00am - Friday, April 2 on ABC1

dirtgirl grows awesome tomatoes, knows the names of clouds, drives a big orange tractor and has a backyard full of friends. There's scrapboy, her best friend who's a whiz with junk. There's grubby with her worm's eye view, ken the weevil, roger the rooster and the chicks, hayman the monosyllabic scarecrow, and the green thumbs - real kids in real gardens having fun.

In this episode, dirtgirl shows us how she plants leeks in her veggie garden. She talks about how to pick a leek and how to prepare it for eating. dirtgirl also highlights the importance of saving water around the house and demonstrates how to make a waterslide.

dirtgirlworld: Leak will be repeated on ABC2 - Friday, April 02 at 1:30pm

9:25pm - Thursday, April 1 on ABC1

Australia's first national sudoku team (The Numbats) travel into the unknown of competitive puzzling as they enter the World Sudoku Championships in Goa, India.

The Numbats consist of four ex-rugby mates, all keen to represent their country in some form or another. With moderate-at-best sudoku skills they enter the tournament unqualified and underprepared.

Competing against numerical geniuses from the world over, including the much fancied tournament favourite, Thomas Snyder, the Numbats experience what representing their country is all about.

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8:30pm - Thursday, April 1 on ABC1

200,000 years ago a new species was born - us. The first men and women led a fragile existence in a dangerous world. So how did they flourish and go on to colonise first the African continent, and then the rest of the world.

In five episodes this fascinating series traces the routes of the epic journeys our ancestors made to conquer the globe. Using the latest genetic and archaeological evidence this series follows in the footsteps of our ancestors to find out.

Episode four examines how early modern humans travelled from Africa into the heart of Europe and what may have happened on this journey to change their skin colour from brown to white.

How did these early hunter-gatherers endure the unimaginable conditions of the last Ice Age and come to dominate a land already inhabited by the tough, resilient Neanderthal peoples.

8:00pm - Thursday, April 1 on ABC1

Making Life Because embryos are potential human beings, embryonic stem cell research stirs furious ethical debate. But in what is being hailed as the stem cell breakthrough of the century, Japanese scientists have discovered an alternative type of cell similar to embryonic stem cells, only these are derived from our skin. Chinese researchers then shocked the world by proving these cells had the potential to create new life. Dr Maryanne Demasi travelled to China to find out how.

Growing Glaciers Evidence from many sources shows the average global climate is warming. Glaciers are a good indicator of climate change, generally speaking the warmer it gets the more they shrink. But, recently there has been much concern that not all glaciers are following this pattern. Dr Paul Willis treks across the Fox and Franz Joseph Glaciers in New Zealand to find out why they are bucking the trend.

6:05pm - Thursday, April 1 on ABC1

This week Kevin McCloud travels to the beautiful setting of Devon to revisit Sue Charman and Martin Whitlock whose dream was to create an eco-friendly family home, using old English building techniques.

Project managed by Martin, the build progresses in an evolutionary way, without conventional plans, site surveys or specifications. This brings its own set of problems and miscalculations, and the couple's eco principles are put to the test and reluctantly compromised at points.

Eighteen months after his initial visit, Kevin returns to Sue and Martin's property to see how their project has progressed.

9:30am - Thursday, April 1 on ABC1

Popular actress, Jolene Anderson makes her first appearance on Play School as part of a new three-week series which began on Tuesday March 2nd. She will appear with fellow presenter, Andrew McFarlane.

Anderson is most recognisable for her roles in the TV series Rush as Shannon Henry, and All Saints as Erica Templeton. She has also been the 2007 winner on the singing program It Takes Two with David Campbell and has presented the medical series, Bush Doctors.

9:30pm - Wednesday, March 31 on ABC1

Prompted by his mother's hat, Simon (Luke Ward-Wilkinson) remembers his surprise involvement in the 1998 Eurovision song contest in Birmingham. Simon and Kylie (Layton Williams) have formed themselves into pop group, 'Email'. Their heartthrob music teacher, Mr Carr, has agreed to become their manager and help their ambition to be the UK's entry at Eurovision.

Meanwhile Debbie Doonan (Olivia Colman) meets their new Melody Crescent neighbour, Ross, and invites him and his partner to dinner. It transpires that Ross's partner is Mr Carr. The dinner goes fairly disastrously when Ross takes more than a shine to Simon's dad, Andy (Aidan McArdle). Simon and Kylie determine to split the gay couple up. They succeed and that night Mr Carr storms away from Melody Crescent.

8:00pm - Wednesday, March 31 on ABC1

Hosted by James O'Loghlin, The New Inventors is bursting with the innovative and the imaginative, the unique and the unusual, the fantastic and the fascinating. Deciding the winner of these three inventions are: materials engineer Veena Sahajwalla, woodworker and teacher Richard Vaughan, and designer Alison Page.

Inventions featured on the program:

PELLERES - by inventor Mepi Faoagali from QLD

6:30pm - Wednesday, March 31 on ABC1

This week, Poh is cooking 'Chinese'. Given her Malay/Chinese background this is a cuisine not unfamiliar to her, but when it comes to Modern Asian cookery she feels she needs a little advice and invites Sydney chef Neil Perry back to her kitchen.

Neil was introduced to Chinese cuisine by his father, who in the early 1960s would take him on regular trips to Sydney's Chinatown. These early influences soon became the driving force behind much of his remarkable career. Retracing his childhood footsteps, Neil takes Poh on a trip through the hustle and bustle of modern day Chinatown highlighting the extraordinary changes that have taken place over the last forty years.