Throng

9:20pm - Saturday, September 25 on ABC1

Hailed as the best new stand-up to emerge in a decade, Michael McIntyre has taken the UK comedy world by storm. Michael visits six of the UK's most prestigious entertainment venues to unearth comedy's brightest talent.

Now, he's turning his attention to others as he travels the UK to bring viewers the best in new and established talent. Each episode sees Michael visit an iconic UK entertainment venue to introduce a very special guest headline act, plus three of the best stand-ups from the UK comedy circuit.

Michael's comedy roadshow continues to Manchester with guests including Jason Manford, John Bishop, Sarah Millican and Mick Ferry.

8:30pm - Saturday, September 25 on ABC1

When police are called to a badly injured young woman Zoe Richards (Leila Mimmack) who has apparently fallen from a first floor window, she won't tell them what happened.

Police then discover the house is a brothel, and Zoe's apparently been working as a prostitute.

With suspicious burn marks on her arms Zoe's pimp Dylan Prest (William Ellis), is questioned and police think he may have pushed Zoe out the window. But there is insufficient evidence to prosecute, and Prest claims he is innocent.

Sgt. Stone (Sam Callis) and PC Kirsty Knight (Sarah Manners) are increasingly frustrated when they can't place Prest at the scene at the time Zoe fell, but they're convinced he either pushed Zoe or she jumped to get away from him.

6:30pm - Saturday, September 25 on ABC1

What grows well in the dry and shaded areas under the house eaves? Jane Edmanson can advise this week, while in Tasmania, the ground is thawing and Tino Carnevale is planting spring crops including kale grown from seed, an early crop of tomatoes and a new cool climate experiment, ginger.

In the top end, Leonie Norrington builds a new herb and spices garden with pandanus, pepper and a vanilla orchid.

In the west, Josh Byrne visits the home of a local artist where rejected plants and local species work together to create a beautiful and eclectic garden.

Meanwhile, Angus Stewart meets a gardener who is using a revolutionary planting technique to fill her garden quickly and on a tight budget.

Please note that the DVD for this program will be sent out at a later date.

8:30pm - Friday, September 24 on ABC1

The Cold Case team reopens a case concerning a young woman, Gemma Morrison (Michelle Dockery) who drunkenly attempts suicide by crashing her car on her 30th birthday.

It transpires she was raped in 1997 by two men as her younger brother was held captive. When the attack was over, the men threw the pair off a bridge.

Gemma's brother was killed but she miraculously survived. The rapists were never caught.

DSI Peter Boyd (Trevor Eve) decides to reopen the case after finding a note on the back of his business card in her crashed car, despite having no new evidence to go on.

9:30pm - Thursday, September 23 on ABC1

The Shroud of Turin is the Christian world's most famous and sacred relic. For centuries the faithful believed it held the image of Jesus Christ, tortured and crucified: but how it was made has baffled scientists for decades.

The wounds and blood flow on the sheet of herringbone linen convinced some of the greatest forensic minds that this image was made by wrapping a real crucified man in a burial cloth, but carbon dating says that this man cannot be Jesus as it was made over 1000 years after his death. The Shroud of Turin is a medieval fake, a hoax pulled off by a skilled artist and an expert on human anatomy.

So who had the skill to create such a convincing image, an image so mysterious that despite hundreds of hours of tests, scientists still don't know how it was made.

8:30pm - Thursday, September 23 on ABC1

The spectacular one-hour Grand Final returns to ABC1 with viewers invited to join The New Inventors team as they celebrate and showcase the best of Australian innovation.

The New Inventors host, James O'Loghlin, introduces the final five contenders selected by the judging panel from the vast array of inventions that have been featured on the popular show this year. From these five finalists one will be named The New Inventors 'Invention of the Year' and will win an amazing suite of prizes worth thousands of dollars, as well as the prestige of being the Grand Final winner.

Please note that there is no DVD preview for this program.

Final

8:00pm - Thursday, September 23 on ABC1

Thursday, 23 September 2010 Part two of Catalyst's 10th Birthday edition celebrating ten years on television with a retrospective of scientific achievement in the first decade of this millennium Fertility There's no doubt that in vitro fertilisation has been instrumental in shaping the way we procreate. In the last 10 years medical and social shifts have helped growing numbers of infertile couples to have babies. Thirty years after Australia's first test tube baby was born Maryanne Demasi looks back on the triumphs of an increasingly fertile industry.

6:00pm - Thursday, September 23 on ABC1

Thursday, 23 September 2010 Renowned British garden presenter Monty Don leads a team of horticultural and design experts to rediscover lost and buried gardens in varying stages of decay.

This week they unearth the oldest garden in the series, at Shelley Hall, Suffolk. It is a moated Tudor garden created in 1519 by Sir Philip Tilney. He was a member of an ancient knightly family and he became by marriage, a first cousin of Elizabeth I.

Please note that there will be no DVD preview of episodes 1 and 2 for this program.

9:30pm - Wednesday, September 22 on ABC1

On tonight's episode of United States Of Tara, Tara (Toni Collette) hopes to reconnect with her family through her latest art project, a family portrait, while Max (John Corbett) works to separate himself from Pammy (Joey Lauren Adams).

Kate (Brie Larson) becomes intrigued with a new guy she met online. Marshall (Keir Gilchrist) learns bad news about Ted and Hany. Nick (Matthew Del Negro) asks Charmaine (Rosemarie DeWitt) to take drastic measures against Neil (Patton Oswalt).

8:30pm - Wednesday, September 22 on ABC1

It's time to raid the ABC wardrobe department again, for the Spicks and Specks: Australiana Special.

Joining Adam 'Molly Meldrum' Hills is 'Split Enz' inspired Alan Brough and Myf 'Chrissy Amphlett' Warhurst.

Alan's team is made up of Gabriella 'Olivia Newton- John' Cilmi and 'AC/DC' inspired Dave O'Neil, while Myf is joined by 'Purple Wiggle' Troy Cassar-Daly and Nick Cave look-a-like Frank Woodley.

Our teams tackle all manner of Australiana-related questions and games. In Look what they've done... teams must work out which songs are being played by Wayne Thorpe... on the gumleaf.

8:00pm - Wednesday, September 22 on ABC1

With the Grand Final just around the corner, tonight is The New Inventors: Semi-Final, hosted by James O'Loghlin. For the past seven years The New Inventors has launched the best and brightest new inventions from across the country, and this year has been no exception.

From hundreds of applications to the show, the 29 episode winners in contention to be The New Inventors Invention of the Year, have already proved their worthiness to take it to the next level. The panel of nine expert judges now have the unenviable task of whittling these winners down to a final five that will compete in the Grand Final for this prestigious prize.

6:30pm - Wednesday, September 22 on ABC1

Wednesday, 22 September 2010 This week, Poh is taking us on one last trip to Malaysia to share some more of the unique and colourful experiences from her recent visit.

She meets up again with two of Malaysia's most experienced and entertaining chefs, Florence Tan and the irrepressible Ismail Ahmad, who take her to Penang's tropical fruit farm, where the produce is about as exotic as you can get and perfect for Florence's 'Fruity Nutty Chicken'.

As Poh finds out, this classic sweet and sour dish is quick and easy to prepare and is guaranteed to tempt the kids too.

10:05pm - Tuesday, September 21 on ABC1

Jennifer welcomes book lovers to a special movable feast, as we follow some restless writers, On The Road.

From Marco Polo's reports from the mysterious East, Mark Twain's adventures right here in Australia, through to Che Guevara's formative wanderings across South America, travel literature has a long, proud history. Books like Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat Pray Love - and writers like Bill Bryson - regularly top the bestseller lists, yet there are those who consider the genre a shot duck. Even Paul Theroux, the father of the modern travel novel has written that the genre has become "little better than a license to bore ... the lowest form of literary self-indulgence". Can it be true? Is the open road, a closed book.

Surely not.

In On The Road, we've brought some of the best in the field to talk about it...

9:35pm - Tuesday, September 21 on ABC1

Stephen Fry's guests on QI tonight are Alan Davies, Bill Bailey, Richard E Grant and Linda Smith.

They must all be quite interesting or else there'll be trouble.

Topics tonight include Arts and Entertainment, apples, the unknown, the unknowable and the never known.

8:30pm - Tuesday, September 21 on ABC1

British presenter and commentator David Dimbleby reveals the seven great ages of British culture, uncovering and exploring over 2000 years of extraordinary artistic achievements.

This week we meet the Tudors: from Henry VIII's accession in 1509 to the first performance of Shakespeare's Henry VIII exactly 100 years later. David Dimbleby shows how the Tudors used art as an instrument of power and propaganda. First, Henry VIII and the lavish, gilded tomb in Westminster Abbey he commissioned for his father; the epic Field of Cloth of Gold painting in Hampton Court made to celebrate his diplomatic triumph over the French; and the extraordinary patron-artist relationship he cultivated with Hans Holbein.