60 Minutes

The second week of Easter non-ratings on Nine delivers the usual mix of Big Bang and other repeats BUT – watch out for a new episode of 2 Broke Girls on Tuesday night, and a new episode of The Mentalist on Wednesday night, which is followed by new Unforgettable.

Sunday April 8
6.30 Super Smart Animals
7.30 60 Minutes
8.30 The Mentalist rpt
9.30 The Mentalist rpt
10.30 CSI: Miami rpt

Monday April 9
7.00 The Big Bang Theory rpt (weeknights 7pm)
7.30 The Big Bang Theory rpt
8.00 The Big Bang Theory rpt
8.30 Alcatraz new
9.30 Alcatraz new

Tuesday April 10
7.30 The Big Bang Theory rpt
8.00 2 Broke Girls NEW
8.30 2 Broke Girls rpt
9.00 Two and a Half Men rpt
9.30 Top Gear rpt
11.00 Kitchen Nightmares

Wednesday April 11
7.30 The Big Bang Theory rpt
8.00 The Big Bang Theory rpt
8.30 The Mentalist new
9.30 Unforgettable
10.30 CSI: NY

Thursday April 12
7.30 RBT rpt
8.30 CSI new
9.30 The Footy Show

Correct as at April 6, subject to change.

By the way, make the most of the Big bang repeats this week, as from April 15, reailty overload takes over with The Voice, The Block and Celebrity Apprentice occupying hours of TV on Nine each night. Week 16 guide up soon.

The Big Picture
It’s the curse of every dieter. Shed a few kilos. Then pile them all back on again. We’ve always blamed ourselves, we should have kept up with the exercise, shown more self-control. But researchers in Melbourne have come up with another more “palatable” explanation. They’re discovered that a person’s weight is predestined, that genetically your body will fight to put the weight back on again. All without you even knowing about it. There is some good news though: the new findings are turning the science of weight loss on its head.
Reporter: Liam Bartlett
Producer: Howard Sacre

Ships of Shame
They’re sold to us as floating pleasure domes – luxury hotels on the sea – where every day is perfect and the party never stops. But scratch the surface of the cruise ship industry and the truth isn’t so dazzling. Behind the pina coladas and the smiles lies a murky world of sexual assault, drugs and violence, even murder. Incredibly, one passenger goes missing overboard every two weeks. Now, you’d think the big cruise companies would be desperate to get their industry shipshape. You couldn’t be more wrong.
Reporter: Allison Langdon
Producer: Gareth Harvey

Living on the Edge
Bands don’t get much bigger or louder than Aerosmith. For 40 years, Stephen Tyler and his crew have been rocking stadiums full of adoring fans. Backstage, though, things haven’t been quite so harmonious. There’s been bitter feuds, battles with drug addiction and major health scares. Yet through it all, they’ve kept performing. Their live concerts are legendary. But as Lara Logan from the American 60 Minutes program discovered, the real entertainment happens behind the scenes.
Reporter: Lara Logan, CBS 60 Minutes
Producer: John Hamlin

By Design

Just imagine it. Seven kids and every one of them a boy. You’d give up trying for a girl wouldn’t you? Well not Andrew and Jody McMahon. They wanted a daughter so badly they decided to have one more go. But this time, there was no rolling the dice. Like thousands of other Australian couples, Andrew and Jody headed overseas where it’s legal to choose the sex of your baby. Gender selection is banned here and often condemned as a first step towards designer babies. But for the McMahons, it’s nothing short of a miracle.

Reporter: Tara Brown

Producer: Sandra Cleary

God’s Angels

Get ready to meet some real teenaged Hell raisers. Brianna, Savannah and Tess are trainee exorcists – all- American school girls who slay demons in their spare time. Armed with just a bible, holy water and a hand-bag-sized cross, they fearlessly take on the forces of darkness wherever they may lurk. And, nowadays, that seems to be everywhere. The Catholic Church is performing more exorcisms than ever before, while the girls can scarcely keep up with demand. And we’ll give them this much. They do put on one devil of a show.

Reporter: Michael Usher

Producer: Phil Goyen

Chilling Out

Liam Bartlett has just returned from a place so piercingly cold, it gives him the shivers just thinking about it. It’s not Antarctica or even the top of Mount Everest. No. It’s actually a tiny village in Central Siberia. In Oymiakon, it’s so cold your eyelashes freeze together and you’re constantly on guard against frostbite. If it’s warmer than minus 55 degrees Celsius, then it’s a good day. So rug up as we venture to the coldest town in the world.

Reporter: Liam Bartlett

Producer: Howard Sacre

Sunday, March 25 at 7.30pm on Channel Nine 

Deep Trouble

From the start, he was branded the Honeymoon Killer. The police were convinced Gabe Watson murdered his wife Tina while diving on the Great Barrier Reef and the media and public agreed. The view was, how could a newly-married man abandon his drowning wife? It just didn’t make sense. It’s taken almost 9 years for this quietly-spoken businessman to finally clear his name. But, even now, the suspicions linger. On Sunday night, in his only Australian interview, Gabe Watson tells what really happened that day on the Barrier Reef.

Reporter: Liz Hayes

Producers: Phil Goyen, Hannah Boocock 

Good Will

He’s one of the funniest blokes around and Hollywood’s power brokers know it. Add Will Ferrell’s name to a movie and chances are it will be a box office smash. Think hits like Blades of Glory, Anchor Man and Talladega Nights. Ferrell has made some serious cash playing the fool. He’s reportedly worth 80 million dollars. But as Michael Usher discovered when he caught up with him recently, it’s not the money or the fame that drives this thoroughly likeable bloke.

Reporter: Michael Usher

Producer: Phil Goyen

Deep Trouble
From the start, he was branded the Honeymoon Killer. The police were convinced Gabe Watson murdered his wife Tina while diving on the Great Barrier Reef and the media and public agreed. The view was, how could a newly-married man abandon his drowning wife? It just didn’t make sense. It’s taken almost 9 years for this quietly-spoken businessman to finally clear his name. But, even now, the suspicions linger. On Sunday night, in his only Australian interview, Gabe Watson tells what really happened that day on the Barrier Reef.
Reporter: Liz Hayes
Producers: Phil Goyen, Hannah Boocock

Good Will
He’s one of the funniest blokes around and Hollywood’s power brokers know it. Add Will Ferrell’s name to a movie and chances are it will be a box office smash. Think hits like Blades of Glory, Anchor Man and Talladega Nights. Ferrell has made some serious cash playing the fool. He’s reportedly worth 80 million dollars. But as Michael Usher discovered when he caught up with him recently, it’s not the money or the fame that drives this thoroughly likeable bloke.
Reporter: Michael Usher
Producer: Phil Goyen

A Brave Face
In this job, we’re constantly surprised and inspired by the strength of the human spirit. But Liz Hayes has never met anyone quite like Charla Nash. Two years ago, Charla was savagely mauled by a friend’s pet chimpanzee. She lost her hands, eyelids, nose and lips in the frenzied attack. In fact, by the time help arrived, there was nothing much left of her face at all. It’s a wonder she survived. But Charla wanted more than that – she wanted to live. And thanks to an extraordinary face transplant, and her own fierce will, that’s just what she’s doing.
Reporter: Liz Hayes
Producer: Phil Goyen

The Crystal Cave
Michael Usher has just returned from a spectacular and perilous journey to the centre of the earth, to a magical place known as the Crystal Cave. To reach it, Michael descended underground, deep into the deadly heart of a Mexican lead mine. The furnace-like heat and soaring humidity there can kill you in minutes. But when you see what Michael saw, you’ll understand why it was worth every suffocating gasp for breath.
Reporter: Micheal Usher
Producer: Danny Keens

Manhunt
He’s Australia’s most wanted man and the most elusive. Malcolm Naden has been on the run for seven years, crisscrossing some of our harshest terrain. It seems every time the police get close, Naden slips back into the scrub and the shadows. He’s becoming a legend of sorts – like those bushrangers of old. And just like them, there’s a bounty on his head. But Malcolm Naden is no hero. He’s a desperate man, armed and dangerous and he needs to be caught. But join this manhunt for a few days, as Charles Wooley did and you soon realise just what the police are up against.
Reporter: Charles Wooley
Producer: Danny Keens

Nine programming for the next week and a half includes double episodes of 2 Broke Girls, and new episodes of The Mentalist twice a week for now. Big Bang repeats remain at 7.00pm weeknights, as well as 7.30pm Monday to Thursday and 8pm Wednesday as well for good measure.

Tuesday March 13 and March 20 includes two new episodes of 2 Broke Girls from 8pm, with new Two and a Half Men back to singles, at 9pm, followed by new Top Gear at 9.30pm.

Wednesday nights (March 14 and 21) include a third repeat episode of The Big Bang Theory at 8pm, followed by new The Mentalist at 8.30pm, and new Unforgettable at 9.30pm. Repeats of CSI: Miami play from 10.30pm.

Onto Thursdays, and Earthflight continues at 7.30pm, following by new CSI at 8.30pm. In NRL states, the NRL Footy Show airs at 9.30pm Thursday March 15 and 22. The AFL Footy show returns Thursday March 22 at 9.30pm in AFL states. Both are played later in their opposing markets.

On Sunday March 18, Great Barrier Reef is at 6.30, then 60 Minutes at 7.30, New The Mentalist at 8.30pm and new CSI: Miami at 9.30pm.

Mondays remain as new Big Bang at 8pm, then Alcatraz 8.30 and Person of Interest at 9.30pm.

Correct as at March 13, subject to change.

Death in Paradise

It’s the ultimate holiday destination – a party paradise for young Aussies looking for adventure on the cheap. But Asia can also be deadly dangerous, especially the latest hot spot – the tiny landlocked country of Laos. Every year, thousands of backpackers head there, completely unaware of the risks. Australian Lee Hudswell was one of them. He just wanted to have a good time with his mates. But like dozens before him, he never made it home.
Reporter: Liz Hayes
Producer: Steve Burling

Toxic Time Bomb

Right now, in homes around the country, thousands of Australian women are worried sick. They’re living with the terrible possibility that a toxic time bomb is ticking away inside their bodies. For the last ten years, one of the largest manufacturers of breast implants has been involved in a monstrous fraud – filling its products with cheap industrial gels. What makes this scandal so alarming is that no one fully understands the health implications of what’s happened. All over the world, governments are rallying to help women at risk. But not here.
Reporter: Allison Langdon
Producers: Gareth Harvey, Hannah Boocock

Golden Girl

There’s no mistaking THAT voice or the heartbreaking songs that have catapulted her to the top of the music world. But Grammy award winner Adele isn’t the bitter, angst-ridden soul you might expect. In fact, she’s a very relaxed and funny woman – quick to laugh and swear. As Anderson Cooper of the American 60 Minutes program discovered, in the often phony world of pop, Adele is refreshingly real.
Reporter: Anderson Cooper, CBS 60 Minutes
Producer: John Hamlin

Sunday, December 18, at 7:30pm on Nine

Pure Hate                             

Right now, on the other side of the world, there’s a bunch of people who hate you and we mean absolutely despise you. But don’t worry, they hate everyone else in Australia. These so-called “Christians” hate us so much they actually rejoice in our suffering. The tragic bushfires of 2009? Those devastating floods earlier this year? Apparently, we deserved it all. You see, according to the folk of the Westboro Independent Baptist Church, all Australians are damned to Hell and they’ve reserved a specially fiery spot just for Liz Hayes.

Original TX: 22 May, 2011

End of the Line                   

The Japanese love their sushi. And over the past couple of decades, the rest of the world has come to love it too – maybe a little too much. Salmon and eel stocks are dwindling. But it’s the blue fin tuna that’s most at risk. This majestic creature – known in Japan as the King of Sushi – is being hunted to extinction. Bob Simon, of the American 60 Minutes program, went in search of the bluefin and discovered what happens when tradition and big business collide.

Faith, Love and Happiness                 

Nicole Kidman has certainly had her highs and lows. Publicly, she’s lived the Hollywood dream of fame and fortune. Privately, she’s faced the same struggles of many modern women. The pain of divorce. The heartbreak of miscarriage. Now at the age of 44, our Nic is positively blooming. A loving marriage and a new family have brought her the happiness that eluded her for so long. And when Karl Stefanovic caught up with her in Los Angeles, she had the glow of any new mum – busting to talk about baby Faith and the birth that caught everybody by surprise.

Original TX: 20 February, 2011

Sunday Dec 18
6.30 Shrek The Halls
7.00 The Big Bang Theory
7.30 60 Minutes
8.30 The Mentalist
9.30 CSI
10.30 Prime Suspect

Monday Dec 19
7.30 The Big Bang Theory
8.00 Hot In Cleveland – NEW
8.30 The Mentalist
9.30 Harry’s Law – NEW
10.30 Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition – NEW

Tuesday Dec 20
7.30 The Big Bang Theory
8.00 The Middle – NEW
8.30 Two and a Half Men
9.00 Mike & Molly – NEW
9.30 Survivor South Pacific
10.30 Nothing Trivial

Wednesday Dec 21
7.30 RBT
8.30 Movie: Lethal Weapon 3
11.00 Weeds

Thursday Dec 22
7.30 Getaway
8.30 Unforgettable
9.30 CSI: NY NEW
10.30 Nothing Trivial

Friday Dec 23
7.30 Two and a Half Men x 2
8.30 Movie: Fred Claus

Saturday Dec 24
6.30 Australia’s Funniest Home Videos Summer Series
7.30 The Making of Happy Feet 2
8.00 Carols By Candelight (Live AEDT)

Subject to change. Correct at Decemebr 11.