Movies

8:30pm – Saturday, January 21 on ABC2

Henry Moon is captured for a capital offence by Deputy Sheriff Frank Towfield and his posse while trying to escape to Mexico.

He is taken back to Longhorn, Texas where he learns of a new county ordinance: any convicted outlaw, short of being a murderer, can be saved from the gallows by a single, property-holding female if she agrees to marry him.

A striking young woman offers to take Moon for her husband and the whole town is aghast. Minutes later, a euphoric Moon has been married to Julia Tate. Stone-cold and unsmiling, Julia climbs into her buckboard with Moon and drives him away.

Julia takes Moon to their place of employment (an old, semi-abandoned mine) and finally lets Moon know why she married him; gold. She is sure it’s on her property – the mine only needs working.

Directed by Jack Nicholson, Goin’ South stars Jack Nicholson, Mary Steenburgen and Christopher Lloyd.

6.30pm Saturday January 21 on Ten

Stars: Ben Stiller, Carla Guglino, Ricky Gervais

In New York, unemployed and divorced Larry Daley is a complete loser. His son Nick is very disappointed with his father who is going to be evicted. Larry accepts the job of night watchman in the Museum of Natural History and takes the place of three old security guards that have just retired in order to raise some money and pay his bills. On his first shift, Larry soon realizes that everything at the museum is not as it seems as the statues begin to come to life after the sun sets. The Museum transforms into complete chaos with the inexperienced Larry in charge as he learns that an old Egyptian stone that came to the Museum in 1950 brings these statues to life until dawn. When Larry brings his son to spend a night with him, the three old guards break into the Museum to try to steal the magical stone. Larry organizes all the historic characters to help him stop the criminals and save the museum.

9.30pm Friday January 20 on Ten

Stars: Anne Hathaway, Meryl Streep, Adrian Grenier, Emily Blunt,

In New York, the simple and naive just-graduated in journalism Andrea Sachs is hired to work as the second assistant of the powerful and sophisticated Miranda Priestly, the ruthless and merciless executive of the Runway fashion magazine. Andrea dreams to become a journalist and faces the opportunity as a temporary professional challenge. The first assistant Emily advises Andrea about the behavior and preferences of their cruel boss, and the stylist Nigel helps Andrea to dress more adequately for the environment. Andrea changes her attitude and behavior, affecting her private life and the relationship with her boyfriend Nate, her family and friends. In the end, Andrea learns that life is made of choices.

Lewis Black’s Root of All Evil, 10.25pm, ABC2 / ABC4
Both high school and American Idol feature harsh social criticisms, popularity contests, and shady characters – be it Ryan Seacrest, or the neighbourhood creep. But which is more evil?

Cutting Edge – Terror Island, 9.30pm, SBS ONE
On July 22, 2011, Anders Behring Breivik, a 32-year-old Norwegian, set off a bomb in the heart of Oslo. He then raced to a small island in the Oslo fjord and used a high-powered weapon to systematically murder 69 innocent young people. This horrific act is documented, along with interviews with some of the survivors whose lives will be forever changed.

Constantine, 9.30pm, GO!
Just beneath the streets of modern-day Los Angeles lies a world of demons, and angels. Renegade occultist John Constantine enters this world to help the investigation of a mysterious suicide.

Nigella Kitchen, 8.01pm, ABC1
It’s a long weekend of comfort cooking in Nigella’s kitchen where the food is delicious and the cooking is easy.

Who Do You Think You Are? – Ben Mendelsohn, 7.30pm, SBS ONE
Bad boy larrikin actor Ben Mendelsohn embarks on a journey into his ancestry to find out if he really is related to the famous composer of the Wedding March, Felix Mendelssohn

Sunday January 15 at 7.00pm on FOX CLASSICS

A business tycoon is plunged into a world of espionage, deception and dangerous romance when he is appointed the leader of a powerful company. Based upon the novel Noble House by James Clavell, featuring a large cast led by Pierce Brosnan and directed by Gary Nelson. Produced in 1988.

Sunday, January 15th

AUSTRALIA’S GREAT FLOOD – NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
8.30pm – Australian Exclusive Premiere
In early 2011, a freak inland tsunami smashed through Queensland bringing widespread destruction. This is the story of Australia’s greatest flood, caught on camera by those who lived through it.

THE AUSSIE WAY UP – NAT GEO ADVENTURE
8.30pm – Australian Exclusive Premiere
In this series four Aussie gen-Y boys set out to drive from Tasmania to Darwin without stopping for petrol. They set about building a biodiesel boat to get them started at the southernmost tip of Tassie.

ENLIGHTENED – SHOWCASE
8.30pm -  Double Episodes – Australian Exclusive Premiere
Laura Dern stars as Amy Jellicoe, a 40-year-old woman who returns home to California after a month’s stay at a holistic treatment facility, a result of having a mental breakdown at work triggered by her self-destructive ways. Amy returns to her old life with a new cultivated approach and perspective, which includes daily meditation and exhorting the power of self-help and inner healing. Though Amy wants to be an ‘agent of change’ in the world, the people who know her best are sceptical of her latest intentions. She moves in temporarily with her somewhat-estranged mother, Helen (Dern’s real-life mum Diane Ladd) and reconnects with her ex-husband Levi (Luke Wilson), who is struggling with his own demons and addictions. While trying to heal Levi and mend her relationship with Helen, Amy also re-enters work at Abaddonn Industries.

MAMMOTH – WORLD MOVIES
8.30pm – Australian Exclusive Premiere
Bored of his web design job, Leo takes a trip to Thailand in an attempt to radically change his life. The decisions he makes change the lives of his wife and daughter forever. Starring Michelle Williams and Gael Garcia Bernal.

HOW IT’S MADE – DISCOVERY SCIENCE – Season 15.
9.30pm – Australian Exclusive Premiere
Find out how the everyday objects we use become the things they are, in a behind the scenes look at their amazing manufacturing processes.

DCI BANKS – UKTV – Season 1
8.30pm – Australian Exclusive Premiere
This series starts with a fire on a houseboat that leads to the discovery of a charred body. DCI Banks and Annie believe they have uncovered a case of art fraud when a briefcase containing a forged painting and some cash is found on the boat.

NOBLE HOUSE – FOX CLASSICS
7pm
A business tycoon is plunged into a world of espionage, deception and dangerous romance when he is appointed the leader of a powerful company. Based upon the novel Noble House by James Clavell, featuring a large cast led by Pierce Brosnan and directed by Gary Nelson. Produced in 1988.

BERLIN – HISTORY
7.30pm
Berlin is a unique city that has not grown organically, but always been contrived and redefined. Even if we have never visited, we all feel touched by events that have taken place there because they are the universal stories of our time.

THE LIVING DEAD OF AUSCHWITZ: SONDERKOMMANDO – HISTORY
9.00pm – Australian Exclusive Premiere
The industrial killing machine of Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps in World War Two could not have functioned without the Sonderkommado. These ‘special units’ were made up of young, strong, Jewish boys, selected from incoming prisoner transportations. Once chosen, they were then forced to carry out the appalling task of helping to ensure victims selected for immediate execution in the gas chambers went unknowingly to their deaths.

Monday, January 16th

COUNTDOWN TO THE RED CARPET – E! ENTERTAINMENT
9am
The 2012 Golden Globe Awards: Red carpet coverage offering a first look at the evening’s fashion parade and interviews with early celebrity arrivals.

LIVE RED CARPET: 2012 GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS – E! ENTERTAINMENT
The 2012 Golden Globe Awards: Red carpet coverage offering a first look at the evening’s fashion parade and interviews with early celebrity arrivals.

69th ANNUAL GOLDEN GLOBES RED CARPET AND AWARDS CEREMONY – FOX8
11am – LIVE via Satellite – Australian Exclusive Premiere
The Red Carpet show starts from 11.00am with the awards show from midday. Tune in to see the glitz and glamour of the 69th Annual Golden Globes. Seen in more than 160 countries worldwide, it’s one of the few award ceremonies that include both television and motion picture achievements. Nominees include Boardwalk Empire, Glee, Modern Family and Enlightened. Repeated at 7.30pm.

E! AFTER PARTY – E! ENTERTAINMENT
3pm
The 2012 Golden Globe Awards: Wraps up the Golden Globe Awards and discusses the highlights from the night’s gala.

WE THE PEOPLE – BIO – Season One
7pm – Australian Exclusive Premiere
Gloria Allred is one of the most famous attorneys practicing law today; a tireless and successful powerhouse whose high-profile legal battles have led to landmark court decisions and millions of dollars for her clients.

TENNIS: 2012 AUSTRALIAN OPEN – FOX SPORTS
11am – Australian Exclusive Premiere
Hosted by Roger Rasheed, Nicole Pratt, Josh Eagle, Adam Peacock, Ryan Phelan, Lee Furlong, Pat Cash and Wally Masur.

Tuesday, January 17th

RIVER MONSTERS – DISCOVERY CHANNEL
7.30pm
The Giants: Jeremy Wade relives his most thrilling, insane, and agonising attempts to land some of the world’s biggest freshwater fish.

Wednesday, January 18th

FASHION POLICE – 2012 GOLDEN GLOBES – -E! ENTERTAINMENT
11am
Be sure to tune in for a recap of the fashion do’s and don’ts at this year’s ceremony with Joan Rivers and Kelly Osbourne

AUSTRALIAN STORY – BIO – Season One
 9.30pm – Subscription TV Premiere
This program seeks to make Australians, in their diversity and individuality, more understandable to other Australians. It seeks to explore how Australians lead their lives through ordinary and extraordinary events.

APOCALYPSE: THE RISE OF HITLER – NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC CHANNEL
7.30pm
In this series we start with – The Menace: What happened at the start of Hitler’s life to provoke his relentless rise to power? From his early life as a mediocre student and failed artist, follow the events that led to Hitler’s dictatorship.

Thursday, January 19th

BLACKROCK – MOVIE GREATS
8.30pm – Subscription TV Premiere
Heath Ledger, in his feature film debut, and Simon Lyndon star in this AFI-nominated drama, based on a true story about a young man torn by loyalty to his friends after a teenager is raped and murdered. Young surfer Jared (Laurence Breuls) is elated when his friend Ricko (Simon Lyndon), a surfing champion, returns home to their seaside suburb that he hosts a party for him at the local club. With everyone in various states of inebriation, Jared witnesses a young girl, Tracey (Bojana Novakovic), having sex with a boy named Toby (Heath Ledger)

GLASTONBURY 2011 – MUSIC MAX
9.30pm – Australian Exclusive Premiere
Glastonbury Festival is the largest and most revered open air music festival in the world. Glastonbury 2011 saw one of the best superstar line-ups in history. This very special show features performances from U2, Paul Simon and Coldplay.

Friday, January 20th

OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE – W – Season 6
7:30pm – Subscription TV Premiere
In the final season of OUTRAGEOUS FORTUNE there are more than a few bombshells ready to go off as the West’s Two-part Series

Saturday January 21st

DINOSAUR HUNTERS – HISTORY CHANNEL
8.30pm – Australian Exclusive Premiere
A gripping story of obsession, ambition and rivalry that led to one of Britain’s greatest scientific feuds, Dinosaur Hunters is the dramatised story of the men and women who discovered the dinosaurs. Set in 19th century England it is a tale of scientific brilliance and rivalry that changed the world forever. When doctor Gideon Mantell found huge fossilised bones buried in the English countryside he began to wonder whether extraordinary creatures had once roamed the Earth long before Man. It was a pursuit that was to take over his life, but Mantell’s radical ideas flew in the face of Victorian thinking and its literal reading of the Bible, which not only stated that the Earth and it’s inhabitants had been created only 6,000 years previously, but singularly failed to mention ancient giant lizards.defend their mother’s honour and become divided over the many spectacular trials and tribulations ahead of them.

8:30pm – Saturday, January 14 on ABC2

Three convicts – Jospeh, Albert and Jules – escape from prison on Devil’s Island, Christmas Eve. Albert carries his pet, a poisonous snake called Adolphe, in a basket. They take refuge in the home of Felix Ducotel, a benevolent but ineffectual merchant who manages a store for his penny-pinching cousin, Andrew. Though the convicts had planned to rob perhaps even murder Ducotel, his wife and their daughter Isabelle, they weaken under the family’s kind treatment.

Andre and his nephew Paul with whom Isabelle imagines herself in love, arrive. Andre’s arrogant behaviour toward the Ductoels so angers the convicts that when the family retires, they hold council to decide what to do about him. After Andre examines the accounts, he is livid with rage. He is also sure Albert’s basket contains something belonging to him so he takes it to his room. And that’s the end of cousin Andre.

Paul gleefully claims his uncle’s estate, concealing the fact that there’s a will leaving half the property to Ducotel, said will having been considerately written by the three convicts. Paul, being a chip off his mean uncle’s block, believes himself too good for Isabelle. So when he reports he has been bitten by a small snake, the convicts silently bow to the inevitable.

Much to their amazement, the Ducotels inherit Andre’s fortune. The convicts, dressed in the best clothes of the deceased, start to leave Devil’s Island but change their minds and return to prison where they believe there are fewer criminals than in the outside world.

Directed by Michael Curtiz, We’re No Angels stars Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Ray, Peter Ustinov and Joan Bennett.

Vicky Cristina Barcelona, 9.30pm, SBS ONE
Two girlfriends on a summer holiday in Spain become enamoured with the same painter, unaware that his ex-wife, with whom he has a tempestuous relationship, is about to re-enter the picture.

Conspiracy 365 – January (Premiere) 7pm, FMC
Adapted from the best-selling novels. This film follows a year in the life of teenager Cal Ormond, who is forced to go on the run and become a fugitive as he searches for the truth behind a deadly family secret.

Desperately Seeking Susan, 8.30pm, Arena
A New Jersey housewife desperately seeking adventure in her boring suburban life becomes obsessed with the ‘Susan’ she reads about in the personal ads, and finds herself taking over the identity of this flamboyant temptress.

Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, 6.30pm, TEN
When Sid’s attempt to adopt three dinosaur eggs gets him abducted by their real mother to an underground lost world, his friends attempt to rescue him.

Beautiful Kate, 9.30pm, Nine
Ned Kendall returns to his family home to say goodbye to his dying father, only to have long-buried secrets from the family’s past awakened by memories of his beautiful sister.

Countdown, around 12.30am on ABC1 as part of Rage Goes Retro.
Three episodes from 1980 and 1981, featuring Molly Meldrum. Read more here.

8:30pm – Saturday, January 7 on ABC2

Philadelphia lawyer Michael Hamilton is in Naples to settle the estate of his brother, survived by Nando, a 10-year-old juvenile delinquent.

Hamilton wants to reform Nando by taking custody, but romantic complications set in when he meets Nando’s beautiful Aunt Lucia, a honky-tonk singer.

Lucia gains court custody of Nando after she learns the boy is unhappy because Hamilton won’t marry her.

In her heart, though, Lucia knows America is best for Nando. But Hamilton deduces that Nando belongs with his aunt. As he is about to leave Naples, Hamilton realises that he too belongs there with Lucia and Nando.

Fabled Clark Gable, magnificently sensual Sophia Loren and Capri’s lush scenery all add up to extraordinary entertainment in this delightful comedy.

Directed by Melville Shavelson It Started In Naples stars Clark Gable and Sophia Loren.

Ten have made changes to next week’s programming.

On Wednesday January 11, Hawaii Five-O is out, replaced by the movie All About Steve – first time on Ten.

On Friday January 13, at 8.30pm, one of Ten’s high rotation movies gets another run: The Devil Wears Prada.