Rugby Union World Cup

Rugby World Cup: Bronze Final – Wales Vs Australia LIVE. Nine 6.30pm NSW & VIC (5.30pm QLD, 6.00pm SA, 5.00pm NT, 3.30pm WA)
Friday night football! OK – so we didn’t make through to the Grand Final, but lets see if we can get the bronze by beatings Wales?

Movie: Cats & Dogs, GO!, 6.00pm
The age-old turf war between cats and dogs gets more intense when felines discover that humans may be at the brink of developing a vaccine for dog allergies.
Movie: The Thing, 7mate, 9.30pm
Scientists at an arctic research station discover an alien spacecraft under the thick ice, and thaw out the alien body found aboard. What they don’t know is that the alien can assume any human form, and before long the scientists can’t tell who’s real and who’s a deadly alien threat.

Movie: The Thing, 7mate, 9.30pm
Scientists at an arctic research station discover an alien spacecraft under the thick ice, and thaw out the alien body found aboard. What they don’t know is that the alien can assume any human form, and before long the scientists can’t tell who’s real and who’s a deadly alien threat.

Naked Calendars, SBS ONE 10.00pm
SBS’s naked hour continues with with this – a light-hearted look at the peculiarly British phenomenon of the naked charity calendar and how the most unlikely people do the most extraordinary things in the name of charity. With around 200 naked calendars on sale last year, it seems there wasn’t a town, village, profession or organisation in Britain that didn’t ‘get their kit off’ for charity. This program follows how this burgeoning phenomenon became a national pastime.

Movie: The Other Side of the Bed, SBS ONE, 11.00pm
Musical and romantic comedy set in contemporary Spain. Pedro tries to convince his girlfriend Paula that her desire to leave him is just a phase. Paula says she has fallen in love with someone else, and in fact the new man in her life is Pedro’s best friend, Javier. Torn between two beautiful, vibrant women and his oldest friend, Javier scrambles to maintain the status quo through an escalating series of lies and deception.

Australia Vs New Zealand.

Rugby League: Trans Tasman Test: Australia Vs New Zealand, 3.30pm AEDT Live on Nine and GEM in HD
Wide World Of Sports presents Australia v New Zealand from Ausgrid Stadium, Newcastle. This is sure to be an exciting prelude to the upcoming Four Nations Tournament. Join your expert commentary team for all the action.

Rugby World Cup 2011. Semi Final 2. Australia Vs new Zealand. 6.30pm AEDT Live on Nine and GEM in HD.
Wide World of Sports presents the first semifinal of the Rugby World Cup, live from Eden Park, Auckland. Join George Gregan, Andrew Slack along with Ken Sutcliffe for all the action.

Sunday Night, Seven, 6.30pm
He gambled everything and lost the lot. Millions of dollars, his home, career, and family. This sporting legend came unstuck, tried to end his life and eventually found himself jailed. Inside prison he came to realise what matters most, and speaks exclusively to Ross Coulthart about his struggles.

Compass, ABC1, 10.01pm
Scott Stephens returns to continue the search for meaning. First up is Peter Cundall, the irrepressible face of gardening in Australia.

Thalassa: Dubai’s Palm Islands, SBS ONE, 6.00pm
Palm Islands is an extravagant project launched in 2001 in Dubai – luxury housing built on land reclaimed from the sea. However, checks on the marine life in the surrounding waters indicate a less than healthy marine environment. Presented by Silvio Rivier.