Television Programs of Interest (Sat 5th June to Fri 11th June 2010)

• LIVING WITH THE FUTURE: EP 3 OF 6

Davis visits Drop House, Potters Bar, Hertfordshire and stays overnight with the owners. Looking in sharp contrast to the "historical architectural theme park" neighbourhood, Drop House is a sensible, practical house making the most of modern materials and designs including water and energy conservation features. One of the architects drops in for the first time after the completion of the four-year-old house and explains its distinctive mark.
Saturday 5 June 2010 3.55pm
SBS ONE Rating: GCC WS Rpt
Duration: 35 mins

• TIM MARLOW MEETS MICHAEL PALIN

Michael Palin chats about his favourite works in the Tate Britain gallery, London.
Saturday 5 June 2010 3.30pm
SBS ONE Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• ART NATION

Fenella Kernebone visits a Pecha Kucha night at Brisbane's Powerhouse Museum. We look at John Olsen's paintings inspired by Spanish cuisine and feature music by Pugsley Buzzard.
Sunday 6 June 2010 5.30pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• ART FROM THE ARCTIC

A group of 20 artists, scientists and educators travel to the remote and beautiful Arctic island of Spitzbergen to exchange ideas and plot ways of communicating to the wider world, concerns about the environment and climate change.
Sunday 6 June 2010 8.30pm
ABC2 Rating: MCC
Duration: 60 mins

• TALKING HEADS: JEFFREY SMART

This week on Talking Heads, Peter Thompson chats with Jeffrey Smart, one of Australia's great living artists. Smart's unique, almost hyper-realistic pictures have sold for more than a million dollars in private sales, which he finds quite amazing. The high value of his painting is partly due to his own method of quality control, which as he tells Talking Heads, often involves a bonfire.
Monday 7 June 2010 3.30am (early hours)
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

Featuring a method to detect cancer using x-rays of nail clippings or skin; a speedboat for all occasions; an invention to relieve lower back pain.
Wednesday 9 June 2010 8.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• DESIGN FOR LIFE: EP 2 OF 6

Our 12 design hopefuls are now down to 10. After the elimination of Lachlan and David the desire to stay in the competition and potentially work for Philippe Starck is high.
Wednesday 9 June 2010 8.30pm
ABC2 Rating: MCC
Duration: 60 mins

• GRAND DESIGNS REVISITED: CREUSE

Deni Daniel and Doug Ibbs don't muck around. The couple, in their mid-50s bought a 19th century manor house in Creuse, in central France, on a Sunday, having seen it for the first time on the previous Tuesday on the internet and visited it on the Thursday. Thrilled with their new purchase, Deni and Doug sold up in the UK and moved to the sparsely populated area, applied for and were granted planning permission and set about transforming the wreck which had been untouched for 60 years.
Thursday 10 June 2010 6.05pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC
Duration: 55 mins