Thursday, September 2, 2010

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 4th September to Fri 10th September 2010)

  • JEAN-SIMEON CHARDIN PAINTER
The largely self-taught Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin was one of the greatest French painters of the 18th century. His still life subjects documented the life of the Parisian bourgeoisie.
Saturday 4 September 2010 3.00pm
SBS ONE Rating: G Rpt
Duration: 30 mins
  • QUEENS OF TERROR
The story of the Italian comic book Diabolik and the two middle-class Milanese sisters who created it in the 1960s, the Giussani sisters. Diabolik, a masked anti-hero, a thief and murderer, became the first Italian adult comic book. The program delves into the lives and inspiration of the Giussani sisters through archival footage and modern-day interviews.
Saturday 4 September 2010 3.30pm
SBS ONE Rating: PG
Duration: 60 mins
  • ARTSCAPE: ARTISTS AT WORK - DEL KATHRYN BARTON
Since winning the 2008 Archibald Prize, Del Kathryn Barton has been one of the most rapidly rising stars in the Australian contemporary art world. Barton's richly colourful and hallucinogenic works offer a complex, often disorienting meditation upon the nature of reality. Barton is a woman on a crusade, to express herself as honestly as she can in her work - a strange and magical world of fecund landscapes populated by hermaphrodites and animal familiars.
Sunday 5 September 2010 8.30pm
ABC2 Rating: MACC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins
  • ART NATION
Gippsland Art Gallery's '100 Ways to Ruin a Car' photography exhibition; the visual artists who make up the project Wrongtown; Casey Bennetto features in 'Guilty Pleasures'; and The Wilson Pickers perform.
Sunday 5 September 2010 5.30pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins
  • EATING ART: ON THE MENU - EP 1 OF 10
Oliver Peyton is a UK-based, Irish restaurateur and art connoisseur. In this series he follows the cultural trail throughout Europe and the US of landmark works of art which have food as a central motif.
Monday 6 September 2010 6.30pm
SBS TWO Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins
  • SEVEN AGES OF BRITAIN: AGE OF CONQUEST - EP 1 OF 7
In this new seven-part series, British commentator and presenter David Dimbleby tells the story of Britain through its art and treasure. This first episode begins with the Roman invasion and ends with the Norman Conquest.
Tuesday 7 September 2010 8.30pm
ABC1 Rating: G *New Series*CC
Duration: 65 mins
  • THE NEW INVENTORS
The Bright Sparks Special brings together some of the most forward thinking young people from around the country to present their fantastic inventions. Judges this week are three previous Bright Sparks inventors.
Wednesday 8 September 2010 8.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins
  • THE GRUEN TRANSFER: SERIES 3 - EP 9 OF 12
Hosted by Wil Anderson, with Todd Sampson and Russel Howcroft, The Gruen Transfer lifts the lid on the business of persuasion. It is fast, furious and funny.
Wednesday 8 September 2010 9.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins
*The Learning Centre has Series 1 & 2 available for loan on DVD.
  • GRAND DESIGNS REVISITED: SUSSEX
For ten years Ben Law, a woodsman, fought for and gained planning permission to build a house in the heart of the West Sussex woods where he worked. But there was a condition attached: he could never sell the house, only pass it on to his successor. Ben wanted his home to be totally self-sufficient with no main services, and had decided to build it using only materials from the woods, using techniques pretty similar to those used 1000 years ago.
Thursday 9 September 2010 6.00pm
ABC1 Rating: G *Final*CC
Duration: 60 mins

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