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Saturday The Cotswolds With Pam Ayres

SBS, 7.30pm

Tuesday The Mission

SBS, 8.30pm

Friday

GARDENING

ABC, 7.30pm

Australia

There’s now an irresistibly cute kids’ version of this soothing yet energetic gardening show, but the truth is kids and adults alike will nd both versions equally as charming and inspiring. A hothouse of creativity, colour and gardening know-how, host Costa Georgiadis (Pictured) fronts both shows with infectious enthusiasm. Settle in with the family for a treasure trove of wholesome entertainment and advice, as Josh Byrne learns all about cheeky magpies. Green thumb Millie Ross also tours a wonderful school farm and Jerry Coleby-Williams checks out a tropical oasis. In an ode to mood-boosting colour, Jane Edmanson explores how to add more of the rainbow to your outdoor space.

FRIDAY, October 20

6.00 The Drum. Analysis of the day’s news.

7.00 ABC News. A look at the top stories of the day.

7.30 Gardening Australia. Josh Byrne learns about magpies.

8.30 Sherwood. (MA15+v) As the manhunt closes in on Scott and Andy’s location, the search for the spy cop turns the clock back to 1984.

9.30 Midsomer Murders. (Mv, R) After a cycling competition comes to the village of Burwood Mantle, the race leader is murdered.

11.00 ABC Late News. Coverage of the day’s events.

11.20 Question Everything. (R)

11.50 Silent Witness. (Mav, R)

12.50 Frayed. (Mls, R)

1.40 Rage. (MA15+adhlnsv)

British poet Pam Ayres (Pictured) garnered fans and fame through ditties such as “Oh I Wish I’d Looked After Me Teeth”, and “Please Will You Take Your Children Home Before I Do Them In?”. In this attractive new four-part series, premiering tonight, the witty writer takes a warmhearted trip through her home terrain. Rather than the usual tourist spots, it’s an intimate travelogue of the stunningly beautiful Cotswolds businesses and locals. Beginning with a visit to the picturesque village of Bourton-on-the-Water, known as the Venice of the Cotswolds. This is charming series visits some interesting locations as Ayres gets to explore the place that she calls home.

Marc Fennell’s (Pictured) penetrativeyet-humorous style makes every-thing the talented journo turns his eagle eye to worthy of watching. Fennell, who had us glued to the screen with The Kingdom and , paints a fascinating picture in this gripping, sumptuously shot investigative three-parter, kicking o tonight. It’s a strange true story that is just begging to be examined in great detail; in outback Western Australia, 1986, 26 European masterpieces were savagely ripped from their frames inside a Spanish monastery. It’s a perplexing, under-the-radar art heist for the ages in which Fennell expertly draws every potent little detail, from the tiny monastic Aussie town to London and New York.

6.00 Mastermind Australia. (R)

6.30 SBS World News.

7.30 Arctic Sinkholes. (PGa, R)

8.30 Ancient Egypt: Chronicles Of An Empire: Downfall. (Final, Ma) Explores the Ptolemaic dynasty.

9.30 Tony Robinson: Britain’s Greatest River: London Gateway. (PGa, R) Presented by Tony Robinson.

10.25 SBS World News Late.

10.55 Unseen. (Malnv)

11.55 Wisting. (MA15+a, R)

3.30 Going Places With Ernie Dingo. (PG, R)

4.30 Bamay. (R)

5.00 NHK World English News Morning.

5.30 ANC Philippines The World Tonight.

6.00 7News Local.

6.30 7News @ 6:30.

7.00 Better Homes And Gardens. Johanna Griggs catches up with Big Bash cricketer Maitlan Brown. Karen Martini bakes some pull-apart mozzarella scrolls. Graham Ross visits Camden Park House.

8.30 MOVIE: Green Book. (2018, Ml, R) Based on a true story. In the ’60s, a distinguished African-American pianist hires a tough-talking Italian-American bouncer as his chau eur for a concert tour through America’s Midwest and Deep South. Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, Linda Cardellini.

11.10 To Be Advised.

12.30 Home Shopping.

6.00 NBN News.

7.00 ICC World Cup: Pre-Game. Pre-game coverage of the World Cup match between Australia and Pakistan.

7.30 Cricket. ICC World Cup. Group stage. Australia v Pakistan. First innings. From M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, India.

11.00 ICC World Cup: Innings Break. Takes a look at the play so far in the ICC World Cup match between Australia and Pakistan.

11.30 Cricket. ICC World Cup. Group stage. Australia v Pakistan. Second innings.

3.30 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R)

4.00 Postcards. (PG, R) Livinia Nixon goes shopping on High Street in Thornbury.

4.30 Global Shop. (R) Home shopping.

5.00 TV Shop: Home Shopping. (R)

5.30 Skippy The Bush Kangaroo. (R)

6.30 The Project. A look at the day’s news and events.

7.30 To Be Advised.

8.30 Have You Been Paying Attention? (Malns, R) Celebrity panellists compete to see who can remember the most about events of the week.

9.30 The Graham Norton Show. (PGa, R) Graham Norton is joined by Daniel Craig, Clive Myrie, Sir Ian McKellen and John Bishop.

10.30 Road To The Melbourne Cup Carnival. A look at the Melbourne Cup Carnival.

11.00 The Project. (R) A look at the day’s news and events.

12.00 The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. (PG)

1.00 Home Shopping. (R)