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TV Times

7-DAY TV GUIDE LIFTOUT

Wednesday, July 25 - Tuesday, July 31

Standby for the Olympics ■ The Nine Network is being wise in not over-promoting of Eddie ‘Everywhere’ McGuire in its Olympics coverage which starts at 5.30am this Saturday with the Opening Ceremony.

The Hot Seat compere will share the chair with Leila McKinnon for the spectacular lighting of the cauldron to commence the London 2012 games. They will be joined by Ken Sutcliffe.

McGuire stopped off in Paris earlier this week, flying to Europe immediately after Collingwood’s loss.

He will still be broadcasting his Hot Breakfast radio program daily for MMM listeners.

● Eddie McGuire

Cyclops The Observer’s One-Eyed TV Critic ... Who Has No Fear

RocKwiz rules Right said Fred

ROLL TAPES FOR ANDRE ● Fred Hilmer ■ Many lay blame for the decline of the Fairfax publishing empire at the feet of its former CEO, Fred Hilmer.

Make up your own mind as Hilmer addresses the National Press Club. The Professor’s address will be replayed at 1.02pm on Saturday (July 28) on ABC News 24.

● Brian Nankervis with Glenn Bear ■ Cyclops will be tuned to SBS One at 8.30pm on Saturday (July 28) for a special episode of RocKwiz featuring music historian and enthusiast Glenn Bear, formerly of Ivanhoe, now of the Gold Coast.

The show is hosted by Brian Nankervis.

In Conversation

He’s Mad As Hell

● International violinist André Rieu stars in Songs From My Heart ■ Video and DVD recorders will be buzzing around Melbourne this Friday afternoon (1pm, SBS One) when a free-to-air broadcast of André Rieu: Songs From My Heart is aired.

■ David Knox of the TV Tonight website says the The international violinist’s spectacular midsummer Seven Network goofed this week by uploading its Amaznight concerts in the Vrijthof Square, in his home town of ing Race episode prior to broadcasting the show on Maastricht, are included in this two-hour program.

Monday night.

The program includes some all-time favourites includ■ Wil Anderson, Todd Sampson and Russel Howing the Carmen Overture, Radetzky March, Auld Lang croft are presenting Gruen Sweat (8.30pm, WednesSyne and I Could Have Danced All Night. days, ABC1) as a four-part series looking at the The show also includes spectacular light shows and ‘brandathon’ that is the London 2012 Games. unforgettable perfoamnces.

This just in ...

Media Briefs

Paper Giants

Media Flashes

■ Asher Keddie portrays Ita Buttrose in Paper Giants, being aired at 8.30pm this Thursday (July 26) on ABC1.

Paper Giants looks on Kerry Packer (played by Rob Carlton), launches Cleo magazine - defying the research that said the publication would be a flop.

The pair descided to back their gut instincts, despite the disapproval of Sir Frank Packer (played by Tony Barry).

Cleo was a magazine with libido and healthy curiosity.

■ 3AW’s Derryn Hinch says he received disturbing Twitter messages and a phone call from troubled exAFL player manager Ricky Nixon this week.

■ Prominent radio caller ‘Audrey The Ballerina’, of Hawthorn, is in care at a Caulfield hospital.

■ A suitable Olympic prelude program is As It Happened: Jesse Owens, at 9.35pm this Friday on SBS One. ■ The final instalment of Life’s Too Short, written by Ricky Gervais, and starring Warwick Davis, airs tonight (Wed.) at 9.45pm on ABC1.

● Asher Keddie

● Shaun Micallef ■ Just as he was getting comfortable in the role, Shaun Micallef will present the series final of Mad As Hell at 8pm this Friday (July 27) on ABC1.

The show sees Bazza and Martine facing their final challenge to become Australia’s first ‘Kareoke Cook’.

■ Psst! Check out Audrey’s Kitchen, 6.25pm, Sat., ABC1.

● Rachel Griffiths ■ ABC1’s special At The Movies series where David Stratton interviews Australian actors, continues tonight (Wed.) at 10.15pm.

Last week saw Bryan Brown offer a refreshing view of his career in movies. This week sees Rachel Griffiths retrace the steps of her early career.

■ Early morning viewers of the Seven Network’s NBC Today program will have to go without their fix of the American show for the duration of the Olympic Games. NBC is broadcasting the Games on its US stations.

TV Times Tele-Grams

A Lady’s Guide To Brothels is SBS One’s offering at 11pm tomorrow ★ (Thurs.) night. Journalist Nicky Taylor examines the project to set up the UK’s first legal bordello.

Denver fans alert: Rescue From Gilligan’s Island is the 10am ★ABob movie on Channel 31 (Digital 44) on Tuesday (July 31).

History of Scotland: God’s Chosen People is scheduled for 8.30pm ★this Friday (July 27) on SBS One. Channel 9 presents Let The Games Begin at 7pm tomorrow (Thurs.). ★More Olympic Games details are on Pages 43-46.

The network series premiere of MasterChef Australia All Stars is ★scehduled for 7pm tomorrow (Thurs.) on Channel 10.

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TV Times WEDNESDAY, JULY 25 ABC1

SEVEN

6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.30 Business Today 10.00 Count Us In. 10.15 Maths Shorts. 10.20 Being Me. 10.40 My Great Big Adventure. 11.00 Big Ideas.

12.00 Midday Report. 12.30 National Press Club Address.

1.30 Can We Help? 2.00 The Real Anne Lister. 3.00 Play School. 3.30 Ben and Holy’s Little Kingdom. 3.40 Poppet’s Town. 3.55 This Is Emily Young. 4.00 The Mr Men Show. 4.15 Best Ed. 4.30 Even Stevens. 4.55 BTN Daily. 5.00 Eggheads.

5.30 As Time Goes By. 6.00 Country House Rescue. 6.50 Minuscule. 7.00 ABC News.

7.30 7.30. 8.00 QI. 8.30 Gruen Sweat. 9.15 Randling.

9.45 Life’s Too Short. 10.15 At The Movies. 10.45 Lateline. 11.20 The Business. 11.45 The Librarians.

12.10 Life’s Too Short.

12.40 Movie. Bucket Of Blood. 1.50 Songs Of Praise.

2.30 Football SANFL. 5.30 Eggheads.

ABC2 (CH22) 6.00 Blinky Bill. 6.30 Pinky Dinky Doo. 6.40 Pingu. 6.45 Wow Wow Wubbzy. 7.00 Yo Gabba Gabba. 7.00 Yo Gabba Gabba. 7.25 Mr Men Show. 7.40 Shaun The Sheep. 7.50 Charlie And Lola. 8.00 Little Charley Bear. 8.10 Small Potatoes. 8.15 Driver Dan’s Story Train. 8.30 Sesame Street.

9.00 Angelina Ballerina. 9.15 Chuggington. 9.25 Five Minutes More. 9.30 Play School. 10.00 Dorothy The Dinosaur.

10.05 Zoo Mix. 10.10 Connie The Cow. 10.20 Bottle Top Bill. 10.30 Wiggly Sometime. 10.35 Captain Mack. 10.45 Zigby. 11.00 Waybuloo. 11.10 Milly, Molly. 11.25 Tinga Tanga Tales. 11.35 Babar And The Adventures of Badou.

12.00 Sesame Street. 12.30 Dibo The Gift Dragon. 12.40 Humf. 12.50 Fifi And The Flowertots. 1.00 The Secret World of Benjamin Bear. 1.25 Peppa Pig. 1.30 Little Charley Bear.

1.40 Small Potatoes. 1.45 Driver Dan. 1.55 Raa Raa. 2.10 The Koala Brothers. 2.20 Guess With Jess. 2.35 Finley The Fire Engine. 2.45 Pororo. 2.55 Mouk. 3.05 Fireman Sam. 3.20 Sam Sam. 3.30 Dirtgirl World. 3.40 The Mr Men Show.

3.55 Mister Maker. 4.15 Charlie and Lola. 4.30 Play School.

5.05 Bookaboo. 5.15 Rastamouse. 5.35 The Hive. 5.40 Peppa Pig. 5.45 Olivia. 6.00 Timmy Time. 6.15 The Pajanimals. 6.30 In The Night Garden. 7.00 Spicks And Specks. 7.30 Doctor Who. 8.30 The Roast. 8.35 Kids Behind Bars. 9.30 Dumb, Drunk and Racist. 10.05 Ross Kemp.

10.50 The Gruen Transfer. 11.15 Sunday Best. 1.15 Coach Trip. 1.40 Coach Trip. 2.05 Coach Trip. 2.25 ABC News: Late Edition.

ABC3

(CH23)

6.00 Yakkity Yak. 6.25 The Gees. 6.30 Almost Naked Animals. 6.45 Yoo Hoo And Friends. 6.55 The Twisted Whiskers Show. 7.10 Kid vs Kat. 7.30 Big Babies. 7.45 Mal.Com 8.00 The Super Hero Squad Show. 8.25 Oggie And The Cockroaches. 8.30 Gasp. 8.45 Potatoes And Dragons. 8.55 Mr Men Show. 9.05 Flipper And Lopaka.

9.35 Animalia. 10.00 Erky Perky. 10.15 The Silver Brumby. 10.40 Go Lingo! 11.05 Splatalot. 11.30 Good Game SP. 11.55 P-Culture. 12.00 BTN Extra. 12.15 Quest. 12.35 What Do You Know? 1.00 Almost Naked Animals. 1.15 Yoo Hoo And Friends. 1.25 The Twisted Whiskers Show. 1.40 Kid vs Kat. 2.00 Big Babies. 2.15 Erky Perky. 2.30 The Super Hero Squad Show. 2.50 Sally Bollywood. 3.05 Ship To Shore. 3.30 News On 3 Update.

3.35 The Wannabees. 3.55 Canimals. 4.05 Ruby Gloom. 4.30 Masha And The Bear. 4.40 Gasp. 4.55 JIbber Jabber. 5.10 INK: Invisible Network Of Kids. 5.35 League Of Super Evil. 6.00 Dani’s House. 6.30 Stoked.

6.55 Wolverine And The X-Men. 7.20 Wolverine And The X-Men. 7.45 Almost Naked Animals. 7.55 News On 3.

8.00 Horrible Histories. 8.30 Vampire Knight. 8.55 Sparkle Friends. 9.00 Programs Resume At 6am.

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Seven Morning News 12.00 Midday Movie. Confined 2.00 Dr Oz 3.00 Border Patrol 3.30 All For Kids 4.00 Match It 4.30 Seven News At 4.30 5.00 The Price Is Right 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Seven News 6.30 Today Tonight 7.00 Home And Away 7.30 Australia’s Got Talent 9.30 Mrs Brown’s Boys 10.10 TBA 11.10 Mystery 360 12.10 Sons And Daughters 1.00 Home Shoping 3.30 Hot Auctions 4.00 NBC Today 5.00 Sunrise Extra 5.30 Seven Early News

7TWO (CH72) 6.00 Home Shopping. 6.30 Total Girl. 9.00 Home And Away. 9.30 Sons And Daughters. 10.00 Coronation Street. 10.30 Shortland Street. 11.00 Bargain Hunt. 12.00 Kojak. 1.00 Growing Pains. 1.30 Head Of The Class. 2.00 Movie.

Love Has Many Faces. 4.00 Pet Keeping. 4.30 Please Sir. 5.00 Murphy Brown. 5.30 Mad About You. 6.00 George And Mildred.

6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Heartbeat.

8.30 Vera. 10.30 Rosemary and Thyme. 11.40 The Bill. 12.45 The Sweeney. 1.30 Mad About You. 2.00 Home Shoping. 3.30 Hot Auctions. 4.00 Australia’s Wild Secrets. 4.30 Shortland Street.

5.00 Coronation Street. 5.30 Home Shopping.

7MATE (CH73) 6.00 Home Shopping. 6.30 K-Zone.

9.00 NBC Today. 11.00 The Incredible Hulk. 12.00 T J Hooker. 1.00 SWAT. 2.00 Newsradio. 2.30 Malcolm And Eddie. 3.00 Motor Mate. 4.00 Targa Tasmania. 4.30 Monster Garage. 5.30 Pimp My Ride. 6.30 Mythbusters. 7.30 Pawn Stars. 8.30 Hardcore Pawn. 9.30 Cash Cowboys. 10.30 American Pickers. 11.30 Rude Tube. 12.00 T J Hooker. 1.00 SWAT. 2.00 Home Shopping. 3.30 Hot Auctions. 4.00 The Incredible Hulk. 5.00 Newsradio. 5.30 Home Shopping

NINE 6.00 Today 9.00 Mornings 11.00 Nine’s Morning News 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1.00 The View 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 3.00 Extra 3.30 Hi-5 4.00 Pyramid 4.30 Nine’s Afternoon News 5.30 Hot Seat 6.00 Nine News 6.30 A Current Affair 7.00 The Voice US (8.25 Crime Stoppers) 9.00 The Mentalist 10.00 Tricky Business 11.00 Tricky Business 12.00 Eclipse 12.30 20/20 1.30 Danoz 2.00 Guthy-Renker Australia 2.30 Danoz 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Nine’s Early Morning News 5.30 Today

GO! (CH99) 6.00 Hi-5. 6.30 Taz-Mania. 7.00 Monsuno. 7.30 Flash and Dash.

8.00 Ben 10. 8.30 Batman. 9.00 The Flintstones. 9.30 Pinky And The Brain. 10.00 Wipeout. 11.00 The Bachelor. 1.00 Spin City. 1.30 Extra. 2.00 TMZ. 2.30 Batman.

3.00 Flash And Dash. 3.30 Monsuno. 4.00 Kids WB Weekdays.

4.30 Seinfeld. 5.00 Two And A Half Men. 5.30 Brainiacs. 6.00 The Big Bang Theory. 7.30 Suburgatory.

8.30 2 Broke Girls. 9.00 The Big Bang Theory. 9.30 Batman Returns.

12.15 Mad. 12.30 TMZ. 1.00 Wipeout. 2.00 Home Shopping.

4.00 Top Gear. 5.00 Extra. 5.30 The Flintstones.

GEM (CH90) 6.00 TV Shop. 10.30 Alive and Cooking. 11.30 Friends. 12.00 Cahrlie’s Angels. 1.00 Rescue Special Ops. 2.00 Green Acres.

2.30 Bewitched. 3.00 I Dream of Jeannie. 3.30 The Farmer Wants A Wife.5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show. 6.00 Friends. 7.00 Hot In Cleveland. 7.30 Lion Country. 8.00 Remarkable Vets. 8.30 Entrapment. 11.00 How Clean Is Your House? 11.30 Conan. 12.30 Friends. 1.00 Gideon’s Way. 2.00 Home Shopping. 4.30 Joyce Meyer Enjoy Everyday Life. 5.00 Hot In Cleveland. 5.30 TV Shop.

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TEN

SBS ONE

6.00 Breakfast 9.00 The Circle 11.30 Warrawhy 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 The Doctors 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Everyday Gourmet with Justine Schofield 4.00 Totally Wild 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News At Five 6.00 The Project 7.00 MasterChef Australia 9.00 TBA 9.30 House 10.30 Ten Late News 11.15 Law and Order 12.15 Ally McBeal 1.15 Late Show with David Letterman 2.00 Home Shopping 3.00 Life Today with James Robison 3.30 CBS - This Morning 5.00 The Project (R)

ONE (CH1) 6.00 I Fish. 7.00 Netball. 9.00 Baseball. 12.00 MotoGP. 2.00 British Touring Car Championship.

3.00 Omnisport. 3.30 Get Smart.

4.00 Extreme Dreams. 4.30 Beach Patrol. 5.00 I Fish. 5.30 Hogan’s Heroes. 6.00 MASH. 6.30 Get Smart. 7.00 COPS. 7.30 Megastructures. 8.30 Burn Notice. 9.30 Sons Of Amnesty. 10.30 Homeland.

11.30 MASH. 12.00 Hogan’s Heroes. 12.30 Omnisport. 1.00 NASCAR Sprint Cup. 4.00 Rugby Classic Matches.

ELEVEN

(CH11)

6.00 Toasted TV. 6.05 Spongebob Squarepants. 6.30 Dex Hamilton. 7.00 Toasted TV. 7.05 Pokemon. 7.20 Toasted TV. 7.30 Spongebob Squarepants. 8.00 Pearlie. 8.25 Toasted TV. 8.30 Yu Gi Oh! 8.55 Toasted TV. 9.00 Dr Quinn Medicine Woman. 10.00 7th Heaven. 11.00 The Love Boat. 12.00 Charmed. 1.00 Jag. 2.00 Macgyver. 3.00 The King Of Queens.

3.30 Cheers. 3.55 Couch Time. 4.00 Becker. 4.30 Family Ties. 4.55 Couch Time. 5.00 Happy Days. 5.30 The Brady Bunch. 5.55 Couch Time. 6.00 The Simpsons. 6.25 Couch Time. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 7.30 The Simpsons. 8.00 Futurama. 8.30 Futurama. 9.00 Futurama. 10.00 Bob’s Burgers. 10.30 Frasier. 11.30 Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. 12.30 Becker. 1.00 The King Of Queens. 1.30 Happy Days. 2.00 The Love Boat. 3.00 Charmed. 4.00 Dr Quinn Medicine Woman. 5.00 7th Heaven.

5.00 Weatherwatch. 5.05 Korean News. 5.40 Japanese News. 6.15 Hong Kong News.

6.35 Chinese News. 7.05 German News. 7.35 Italian News. 8.05 Filipino News.

8.40 Spanish News. 9.30 Greek News. 10.20 French News. 11.00 Hindi News.

11.30 Arabic News. 12.00 Russian News. 12.30 Turkish News. 1.00 Insight. 2.00 Dateline. 3.00 Letters And Numbers. 3.30 Al Jazeera News. 4.00 The Journal.

4.30 PBS Newshour. 5.30 Global Village. 6.00 Barbados At The Races. 6.30 World News Australia. 7.30 Wildest Africa. 8.35 Bear Grylls’ Wild Weekend. 9.30 Cutting Edge.

11.05 Movie. The Banquet.

1.20 Inspector Rex. 2.55 Weatherwatch.

CHANNEL 31

(CH44)

6.00 Footy Talkback. 6.30 Bumper 2 Bumper. 700 Adventure Bound. 7.30 Showbiz. 8.00 Euromaxx. 8.30 Move It Or Lose It. 9.00 Jumping Jellybeans. 9.15 Penguin TV. 9.30 World In Our Backyard.

10.00 Classic Movie. The Inspector General. 12.00 The Journal. 12.30 Global 3000. 1.00 One World - Sri Lanka. 1.30 The Shtick. 2.00 ATVAA. 2.30 Desi Kangaroos TV. 3.00 Regional Italian Cuisine. 3.30 Our Time. 4.00 Showbiz. 4.30 The Piano Show. 5.00 1700. 6.00 My Cambodia TV. 6.30 News Geelong. 7.00 SMFC TV. 7.30 Vasili’s Garden. 8.00 Ecotopia. 8.30 Inside Art. 9.00 Guitar Gods And Masterpieces. 9.30 Tough Times Never Last. 10.00 Nu Country TV. 10.30 Words of Peace. 11.00 Red Lobster. 11.20 Spirit Of Life. 12.00 The Personal Injuury Law Show.

12.30 Get Dirty With Milton. 1.00 Law Legends Lately. 1.30 Dollars With Sense.

2.00 Wealth Plan TV. 2.30 Media Strikes Back! 3.00 8 Ball TV. 4.00 1700. 5.00 My Cambodia TV. 5.30 My Drive.

ABC NEWS

(CH24)

6.00 ABC News Breakfast. 9.30 Business Today. 10.00 ABC News Mornings. 12.00 ABC News. 12.30 National Press Club Address. 1.30 ABC News. 2.00 ABC News. 2.30 Catalyst. 3.30 Afternoon Live. 5.30 ABC News Update. 5.32 Capital Hill. 5.45 Consumer Quarter. 6.00 The Drum. 6.45 Food Quarter. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 Grandstand. 8.00 ABC News. 8.30 The Business. 8.55 ABC Open. 9.00 The World. 10.00 The Drum. 10.45 Food Quarter.

11.00 ABC News. 11.25 7.30.

12.00 ABC News. 12.20 Lateline.

1.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 2.00 BBC World News. 3.30 7.30. 4.00 Al Jazeera. 5.00 BBC World News.

5.25 ABC Open. 5.30 Newsline.

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TV Times THURSDAY, JULY 26 ABC1

SEVEN

6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.30 Business Today 10.00 Telling Tales. 10.05 A Table. 10.00 La Mappa Misterlosa. 10.20 Jung In Europa. 10.30 Behind The News. 11.00 Finding The Fallen. 11.45 At The Movies.

12.00 Midday Report. 12.30 The Memoirs Of Sherlock Holmes. 1.30 At The Movies.

2.00 Country House Rescue.

3.00 Play School. 3.30 Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom.

3.40 Poppet’s Town. 3.55 This Is Emily Young. 4.00 The Mr Men Show. 4.15 Best Ed. 4.30 Even Stevens. 4.55 BTN Daily. 5.00 Eggheads.

5.30 As Time Goes By. 6.00 River Cottage. 6.50 Minuscule. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Photo Finish.

8.30 Paper Giants. 10.00 Judith Lucy’s Spiritual Journey. 10.30 Lateline. 11.05 The Business. 11.30 Kokoda.

Part 2. 12.30 The Clinic.

1.20 Movie. Conquest Of The Air. 2.30 Football: WAFL. 5.30 Eggheads.

ABC2 (CH22) 6.00 Blinky Bill. 6.30 Pinky Dinky Doo. 6.40 Pingu. 6.45 Wow Wow Wubbzy. 7.00 Yo Gabba Gabba. 7.00 Yo Gabba Gabba! 7.25 Mr Men Show. 7.40 Shaun The Sheep. 7.50 Charlie And Lola. 8.00 Little Charley Bear. 8.10 Small Potatoes. 8.15 Driver Dan’s Story Train. 8.30 Sesame Street.

9.00 Angelina Ballerina. 9.15 Chuggington. 9.25 Five Minutes More. 9.30 Play School. 10.00 Dorothy The Dinosaur.

10.05 Zoo Mix. 10.10 Connie The Cow. 10.20 Bottle Top Bill. 10.35 Captain Mack. 10.45 Zigby. 11.00 Waybuloo.

11.10 Milly, Molly. 11.25 Tinga Tanga Tales. 11.35 Babar And The Adventures of Badou. 12.00 Sesame Street. 12.30 Dibo The Gift Dragon. 12.40 Igam Ogam. 12.55 Bert and Ernie’s Great Adventures. 1.00 The Secret World of Benjamin Beer. 1.25 Peppa Pig. 1.30 Little Charley Bear. 1.40 Small Potatoes. 1.45 Driver Dan. 1.55 Raa Raa. 2.10 The Koala Brothers. 2.20 Guess With Jess. 2.35 Finley The Fire Engine. 2.45 Pororo. 2.55 Mouk. 3.05 Fireman Sam. 3.20 Sam Sam. 3.30 Dirtgirl World. 3.40 The Mr Men Show. 3.55 Mister Maker. 4.15 Charlie and Lola. 4.30 Play School.

5.05 Bookaboo. 5.15 Rastamouse. 5.35 The Hive. 5.40 Peppa Pig. 5.45 Olivia. 6.00 Timmy Time. 6.15 Kioka. 6.20 Small Potatoes. 6.30 In The Night Garden. 7.00 Spicks And Specks. 7.30 Doctor Who. 8.30 The Roast. 8.30 The Marngrook Footy Show. 9.35 Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow. 10.20 Dumb, Drunk and Racist. 10.50 Gruen Planet. 11.30 Kids Behind Bars. 12.25 The League of Gentlemen. 12.55 The Marngrook Footy Show. 1.55 ABC News Update.

ABC3

(CH23)

6.00 Yakkity Yak. 6.25 The Gees. 6.30 Almost Naked Animals. 6.45 Yoo Hoo And Friends. 6.55 The Twisted Whiskers Show. 7.10 Kid vs Kat. 7.30 Big Babies. 7.45 Mal.Com 8.00 The Super Hero Squad Show. 8.25 Oggy And The Cockroaches. 8.30 Gasp. 8.45 Potatoes And Dragons. 8.55 Mr Men Show. 9.05 Flipper And Lopaka.

9.35 Animalia. 10.00 Erky Perky. 10.15 The Silver Brumby. 10.40 Go Lingo! 11.05 Splatalot. 11.35 Good Game SP. 11.55 P-Culture. 12.00 BTN Extra. 12.15 Quest. 12.30 What Do You Know? 1.00 Almost Naked Animals. 1.15 Yoo Hoo And Friends. 1.25 The Twisted Whiskers Show. 1.40 Kid vs Kat. 2.00 Big Babies. 2.15 Erky Perky. 2.30 The Super Hero Squad Show. 2.50 Sally Bollywood. 3.05 Ship To Shore. 3.30 News On 3 Update.

3.35 The Wannabes. 3.55 Canimals. 4.05 Ruby Gloom.

4.30 Masha And The Bear. 4.40 Gasp. 4.55 Jibber Jabber. 5.10 INK Invisible Network Of Kids. 5.35 League Of Super Evil. 6.00 Dani’s House. 6.35 Stoked. 7.00 Tower Prep. 7.45 Kaelo. 7.55 News On 3. 8.00 Horrible Histories. 8.30 Kaitangata Twitch. 9.00 Programs Resume At 6am.

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Seven Morning News 12.00 Midday Movie. Morning Light 2.00 Dr Oz 3.00 Border Patrol 3.30 All For Kids 4.00 Match It 4.30 Seven News at 4.30 5.00 The Price Is Right 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Seven News 6.30 Today Tonight 7.00 Home And Away 7.30 Better Homes And Gardens 9.00 Criminal Minds 10.00 Grey’s Anatomy 11.00 Private Practice 12.00 House Calls To The Rescue 1.00 Home Shopping 4.00 Beyond Tomorrow 5.00 Sunrise Extra 5.30 Seven Early News

7TWO (CH72) 6.00 Home Shopping. 6.30 Total Girl. 9.00 Home And Away. 9.30 Sons And Daughters. 10.00 Coronation Street. 10.30 Shortland Street. 11.00 Bargain Hunt. 12.00 Kojak. 1.00 Growing Pains. 1.30 Head Of The Class. 2.00 Movie.

Storm Centre. 4.00 Pet Keeping.

4.30 Please Sir. 5.00 Murphy Brown. 5.30 Mad About You. 6.00 George And Mildred. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 The Royal. 8.30 Lewis.

10.40 Father Ted. 11.15 The Bill.

12.20 The Sweeney. 1.30 Mad About You. 2.00 Pet Keeping. 2.30 Kojak. 3.30 Bargain Hunt. 4.30 Shortland Street. 5.00 Coronation Street. 5.30 Home Shopping.

7MATE (CH73) 6.00 Home Shopping. 6.30 K-Zone.

9.00 NBC Today. 11.00 The Incredible Hulk. 12.00 T J Hooker. 1.00 SWAT. 2.00 Newsradio. 2.30 Malcolm And Eddie. 3.00 Motor Mate. 4.00 Fifth Gear. 4.30 Monster Garage. 5.30 That 70s Show. 6.00 Scrubs. 7.00 How I Met Your Mother. 7.30 Swamp People.

8.30 America’s Hardest Prisons.

9.30 Operation Repo. 11.00 Bear Swamp Recovery. 11.30 Ax Men. 12.00 T J Hooker. 1.30 SWAT. 2.30 The Incredible Hulk. 3.30 Motor Mate. 4.30 Fifth Gear. 5.00 Newsradio. 5.30 Home Shopping

NINE 6.00 Today 9.00 Mornings 11.00 Nine’s Morning News 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1.00 The View 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 3.00 Extra 3.30 Hi-5 4.00 Pyramid 4.30 Nine’s Afternoon News 5.30 Hot Seat 6.00 Nine News 6.30 A Current Affair 7.00 Let The Games Begin 8.00 Hamish & Andy’s Euro Gap Year 9.00 The Big Bang Theory 9.30 Footy Show (AFL) 11.15 Footy Show (NRL) 1.00 Extra 1.30 Skippy 2.00 Guthy-Renker Australia 2.30 Trivita 3.00 Danoz 3.30 Good Morning America 5.00 Nine’s Early Morning News 5.30 Today

GO! (CH99) 6.00 Hi-5. 6.30 Taz-Mania. 7.00 Monsuno. 7.30 Flash and Dash.

8.00 Ben 10. 8.30 Batman. 9.00 The Flintstones. 9.30 Pinky And The Brain. 10.00 Wipeout. 11.00 The Bachelor. 1.00 Spin City. 1.30 Extra. 2.00 TMZ. 2.30 Batman.

3.00 Flash And Dash. 3.30 Monsuno. 4.00 Kids WB Weekdays.

4.30 Seinfeld. 5.00 Two And A Half Men. 5.30 Brainiacs. 6.30 Top Gear, 7.30 The Middle. 8.30 Two And A Half Men. 9.30 The Big Bang Theory. 10.30 Episodes. 11.30 Eclipse. 12.00 Watchmen. 12.30 TMZ. 1.00 Wipeout. 2.00 Home Shopping. 4.00 Top Gear. 5.00 Extra. 5.30 The Flintstones.

GEM (CH90) 6.00 TV Shop. 10.30 Alive and Cooking. 11.00 Friends. 12.00 Charlie’s Angels. 1.00 Rescue Special Ops. 2.00 Green Acres.

2.30 Bewitched. 3.00 I Dream of Jeannie. 3.30 Hot In Cleveland.

4.00 Lion Country. 4.30 Remarkable Vets. 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show. 6.00 Friends. 7.00 Hot In Cleveland. 7.30 The Great Italian Escape. 8.00 Hot Property. 8.30 Selling Houses Abroad. 9.30 Super Nanny. 10.30 Hoarders. 11.30 Conan. 12.30 Friends. 1.00 Selling Houses Abroad. 2.00 Home Shopping. 4.30 Joyce Meyer Enjoy Everyday Life. 5.00 Hot In Cleveland. 5.30 TV Shop.

LARGER PRINT

TEN

SBS ONE

6.00 Breakfast 9.00 The Circle 11.30 Warrawhy 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 The Doctors 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Everyday Gourmet with Justine Schofield 4.00 Scope 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News At Five 6.00 The Project 7.00 MasterChef Australia 8.00 Modern Family 8.30 Before The Game 9.30 Law And Order SVU 10.30 Ten Late News 11.15 Law And Order UK 12.15 Ally McBeal 1.15 Late Show with David Letterman 2.00 Home Shopping 3.00 Life Today with James Robison 3.30 CBS - This Morning 5.00 The Project (R)

ONE (CH1) 6.00 Volvo Ocean Race Highlights.

9.00 Major League Baseball. 12.00 MLB Player Poll. 12.30 Triathlon.

1.30 Omnisport. 2.00 I Fish. 2.30 Twister Sisters. 3.30 Get Smart.

4.00 Extreme Dreams. 4.30 Beach Patrol. 5.00 I Fish. 5.30 Hogan’s Heroes. 6.00 MASH. 6.30 Get Smart. 7.00 COPS. 7.30 Fishing Expedition Australia. 8.30 Drillbit Taylor. 10.45 The Game Plan. 11.45 MASH. 12.10 Hogan’s Heroes.

12.40 Las Vegas. 1.10 Omnisport.

1.30 Triathlon. 2.30 World of Free Sports. 3.00 Major League Baseball.

ELEVEN

(CH11)

6.00 Toasted TV. 6.05 Spongebob Squarepants. 6.30 Dex Hamilton. 7.00 Toasted TV. 7.05 Pokemon. 7.20 Toasted TV. 7.30 Spongebob Squarepants. 8.00 Pearlie. 8.25 Toasted TV. 8.30 Yu Gi Oh! 8.55 Toasted TV. 9.00 Dr Quinn Medicine Woman. 10.00 7th Heaven. 11.00 The Love Boat. 12.00 Charmed. 1.00 Jag. 2.00 Macgyver. 3.00 The King Of Queens.

3.30 Cheers. 3.55 Couch Time. 4.00 Becker. 4.30 Family Ties. 4.55 Couch Time. 5.00 Happy Days. 5.30 The Brady Bunch. 5.55 Couch Time. 6.00 The Simpsons. 6.25 Couch Time. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 7.30 The Simpsons. 8.00 The Simpsons. 8.30 Star Trek Next Generation.

11.30 Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. 12.30 Becker. 1.00 The King Of Queens. 1.30 Happy Days. 2.00 The Love Boat. 3.00 Charmed. 4.00 Dr Quinn Medicine Woman. 5.00 7th Heaven.

5.00 Weatherwatch. 5.05 Korean News. 5.40 Japanese News. 6.15 Hong Kong News.

6.35 Chinese News. 7.05 German News. 7.35 Italian News. 8.05 Filipino News.

8.40 Spanish News. 9.30 Greek News. 10.20 French News. 11.00 Hindi News.

11.30 Arabic News. 12.00 Russian News. 12.30 Turkish News. 1.00 Food Lovers’ Guide In Australia. 1.30 On Thin Ice. 2.30 A Son’s Sacrifice. 3.00 Letters And Numbers. 3.30 Al Jazeera News. 4.00 The Journal.

4.30 PBS Newshour. 5.30 Global Village. 6.00 Barbados At The Races. 6.30 World News Australia. 7.30 Sicily Unmasked. 8.40 Anthony Bourdain. 9.35 One Born Every Minute. 10.30 World News Australia. 11.00 A Lady’s Guide To Brothels.

12.10 Film. Partners. 1.50 Weatherwatch.

CHANNEL 31 (CH44)

6.00 Extra Time. 6.30 Classic Restos. 7.00 Catch And Cook. 7.30 Top Drop. 8.00 Euromaxx. 8.30 Move It Or Lose It. 9.00 Masterclass In Oils. 9.30 Arts Studio. 10.00 Movie.

Sherlock Holmes And The Secret Weapon.

11.30 Suzan Is Craft. 12.00 The Journal.

12.30 Tomorrow’s Today. 1.00 One World Sputnik. 1.30 Sutara TV. 2.00 Macedonian Visions. 2.30 Chinese Weekly TV. 3.00 Yianni’s City Life. 3.30 New Tang Dynasty News. 4.00 Ecotopia. 4.30 Nu Country TV. 5.00 1700.

6.00 Today’s Schools. 6.30 MXTV. 7.00 4WD TV. 7.30 Classic Restos - Route 66. 8.00 Rev Heads. 8.30 Classic Restos. 9.00 Footy Tragic.

9.30 Top Drop. 10.00 River To Reef. 10.30 Catch And Cook. 11.00 The Drum Show.

11.30 Mark My Words. 12.00 Underground Sounds. 1.00 Heart Starters. 1.30 31 Questions. 2.00 Anthology Of Interest. 2.30 EPTV. 3.00 The Shtick. 3.30 The Piano Show. 4.00 1700. 5.00 Today’s Schools. 5.30 SMFC TV.

ABC NEWS (CH24) 6.00 ABC News Breakfast. 9.30 Business Today. 10.00 ABC News Mornings. 12.00 ABC News. 12.30 Newsline. 12.55 Extraordinary Curiosities. 1.00 ABC News. 2.00 ABC News. 2.30 State To State.

3.00 Afternoon Live. 5.30 ABC News Update. 5.32 Capital Hill.

5.45 Environment Quarter. 6.00 The Drum. 6.45 Weather Quarter. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 Grandstand. 8.00 ABC News. 8.30 The Business. 9.00 The World. 10.00 The Drum. 10.45 Weather Quarter. 11.00 ABC News.

11.25 7.30. 12.00 ABC News.

12.20 Lateline. 1.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 2.00 BBC World News.

3.30 7.30. 4.00 Al Jazeera. 5.00 BBC World News. 5.30 Newsline.

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TV Times FRIDAY, JULY 27 ABC1

SEVEN

6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.30 Business Today 10.00 Animalia. 10.25 What I Wrote. 10.30 The Shot.

10.35 Conversations With Australian Artists. 10.50 Ace Day Jobs. 11.00 Photo Finish. 11.30 One Plus One. 12.00 Midday Report. 12.30 Movie. And Now For Something Completely Different.

2.00 Ancient Megastructures. 3.00 Play School. 3.30 Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom. 3.40 Poppets Town. 3.55 This Is Emily Young. 4.00 The Mr Men Show. 4.15 Best Ed. 4.30 Even Stevens. 4.55 BTN Daily. 5.00 Eggheads. 5.30 My Family. 6.00 Grand Designs. 7.00 ABC News.

7.30 7.30 VIC. 8.00 Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell. 8.30 Silent Witness. 9.30 Taggart.

10.30 Lateline. 10.55 Penn and Teller. 11.40 Rage.

ABC2 (CH22) 6.00 Blinky Bill. 6.30 Pinky Dinky Doo. 6.40 Pingu. 6.45 Wow Wow Wuzzby 7.00 Yo Gabba Gabba. 7.25 Mr Men Show. 7.40 Shaun The Sheep. 7.50 Charlie And Lola. 8.00 Little Charley Bear. 8.10 Small Potatoes. 8.15 Driver Dan’s Story Train. 8.30 Sesame Street. 9.00 Angelina Ballerina.

9.15 Chuggington. 9.25 Five Minutes More. 9.30 Play School. 10.00 Dorothy The Dinosaur. 10.05 Zoo Mix. 10.10 Connie The Cow. 10.20 Bottle Top Bill. 10.35 Captain Mack.

10.45 Zigby. 11.00 Waybuloo. 11.10 Milly, Molly. 11.25 Tinga Tanga Tales. 11.35 Babar And The Adventures of Badou.

12.00 Sesame Street. 12.30 Dibo The Gift Dragon. 12.40 Igam Ogam. 12.55 Bert And Ernie’s Great Adventures. 1.00 The Secret World of Benjamin Bear. 1.25 Peppa Pig. 1.30 Little Charley Bear. 1.40 Small Potatoes. 1.45 Driver Dan. 1.55 Raa Raa. 2.10 The Koala Brothers. 2.20 Guess With Jess. 2.35 Finley The Fire Engine. 2.45 Pororo. 2.55 Mouk.

3.05 Fireman Sam. 3.20 Sam Sam. 3.30 Dirtgirl World.

3.40 The Mr Men Show. 3.55 Mister Maker. 4.15 Charlie and Lola. 4.30 Play School. 5.05 Bookaboo. 5.15 Rastamouse. 5.35 The Hive. 5.40 Peppa Pig. 5.45 Olivia.

6.00 Timmy Time. 6.15 Kioka. 6.20 Small Potatoes. 6.30 In The Night Garden. 7.00 Spicks And Specks. 7.30 Doctor Who. 8.25 The Roast. 8.30 Playing It Straight. 9.30 How Sex Works. 10.20 Gruen Planet. 10.55 Ross Kemp. 11.40 Archer. 12.05 Sanctuary. 12.50 Being Erica. 1.35 Lunch Monkeys. 2.00 ABC News: Late Edition.

ABC3

(CH23)

6.00 Yakkity Yak. 6.25 The Gees. 6.30 Almost Naked Animals. 6.45 Yoo Hoo And Friends. 6.55 The Twisted Whiskers Show. 7.10 Kid vs Kat. 7.30 Big Babies. 7.45 Mal.com 8.00 The Super Hero Squad Show. 8.25 Oggy And The Cockroaches. 8.30 Gasp. 8.45 Potatoes And Dragons. 8.55 Mr Men Show. 9.05 Flipper And Lopaka.

9.35 Animalia. 10.00 Erky Perky. 10.15 The Silver Brumby. 10.40 Go Lingo! 11.05 Splatalot. 11.35 Good Game SP. 11.55 P-Culture. 12.00 BTN Extra. 12.15 Quest. 12.30 What Do You Know? 1.00 Almost Naked Animals. 1.15 Yoo Hoo And Friends. 1.25 The Twisted Whiskers Show. 1.40 Kid vs Kat. 2.00 Big Babies. 2.15 Erky Perky. 2.30 The Super Hero Squad Show. 2.50 Sally Bollywood. 3.05 Ship To Shore. 3.30 News On 3 Update.

3.35 The Wannabes. 3.55 Canimals. 4.05 Ruby Gloom.

4.30 Masha And The Bear. 4.40 Gasp. 4.55 Jibber Jabber. 5.10 INK Invisible Network Of Kids. 5.35 League Of Super Evil. 6.00 Dani’s House. 6.30 Stoked. 6.55 The Dukes Of Broxstonia. 7.00 Stay Tuned. 7.30 Prank Patrol. 7.55 News On 3. 8.00 Splatalot. 8.30 Good Game SP. 8.55 Bugged. 9.00 Programs resume at 6am.

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Seven Morning News 12.00 Midday Movie. A Lot Like Love 2.00 Dr Oz 3.30 All For Kids 4.00 Match It 4.30 Seven News at 4.30 5.00 The Price Is Right 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Seven News 6.30 Today Tonight 7.00 Home And Away 7.30 AFL. Essendon v Hawthorn 11.00 Movie. Out Of Time 1.35 House Calls To The Rescue 2.35 Room For Improvement 3.00 Home Shopping 4.00 House Calls To The Rescue 5.00 Beyond Tomorrow

7TWO (CH72) 6.00 Home Shopping. 6.30 Total Girl. 9.00 Home And Away. 9.30 Sons And Daughters. 10.00 Coronation Street. 10.30 Shortland Street. 11.00 Bargain Hunt. 12.00 Kojak. 1.00 Growing Pains. 1.30 Head Of The Class. 2.00 Movie.

McMillan: All Bets Are Off. 3.30 Night Court. 4.00 Pet Keeping.

4.30 Please Sir. 5.00 Murphy Brown. 5.30 Mad About You. 6.00 Better Homes And Gardens. 7.30 Sea Change. 8.30 Escape To The Country. 11.50 Movie. Single White Female. 2.00 Mad About You. 2.30 Kojak. 3.30 Bargain Hunt. 4.30 Shortland Street. 5.00 Coronation Street. 5.30 Home Shopping.

7MATE (CH73) 6.00 Home Shopping. 6.30 K-Zone.

9.00 NBC Today. 11.00 The Incredible Hulk. 12.00 T J Hooker. 1.00 SWAT. 2.00 Newsradio. 2.30 Malcolm And Edie. 3.00 Motor Mate. 4.30 Targa Tasmania. 5.00 Zoom TV. 5.30 Movie. 3 Ninjas.

7.30 Movie. Beverley Hills Ninja.

9.30 Movie. Sin City. 12.00 Blokesworld. 12.30 Unsolved Mysteries. 1.30 T J Hooker. 2.30 SWAT. 3.00 Motor Mate. 5.00 The Incredible Hulk.

NINE 6.00 Today 9.00 Mornings 11.00 Nine’s Morning News 12.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show 1.00 The View 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 3.00 Extra 3.30 Hi-5 4.00 Pyramid 4.30 Nine’s Afternoon News 5.30 Hot Seat 6.00 Nine News 6.30 A Current Affair 7.00 The Big Bang Theory 7.30 The Big Bang Theory 8.00 The Big Bang Theory 8.30 Dear John 10.45 CSI: NY 11.40 Football (NRL). St George Illawarra Dragons v Melbourne Storm 1.30 Football (NRL). Sydney Roosters v Gold Coast Titans 3.30 Trivita 4.30 Good Morning America 5.30 Olympic Games. Opening Ceremony

GO! (CH99) 6.00 Hi-5. 6.30 Taz-Mania. 7.00 Monsuno. 7.30 Flash and Dash.

8.00 Ben 10. 8.30 Batman. 9.00 The Flintstones. 9.30 Pinky And The Brain. 10.00 Wipeout. 11.00 The Bachelor. 1.00 Spin City. 1.30 Extra. 2.00 TMZ. 2.30 Batman.

3.00 Flash And Dash. 3.30 Symbionic Titan. 4.00 Kids WB Weekdays. 4.30 Seinfeld. 5.00 Two And A Half Men. 6.00 Batman Forever. 8.30 Hancock. 10.30 Daredevil. 12.30 TMZ. 1.00 Wipeout. 2.00 The Bachelor. 4.00 Undercovers. 5.00 Bratz. 5.30 Tamagotcha.

GEM (CH90) 6.00 TV Shop. 10.30 Alive and Cooking. 11.00 Friends. 12.00 Charlie’s Angels. 1.00 Rescue Special Ops. 2.00 Green Acres.

2.30 Bewitched. 3.00 I Dream of Jeannie. 3.30 Hot In Cleveland.

4.00 The Great Italian Escape. 4.30 Hot Property. 5.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show. 6.00 Friends.

7.00 Hot In Cleveland. 7.30 Football (NRL). St George Illawarra Dragons v Melbourne Storm. 9.30 Football (NRL).

Sydney Roosters v Gold Coast Titans. 11.30 Conan. 12.30 Gem Presents: Herbie Hancock. 12.40 Psychic TV. 2.10 Surfing The Menu.

3.05 Green Acres. 3.30 Dangerman. 4.30 F Troop. 5.00 Hot In Cleveland. 5.30 Olympic Games: Opening Ceremony.

LARGER PRINT

TEN

SBS ONE

6.00 Breakfast 9.00 The Circle 11.30 Warrawhy 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 The Doctors 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Everyday Gourmet with Justine Schofield 4.00 Lightning Point 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News At Five 6.00 The Project 7.00 Jamie’s Great Britain 8.00 The Living Room 9.00 Movie. Night At The Museum 11.20 Movie 1.20 Late Show With David Letterman 2.10 Ally McBeal 3.00 Valentine 4.00 Home Shoping

ONE (CH1) 6.00 British Touring Car Championship. 7.00 NASCAR Sprint Cup. 10.00 NASCAR Nationwide Series Highlights. 11.00 NASCAR Sprint Cup Highlights. 12.00 The Game Plan. 1.00 Before The Game. 2.00 Omnisport. 2.30 I Fish. 3.00 Pressure Cook. 3.30 Get Smart.

4.00 Extreme Dreams. 4.30 Beach Patrol. 5.00 I Fish. 5.30 Hogan’s Heroes. 6.00 MASH. 6.30 Get Smart. 7.00 COPS. 7.30 The Sketch Show. 8.00 Whose Line Is It Anyway? 8.30 Movie. Rat Race.

11.00 Megastructures. 12.00 Fishing Expeditions Amazonia. 1.00 Ross Kemp. 2.00 Omnisport. 3.00 MLB Player Poll. 3.00 Major League Baseball.

ELEVEN

(CH11)

6.00 Toasted TV. 6.05 Spongebob Squarepants. 6.30 Eon Kid. 7.00 Toasted TV. 7.05 Pokemon. 7.20 Toasted TV. 7.30 Dinosaur King. 8.00 Pearlie. 8.25 Toasted TV. 8.30 Yu Gi Oh! 8.55 Toasted TV. 9.00 Dr Quinn Medicine Woman. 10.00 7th Heaven. 11.00 The Love Boat. 12.00 Charmed. 1.00 Jag. 2.00 Macgyver. 3.00 The King Of Queens. 3.30 Cheers. 3.55 Couch Time. 4.00 Becker. 4.30 Family Ties. 4.55 Couch Time. 5.00 Happy Days.

5.30 The Brady Bunch. 5.55 Couch Time.

6.00 The Simpsons. 6.25 Couch Time.

6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 7.30 Glee. 8.30 Snog. Marry.

Avoid. 9.45 America’s Next Top Model.

10.50 Fashion Star. 11.50 Sex And The City. 1.15 Late Late Show ith Craig Ferguson. 2.00 The Love Boat. 3.00 Charmed. 4.00 Dr Quinn Medicine Woman. 5.00 7th Heaven.

5.00 Weatherwatch. 5.05 Korean News. 5.40 Japanese News. 6.15 Hong Kong News.

6.35 Chinese News. 7.05 German News. 7.35 Italian News. 8.05 Filipino News.

8.40 Spanish News. 9.30 Greek News. 10.20 French News. 11.00 Hindi News.

11.30 Arabic News. 12.00 Russian News. 12.30 Turkish News. 1.00 André Rieu: Songs From My Heart. 3.00 Letters And Numbers. 3.30 Al Jazeera News. 4.00 The Journal. 4.30 PBS Newshour.

5.30 Global Village. 6.00 Barbados At The Races. 6.30 World News Australia. 7.30 Russia: A Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby. 8.30 A History of Scotland. 9.30 As It Happened: Jesse Owens.

10.35 World News Australia.

11.05 Film. Love In A Puf. 12.55 Film. Kurt Wallander.

The Cellist. 2.40 Weatherwatch.

CHANNEL 31

(CH44)

6.00 Futbol Town Show. 6.30 Wild Wheels TV. 7.00 On The Fly. 7.30 Yianni’s City Life. 8.00 Euromaxx. 8.30 Move It Or Lose It. 9.00 Heart Starters. 9.30 In Good Shape. 10.00 Movie.

Sherlock Holmes And The Woman In Green.

11.30 Words of Peace. 12.00 The Journal.

12.30 In Focus. 1.00 Tom Padula TV. 1.30 At Home With The Baccalas. 2.00 Russian Kaleidoscope. 2.30 GR-TV. 3.00 Vasili’s Garden.

3.30 Wealth Plan TV. 4.00 Dollars With Sense.

4.30 The Melbourne Update. 5.00 1700.

6.00 Chinese Weekly TV. 6.30 News Geelong.

7.00 The Local Footy Show. 8.30 Live On Bowen. 9.30 Speaker TV. 10.00 Chicksworld.

10.30 8 Ball TV. 11.30 New Game Plus. 12.00 Geek Speak. 12.30 Media Strikes Back. 1.00 Mark My Words. 1.30 Underground Sounds.

2.30 KO Boxing. 3.00 The Gorilla Position.

3.30 Gutter Gods and Masterpieces. 4.00 1700. 5.00 Spirit Of Life. 5.30 The Old Path.

ABC NEWS

(CH24)

6.00 ABC News Breakfast. 9.30 Business Today. 10.00 ABC News Mornings. 12.00 ABC News. 12.30 Newsline. 1.30 ABC News. 2.00 ABC News. 2.30 One Plus One. 3.00 Afternoon Live. 5.30 ABC News Update. 5.32 Capital Hill.

6.00 Planet America. 6.45 ABC Open. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 Contact Sport. 8.00 News Exchange. 8.30 One Plus One. 9.00 The World. 10.00 Planet America.

10.45 ABC Open. 11.00 ABC News.

11.30 Capital Hill. 12.00 ABC News. 12.20 Lateline. 1.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 2.00 BBC World News. 2.30 7.30 ACT. 3.00 BBC World News. 3.30 7.30 SA. 4.00 Al Jazeera. 5.00 BBC World News.

5.30 Capital Hill.

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TV Times SATURDAY, JULY 28 ABC1

SEVEN

4.00 Rage 10.00 Rage Guest Programmer.

11.00 Chopper Retreat 11.30 7.30 12.00 The Cook And The Chef 12.30 Australian Story 1.00 Collectors 1.30 Eggheads 2.00 Football. VFL. 4.00 Collectors 4.30 Eggheads 5.00 The Wonder Years 5.25 Walk On The Wild Side 5.55 Nigel Slater’s Simple Cooking 6.25 Audrey’s Kitchen 6.30 Gardening Australia 7.00 ABC News 7.30 Death In Paradise 8.30 Kidnap And Ransom 9.30 Hustle 10.20 United States of Tara 11.15 Rage

ABC2 (CH22) 6.00 Blinky Bill. 6.30 Pinky Dinky Doo. 6.40 Pingu. 6.45 Wow Wow Wuzzby. 7.00 Yo Gabba Gabba. 7.25 Mr Men Show. 7.40 Shaun The Sheep. 7.50 Charlie And Lola. 8.00 Little Charley Bear. 8.10 Small Potatoes. 8.15 Driver Dan’s Story Train. 8.30 Sesame Street. 9.00 Angelina Ballerina.

9.15 Chuggington. 9.25 Five Minutes More. 9.30 Play School. 10.00 Octonauts. 10.10 Peppa Pig. 10.15 Bookaboo.

10.25 Yo Gabba Gabba. 10.50 Frog And Friends. 11.00 Waybuloo. 11.10 Milly, Molly. 11.25 Tinga Tanga Tales. 11.35 Babar And The Adventures of Badou. 12.00 Sesame Street.

12.55 Pingu. 1.00 The Secret World of Benjamin Bear. 1.25 Peppa Pig. 1.30 Little Charley Bear. 1.40 Small Potatoes.

1.45 Driver Dan. 1.55 Raa Raa. 2.10 The Koala Brothers.

2.20 Guess With Jess. 2.35 Finley The Fire Engine. 2.45 Pororo. 2.55 Mouk. 3.05 Fireman Sam. 3.20 Sam Sam. 3.30 Dirtgirl World. 3.40 The Mr Men Show. 3.55 Mister Maker. 4.15 Charlie and Lola. 4.30 Grandpa In My Pocket.

4.40 Louie. 4.50 Pororo. 5.05 Bookaboo. 5.15 Rastamouse. 5.35 The Hive. 5.40 Peppa Pig. 5.45 Olivia.

6.00 Timmy Time. 6.15 Kioka. 6.20 Small Potatoes. 6.30 In The Night Garden. 7.00 Spicks And Specks. 7.30 Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell. 8.00 At The Movies. 8.30 Sleeper.

9.55 Movie. Fol For Love. 11.40 Inside The Actors Studio.

Mickey Rourke. 12.25 The Street. 1.25 Bonekickers. 2.25 ABC News Update.

ABC3

(CH23)

6.00 Kid vs Kat. 6.10 Kaelo. 6.20 The Avengers. 6.45 Wolverine And The X-Men. 7.10 The Super Hero Squad Show. 7.35 The Twisted Whiskers Show. 8.05 Oggy And The Cockroaches. 8.20 Eliot Kid. 8.35 The Dukes Of Broxstonia. 8.40 Detentionaire.

9.05 Good Game SP. 9.30 Stay Tuned.

10.05 Rated A For Awesome. 10.15 Rated A For Awesome. 10.25 Bugged. 10.35 Iron Man. 10.55 Life With Boys. 11.20 Really Me. 11.45 Dance Academy. 1.55 CJ The DJ. 2.05 Sally Bollywood. 2.30 Big Babies.

2.45 MAL.COM 3.00 Dead Gorgeous. 3.30 The Twisted Whiskers Show. 4.00 Oggy And The Cockroaches. 4.15 Eliot Kid. 4.35 Dennis And Gnasher. 5.00 Bindi’s Bootcamp. 5.20 Bugged. 5.30 Star Wars.

5.55 Deadly 60. 6.25 Splatalot. 6.50 The Legend Of Dick And Dom. 7.20 Kaeloo.

7.30 Good Game SP. 7.55 News On 3. 8.00 Vampire Knight. 8.25 Astro Boy. 8.45 Voltron. 9.10 Programs resume at 6am.

6.00 Stitch 6.30 Handy Manny 7.00 Weekend Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show Weekends 10.00 The Woodies 10.30 Castaway 11.00 Master Raindrop 11.30 Legend Of Enyo 12.00 V8 Xtra 12.30 Australia Smashes Guinness Bok Of Records 1.00 Movie. Dudley Do-Right 3.00 AFL. Geelong v Adelaide 6.00 Seven News 6.30 AFL. Carlton v Richmond 11.00 Movie. The River Wild 1.15 Movie. Greenberg 3.30 It Is Written Oceania 4.00 Home For Shopping 5.00 Beyond Tomorrow

7TWO (CH72) 6.00 Home Shopping. 6.30 Raggs.

7.00 Saturday Disney. 10.00 Home Shopping. 11.00 Off The Eaten Track. 11.30 Great South East.

12.00 Creek To Coast. 12.30 Queensland Weekender. 1.00 Sydney Weekender. 1.30 Weekend Kitchen. 4.00 Travel Weekend. 6.30 Down To Earth. 7.45 Heartbeat.

8.45 Inspector Morse. 11.00 Black Sheep Squadron. 12.00 Movie.

Born To Kill. 2.00 Movie. George White’s Scandals. 5.00 GlobeTrekker.

7MATE (CH73) 6.00 The Virginian. 7.30 Ned And Stacey. 8.00 Home Shoping. 9.00 NBC Today. 11.00 The Incredible Hulk. 12.00 The Jeff Foxworthy Show. 12.30 Motor Sport. Carrera Cup. 1.00 Malcolm And Eddie. 1.30 SWAT. 2.30 VIP. 4.30 Hook Line And Sinker. 5.30 Swords. 6.00 Super Car Showdown. 6.30 Air Crash Investigators. 8.30 Shockwave. 10.30 Mega Disasters.

11.30 CNNNN. 12.00 Football.

Collingwood v Hawthorn. 3.00 SWAT. 4.00 VIP. 5.00 Malcolm And Eddie. 5.30 Home Shopping.

NINE 6.00 Olympic Games. Opening Ceremony continues 9.30 The Fresh Prince of Bel Air 10.00 Ben 10 10.30 Thundercats 11.00 Dogstar 11.30 Wakkaville 12.00 GASP 12.30 A Gurl’s Wurld 1.00 Pixel Pinkie 1.30 Pyramind 2.00 Olympic Games. Opening Ceremony (R) 6.00 Nine News 6.30 Olympic Games

GO! (CH99) 6.00 Thunderbrids. 7.00 Kids WB Saturday: The Flintstones. 7.30 TazMania. 8.00 The Looney Tunes Show. 8.30 Scooby Doo Mystrery Inc. 9.00 Generator Rex. 9.30 Young Justice. 10.00 Batman.

10.30 Ben: 10. 11.00 Truckers.

12.00 Crash Course. 1.00 The Hills.

1.30 Home Shopping. 2.00 Seinfeld. 2.30 Spin City. 3.30 Wipeout. 4.00 The Bachelor. 6.00 Batman And Robin. 8.30 Miss Congeniality. 10.40 The Girl Next Door. 12.00 Fringe. 2.30 The Hills.

3.00 Human Target. 5.00 Bratz.

5.30 Tamagotchi.

GEM (CH90) 6.00 Olympic Games: Open Ceremony, continues. 9.30 Bewitched. 10.00 I Dream Of Jeannie. 10.30 Mayerling. 1.00 Murder, She Wrote. 2.00 Olympic Games. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Olympic Games.

LARGER PRINT

TEN

SBS ONE

6.00 Diamonds In The Rough 7.00 The Elephant Princess 7.30 Paradise Cafe 8.00 K9 8.30 Totally Wild 9.00 Scope 9.30 Good Chef Bad Chef 10.00 The Doctors 11.00 Jon & Kate Plus 8 12.00 The Living Room 1.00 Movie. Saving Sarah Cain 3.00 Everyday Gourmet with Justine Schofield 3.30 Merlin 4.30 What’s Up Downunder 5.00 News At Five 6.00 The Simpsons 6.30 Movie 8.40 Movie 10.50 The Good Wife 11.50 Sons of Tucson 12.20 Guerilla Gardeners 12.50 Formula One Grand Prix 3.00 Home Shoping 4.00 Bayless Conley 4.30 It Is Written 5.00 Hour Of Power

ONE (CH1) 6.00 Football Liverpool TV. 9.00 FA Cup Classics. 9.30 Major League Baseball. 12.30 Rugby Classic Matches. 2.30 Omnisport. 3.00 Get Smart. 3.30 The WWE Experience.

4.30 MASH. 5.00 Alby Mangels Adventure Bound. 6.00 Places We Go. 6.30 Talkin’ Bout Your Generation. 7.30 MASH. 8.30 COPS. 9.30 Formula One Grand Prix. 11.30 Ross Kemp. 12.30 Las Vegas. 1.00 Omnisport. 1.30 Magic Of The FA Cup. 3.00 NASCAR Sprint Cup.

ELEVEN

(CH11)

6.00 Toasted TV. 6.05 Spongeboat Squarepants. 6.30 Eon Kid. 7.00 The Brady Bunch. 7.30 The King Of Queens.

8.00 Family Ties. 8.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. 9.00 The Loop. 11.30 Fashion Star. 12.30 Happy Days. 1.00 Jag. 2.00 Macgyver. 3.00 The King Of Queens. 3.30 Cheers. 4.00 Becker. 4.30 Family Ties.

5.00 Happy Days. 5.30 The Brady Bunch.

6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch. 6.30 Masterchef (Sunday). 7.40 Masterchef (Monday). 8.50 Masterchef (Tuesday).

9.50 Masterchef (Wednesday). 11.20 Matserchef (Thursday). 12.30 The Loop.

3.00 Becker. 3.30 Cheers. 4.00 Family Ties. 4.30 The King Of Queens. 5.00 Happy Days. 5.30 Sabrina The Teenage Witch.

5.00 Weatherwatch. 5.05 Korean News. 5.40 Japanese News. 6.15 Hong Kong News.

6.35 Chinese News. 7.05 German News. 7.35 Italian News. 8.05 Filipino News.

8.40 Spanish News. 9.30 Greek News. 10.20 French News. 11.00 Hindi News.

11.30 Arabic News. 12.00 Russian News. 12.30 Turkish News. 1.00 A Film And Its Era. 2.00 Who Is Harry Nilsson And Why Is Everybody Talkin’ About Him? 3.20 Milos Forman. 4.30 PBS Newshour. 5.35 Mythbusters.

6.30 World News Australia.

7.35 Massive Moves. 8.30 RocKwiz. 9.20 Filom.

Gainsbourg. 11.35 Film.

Fermat’s Room. 1.10 Weatherwatch.

CHANNEL 31 (CH44)

6.00 Consider Islam. 7.00 Priority One TV. 7.30 Zindagi Forever. 8.00 Geelong District Netball League. 8.30 Geelong District Football League. 9.00 The Northern Footy Show.

9.30 That’s Fishing. 10.00 River To Reef. 10.30 Catch And Cook. 11.00 Adventure Bound.

11.30 The Local Footy Show. 1.00 Get Dirty With Milton. 1.30 The Drum Show. 2.00 Kick Off Countdown. 2.30 Ice Hockey. 3.30 Your 4x4. 4.00 Classic Restos - Trucka. 4.30 Classic Restos. 5.00 Rev Heads. 5.30 Wild Wheels TV. 6.00 4WD TV. 6.30 On The Fly. 7.00 That’s Fishing. 7.30 Adventure Bound. 8.00 Regional Italian Cuisine. 8.30 Showbiz. 9.00 Yianni’s City Life. 9.30 EPTV. 10.00 31 Questions.

10.30 Anthology Of Interest. 11.00 The Darren Sanders Show. 11.30 Nu Country TV. 12.00 Maha’s Alternative Reality. 12.30 Blokesworld.

1.00 Asylum. 1.30 Guitar Gods and Masterpieces. 2.00 Live On Bowen (R). 3.00 New Game Plus. 3.30 Speaker TV. 4.00 Chicksworld. 4.30 Sutara TV. 5.00 Red Lobster. 5.30 Nu Country TV.

ABC NEWS (CH24) 6.00 ABC News Update. 6.02 7.30 NSW. 6.30 State To State. 7.00 ABC News.

7.30 Contact Sport. 8.00 Weekend Breakfast. 11.30 The World This Week.

12.00 ABC News. 12.45 The Food Quarter. 1.00 ABC News Update. 1.02 National Press Club Address. 2.00 ABC News. 2.30 Contact Sport. 3.00 ABC News. 3.30 Tonic. 4.00 ABC News. 4.30 At The Movies. 5.00 ABC News Update.

5.30 One Plus One. 6.00 ABC News. 6.30 TBA. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 State To State. 8.00 ABC News. 8.02 Four Corners. 8.45 Big Ideas Sampler. 9.00 ABC News. 9.30 The World This Week.

10.00 ABC News. 10.30 Big Ideas.

11.00 ABC News. 11.02 Future Forum.

12.00 ABC News. 12.02 Q&A. 1.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 2.00 BBC World News.

2.30 7.30 QLD. 3.00 The World This Week. 3.30 7.30 NT. 4.00 Al Jazeera.

5.00 BBC World News. 5.30 Newsline.

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TV Times SUNDAY, JULY 29 ABC1

SEVEN

4.00 Rage. 6.30 Grandpa In My Pocket. 6.45 Boblins.

7.00 Jakers. 7.20 King Arthurs’s Disasters. 7.45 Bugged. 7.55 Kid vs Kat. 8.10 Bolts And Blip. 8.35 Pink Panther And Pals. 9.00 Insiders. 10.00 Inside Business. 10.30 Offsiders. 11.00 Asia Pacific Focus. 11.30 Songs Of Praise. 12.00 Landline. 1.00 Gardening Australia. 1.30 Walk On The Wild Side. 2.00 Death In Paradise. 3.00 Opera Australia. 4.50 Propositions For An Uncertain Future. 5.00 Nature’s Great Events. 5.55 Antiques Master. 6.25 Audrey’s Kitchen. 6.30 Compass. 7.00 ABC News.

7.30 Grand Designhs Revisited. 8.15 Dream Build. 8.30 Birdsong. 10.00 Shaun Micallef’s Mad As Hell. 10.30 Race To London. 11.00 Movie. Family Plot. 12.55 Movie. Penny Serenade. 2.55 Rage. 4.00 The New Inventors. 4.30 Collectors. 5.00 Gardening Australia. 5.30 Catalyst.

ABC2 (CH22) 6.00 Blinky Bill. 6.30 Pinky Dinky Doo. 6.40 Pingu. 6.45 Wow Wow Wuzzby. 7.00 Yo Gabba Gabba. 7.25 Mr Men Show. 7.40 Shaun The Sheep. 7.50 Charlie And Lola. 8.00 Little Charley Bear. 8.10 Small Potatoes. 8.15 Driver Dan’s Story Train. 8.30 Sesame Street. 9.00 Angelina Ballerina.

9.15 Chuggington. 9.25 Five Minutes More. 9.30 Play School. 10.00 Octonauts. 10.10 Peppa Pig. 10.15 Dibo The Gift Dragon. 10.30 Yo Gabba Gabba. 10.50 Frog And Friends. 11.00 Waybuloo. 11.10 Waybuloo. 11.25 Tinga Tinga Tales. 11.35 Babar And The Adventures of Badou.

12.00 Sesame Street. 12.55 Pingu. 1.00 The Secret World of Benjamin Bear. 1.25 Peppa Pig. 1.30 Little Charley Bear.

1.40 Small Potatoes. 1.45 Driver Dan. 1.55 Raa Raa. 2.10 The Koala Brothers. 2.20 Guess With Jess. 2.35 Finley The Fire Engine. 2.45 Pororo. 2.55 Mouk. 3.05 Fireman Sam. 3.20 Sam Sam. 3.30 Dirtgirl World. 3.40 The Mr Men Show.

3.55 Mister Maker. 4.15 Charlie and Lola. 4.30 Grandpa In My Pocket. 4.40 Louie. 4.50 Pororo. 5.05 Bookaboo. 5.15 Rastamouse. 5.35 The Hive. 5.40 Peppa Pig. 5.45 Olivia.

6.00 Timmy Time. 6.15 Kioka. 6.20 Small Potatoes. 6.30 In The Night Garden. 7.00 Spicks And Specks. 7.30 Misbehaving Mums To Be. 8.30 Sunday Best. 10.20 Randling.

10.50 Opera Australia. 1.05 Tribal Wives. 2.05 ABC News Update. Programs resume at 6am.

ABC3

(CH23)

6.00 Stay Tuned. 6.15 Rush TV. 6.40 Voltron Force. 6.45 Wolverine And The XMen. 7.10 The Twisted Whiskers Show. 7.40 Oggy And The Cockroaches. 7.55 Eliot Kid. 8.10 Total Drama. 8.35 The Dukes Of Broxstonia. 8.40 The Super Hero Squad Show. 9.00 Kaeloo. 9.10 Pixelface. 9.40 Horrible Histories. 9.05 Good Game SP. 10.10 Deltora Quest. 10.55 Prank Patrol Road Trip. 11.25 Good Game SP. 11.50 Stay Tuned. 12.20 Dancing Downunder.

12.45 Oggy And The Cockroaches. 12.55 My Place. 1.20 Dennis And Cnasher. 1.45 Erky Perky. 2.15 Dani’s House. 2.45 Dance Academy. 3.15 Castaway. 4.00 Short Cuts.

4.25 Parallax. 4.50 Shaun The Sheep. 5.00 Bindi’s Bootcamp. 5.20 The Dukes Of Broxstonia. 5.25 Trapped Ever After. 5.55 Jobber Jabber. 6.20 Grizzly Tales. 6.30 Horrible Histories. 7.00 Splatlot. 7.25 The Avengers. 7.50 News On 3. 7.55 The 99.

8.15 Fruits Basket. 8.40 Ouran High Host Club. 9.05 Programs Resume At 6am.

6.00 Kick Butowski 6.30 Jake And The Never Land Pirates 7.00 Weekend Sunrise 10.00 AFL Game Day 11.30 Footy Flashbacks 1.00 Breaking The Magician’s Code 2.00 No Ordinary Family 3.00 AFL. St Kilda v Western Bulldogs 6.00 Seven News 6.30 Sunday Night 7.30 TBA 10.30 Law & Order: LA 11.30 Serial Killers 12.30 Sons And Daughters 1.00 Ynid: The Last Koala?

2.00 Home Shopping 3.00 NBC Today 4.00 NBC Meet The Press 5.00 Sunrise Extra 5.30 Sunrise Early News

7TWO (CH72) 6.00 Home Shopping. 7.00 Route 66. 8.00 Naked City. 8.30 Home Shopping. 9.30 Home And Away Catch-Up. 11.45 Movie. The Facts Of Life. 2.00 Movie. Fly Away Home. 4.15 Movie. Seems Like Old Times. 6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Seven Wonders Of The Industrial World. 8.30 Escape To The Country.

9.30 60 Minute Makeover. 10.30 Homes Under The Hammer. 11.45 Royal Upstairs Downstairs. 12.20 Movie. The Facts Of Life. 2.30 Australia’s Wild Secrets. 3.00 Leyland Brothers World. 4.00 Route 66. 5.00 Naked City. 5.30 Home Shopping.

7MATE (CH73) 6.00 Home Shopping. 6.30 The Virginian. 8.00 Newsradio. 8.30 Home Shopping. 9.00 NBC Today.

9.30 The Jeff Foxworthy Show.

10.00 Ned And Stacey. 11.00 Simon And Simon. 1.00 VIP. 2.00 Newsradio. 3.00 Movie. When We Were Kings. 5.00 My Wife And Kids. 5.30 How I Met Your Mother.

6.30 Movie. The Waterboy. 8.30 Family Guy. 9.00 American Guy. 9.30 Movie. Old School. 11.00 Rude Tube. 12.00 VIP. 2.00 Simon And Simon. 4.00 The Virginian.

5.30 Home Shopping.

NINE 6.00 Olympic Games 9.00 London Gold 11.00 The Sunday Footy Show 12.00 TAC Cup 2.00 Across The Wide Missouri 3.30 London Gold 5.30 Olympic Games 6.00 News 6.30 Olympic Games 11.00 Olympic Games 2.00 Olympic Games

GO! (CH99) 6.00 Thunderbrids. 7.00 Kids WB Sunday: The Flintstones. 7.30 TazMania. 8.00 The Looney Tunes Show. 8.30 Scooby Doo Mystrery Inc. 9.00 Thunderbirds. 9.30 Young Justice. 10.00 Batman. 10.30 Ben: 10. 11.00 Monsuno. 11.30 Power Rangers Super Samurai. 12.00 Symbionic Titan. 12.30 Eclipse.

1.00 The Hills. 1.30 Home Shopping. 2.00 Seinfeld. 3.00 Spin City.

4.30 Survivor. 5.30 TBA. 6.30 Hamish & Andy’s Euro Gap Year.

8.30 The Big Banjg Theory. 9.30 TBA. 12.00 Churck. 1.00 Undercovers. 2.00 Home Shopping.

4.00 Chuck. 5.00 Extra. 5.30 The Flintstones.

GEM (CH90) 6.00 Olympic Games. 9.00 London Gold. 11.00 Green Acres. 11.30 Bewitched. 12.00 Sunday Footy Show (NRL). 2.00 London Gold.

4.00 Football. South Sydney Rabbitohs v Wests Tigers. 6.00 Olympic Games. 11.00 Olympic Games. 1.00 Olympic Games.

LARGER PRINT

TEN

SBS ONE

6.00 Mass For You At Home 6.30 Hillsong 7.00 Scope 7.30 Totally Wild 8.00 Rescue Of The Ice Birds 9.00 Good Chef Bad Chef 10.00 The Bolt Report 10.30 Meet The Press 11.00 The Circle Highlights Show 12.00 In Memory of Maia 1.00 The Doctors 2.00 Scoop 4.30 The Bolt Report (R) 5.00 News At Five 6.00 The Project 6.30 Last Man Standing 7.00 Modern Family 7.30 MasterChef All Stars 8.30 Modern Family 9.30 Formula One Grand Prix 12.00 Sons Of Tucson 1.00 Home Shopping 3.30 Life Today 4.00 CBS - This Morning 5.30 The Project (R)

ONE (CH1) 6.00 NASCAR Highlights. 8.00 Omnisport. 8.30 World Of Free Sports. 9.00 Netball Championships. 10.55 Fittest Netballer.

11.00 Netball Championship. 1.00 M7 Motorsport. 1.30 What’s Up Downunder. 2.00 Pressure Cook.

2.30 Blue Holes. 3.30 True Heroes.

4.30 MASH. 5.30 I Fish. 6.00 Fishing Expedition Amazonia. 6.30 Mighty Movers. 7.30 Extreme Fishing. 8.30 Flying High. 10.25 Team America. 12.30 Ross Kemp.

1.30 Fishing Expedition Amazonia.

2.30 Omnisport. 3.00 Football: Liverpool TV.

ELEVEN

(CH11)

6.00 Toasted TV. 6.05 Spongebob Squarepants. 6.30 Eon Kid. 7.00 Toasted TV. 7.05 Pokemon. 7.20 Toasted TV. 7.30 Dinosaur King. 8.00 Pearlie. 8.25 Toasted TV. 8.30 Yu Gi Oh! 8.55 Toasted TV. 9.00 Dr Quinn Medicine Woman. 10.00 MasterChef (Sunday). 11.00 MasterChef (Monday). 12.10 MasterChef (Tuesday).

1.10 MasterChef (Wednesday). 2.40 MasterChef (Thursday). 3.50 MasterChef (Friday). 5.00 Happy Days. 5.30 The Brady Bunch. 6.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch. 6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 7.30 New Girl. 8.30 Snog Marry Avoid. 10.30 Becker. 11.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 11.30 Happy Days. 12.00 Sabrina The Teeange Witch.

12.30 Dr Quinn Medicine Woman. 1.30 Happy Days. 2.00 Britain’s Next Top Model. 3.00 Becker. 3.30 Everybody Loves Raymond. 4.00 Dr Quinn Medicine Woman. 5.00 Sabrina The Teenage Witch.

5.30 The Brady Bunch.

5.00 Weatherwatch. 5.30 Portugese News. 6.00 Urdu News. 6.30 Latin American News. 7.00 Hungarian News.

7.30 Polish News. 8.00 Maltese News. 8.30 Pop Asia.

10.30 Football Asia. 11.00 Les Murray’s Football Feature.

12.00 FIFA Futbol Mundial.

12.30 Speedweek. 2.00 World Superbike Championships. 2.30 Al Jazeera News.

3.30 Beethoven For All. 4.30 Salam Cafe. 5.00 Cycling Central. 6.00 Thalassa. 6.30 World News Australia. 7.30 Lost Worlds. 8.30 Inside Nature’s Giants. 9.55 Versailles. 11.40 Film. Kissed

By Winter. 1.00 Weatherwatch Overnight.

CHANNEL 31

(CH44)

6.00 GGCL TV. 6.30 Bayside TV. 7.00 Awesome Church. 7.30 The Lord’s Challenge.

8.00 Nusantara. 9.00 Leading The Way With Dr Michael Youssef. 9.30 Zontas 100%. 10.00 Sri Lanka Morning Show. 11.00 Entre Todos (Spanish). 11.30 Macedonians In The Aussie Land. 12.00 Tom Padula TV. 12.30 Sputnik.

1.00 Macedonian Horizons. 1.30 The Italian Connection. 2.00 Chandana. 2.30 Serbian TV. 3.00 TV Sri Lanka. 3.30 Vietnamese TV. 4.00 Punjabi TV. 4.30 Hungarian TV. 5.00 Croatian TV. 5.30 Good Evening Melbourne.

6.00 Sri Lanka Clip Show. 6.30 Cambodia Stars. 7.00 ATVAA. 7.30 Desi Kangaroos TV. 8.00 Zhong Hua TV. 8.30 GR-TV. 9.00 World In Our Backyard. 9.30 The Shtick. 10.00 Dhoom Channel. 10.30 At Home With The Baccalas. 11.00 Ancient Truth Revealed.

11.30 The GEC Report. 12.00 How We Help.

12.30 Sputnik. 1.00 My Cambodia TV. 1.30 Russian Kaleidoscope. 2.00 Masterclass In Oils. 2.30 Arts Studio. 3.00 Showbiz. 3.30 Suzan Is Craft. 4.00 Yianni’s City Life. 4.30 Our Time. 5.00 Chinese Weekly TV. 5.30 Fast Break Lacrosse.

ABC NEWS

(CH24)

6.00 ABC News Breakfast. 6.02 7.30 VIC. 6.30 One Plus One. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 The World This Week. 8.00 Weekend Breakfast. 9.00 Insiders. 10.00 Weekend Breakfast, 11.30 State To State. 12.00 ABC News. 12.45 The Consumer Quarter.

1.00 ABC News Update. 1.02 Big Ideas.

2.00 ABC News. 2.30 Offsiders. 3.00 ABC News. 3.30 The World This Week.

4.00 ABC News. 4.15 Planet America.

5.00 ABC News. 5.30 Asia Pacific Focus.

5.55 Extraordinary Curiosities. 6.00 ABC News. 6.30 Australian Story. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 One Plus One. 8.00 ABC News Update. 8.02 Insiders. 9.00 ABC News Update. 9.02 Future Forum. 10.00 ABC News. 10.30 Inside Business. 11.00 ABC News. 11.30 State To State. 12.00 ABC News Update. 12.02 Lateline. 1.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 2.00 BBC World News.

2.30 7.30 WA. 3.00 Asia Pacific Focus.

3.30 7.30 Tas. 4.00 Al Jazeera Newshour.

5.00 BBC World News. 5.25 ABC Open.

5.30 Big Ideas.

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TV Times MONDAY, JULY 30 ABC1

SEVEN

6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.30 Business Today 10.00 Backyard Science.

10.25 Take On Technology.

10.40 Food For Thought.

10.55 I Maths. 11.00 Landline. 12.00 Midday Report. 12.30 Rivers And Life. 1.30 The New Inventors.

2.00 Antiques Master. 2.30 Jennifer Byrne Presents. 3.00 Play School. 3.30 Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom. 3.40 Poppets Town. 3.55 This Is Emily Young. 4.00 The Mr Men Show. 4.15 Best Ed. 4.30 Even Stevens. 4.55 BTN Daily. 5.00 Eggheads.

5.30 As Time Goes By. 6.00 Grand Designs. 6.50 Minuscule. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Australian Story.

8.30 Four Corners. 9.20 Media Watch. 9.35 Q&A. 10.35 Lateline. 11.10 The Business. 11.35 Trial And Retribution. 1.05 Movie. The Senator Was Indiscreet. 2.25 Rage. 3.30 Rugby Union.

5.30 Eggheads.

ABC2 (CH22) 6.00 Blinky Bill. 6.30 Pinky Dinky Doo. 6.40 Pingu. 6.45 Wow Wow Wuzzby. 7.00 Yo Gabba Gabba. 7.25 Mr Men Show. 7.40 Shaun The Sheep. 7.50 Charlie And Lola. 8.00 Little Charley Bear. 8.10 Small Potatoes. 8.15 Driver Dan’s Story Train. 8.30 Sesame Street. 9.00 Angela Ballerina.

9.15 Chuggington. 9.25 Five Minutes More. 9.30 Play School. 10.00 Dorothy The Dinosaur. 10.05 Zoo Mix. 10.10 Connie The Cow. 10.20 Bottle Top Bill. 10.35 Captain Mack.

10.45 Zigby. 11.00 Waybuloo. 11.10 Milly, Molly. 11.25 Tinga Tinga Tales. 11.35 Babar And The Adventures of Badou.

12.00 Sesame Street. 12.30 Dibo The Gift Dragon. 12.45 Igam Ogam. 12.55 Bert And Ernie’s Great Adventures. 1.00 The Secret World of Benjamin Bear. 1.25 Peppa Pig. 1.30 Little Charley Bear. 1.40 Small Potatoes. 1.45 Driver Dan. 1.55 Raa Raa. 2.10 The Koala Brothers. 2.20 Guess With Jess. 2.35 Finley The Fire Engine. 2.45 Pororo. 2.55 Mouk.

3.05 Fireman Sam. 3.20 Sam Sam. 3.30 Dirtgirl World.

3.40 The Mr Men Show. 3.55 Mister Maker. 4.15 The Mole Sisters. 4.30 Play School. 5.05 Bookabo. 5.15 Rastamouse.

5.35 The Hive. 5.40 Peppa Pig. 5.45 Olivia. 6.00 Timmy Time. 6.15 Kioka. 6.20 Small Potatoes. 6.30 In The Night Garden. 7.00 Spicks And Specks. 7.30 Doctor Who. 8.30 The Roast. 8.35 Tribal Wives. 9.35 Bored To Death. 10.05 Louie. 10.30 Gruen Planet. 11.05 Dragon’s Den. 12.05 Breaking Bad. 12.55 Cold Feet. 1.45 London Live. 2.15 ABC News. Programs resume at 6am.

ABC3

(CH23)

6.00 Yakkity Yak. 6.25 The Gees. 6.30 Almost Naked Animals. 6.45 Yoo Hoo And Friends. 6.55 The Twisted Whiskers Show. 7.10 Kid vs Kat. 7.30 Spliced. 7.55 The Super Hero Squad Show. 8.20 Cornell And Bernie. 8.30 Gasp. 8.45 Potatoes And Dragons. 8.55 Mr Men Show.

9.05 Flipper And Lopaka. 9.35 Animalia. 10.00 Erky Perky. 10.15 The Silver Brumby. 10.40 Go Lingo! 11.05 Splatalot. 11.30 Good Game SP. 11.55 P-Culture. 12.00 BTN Extra. 12.15 Quest. 12.35 What Do You Know? 1.00 Almost Naked Animals. 1.15 Yoo Hoo And Friends. 1.25 The Twisted Whiskers Show. 1.40 Kid vs Kat. 2.00 Spliced. 2.25 The Super Hero Squad Show. 2.50 Sally Bollywood. 3.05 Ship To Shore. 3.30 News On 3 Update.

3.35 The Wannabes. 3.55 Canimals. 4.05 Ruby Gloom.

4.30 Masha And The Bear. 4.40 Gasp. 4.55 The Pinky And Perky Show. 5.10 INK: Invisible Network Of Kids.

5.35 League Of Super Evil. 6.00 Dani’s House. 6.30 Stoked. 6.55 Wolverine And The X-Men. 7.20 Wolverine And The X-Men. 7.45 Almost Naked Animals. 7.55 News On 3. 8.00 Horrible Histories. 8.30 Dancing Down Under. 9.00 Programs Resume At 6am.

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Seven Morning News 12.00 Midday Movie. Stolen Youth 2.00 Dr Oz 3.00 Border Patrol 3.30 All For Kids 4.00 Match It 4.30 Seven News At 4.30 5.00 The Price Is Right 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Seven News 6.30 Today Tonight 7.00 Home And Away 7.30 TBA 11.30 30 Rock 12.00 Sexiest Titles 1.00 Home Shopping 4.00 NBC Today 5.00 Sunrise Extra 5.30 Seven Early News

7TWO (CH72) 6.00 Home Shopping. 6.30 Total Girl. 9.00 Home And Away. 9.30 Sons And Daughters. 10.00 Coronation Street. 10.30 Shortland Street. 11.00 Bargain Hunt. 12.00 TBA. 2.00 Movie. Two Rode Together. 4.30 Please Sir. 5.00 Murphy Brown. 5.30 Mad About You. 6.00 George And Mildred.

6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Heartbeat.

8.30 P D James A Mind To Murder.

10.45 Movie. Money Train. 1.00 The Thin Blue Line. 1.30 Mad About You. 2.00 Movie. The Falcon In Mexico. 3.30 Bargain Hunt. 4.30 Shortland Street. 5.00 Coronation Street. 5.30 Home Shopping.

7MATE (CH73) 6.00 Home Shopping. 6.30 K-Zone.

9.00 NBC Today. 11.00 Simon And Simon. 1.00 Newsradio. 2.30 Malcolm And Edie. 3.00 Longford Revival Festival. 4.00 V8 Xtra. 4.30 Monster Garage. 5.30 Pimp My Ride. 6.30 Supercar Showdown.

7.00 How I Met Your Mother. 7.30 My Name Is Earl. 8.30 How I Met Your Mother. 9.30 Movie. Total Recall. 12.00 Ax Men. 1.00 Simon And Simon. 3.00 Miami Vice. 4.00 Longford Revival Festival. 5.00 Newsradio. 5.30 Home Shopping.

NINE 6.00 Olympic Games 9.00 London Gold 11.00 Morning News 12.00 The Ellen De Generes Show 1.00 The View 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 3.00 Extra 3.30 Hi-5 4.00 London Gold 5.30 Olympic Games 6.00 News 6.30 A Current Afair 7.00 Olympic Games 11.00 Olympic Games 1.00 Olympic Games

GO! (CH99) 6.00 Hi-5. 6.30 Taz-Mania. 7.00 Sym-Bionic Titan. 7.30 Power Rangers Super Samurai. 8.00 Ben 10. 8.30 Batman. 9.00 The Flintstones. 9.30 Pinky And The Brain. 10.00 Wipeout. 11.00 The Bachelor. 1.00 Spin City. 1.30 Extra. 2.00 TMZ. 2.30 Batman.

3.00 Power Rangers Super Samurai. 3.30 Monsuno. 4.00 Kids WB Weekdays. 4.30 Seinfeld. 5.00 Two And A Half Men. 6.00 Top Gear. 7.00 The Big Bang Theory.

7.30 Top Gear. 9.00 TBA. 11.00 Fringe. 12.00 1000 Ways To Die. 12.30 TMZ. 1.00 Wipeout. 2.00 Home Shopping. 4.00 Top Gear.

5.00 Extra. 5.30 The Flintstones

GEM (CH90) 6.00 Olympic Games. 9.00 London Gold. 11.00 Alive and Cooking.

11.30 Green Acres. 12.00 Bewitched. 12.30 The Iron Maiden.

2.30 F Troop. 3.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show. 4.00 London Gold. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Olympic Games. 11.00 Olympic Games.

1.00 Olympic Games.

LARGER PRINT

TEN

SBS ONE

6.00 Breakfast 9.00 The Circle 11.30 Warrawhy 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 The Doctors 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Everyday Gourmet with Justine Schofield 4.00 Totally Wild 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News At Five 6.00 The Project 7.00 MasterChef All Stars 8.00 The Shire 8.30 NCIS 9.30 The Finder 10.30 Ten Late News 11.15 Moto GP 12.45 Late Show with David Letterman 1.30 Home Shopping 3.00 Life Today with James Robison 3.30 CBS - This Morning 5.00 The Project (R)

ONE (CH1) 6.00 Football Liverpool TV. 9.00 Magic Of The FA Cup. 10.00 Triathlon. 11.00 Rugby Classic Matches. 1.00 The WWE Experience. 2.00 Omnisport. 2.30 Megastructures. 3.30 I Fish. 4.00 Extreme Dreams. 4.30 Beach Patrol. 5.00 I Fish. 5.30 Hogans Heroes. 6.00 MASH. 6.30 Get Smart. 7.0 COPS. 7.30 Whose Line Is It Anyway? 8.30 An Idiot Abroad.

9.30 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. 10.30 Formula One Grand Prix. 12.30 MASH. 1.00 Omnisport. 1.00 Hogans Heroes.

1.30 Whose Line Is It Anyway? 2.30 Omnisport. 3.00 NASCAR Sprint.

ELEVEN

(CH11)

6.00 Toasted TV. 6.05 Spongebob Squarepants. 6.30 Eon Kid. 7.00 Toasted TV. 7.05 Pokemon. 7.20 Toasted TV. 7.30 Dinosaur Kid. 8.00 Pearlie. 8.25 Toasted TV. 8.30 Yu Gi Oh! 8.55 Toasted TV. 9.00 Dr Quinn Medicine Woman. 10.00 7th Heaven. 11.00 The Love Boat. 12.00 Charmed. 1.00 Jag. 2.00 Macgyver. 3.00 The King Of Queens. 3.30 Cheers. 3.55 Couch Time. 4.00 Becker. 4.30 Family Ties. 4.55 Couch Time. 5.00 Happy Days.

5.30 The Brady Bunch. 5.55 Couch Time.

6.00 The Simpsons. 6.25 Couch Time.

6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 7.30 The Simpsons. 8.00 Raising Hope. 8.30 Fashion Star. 9.30 Dollhouse. 10.30 Frasier. 11.30 Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. 12.30 Becker.

1.00 The King Of Queens. 1.30 Happy Days. 2.00 The Love Boat. 3.00 Charmed.

4.00 Dr Quinn Medicine Woman. 5.00 7th Heaven.

5.00 Weatherwatch. 5.05 Korean News. 5.40 Japanese News. 6.15 Hong Kong News.

6.35 Chinese News. 7.05 German News. 7.30 Italian News. 8.05 Filipino News.

8.40 Spanish News. 9.30 Greek News. 10.20 French News. 11.00 Hindi News.

11.30 Arabic News. 12.00 Russian News. 12.30 Turkish News. 1.00 Film. Little Jerusalem. 2.40 Standing Start. 3.00 Letters And Numbers. 3.30 Al Jazeera News. 4.00 The Journal.

4.30 FIFA Futbol Mundial 5.00 Pop Asia. 5.30 Global Village. 5.45 Countdown.

6.30 World News Australia.

7.30 Mythbusters. 8.30 Man vs Wild. 9.30 Shameless.

10.30 World News Australia.

11.00 The World Game.

12.00 SOS. 1.00 Entourage. 2.05 Weatherwatch.

CHANNEL 31 (CH44)

6.00 Today’s Schools. 6.30 Rev Heads. 7.00 That’s Fishing. 7.30 Get Dirty With Milton.

8.00 Zhong Hua TV. 8.30 Move It Or Lose It. 9.00 Eastern Newsbeat. 9.30 Country Cuisine. 10.00 Movie. Rich And Strange. 12.00 The Journal. 12.30 In Focus. 1.00 8 Ball TV. 2.00 One World Japan. 2.30 Somali TV. 3.00 World In Our Backyard. 3.30 Inside Art. 4.00 Masterclass In Oils. 4.30 Arts Studio. 5.00 1700. 6.00 VNTV News. 6.30 Volleyball Victoria. 7.00 Media Strikes Back. 7.30 Heart Starters. 8.00 Wealth Plan TV. 8.30 Get Dirty With Milton. 9.00 Dollars With Sense. 9.30 The Personal Injury Law Show. 10.00 Law Legends Lately. 10.30 New Game Plus. 11.00 The Hard Rock Show. 12.00 In The Word.

12.30 Words Of Peace. 1.00 Tough Times Never Last. 1.30 Red Lobster. 2.00 Spirit Of Life. 2.30 Anthology Of Interest. 3.00 8 Ball TV. 4.00 1700. 5.00 VNTV News. 5.30 Wealth Plan TV.

ABC NEWS (CH24) 6.00 ABC News Breakfast. 9.30 Business Today. 9.55 ABC Open.

10.00 ABC News Mornings. 12.00 ABC News. 12.30 Asia Pacific Focus. 12.55 Extraordinary Curiosities. 1.00 ABC News. 2.00 ABC News. 2.30 Message Stick.

3.00 Afternoon Live. 5.30 ABC News Update. 5.32 Capital Hill.

5.45 Arts Quarter. 6.00 The Drum.

6.45 Environment Quarter. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 Grandstand. 8.00 ABC News. 8.30 The Business. 8.55 ABC Open. 9.00 The World. 9.35 Q&A. 10.30 ABC News. 11.00 The Drum. 11.45 Environment Quarter.

12.00 ABC News. 12.20 Lateline.

1.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 2.00 BBC World News. 3.30 7.30. 4.00 Al Jazeera. 5.00 BBC World News.

5.25 ABC Open. 5.30 Newsline.

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TV Times TUESDAY, JULY 31 ABC1

SEVEN

6.00 ABC News Breakfast 9.30 Business Today 10.00 Behind The News.

10.25 The Prime Ministers’ National Treasures. 10.30 Australia’s Prime Ministers.

10.35 My Place. 11.00 Big Ideas. 12.00 Midday Report.

12.30 Q&A. 1.30 Compass.

2.00 Grand Designs. 2.50 Minuscule. 3.00 Play School.

3.30 Ben And Holly’s Little Kingdom. 3.40 Poppet’s Town. 3.55 This Is Emily Young. 4.00 The Mr Men Show. 4.15 Best Ed. 4.30 Even Stevens. 4.55 BTN Daily. 5.00 Eggheads. 5.30 As Time Goes By. 6.00 Time Team. 6.50 Minuscule. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 7.30. 8.00 Foreign Correspondent. 8.30 Three Men In A Boat. 9.30 QI. 10.00 Jennifer Byrne Presents. 10.30 Lateline.

11.05 The Business. 11.35 Four Corners. 12.20 Media Watch. 12.35 Britain From Above. 1.35 Henry VIII. 2.30 Football. VFL. 5.30 Eggheads.

ABC2 (CH22) 6.00 Blinky Bill. 6.30 Pinky Dinky Doo. 6.40 Pingu. 6.45 Wow Wow Wuzzby. 7.00 Yo Gabba Gabba. 7.25 Mr Men Show. 7.40 Shaun The Sheep. 7.50 Charlie And Lola. 8.00 Little Charley Bear. 8.10 Small Potatoes. 8.15 Driver Dan’s Story Train. 8.30 Sesame Street. 9.00 Angela Ballerina.

9.15 Chuggington. 9.25 Five Minutes More. 9.30 Play School. 10.00 Dorothy The Dinosaur. 10.05 Zoo Mix. 10.10 Connie The Cow. 10.20 Bottle Top Bill. 10.35 Captain Mack.

10.45 Zigby. 11.00 Waybuloo. 11.10 Milly, Molly. 11.25 Tinga Tinga Tales. 11.35 Babar And The Adventures of Badou.

12.00 Sesame Street. 12.30 Dibo The Gift Dragon. 12.45 Igam Ogam. 12.55 Bert And Ernie’s Great Adventures. 1.00 The Secret World of Benjamin Bear. 1.25 Peppa Pig. 1.30 Little Charley Bear. 1.40 Small Potatoes. 1.45 Driver Dan. 1.55 Raa Raa. 2.10 The Koala Brothers. 2.20 Guess With Jess. 2.35 Finley The Fire Engine. 2.45 Pororo. 2.55 Mouk.

3.05 Fireman Sam. 3.20 Sam Sam. 3.30 Dirtgirl World.

3.40 The Mr Men Show. 3.55 Mister Maker. 4.15 The Mole Sisters. 4.30 Play School. 5.05 Bookabo. 5.15 Rastamouse.

5.35 The Hive. 5.40 Peppa Pig. 5.45 Olivia. 6.00 Timmy Time. 6.15 Kioka. 6.20 Small Potatoes. 6.30 In The Night Garden. 7.00 Spicks And Specks. 7.30 Doctor Who. 8.30 The Roast. 8.30 Good Game. 9.00 Archer. 9.25 Sanctuary.

10.10 Gruen Planet. 10.50 Am I Normal? 11.50 Gavin And Stacey. 12.20 Dragon’s Den. 1.20 Swingtown. 2.05 ABC News. Programs resume at 6am.

ABC3

(CH23)

6.00 Yakkity Yak. 6.25 The Gees. 6.30 Almost Naked Animals. 6.45 Yoo Hoo And Friends. 6.55 The Twisted Whiskers Show. 7.10 Kid vs Kat. 7.30 Spliced. 7.55 The Super Hero Squad Show. 8.20 Cornell And Bernie. 8.30 Gasp. 8.45 Potatoes And Dragons. 8.55 Mr Men Show.

9.05 Flipper And Lopaka. 9.35 Animalia. 10.00 Erky Perky. 10.15 The Silver Brumby. 10.40 Go Lingo! 11.05 Splatalot. 11.30 Good Game SP. 11.55 P-Culture. 12.00 BTN Extra. 12.15 Quest. 12.35 What Do You Know? 1.00 Almost Naked Animals. 1.15 Yoo Hoo And Friends. 1.25 The Twisted Whiskers Show. 1.40 Kid vs Kat. 2.00 Spliced. 2.25 The Super Hero Squad Show. 2.50 Sally Bollywood. 3.05 Ship To Shore. 3.30 News On 3 Update.

3.35 The Wannabes. 3.55 Canimals. 4.05 Ruby Gloom.

4.30 Masha And The Bear. 4.40 Gasp. 4.55 Jibber Jabber. 5.10 INK: Invisible Network Of Kids. 5.35 League Of Super Evil. 6.00 Dani’s House. 6.30 Stoked.

6.55 Wolverine And The X-Men. 7.20 Wolverine And The X-Men. 7.45 Almost Naked Animals. 7.55 News On 3.

8.00 Horrible Histories. 8.30 Pixelface 9.00 Programs Resume At 6am.

6.00 Sunrise 9.00 The Morning Show 11.30 Seven Morning News 12.00 Movie. Crimes Of Passion. Sleepwalker 2.00 Dr Oz 3.00 Border Patrol 3.30 All For Kids 4.00 Match It 4.30 Seven News at 4.30 5.00 The Price Is Right 5.30 Deal Or No Deal 6.00 Seven News 6.30 Today Tonight 7.00 Home And Away 7.30 Once Upon A Time 8.30 Winners and Losers 9.30 World’s Strictest Parents 10.30 Fairly Legal 11.30 Parks And Recreation 12.00 Sons And Daughters 1.00 Home Shopping 4.00 NBC Today 5.00 Sunrise Extra 5.30 Seven Early News

7TWO (CH72) 6.00 Home Shopping. 6.30 Total Girl. 9.00 Home And Away. 9.30 Sons And Daughters. 10.00 Coronation Street. 10.30 Shortland Street. 11.00 Bargain Hunt. 12.00 Kojak. 1.00 Growing Pains. 1.30 Head Of The Class. 2.00 Movie.

That’s Life. 4.30 Please Sir. 5.00 Murphy Brown. 5.30 Mad About You. 6.00 George And Mildred.

6.30 Bargain Hunt. 7.30 Fawlty Towers. 8.10 Keeping Up Appearances. 8.50 Are You Being Served?

9.30 TBA. 12.00 Mad About You. 12.30 Movie. The Big Street. 2.00 Pet Keeping. 2.30 Kojak. 3.30 Bargain Hunt. 4.30 Shortland Street. 5.00 Coronation Street.

5.30 Home Shopping.

7MATE (CH73) 6.00 Home Shopping. 6.30 K-Zone.

9.00 NBC Today. 11.00 Simon And Simon. 1.00 Miami Vice. 2.00 Newsradio. 2.30 Malcolm And Edie. 3.00 Motor Mate. 4.00 Fifth Gear. 4.30 Monster Garage. 5.30 Pimp My Ride. 6.30 How I Met Your Mother. 7.30 Mythbusters.

8.30 Family Guy. 9.00 American Guy. 9.30 Family Guy. 10.30 American Dad. 11.30 Punk’d.

12.00 Simon And Simon. 2.00 Miami Vice. 3.00 Motor Mate.

4.30 Malcolm And Eddie. 5.00 Newsradio. 5.30 Home Shopping.

NINE 6.00 Olympic Games 9.00 London Gold 11.00 Morning News 12.00 The Ellen De Generes Show 1.00 The View 2.00 Days Of Our Lives 3.00 Extra 3.30 Hi-5 4.00 London Gold 5.30 Olympic Games 6.00 News 6.30 A Current Afair 7.00 Olympic Games 11.00 Olympic Games 1.00 Olympic Games

GO! (CH99) 6.00 Hi-5. 6.30 Taz-Mania. 7.00 Monsuno. 7.30 Flash and Dash.

8.00 Ben 10. 8.30 Batman. 9.00 The Flintstones. 9.30 Pinky And The Brain. 10.00 Wipeout. 11.00 The Bachelor. 12.00 The Hills.

12.30 Seinfeld. 1.00 Spin City. 1.30 Extra. 2.00 TMZ. 2.30 Batman.

3.00 Flash and Dash. 3.30 Monsuno. 4.00 Kids WB Weekdays.

4.30 Seinfeld. 5.00 Brainiacs. 6.00 Top Gear. 7.00 The Big Bang Theory. 7.30 Top Gear. 8.30 TBA. 11.00 Fringe. 12.00 1000 Ways To Die. 12.30 TMZ. 1.00 Wipeout.

2.00 Home Shopping. 4.00 Top Gear. 5.00 Extra. 5.30 The Flintstones

GEM (CH90) 6.00 Olympic Games. 9.00 London Gold. 11.00 Alive and Cooking.

11.30 Green Acres. 12.00 Bewitched. 12.30 Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None. 2.30 F Troop. 3.00 The Ellen Degeneres Show. 4.00 London Gold. 6.00 Friends. 6.30 Olympic Games.

11.00 Olympic Games. 1.00 Olympic Games.

LARGER PRINT

TEN

SBS ONE

6.00 Breakfast 9.00 The Circle 11.30 Warrawhy 12.00 Dr Phil 1.00 The Doctors 2.00 Ready Steady Cook 3.00 Judge Judy 3.30 Everyday Gourmet with Justine Schofield 4.00 Totally Wild 4.30 The Bold And The Beautiful 5.00 Ten News At Five 6.00 The Project 7.00 MasterChef All Stars 8.00 Being Lara Bingle 8.30 NCIS 9.30 NCIS: Los Angeles 10.30 Ten Late News 11.15 Law and Order: UK 12.15 Ally McBeal 1.15 Late Show with David Letterman 2.00 Home Shopping 3.00 Life Today with James Robison 3.30 CBS - This Morning 5.00 The Project (R)

ONE (CH1) 6.00 Fibregalss and Megapixels.

7.00 Volvo Ocean Race Highlights.

8.00 World Of Free Sports. 8.30 MLB Player Roll. 9.00 Major League Baseball. 12.00 Netball Championship. 2.00 Omnisport. 2.30 The Edge Of Existence. 3.30 Get Smart. 4.00 Extreme Dreams. 4.30 Beach Patrol. 5.00 I Fish. 5.30 Hogans Heroes. 6.00 MASH. 6.30 Get Smart. 7.00 COPS. 7.30 Unedrcover Boss USA. 8.30 COPS Adult Only. 9.30 Ross Kemp. 10.30 Better Off Ted. 11.00 Fear Factor.

12.00 MASH. 12.30 Hogans Heroes. 1.00 I Fish. 2.00 Omnisport. 2.30 FA Cup Classics.

3.00 World Of Free Sports. 3.30 Triathlon.

ELEVEN

(CH11)

6.00 Toasted TV. 6.05 Spongebob Squarepants. 6.30 Eon Kid. 7.00 Toasted TV. 7.05 Pokemon. 7.20 Toasted TV. 7.30 Dinosaur Kid. 8.00 Pearlie. 8.25 Toasted TV. 8.30 Yu Gi Oh! 8.55 Toasted TV. 9.00 Dr Quinn Medicine Woman. 10.00 7th Heaven. 11.00 The Love Boat. 12.00 Charmed. 1.00 Jag. 2.00 Macgyver. 3.00 The King Of Queens. 3.30 Cheers. 3.55 Couch Time. 4.00 Becker. 4.30 Family Ties. 4.55 Couch Time. 5.00 Happy Days.

5.30 The Brady Bunch. 5.55 Couch Time.

6.00 The Simpsons. 6.25 Couch Time.

6.30 Neighbours. 7.00 Everybody Loves Raymond. 7.30 The Simpsons. 8.00 Rules Of Engagement. 8.30 The Office. 9.00 Wilfred. 9.30 Fresh Meat. 10.30 Frasier.

11.30 Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. 12.30 Becker. 1.00 The King Of Queens. 1.30 Happy Days. 2.00 The Love Boat. 3.00 Charmed. 4.00 Dr Quinn Medicine Woman. 5.00 7th Heaven.

5.00 Weatherwatch. 5.05 Korean News. 5.40 Japanese News. 6.15 Hong Kong News.

6.35 Chinese News. 7.05 German News. 7.35 Italian News. 8.05 Filipino News.

8.40 Spanish News. 9.30 Greek News. 10.20 French News. 11.00 Hindi News.

11.30 Arabic News. 12.00 Russian News. 12.30 Turkish News. 1.00 Film. Uranya.

2.45 McLaren’s Negatives.

3.00 Letters And Numbers.

3.30 Al Jazeera News. 4.00 The Journal. 4.30 PBS Newshour. 5.30 Global Village. 5.45 Countdown.

6.30 World News Australia.

7.30 Who Do You Think You Are? 8.30 Insight. 9.30 Dateline. 10.30 World News Australia. 11.05 Film. When Darkness Falls. 1.25 Mad Men. 3.15 Weatherwatch.

CHANNEL 31 (CH44)

6.00 KO Boxing. 6.30 Classic Restos - Trucks.

7.00 River To Reef. 7.30 Regional Italian Cuisine. 8.00 Euromaxx. 8.30 Move It Or Lose It. 9.00 Yoga As It Is. 10.00 Movie. Rescue From Gilligan’s Island. 12.00 The Journal.

12.30 Tomorrow’s Today. 1.00 Waltzing Matilda. 1.30 Buone Notizie. 2.00 Entre Todos (Spanish). 2.30 Cambodia Stars. 3.00 Coffee Break. 3.30 Suzan Is Craft. 4.00 Yianni’s City Life. 4.30 31 Questions. 5.00 1700.

6.00 Sri Lanka Today. 6.30 Wild Wheels TV. 7.00 Futbol Town Show. 7.30 Extra Time.

8.00 Footy Talkback. 8.30 Your 4x4. 9.00 My Drive. 9.30 Bumper 2 Bumper. 10.00 KO Boxing. 10.30 The Gorilla Position. 11.00 Asylum. 11.30 Blokesworld. 12.00 Classic Restos. 12.30 Guitar Gods and Masterpieces.

1.00 Ecotopia. 1.30 Inside Art. 2.00 Nu Country TV. 2.30 Showbiz. 3.00 Speaker TV. 3.30 Chicksworld. 4.00 1700. 5.00 Sri Lanka TV. 5.30 Your 4x4.

ABC NEWS (CH24) 6.00 ABC News Breakfast. 9.30 Business Today. 9.55 ABC Open.

10.00 ABC News Mornings. 12.00 ABC News. 12.30 Newsline. 1.00 ABC News. 2.00 ABC News. 2.30 Australian Story. 3.00 Afternoon Live. 5.30 ABC News Update. 5.32 Capital Hill. 5.45 Rural Quarter.

6.00 The Drum. 6.45 Finance Quarter. 7.00 ABC News. 7.30 Grandstand. 8.00 ABC News. 8.30 The Business. 8.55 ABC Open. 9.00 The World. 10.00 The Drum. 10.45 Finance Quarter. 11.00 ABC News.

11.25 7.30. 12.00 ABC News.

12.20 Lateline. 1.00 Al Jazeera Newshour. 2.00 BBC World News.

3.30 7.30. 4.00 Al Jazeera. 5.00 BBC World News. 5.25 ABC Open.

5.30 Newsline.

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TV Times OLYMPIC GAMES TV GUIDE

OLYMPIC TELECAST SCHEDULE: WEEK 1 SATURDAY, JULY 28 5.30am-9.30am on Nine and GEM Opening Ceremony of London 2012 Hosted by Ken Sutcliffe, Eddie McGuire and Leila McKinnon.

The Opening Ceremony for the Olympic Games has a tradition as one of the most spectacular events in the world – a dazzling celebration of sport and culture showcased by the host nation.

London will open the Games of the XXX Olympiad with another grand display at the new Olympic Stadium as it becomes the first city to host three Summer Olympics since the modern Games began in 1896.

Her Majesty the Queen will be greeted by IOC President Jacques Rogge and LOCOG chairman and dual Olympic champion Lord Sebastian Coe. A highlight of the Ceremony is the Parade of Athletes – a procession of the participating teams into the Stadium, nation by nation.

It is expected that more than 200 nations will be represented.

Australia’s flag-bearer will be announced in the days before the Opening Ceremony.

Among Nine’s special commentators are the former flag-bearers Andrew Gaze (Sydney 2000) and James Tomkins (Beijing 2008), Australia’s greatest champions in basketball and rowing respectively.

Once all the nations have assembled in the Stadium, Lord Coe will give a speech, followed

by Jacques Rogge. He will end his speech by introducing the Queen to officially declare The Games open, as her father King George VI did at Wembley in 1948.

● The Queen When The Games have been declared open the Olympic Flag is carried into the Stadium and hoisted into the air as the Olympic Anthem is played.

The flag-bearers of each country then form a circle around the rostrum. A participating athlete, judge and coach from the host nation stand on the rostrum and, holding a corner of the Olympic Flag in their left hand and raising their right, take the Olympic Oath, vowing to compete and judge according to the rules of their respective sport.

The big finale is the entrance of the Olympic Flame into the Stadium. It is passed through the athletes to the final torch-bearer. The big question is, who will light the Olympic Cauldron to signal the start of The Games?

2.00pm-6.00pm Opening Ceremony (replay) on Nine and GEM Watch a replay of the Opening Ceremony of the Games of the XXX Olympiad from London.

Hosted by Ken Sutcliffe, Eddie McGuire and Leila McKinnon.

Material for this feature has been supplied by the Nine Network

DAY 1 SATURDAY, JULY 28

DAY 1 SATURDAY, JULY 28

DAY 1 SATURDAY, JULY 28

6.30pm London Live on Nine and GEM Karl Stefanovic will host us through the first events of London 2012 from Nine’s studios in the International Broadcast Centre at Stratford Olympic Park.

Nineteen sports get underway on Day 1 with 12 gold medals to be decided on the first day of competition in swimming, cycling, rowing, archery, fencing, judo, shooting and weightlifting.

Australia is among the favourites on the road and in the pool.

This session may include: Swimming The swimming heats begin at the Aquatics Centre. Ray Warren is joined by Olympic champions Grant Hackett and Giaan Rooney.

■ Women’s 400m individual medley: The defending champion and world record holder from Beijing, Stephanie Rice, blitzed the field in the trials and is getting back to her best after shoulder surgery. Australia’s other representative is Blair Evans.

■ Men’s 400m individual medley: Australia’s Thomas Fraser-Holmes and Daniel Tranter will be in action. Defending champion Michael Phelps, six-time world swimmer of the year, lines up with US team-mate Ryan Lochte who beat him at the selection trials.

■ Women’s 100m butterfly: Australia will be well represented by Alicia Coutts and 2008 bronze medallist Jessicah Schipper.

■ Men’s 400m freestyle: David McKeon follows in the footsteps of his parents Ron and Susie (Woodhouse) who both represented Australia in the pool. McKeon and Ryan Napoleon will make their Olympic debuts for Australia.

■ Men’s 100m breaststroke: Japan’s Kosuke Kitajima won both breaststroke events in Beijing and with team-mate Naoya Tomita will be prominent again. Look out for Aussies Christian Sprenger and Brenton Rickard.

■ Women’s 4 x 100m freestyle relay: The Dutch, reigning Olympic and world champs, will start favourites in the first of the six relays. Australia won the bronze in 2008. The Aussie team is likely to include triple Olympic Games gold medallist Libby Trickett.

Cycling: Road Australia’s Tour de France hero Cadel Evans begins his quest for gold as one of the favourites in the 250km men’s road race. The field of 145 starts simultaneously at The Mall in central London and the first rider back to the start line wins. Riders will cycle through six London boroughs before racing through Surrey and then returning to The Mall.

The majority of the field, expected to include local favourites Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish, have had just six days to recover from the 2012 Tour de France.

At the microphone, “the voice of cycling”, Phil Liggett, and Sydney Olympic gold medallist Scott McGrory.

Rowing The rowing program starts with heats in nine disciplines at Eton Dorney.

This purpose-built facility opened in 2006 and is set on 180ha of parkland near Windsor.

Kate Hornsey and Sarah Tait begin their campaign in the women’s pairs. The women’s quad sculls see Kerry Hore, Amy Clay, Pauline Frasca and Dana Faletic in action.

In the men’s eights, Australia faces the might of the reigning world champions from Germany.

The men’s double sculls introduce defending Olympic champions David Crawshay and Scott Brennan.

They will facefierce opposition from New Zealand’s pair who have won the last two world championships.

Australia is the world champion in the lightweight men’s fours. Todd Skipworth, Ben Cureton, Sam Beltz and Anthony Edwards carry our hopes.

The men’s quad scull team is one of Australia’s best chances of gold on the water.

The crew of Dan Noonan, Chris Morgan, James McRae and Karsten Forsterling won gold at the world championships last year.

In the men’s pairs Brodie Buckland and James Marburg will be in the thick of things.

Kim Crow was magnificent at the World Cup women’s single sculls, taking silver and qualifying for London.

Gymnastics The men begin their qualification for the artistic gymnastics at North Greenwich.

Australia’s Josh Jefferis makes his Olympic debut in one of the great events at London 2012. The men will take part in the six disciplines: the floor exercise, pommel horse, rings, vault, high bar and parallel bars.

This will be their pathway to the individual events and then decide the finalists in the men’s individual event.

Beach Volleyball The men and women begin their beach volleyball program at Horse Guards Parade, site of the historic Trooping of the Colour.

Australia’s top-ranked women’s beach volleyball duo Becchara Palmer and Louise Bawden fly the flag for us along with Sydney gold medallist Natalie Cook, who will compete at her fifth Olympics with partner Tamsin Hinchley.

Shooting The opening event and first gold medal of The Games will be decided in the women’s 10m air rifle.

Beijing Olympian Robyn Van Nus returns

for Australia alongside teenage star Alethea Sedgman. Daniel Repacholi makes his third appearance for Australia at The Olympics in the 10m air pistol.

The 2006 Commonwealth Games gold medallist must fire 60 shots at a target 10m away within 105 minutes to qualify for the final shootoff for gold.

Equestrian At the Greenwich Park equestrian arena the dressage begins for the teams and individuals in the eventing.

Boxing Australia has won a place in all ten divisions in the men’s boxing tournament and continues to seek a first Olympic gold medal.

Our campaign begins with bantamweight Ibrahim Balla (56kg) and middleweight Jesse Ross (75kg).

Tennis At Wimbledon there will be first round matches in the tennis featuring Bernard Tomic, wildcard Lleyton Hewitt and US Open champion Samantha Stosur.

Australia qualified two women’s doubles teams. Jarmila Gajdosova and Anastasia Rodionova have been selected alongside Casey Dellacqua who will combine with Stosur.

12.00am London Live continues Ken Sutcliffe takes over the hosting on Day 1. Gold medals to be decided in cycling, swimming, archery, fencing, judo, shooting and women’s weightlifting.

This session may include: Cycling: Road The men’s road race is due to finish in front of massive crowds outside Buckingham Palace. Can Tour de France hero Cadel Evans give Australia a gold?

Swimming Four gold medals will be decided. Finals: ■ Women’s 400m individual medley: If all goes to plan triple Olympic champ Stephanie Rice will race for back-to-back gold.

■ Men’s 400m individual medley: The Americans are looking to dominate the men’s 400m individual medley with Michael Phelps and Ryan Lochte.

■ Men’s 400m freestyle: Ryan Napoleon and Thomas Fraser-Holmes are our hopes.

■ Women’s 4 x 100m freestyle relay: The Dutch will be out to spoil the Americans’ party, with Australia looking to medal at best.

Gymnastics The men continue to qualify in the artistic gymnastics.

Rowing The rowing continues with the men’s and women’s single sculls.

Among other highlights of this opening session: The men and women begin their beach volleyball program at Horse Guards Parade. The dressage competition is in full swing at the Equestrian Centre.

On the archery field, at the famous Lord’s cricket ground, the men’s team aim for gold.

On the mats two judo gold medals will be awarded in the women’s -48kg and men’s -60kg divisions.

The lightest women weightlifters, the 48kg division, will lift for gold. And boxing continues in the men’s bantam and middleweight divisions.

6.00am-9.00am on Nine and GEM As the first day of competition continues, Cameron Williams and Leila McKinnon host the morning shift.

It will include live action and a review of major events.

Australia’s Opals begin their basketball campaign with a match against the home town favourites, Great Britain. John Casey and dual Olympic medallist Rachael Sporn will be courtside for Nine.

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TV Times OLYMPIC GAMES TV GUIDE DAY 1 SATURDAY, JULY 28

DAY 2 SUNDAY, JULY 29

9.00am-11.00am London Gold on Nine and GEM While London sleeps Mark Nicholas will bring viewers all the gold medal action and relive Australia’s magic moments of Day 1.

6.00am-9.00am on Nine and GEM As the second day of competition continues, Cameron Williams and Leila McKinnon host the morning shift.

It will include live action and a review of major events.

3.30pm-5.30pm (Melb) Mark Nicholas will bring viewers all the gold medal action and re-live Australia’s magic moments of Day 1.

9.00am-11.00am London Gold on Nine and GEM Mark Nicholas re-lives all the action and excitement from the Olympic city on Day 2, with a replay of the day’s highlights, the Aussies in action and the gold medal dramas.

DAY 2 SUNDAY, JULY 29 5.30pm London Live on Nine (Melb) 6pm on GEM (Melb) Day 2 of competition from London and Karl Stefanovic begins our coverage on a day that will produce 14 gold medals in swimming, cycling, diving, archery, weightlifting, judo and fencing.

This session may include: Swimming ■ Men’s 4 x 100m freestyle relay: Australia’s James Magnussen and co. will be chasing gold in this event. Australia won bronze in Beijing but sent out a warning with gold at the world championships in Shanghai in 2011.

■ Women’s 100m backstroke: Australia’s Emily Seebohm and Belinda Hocking are both considered medal chances.

■ Men’s 200m freestyle: Australia’s hopes lie with Tom Fraser-Holmes and Kenrick Monk.

■ Women’s 100m breaststroke: Australia’s first four-time Olympian of the pool, Leisel Jones returns as defending champion but will face stiff opposition from her team-mate Leiston Pickett.

■ Men’s 100m backstroke: Hayden Stoeckel has the chance to improve on his Beijing bronze.

Aussie team-mate Daniel Arnamnart will make his Olympic debut.

■ Women’s 400m freestyle: The eyes of Great Britain will be on aquatic heroine Rebecca Adlington, their most successful swimmer in a century, who won the distance double in Beijing.

Facing her and the parochial crowd will be the Australian pair of Kylie Palmer and Bronte Barratt.

Rowing In today’s heats Hannah Every-Hall and Bronwen Watson will make their first appearance in the lightweight women’s double sculls.

Tom Gibson and Rod Chisholm will race in the men’s lightweight double sculls.

The Australian women’s eight dominated the final qualifying regatta at Lucerne in May and will be hoping to go through to the next round here.

Gymnastics Australia’s main hopes will be with Lauren Mitchell and Emily Little. Mitchell will attempt to qualify for the floor, vault and beam while Little will take part in those three disciplines plus the uneven bars as she moves to a position in the individual all-around category.

Hockey The Australian women Hockeyroos begin their preliminary matches against cross-Tasman rivals New Zealand.

Basketball The Aussie Boomers basketball team face old rivals Brazil to begin their 2012 campaign in the purpose-built 12,000 seat stadium in Olympic Park.

No one knows Australian men’s basketball better than Andrew Gaze who represented his country at five Olympics. He’ll be calling the shots with John Casey.

Equestrian Our riders continue with the dressage stage of the eventing for teams and individuals. Andrew Hoy will create Olympic history when he represents Australia at his seventh Games. The triple Olympic gold medallist has been named in a squad with fellow Beijing silver medallists Shane Rose, Clayton and Lucinda Fredericks, and debutant Chris Burton.

Cycling: Road The world’s best women road cyclists hit the pavement for the gruelling 120km road race.

4.00pm-6.00pm London Gold (replay) on Nine and GEM Mark Nicholas re-lives all the action and excitement from the Olympic city on Day 2.

DAY 3 MONDAY, JULY 30

DAY 2 SUNDAY, JULY 29

DAY 2 SUNDAY, JULY 29

French legend Jeannie Longo-Ciprelli has competed in all seven Olympic road race events, winning gold at Atlanta. She declared that she would be in London in 2012 at the age of 53.

Australia will have a three-pronged attack with rising stars Shara Gillow, Chloe Hosking and Amanda Spratt. Our commentators are Phil Liggett and Olympic champion Scott McGrory.

Shooting Commonwealth Games gold medallist Lauryn Mark aims for a rare family double when she attempts to qualify for the women’s skeet gold medal.

Her husband Russell, Atlanta 1996 gold medallist, will shoot in the double trap later in The Olympics.

The women’s 10m air pistol gold will also be a feature.

Australia has two representatives: Beijing Olympian Dina Aspandiyarova and Sydney 2000 bronze medallist Lalita Yauhleuskaya who will be taking part in her fifth Olympic campaign.

Boxing Luke Jackson begins his quest in the men’s lightweight (60kg) division while Cameron Hammond is drawn for his first round bout in the welterweights (69kg).

Sailing The sailing program gets underway at Weymouth in Dorset on the south coast.

World Cup winner Brendan Casey will begin with two races in the Finn heavyweight dinghy class.

The Elliott 6m women’s match racing sees the young Australian team of Olivia Price, Nina Curtis and Lucinda Whitty emerge as real gold medal threats following their victory in the final lead-up regatta on the Olympic waters off Weymouth in early June.

Canoe Slalom The Lee Valley whitewater course in Hertford-shire will host the first of five days of canoe slalom.

Kynan Maley makes his Olympic debut in the canoe single (C1) after missing selection at the three previous Games.

In the men’s single K1 Warwick Draper will be hoping to improve on his top ten finishes at Athens and Beijing.

Water Polo The Aussie Sharks play the first of five preliminary round matches in men’s water polo against world champions Italy.

12.00am London Live continues Ken Sutcliffe takes over the hosting chair as a mountain of gold medals are decided.

In archery it’s the women’s team gold at Lords, the lightweights and welterweights are in the boxing ring, and sabre is the weapon of choice in the men’s fencing gold medal match.

This session may include: Swimming Four swimming gold medals to be decided and semi-finals in four events to be raced.

■ Men’s 4 x 100m freestyle relay: The reigning world champions from Australia will be looking for gold.

Spearheaded by ‘The Missile’, James Magnussen, the Aussies will be out to show the Americans that their form in Shanghai in 2011 was just a pointer of things to come.

■ Women’s 400m freestyle: Kylie Palmer and Bronte Barratt have both been ranked in the top five in the world over this distance but will need to swim the race of their lives to overcome Britain’s superstar Rebecca Adlington, the reigning champ.

■ Women’s 100m butterfly: Ranked in the top three in the world, Alicia Coutts won gold at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in this event and silver at the world titles in 2011.

Her main threat may come from team-mate Jessicah Schipper, the bronze medallist at Beijing.

■ Men’s 100m breaststroke: The Japanese are expected to dominate but Australia will be looking to Christian Sprenger and Brenton Rickard to surprise.

Also, semi-finals in the men’s 200m freestyle, women’s 100m breaststroke, and men’s and women’s 100m backstroke. A feast of worldclass swimming.

Diving The first of eight gold medals will be decided in the diving pool. The women’s synchronised diving from the 3m springboard will feature the Australian pair Sharleen Stratton and Anabelle Smith, bronze medallists in this event at the 2011 FINA World Championships. Michael Slater and dual Olympian Michael Murphy will be poolside for Nine.

Volleyball Australia’s men’s volleyball team made a dramatic last-minute entrance into the London 2012 schedule and will meet Argentina in their opening match at Earls Court. Twelve teams will take part, with Australia playing five matches in the preliminaries.

6.30pm London Live on GEM 6.45pm on Nine Karl Stefanovic brings viewers all the action from Day 3 of competition.

Today 12 gold medals are decided in gymnastics, swimming, synchronised diving, shooting, fencing, weightlifting and judo.

This session may include: Swimming The third day at the Aquatics Centre with swimming heats in three events.

Ray Warren, Grant Hackett and Giaan Rooney will be poolside.

■ Women’s 200m individual medley: The shoulder injury that cast a cloud over the preparation of defending champion Stephanie Rice did not stop her from dominating the Australian championships. Her team-mate Alicia Coutts may well push her the whole way.

■ Women’s 200m freestyle: Australian pair Kylie Palmer and Bronte Barratt are in a field dominated by world and Olympic champion Federica Pellegrini of Italy.

■ Men’s 200m butterfly: This event belongs to Michael Phelps who is aiming for his third successive Olympic title over the distance. He has dominated the last decade, winning five world titles as well. In the hunt for Australia are Nick D’Arcy and Chris Wright.

Gymnastics The women compete in a day of qualifying at the North Greenwich arena. Australia’s main hopes will be with Lauren Mitchell and Emily Little. Mitchell will attempt to qualify for the floor, vault and beam, while Little will take part in those three disciplines plus the uneven bars as she moves to a position in the individual all round category.

Rowing Men’s and women’s repechages will keep hopes alive for some in the women’s pair and quad sculls, and the men’s pairs, quad sculls and eight.

■ Women’s double sculls: Local pair Grainger and Watkins are hot favourites to make history by becoming the first British women to win a rowing gold medal. At the 2011 world championships Kim Crow and Kerry Hore of Australia finished second. Crow will be partnered by Sydneysider Brooke Pratley with Hore moving to the quad.

■ Men’s four: No one knows this event better than James Tomkins, a member of the gold medal ‘Oarsome Foursome’ at Barcelona and Atlanta. Great Britain has dominated this event at the last three Olympics. Drew Ginn, two-time Olympic champion in the men’s pair, will again spearhead the Australian assault on Olympic gold in the men’s four alongside William Lockwood, James Chapman and Josh Dunkley Smith. Australia stunned Great Britain with a superb fighting win in the third of the World Cup lead-ups in Munich in June.

Hockey Since Beijing, Australia’s men’s hockey team, the Kookaburras, have gone from strength to strength, winning gold in the World Cup, Champions Trophy and Commonwealth Games.

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The world’s number one-ranked team begins the campaign for gold with a preliminary match against South Africa.

Equestrian For many it’s the most spectacular day in eventing as riders and horses tackle the crosscountry phase at Greenwich Park. Formerly a three-day event, it is now spread over four days and it is here that Australia has performed so well in Olympic history.

Shooting Australia has two shooters in the men’s 10m air rifle qualifying round.

Olympic debutants Dane Sampson and Willie Godward will each have 60 shots at a target 10m away within 75 minutes.

On the range Australia’s skeet shooters take their first shots in men’s qualifying. Clive Barton returns to the team alongside Keith Ferguson.

In this first session they fire at 75 targets.

Weightlifting The first of Australia’s two weightlifters and our only woman competitor, Seen Lee, takes part in the 58kg contest.

Judo Day three of the judo and Australia’s sole female entrant, Carli Renzi, fights in the -57kg category. The 29-year-old Victorian is the Oceania champion.

Sailing Five-time world champion Tom Slingsby begins his quest for Olympic gold when the sailing resumes at Weymouth.

Jessica Crisp is one of the favourites in the RS: X Windsurfer after winning silver in the World Cup in Holland in May. The pair of Nathan Outteridge and Iain Jensen are in world-beating form after taking gold at the 49er world titles in Croatia in May. In the Laser Radial class Krystal Weir comes off a gold medal performance in the ISAF World Cup in Holland and will open her campaign with back-toback races.

Boxing Australia’s boxing team is represented today by Jackson Woods in the first round of the men’s flyweight (52kg) while Damien Hooper starts his light-heavyweight (81kg) campaign.

Regarded as one of our best medal hopes, Hooper, 19, from Dalby in Queensland, won his place with a top eight finish in the 2011 world championships following on from his win at the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympics.

Canoe Slalom The Australian C2 pair of Kynan Maley and South African-born Robin Jeffery will run the Lee Valley whitewater course twice in the heats.

Jessica Fox, 18, will make history as Australia’s youngest ever slalom paddler. Her father Richard won ten kayaking gold medals at world championship level for Great Britain while her mother Myriam won eight for France and Olympic bronze in Atlanta. Fox will represent Australia in the K1 event.

Basketball The Opals’ quest for Olympic glory continues in their second match. This time they will face a qualifier.

■ Women’s 200m individual medley: The winner of the 400-200 IM gold medals in Beijing, Stephanie Rice, will start hot favourite if she produces her best form. Watch out for her team-mate, 2010 Commonwealth Games superstar Alicia Coutts.

■ Men’s 100m freestyle: Australia will be cheering for James Magnussen to make it through to the semi-finals of the 100m freestyle.

■ Women’s 200m freestyle: Our hopes rest with Queenslanders Bronte Barratt and Kylie Palmer.

■ Men’s 200m butterfly: The dramas surrounding Nick D’Arcy have been well documented but this will hopefully be his greatest moment. He was superb in the trials and won his place alongside Chris Wright. The event has belonged to America’s Michael Phelps, aiming for his third consecutive Olympic title.

■ Men’s 4 x 200m freestyle relay: The depth of Australia’s freestylers will be tested. They finished third to the Americans in Beijing in 2008 and fifth to them at the world championships in Shanghai last year.

Other semis are the women’s 200m butterfly and men’s 200m breaststroke.

Diving The third of the eight diving gold medals will be decided. It is the women’s synchronised platform where Rachel Bugg teams up with fourtime Olympian Loudy Wiggins.

Water Polo The Aussie Sharks return to the pool for their second water polo preliminary facing Kazakhstan.

Hockey The Australian women’s hockey team, the Hockeyroos, play their second preliminary match against Germany. David Christison and Rechelle Hawkes have all the action from the Hockey Centre.

Volleyball Australia meets Great Britain in its second men’s volleyball qualifier. It is best of five sets, with the Aussies (ranked 22 in the world) favoured to defeat the host nation.

12.00am London Live continues Ken Sutcliffe takes over the hosting duties as another sensational day of Olympic action unfolds from London.

This session may include: Diving The men’s synchronised diving from the 10m platform will see the Aussie pair of Matthew Mitcham and Jimmy Connor out for gold.

Water Polo The Australian women’s water polo team – the Stingers – open their 2012 campaign with a preliminary match against European champions Italy.

The Stingers, 2000 Olympic gold medallists, play three matches to decide the seedings for the quarter-finals. To figure in the medal rounds they must finish first or second in their group.

Swimming Four more swimming gold medals and semifinals in three events to be decided at the pool.

Finals: ■ Women’s 100m breaststroke: Leisel Jones

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will become the first Australian swimmer to compete at four Olympics. She won gold in Beijing, bronze in Athens and silver in Sydney.

Jones will face tough opposition from teammate Leiston Pickett who ended her 12-year reign as national champion.

■ Men’s 200m freestyle: The reigning champion is American Michael Phelps. Australia’s hopes lie with Thomas Fraser-Holes and Kenrick Monk.

■ Women’s 100m backstroke: Australia has not won a gold in this event but will be hoping for a breakthrough courtesy of Emily Seebohm or Belinda Hocking.

■ Men’s 100m backstroke: Hayden Stoeckel won the bronze four years ago in Beijing. With the retirement of the mighty American champ and five-time gold medallist Aaron Peirsol from this event, he has the chance to improve on that result in London. Watch out for fellow Aussie DanielArnamnart.

As well as the four finals there will be semifinals in the women’s 200m freestyle, men’s 200m butterfly, and Stephanie Rice in the women’s 200m individual medley.

lanes in the semis.

■ Women’s 200m butterfly: The Chinese dominated in Beijing but watch out for 2008 bronze medallist Jessicah Schipper and fellow Aussie Samantha Hamill.

■ Men’s 200m breaststroke: Queenslander Brenton Rickard won the silver at Beijing in this event and is likely to confront his nemesis Kosuke Kitajima from Japan.

■ Men’s 200m freestyle relay: The Americans will come out with all guns blazing, however this is a new-look Australian team (bronze medallists at Beijing) spearheaded by Thomas Fraser-Holmes and Kenrick Monk.

Equestrian Today the eventing gold will be decided in the teams and individual categories, with Australia expected to be at the forefront.

Can Andrew Hoy pick up a fourth gold medal in his seventh Olympic campaign?

Rowing There will be repechages in the women’s double sculls, men’s fours, lightweight women’s double sculls, lightweight men’s double sculls and the women’s eight. Then into quarter-final action with the men’s and women’s single sculls.

Semi-finals of the men’s double sculls will hopefully feature Australia’s Olympic champions Scott Brennan and David Crawshay, followed

by Skipworth, Cureton, Beltz and Edwards in the lightweight men’s four.

Basketball This is one of the key matches for the Australian Boomers as they face Spain, the world number two men’s basketball power. This will be their biggest obstacle.

Shooting Clive Barton and Keith Ferguson return to the Royal Artillery Barracks for the second qualifying session in the men’s skeet. The top qualifiers will then shoot for gold.

Canoe Slalom Gold will be decided in the men’s canoe single (C1) on the Lee Valley whitewater course. Our representative is Kynan Maley, the 30-year-old Olympic rookie from Sydney.

The superstar of the C1 is Slovakian Michael Martikan, the defending Olympic gold medallist. He has medalled at every world championship since 1995 and has two Olympic gold and two silver medals to his name.

Boxing Australia’s Billy Ward in the men’s light flyweight has his first bout at the ExCeL Arena as does light welterweight (64kg) contender Jeff Horn.

6.00am-9.00am on Nine and GEM As the third day of competition continues, Cameron Williams and Leila McKinnon host the morning shift. It will include live action and a review of major events.

9.00am-11.00am London Gold on Nine and GEM All the gold medal action and the Aussies at play. London Gold will deliver all the highlights from Day 3 of competition in London, hosted

by Mark Nicholas.

4.00pm-6.00pm London Gold (replay) on Nine and GEM All the gold medal action and the Aussies at play. London Gold will deliver all the highlights from Day 3 of competition in London, hosted

by Mark Nicholas.

DAY 4 TUESDAY, JULY 31 6.30pm London Live on GEM 6.45pm on Nine Karl Stefanovic hosts Day 4 of competition from London. Fifteen gold medals are up for grabs today in swimming, gymnastics, equestrian, shooting, judo, diving, canoe/kayak, weightlifting and fencing.

This session may include: Swimming ■ Men’s 100m freestyle: ‘The Missile’, James Magnussen, was looking at the possibility of four gold medals in London. He starts his campaign in his best event. He is the world champion and man to beat in the 100m freestyle.

Magnussen and team-mate James Roberts will be looking for good times to get the best

12.00am London Live continues Rowing and swimming top the bill as Ken Sutcliffe returns to the host’s chair in London.

This session may include: Swimming Gold in four events and semi-finals in three others will see some of our swimming superstars in action at the Aquatics Centre.

6.00am-9.00am on Nine and GEM As Day 4 of competition continues, Cameron Williams and Leila McKinnon host the morning shift. It will include live action and a review of major events.

9.00am-11.00am London Gold on Nine and GEM Mark Nicholas looks back on the highlights of another great day at London 2012. All the gold medal action and a wrap of the Aussies at The Olympics.

3.30pm-5.30pm London Gold (replay) on Nine and GEM Mark Nicholas looks back on the highlights of another great day at London 2012. All the gold medal action and a wrap of the Aussies at The Olympics.

OLYMPIC FACTS

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The early Olympic Games were cel ebrated as a religious festival from 776 B.C. until 393 A.D., when the games were banned for being a pagan festival (the Olympics celebrated the Greek god Zeus). In 1894, a French educator Baron Pierre de Coubertin, proposed a revival of the ancient tradition, and thus the modern-day Olympic Summer Games were born.

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Host Greece won the most medals (47) at the first Summer Games in 1896.

The first Winter Olympic Games were held in Chamonix, France in 1924.

The five Olympic rings represent the five major regions of the world – Africa, the Americas,Asia, Europe and Oceana, and every national flag in the world includes one of the five colors, which are (from left to right) blue, yellow, black, green, and red.

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NINE LEADS FREE-TO-AIR COVERAGE

■ London 2012 is all about numbers with 10,500 athletes from 204 countries competing in 26 sports and 39 disciplines over 16 days of elite sporting competition.

The Nine Network’s extensive coverage of the Games of the XXX Olympiad will be unrivalled in breadth and quality – more than 370 hours of free-to-air television (Channel Nine + 3D) represents an international broadcasting breakthrough in Australia.

The Games will be simulcast in High Definition on Gem. As a new competition day begins in London, the Nine Network will go live to London for a minimum of 14.5 hours broadcasting London Live.

Five of Australia’s most experienced television broadcasters will share the daily live hosting duties for Nine’s Olympic Games coverage: Karl Stefanovic, Ken Sutcliffe, Leila McKinnon, Cameron Williams and Mark Nicholas.

London Live will begin each night with Karl Stefanovic kicking off the prime-time coverage.

The face and voice of Wide World of Sports, Ken Sutcliffe, will then host the overnight action.

Weekend Today co-hosts Leila McKinnon and Cameron Williams will take over from Sutcliffe and present Nine’s Olympic Games coverage over breakfast each morning.

Wide World of Sports cricket host and London local Mark Nicholas will then anchor London Gold, the two-hour highlights program which will re-live all the overnight action from London each morning at 9.00am.

London Gold will also be replayed each afternoon at 4.00pm.

Eddie McGuire and Leila McKinnon will host Nine’s exclusively live coverage of the Opening and Closing Ceremonies.

The Opening Ceremony is live on Saturday (July 28), from 5.30am, and replayed at 2.00pm later that day.

The Closing Ceremony will conclude the London 2012 Olympic Games live on Monday, August 13, at 6.00am, replayed at 9.30pm that night.

Nine’s expert commentary team for London 2012 includes nine Olympic gold medallists, revered Olympians and distinguished sports broadcasters.

The Wide World of Sports exclusive swimming commentary team comprises Olympic gold medallists Grant Hackett and Giaan Rooney plus Ray Warren, Australia’s most accomplished sports commentator.

Nine’s Olympic commentary team includes James Tomkins (Rowing), Kerri Pottharst (Beach Volleyball), Steve Ovett (Athletics), Robert de Castella (Athletics), Daley Thompson (Athletics), Scott McGrory (Cycling), Debbie Watson (Water Polo), Andrew Gaze (Basketball), Jane Flemming (Athletics), Melinda Gainsford-Taylor (Athletics), Damian Brown (Weightlifting), Rechelle Hawkes (Hockey), Phil Liggett (Cycling), Michael Slater (Diving) and Eddie McGuire (Marathon and Triathlon).

Today’s Ben Fordham and Melbourne weekend newsreader Alicia Loxley will present regular Olympic Games updates throughout the coverage from London.

Nine will have access where no other Australian networks can go.

Nine’s Olympic Games team will be inside the Olympic Village mixing with the athletes, and its dedicated team of news and sports journalists will bring a stream of breaking stories and features through the Wide World of Sports live and exclusive free-to-air telecast.

Nine’s association with the Olympics began when the Games came to Melbourne in 1956 and television was in its infancy.

Nine was the Australian rights-holder for The Winter Olympics in Calgary in 1988, Albertville in 1992, Lillehammer in 1994 and Vancouver in 2010.

In 2012, Nine is fired up and ready to bring Australian viewers the biggest free-to-air broadcast of an Olympic Games from overseas.

Can IAAF Athlete of the Year and Nine’s Olympic Ambassador Sally Pearson go one better than Beijing and bring home the gold?

Australia’s best hopes among the men in the pool will lie with 2011 world 100m freestyle champion James ‘The Missile’ Magnussen.

He goes to London as the superstar of our swim squad, but will he swim home with the gold?

Will Australian pole vault gold medallist Steve Hooker retain his Olympic title? The Kookaburras are the reigning World Cup, Champions Trophy and Commonwealth Games champions in men’s hockey – can they add Olympic gold medallists to that impressive list?

Will Australia dominate at the velodrome?

Are the experts right in predicting Australia will grab three gold medals in sailing? And how many medals can Australia lift from the pool?

In the final countdown to the world’s biggest sporting event, Karl Stefanovic and Leila McKinnon will preview the London 2012 Olympic Games at 7pm on Thursday (July 26) when Nine presents Let The Games Begin.

This hour-long special will take viewers on tours of the Olympic venues, feature exclusive interviews with leading Australian athletes including Olympic gold medal hopeful Sally Pearson, and include the hosts from Wide World of Sports and members of the Nine Network’s expert commentary team.

Let The Games Begin will have all the latest news from London as the countdown to The Olympics continues on the Nine Network.

Karl Stefanovic, Lisa Wilkinson and the Today team are in London. Until Friday (July 27), Today will broadcast from the heart of the city as London welcomes the greatest show on earth – the Olympic Games.

Karl Stefanovic, Lisa Wilkinson, Georgie Gardner, Ben Fordham, Richard Wilkins, Richard Reid and Steve Jacobs will showcase the history, culture and excitement of the Olympic Games, as well as bringing all the latest news from the Australian camp back home to viewers in Australia.

Today goes behind the scenes as London makes the final preparations for the Games of the XXX Olympiad.

Today will meet the athletes going for gold and the families who have been supporting them every step of the way – and who will be cheering them on come show time.

The big week culminates with all the highlights from the Australian Olympic Team Reception and the announcement of the Austral-

lian flag-bearer for the Opening Ceremony.

Nine News will have its reporting teams and camera crews on the ground covering the London 2012 Olympic Games around the clock.

And with its access to the Australian Olympic Team, plus exclusive rights-holder access to the Athletes Village, As Australian viewers tune in to watch athletes create sporting history, the Nine News teams will have the stories behind those magic moments. The athletes, their families, the sacrifices made along the way, what it takes to win or even heartbreakingly just miss out on an Olympic medal.

For the past 12 months, Nine news crews have travelled the world covering the preparation of Australia’s major medal hopes – from their training, their competitions and qualification to the team announcements.

Nine News will continue to report on the buildup until the moment our athletes compete, and the moment they finish their Olympic campaign Nine’s reporting teams in London will be headed by Ken Sutcliffe and Tony Jones, two of Australia’s most experienced sporting journalists.

Olympics reporter Damian Ryan, European correspondent Peter Stefanovic, Mark Burrows, Sarah Harris and Christine Ahern will deliver the stories in London for Nine News.

Peter Stefanovic, who is based in London, will have unprecedented access to the London Olympic venues.

Each night the Nine News live bulletin at 6pm will cross to London for an Olympic Games update.

Tony Jones will present all The Games news for the Melbourne audience.

As well as providing Australian viewers with the best stories at the Olympics during its premium 6pm bulletins, Nine News will have updates throughout the day and into the night.

If a major story breaks at or around Olympic venues, Nine News will bring it to its viewers live.

At 11am each weekday Nine News will have special reports on London 2012.

Channel Nine was there when The Olympics first came to Australia almost six decades ago for the Melbourne 1956 Olympic Games.

With television then in its infancy in Australia, the Channel Nine crew was world class.

The historic coverage was spearheaded by Tony Charlton, Ted Harris, America’s Wimbledon and US Open champion Jack Kramer, Australia’s Test cricket captain Ian

Johnson, and the legendary Jesse Owens, the four-time Olympic champion from Berlin in 1936.

It was an amazing team of commentators considering there were only about 5000 television sets in Australia at the time.

Nine was part of The Olympics coverage twice in the 1960s.

Tony Charlton called both the swimming and track and field in Tokyo in 1964, and among the highlights was his call of Betty Cuthbert’s win in the 400 metres.

In Mexico City in 1968 he called Ralph Doubell’s 800m win.

Jack Cannon and Ron Casey were Nine’s men at Montreal in 1976. After a 12-year break, Nine’s association with The Olympics resumed with the coverage of the Calgary 1988 Olympic Winter Games and has continued with three more Winter Olympics broadcasts: Albertville in 1992, Lillehammer in 1994 and Vancouver in 2010 – which was the most extensive coverage yet of The Winter Olympics.

In 2012, as well as free-to-air coverage on the Nine Network, GEM will simulcast the London 2012 Olympic Games in high definition, while digital channel 95 will broadcast the Nine Network’s 3D Olympic trial The London 2012 Olympic Games are all about tradition, and a shroud of secrecy surrounds preparations for the Opening Ceremony on Saturday (July 28), at 5.30am.

Just as her father, King George VI, opened the London 1948 Olympic Games at Wembley, Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip will do the honours for London 2012.

London has hosted The Olympics twice before. The 1908 Games were awarded to Rome, but the eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 1906 forced the Italians to withdraw as hosts.

London stepped in, built a new stadium at Shepherd’s Bush, and produced a notable Olympic spectacle.

London was then chosen to host in 1944, but World War II forced their cancellation. In 1948, 12 years after the previous Olympic Games were held in Berlin and as London continued to rebuild post-war, the ‘Austerity Games’ saw athletes housed in army camps and remodelled schoolrooms. Germany and Japan were not invited. The Games in 1948 were doubly notable – being also the first Games of the television era to take the Olympic spectacle into homes.

2012 Games in 3D ■ The Nine Network 3D Olympic Trial channel will be available from July 28 on digital channel 95.

The 3D channel will be in operation from until August 13, with demonstration material provided prior to the London 2012 Olympic Games 3D coverage which commences – at 11am on Saturday (July 28).

Days 1-16 of competition of Nine’s 3D coverage will follow London Gold at 11am.

The free-to-air 3D broadcast will allow viewers with a 3D-enabled television to enjoy up to five hours of 3D Olympic Games action daily, provided by the host broadcaster.

The exclusive 3D package will complement Nine’s extensive free-toair coverage of the Olympic Games.

It brings the network’s on-air commitment to London 2012 to almost 24 hours of continuous daily coverage across Nine, Gem, and the Nine Network 3D Olympic Trial Channel The 3D package features the Opening Ceremony and events including the swimming finals, gymnastics, athletics, canoe slalom, synchronised swimming and diving.

For more information regarding Nine’s London 2012 Olympic Games 3D coverage please contact the Nine Network’s 3D hotline on 1-800 999 999 or the Nine Network on (02) 9906 9999.

Information is also available online at www.nine.com.au/Olympics3D