Animated series Beat Bugs has been renewed for a second season by Seven and Netflix. I hope Seven spread the next season’s broadcast by not showing so many new episodes in one day (the first season aired last week in just four days) otherwise kids will miss out.
###Wallander
From Monday 28 August at 8.30pm
Based on the award-winning Wallander novels by Henning Mankell. Kurt Wallander played by Kenneth Branagh is a sensitive but brilliant detective – a man who takes each murder case he works on personally and will stop at nothing in his search for the truth, even at the expense of his health and his family life.
###Hairy Bikers – Northern Exposure
From Saturday 24 September at 7:30 pm
The Hairy Bikers are back on the road doing what they love most - biking and cooking. In this brand new six part series, Dave Myers and Si King set off on a proper road-trip, their most ambitious and personal journey yet.
This time they’re heading north, circumnavigating the vast Baltic Sea in search of the most exciting food and some of the wildest places in Europe. It’s a challenge they have long dreamt of undertaking - and it’s particularly emotional for the boys as it marks Si’s return to health following his brain aneurism last year.
Si and Dave revel in the little-known wonders of these fascinating but largely untapped countries whose fates have, for millennia, been linked by the Baltic Sea: “We are closer to the Baltic than many of our Mediterranean neighbours, yet we know very little about them.
The Baltic Sea is surrounded by nine countries which are home to more than 85m people. The Hairies’ travels take them through this magical region, from Poland to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, from Russia (St Petersburg) to Finland and from Northern Sweden (Sami country) to Southern, in their search for hearty home cooking and cutting-edge cuisine, vast forests and sparkling lakes, windswept beaches and flower-strewn meadows, incredible biking roads and - hopefully - a warm welcome.
###MR SELFRIDGE Season 4
Coming Soon
1928: Nine years after season three, we find Harry Selfridge at the pinnacle of his power and public celebrity – a retail giant at the heart of the roaring twenties. A man-about-town in London and often gambling glamorously abroad. Rumours of Harry’s latest fling light up the social circuit at Victor’s new nightspot, which is more decadent than ever.
###MR SELFRIDGE Season 4
From Friday 30 September at 7:30 PM
###FATHER BROWN Season 1
From Thursday 22 September at 7:30 PM
###Hairy Bikers – Northern Exposure
From Saturday 24 September at 7:30PM
The Hairy Bikers are back on the road doing what they love most - biking and cooking. In this brand new six part series, Dave Myers and Si King set off on a proper road-trip, their most ambitious and personal journey yet.
This time they’re heading north, circumnavigating the vast Baltic Sea in search of the most exciting food and some of the wildest places in Europe. It’s a challenge they have long dreamt of undertaking - and it’s particularly emotional for the boys as it marks Si’s return to health following his brain aneurism last year.
Si and Dave revel in the little-known wonders of these fascinating but largely untapped countries whose fates have, for millennia, been linked by the Baltic Sea: “We are closer to the Baltic than many of our Mediterranean neighbours, yet we know very little about them.
The Baltic Sea is surrounded by nine countries which are home to more than 85m people. The Hairies’ travels take them through this magical region, from Poland to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, from Russia (St Petersburg) to Finland and from Northern Sweden (Sami country) to Southern, in their search for hearty home cooking and cutting-edge cuisine, vast forests and sparkling lakes, windswept beaches and flower-strewn meadows, incredible biking roads and - hopefully - a warm welcome.
Psychic TV is now on 7TWO Friday to Monday mornings, including Prime regions.
###Around The World With Manu
From Sunday 9 October at 7:30PM
Manu Feildel is passionate about many things in his life. His family, his adopted home of Australia, his French origins and the thing that is on his mind 24/7: food. For many years, Manu has dreamed of travelling the route of Jules Vern’s Around the World In 80 Days and discovering the food that would have been consumed had it been his adventure.
In AROUND THE WORLD WITH MANU, the French chef attempts to travel all of the countries in Vern’s famous novel on a budget of $20K.
The challenge is on - he can wash dishes, cook meals, even busk to top up his kitty, but he cannot take money, or free travel. Can he do what Vern’s character Phileas Fogg achieved back in 1872?
After a lot of research and planning (well, maybe a quick Google search), Manu departs for his first destination: England. And so the journey begins taking him from Dover to Dubai, Mumbai, Kolkata, Hong Kong, Tokyo, L.A. and London.
This is real time, no cushy green rooms or business class airfares; just Manu, 30 days, $20K and lots of dreams of the wonderful food and people he is about to discover on his culinary voyage.
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Around the World with Manu will be a good alternative to The X Factor/Sunday Night on Sunday nights.
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###Nigel Marven’s Cruise Ship Adventures
From Saturday 29 October at 6:30PM
Join Nigel Marven as he reveals for the first time another dimension to cruise ship voyages, introducing passengers and crew to extraordinary creatures in well-known tourist destinations.
###Selling Houses Australia - Season 6
From Friday 28 October at 8:30PM
Ep 1 Frankston: Dealing with the dead is all in a day’s work for Sean Dylan, so when this gravedigger spotted a weatherboard house opposite Frankston cemetery he loved the location.
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###Animal Airport - Season 2
From Sunday 6 November at 7:00PM
With nearly half a million flights a year, Heathrow is the world’s busiest international airport - but as well as the 65 million human passengers, each year around 40 million animals fly in and out of the UK, most of them checking in at the Animal Reception Centre, affectionately known as the ARC. Animal Airport captures all behind-the-scenes action in the terminal buildings and on the runways… From the man smuggling a tortoise from Morocco in his underpants to the shipment of four cheetahs unexpectedly detained at the ARC.
Heathrow plays host to leopards, horses, snakes, alpacas, eagles, scorpions… if it’s an animal and it’s at Heathrow, the ARC staff are onto it.
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###Beat Bugs - Season Returns
From Wednesday 16 November at 7.30am
Season 1 - Ep 25 at 7.30am, Ep 26 at 7.45pm, continues Thursday and Friday with 2 episodes each morning.
The BEAT BUGS are charming, funny adventurous and have a knack for getting themselves into mischief and mayhem. Each of the five friends (Jay, Kumi, Crick, Buzz and Walter) has a distinct personality and they display the energy of five, knockabout, loveable kids. They are best friends who band together to explore and learn in an overgrown suburban backyard, which to them is their entire universe.
Inspired by the music of The Beatles, the series tells uplifting and life-affirming stories filled with hope and melody.
###The Wild Adventures of Blinky Bill
Mon-Fri from Monday 5 December at 7:30am
The new series, set a few years after the feature film, sees a slightly older Blinky taking on the role as defender of his outback home, Greenpatch. With a bevy of crazy Aussie animals, the series brings back a number of familiar faces, as well as introducing new characters including Blinky’s best mate and sidekick, Jacko. True to its roots, the show will continue to embody a quintessentially Aussie spirit, expressed through mischief, mayhem, adventure and humour.
Not sure if it has been mentioned, but new episodes of Mr Selfridge are back on 7TWO at late night Thursdays after it was pulled from its Friday timeslot 1.5 months ago. From November 10 it aired at 11.30pm Thursdays, but this week it was at 10.30pm.
###Damned Designs: Don’t Demolish My Home - Season 1
From Sunday 5 February at 9:30PM
Meet the homeowners with designs too grand for this world. Flouting the need for planning permission, they’ve got right on with building the home of their wacky dreams.
Majestic and visionary properties are threatened with demolition when the planning inspector come to visit. Will they sign off on the shark tank? Will they approve the turrets? Or will their big dreams turn to rubble?
7TWO will show this year’s Miss Universe from Manila, Philippines next Monday (January 30) at 11am, live to NSW, ACT, VIC and TAS and delayed in other regions. Caris Tiivel is representing Australia. A full replay will be on Seven at 10pm.
Nine used to mostly showed all these beauty pageants until David Leckie was booted in 2001 and joined Seven … then they started to appear on Seven.
###Building Dream Homes
From Friday 17 February at 10:30PM
Following some of the nation’s architects leading the way in groundbreaking design, as they battle with builders, blueprints and the clients who hire them.
Production: BBC2