Douglas Is Cancelled - Episode 4 Season Final
Sunday 22 December 8.00pm
The practice interview is underway. Douglas is faced with a woman who understands him better than even he suspected and a battle of wills and words begins.
Love Me Episode 4
Sunday 22 December 8.45pm
Dressed in a suit and tie, Aaron nervously interviews at a boutique law firm. He gets the clerkship, but Ella has news of her own – she’s going on tour and wants him to come along.
Clara arrives home to Peter in the kitchen and his belongings spread across her apartment – he’s moving in. But only while his flat is undergoing repairs.
At the resort, Anita and Glen share their first proper kiss. But Glen quickly becomes overwhelmed with guilt. Ever gracious, Anita says they can just be friends.
Sacha hosts dinner to welcome Peter into the fold. He’s a hit with the whole family, giving Clara pause – maybe he is as good as he seems. When they return home, Peter shares a secret he’s been holding onto. Clara is taken back by the lie and runs off to retrieve her mother’s ashes from the crematorium.
Meanwhile, Glen and Anita try their best to be ‘just’ friends, but neither of them really want that and it doesn’t last.
Aaron and Jesse clash about his life choices and his decision to give up the clerkship for Ella. And when he eventually finds Ella to tell her and declare his love, it’s too late.
In the morning, Aaron and Clara arrive at the airport, to pick up their dad. Glen appears, with a woman they’ve never seen in their lives – Anita. And it looks like he is smitten.
Tracy: A Force of Nature
Monday 23 December 7.30pm
Featuring never-before-told stories of survival and some of the ABC’s most incredible archival footage, Tracy is a moving and confronting testament to one of Australia’s worst ever natural disasters, narrated by Leigh Sales.
It was the darkest Christmas in Australia’s history.
Sixty-six dead, 41,000 left homeless, and 70 per cent of the northern capital destroyed.
Christmas Day 1974, and the once-tropical paradise of Darwin was reduced to rubble, razed to the ground as a severe tropical cyclone carved a path of destruction through the Top End, ripping homes from their foundations, tossing cars through the air, and snapping steel poles like matchsticks.
Small but intense, Cyclone Tracy was like no other system before, or after it, in Australia. Its unexpected path to the city saw winds reach 217 kilometres an hour, before all weather instruments were destroyed by the ferocity.
For those who lived through the terror that was Christmas Eve 50 years ago, their lives would never be the same. In this one-hour ABC special, survivors tell of the tragedy and triumph in the days, months and years that followed. From the terrifying moment the storm hit, to the carnage it left in its wake, to the mass evacuation of its population, and eventually, the determination it took to rebuild a city that was wiped out by nature.
Featuring never-before-told stories of survival against the odds and some of the ABC’s most incredible archival footage, Tracy is a moving and confronting testament to one of Australia’s worst ever natural disasters, told by those who were there in vivid detail.
Production credit: An ABC NEWS production. Narrated by Leigh Sales. Writer / Producer – Matt Garrick. Executive Producer – Amy Culpritt.
All Creatures Great and Small Episodes 6 and 7
Saturday 28 December 7.30pm
Episode 6 is followed by the Christmas episode
Helen is adjusting to James being away and decides to move home to help her family. Mrs Hall is pulled in two directions and must choose one. Siegfried struggles to keep Skeldale House together.
Episode 6
Helen feels redundant at Skeldale and a million miles from home. When Richard Alderson seems to need some help, she returns to Heston Grange. Buried family secrets threaten to tear their relationship apart as Richard refuses to let her muck in on the farm. Helen notices that calf, Smokey, seems unwell and tries to help him, but it only makes things worse with her dad.Mrs Hall is blindsided by Helen’s plans and worries for Siegfried but knows she must follow through on her decision, however painful it may be for everyone. Meanwhile, Gerald’s beloved dog, Rock, needs veterinary help, but he is too worried about the operation. Mrs Hall pushes him to do the right thing.
Torn in two directions, Mrs Hall must make her final choice and let go of something special. Both women are about to learn where they truly belong.Episode 7 – Christmas Special
It’s Christmas in the Dales. Faced with a daunting future, James is desperate to see Helen.It’s Christmas, and James is miles away at the RAF training base. An emotional phone call with a very pregnant Helen makes him determined to get back to her, but he doesn’t have many options and RAF Mascot, Georgie, needs his help. James struggles to do the right thing. Will he find his way home in time for Christmas?
Meanwhile, Mrs Hall prepares a community Christmas celebration in Darrowby, whilst Siegfried and Carmody argue over who will be Father Christmas this year.
Carmody is welcomed by Darrowby and finds himself enjoying it. James learns a very important lesson and is rewarded with a surprise.Production credit: Playground Entertainment