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Sun Herald
Sunday November 3, 1996
Natural Justice: Heat
Monday, Channel 7 - 8.30pm
Asta Cadell (Claudia Karvan) is a fiery young lawyer who's become disillusioned with her career and has thrown it in to travel Australia by motorbike. When she wheels into the town of York she witnesses a local black being victimised by a young cop (Jeremy Sims). Cadell can't help becoming involved, but she quickly finds herself involved in a very sinister web of intrigue. A standout cast, including Steve Bastoni as the police sergeant and Sonia Todd as the scotch-swilling wife of a wealthy businessman, makes this top viewing. Depending on viewer reaction to Heat, Channel 7 plans to make a trilogy of Asta Cadell's adventures around Australia.
The Naked Truth
u Thursday,
Channel 10 - 8pm
Life on the Comet turns rosy as Nora (Tea Leoni) is promoted to assistant photo editor. Her first action is to hire her three buddies as staff photographers. But things turn ugly when she sends them out to a gala to photograph Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor and Princess Di and she discovers them instead whooping it up in their hotel room on expenses. They've not only drunk the minibar dry and called in some party girls, worse, they've also hired a tanning consultant - George Hamilton,
in a nice mini guest turn.
Neighbours
u Friday, Channel 10 - 6.30pm
Remember when Neighbours was the biggest show on Australian TV? So do the producers who, yearning for the good old days, are bringing back Harold and Madge. Although Harold (Ian Smith) was washed down a cliff five years ago, we discover he didn't die but has been living in Tasmania as Ted, unable to remember his past. Now, after five years of grieving her lost husband in Brisbane, Madge (Anne Charleston) is reunited with Harold tonight in an awkward meeting at the coffee shop.
Billy Connolly - A Scot In The Arctic
u Friday, ABC - 9.30pm
Billy Connolly prancing naked through the snow is a strange sight indeed. But, hey, what else is there to do when you're alone in the Arctic for 10 days? Connolly's assignment is to survive in minus-40 degrees at the top of the world with only minimal equipment and a video recorder. He tries to build an igloo, but gives up in a huff. Polar bear claw marks spook Billy into being glad he sleeps with a shotgun. With only the sound of ice cracking for company, Connolly is by turns surly, reflective, grumpy and melancholy. And as he tells us, coping with a call of nature when there's a blizzard requires some ingenuity.
Larry Sanders
u Saturday,
Channel 10 - 8.30pm
It's time for the networks to dust off all the US shows that bellyflopped during the year and were whisked away before they could do permanent ratings damage - but with the ratings period for 96 ending later this month, out they come again. Channel 9 is bringing back Frasier while Ten is returning Larry Sanders, the parody of late-night talk show hosts like David Letterman. It's hilarious if a) you are a regular viewer of the 1am Letterman show or b) you find the central character of a whiny, self-absorbed chat show host likable. Failing that, the only compelling reason to tune in is the range of stars who flock to do guest spots on this show, which mystifyingly is hipper than hip in the US. In this two-hour special you can catch David Duchovny, Courteney Cox, k.d. lang, ER's Noah Wylie, Mandy Patinkin and David Letterman himself.
© 1996 Sun Herald
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