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Thursday March 11, 2010
Archer Fox8, 10pmIT'S amazing what animation lets you get away with. A live-action version of this amusing but exceedingly off-colour series might have a bit of trouble getting the green light (not to mention a slot on a theoretically family-friendly channel like Fox8). Our hero is James Bond-style secret agent Sterling Archer, who is a rotter inside a bounder wrapped in a cad. His attitude to women is so neanderthal the admin staff at the secret agency have human resources on speed-dial. He fiddles his expenses to pay for prostitutes, he enjoys spanking French air hostesses with ping-pong paddles and he takes vociferous objection to the smell of curry in his Indian dry cleaner's shop. He also has unresolved issues with his mother, who also happens to be his boss €” it's kind of an Oedipus complex muddled by matricidal tendencies. On top of that he's capable of sudden, lethal and nonchalant violence. That's by no means all of it but it's perhaps as far as we can go in a family newspaper. If you're not easily offended, tune in.Table for 12Discovery Home & Health, 8.30pmTHERE'S nothing Discovery Home & Health loves more than the reproductively incontinent. Clearly, it wasn't enough that we already had Jon & Kate Plus 8, Quint-Essential and the freaky Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar (who are part of the evangelical Quiverfull movement and have so far had 19 children for Jesus). Now we also have Table for 12, which follows the humdrum non-adventures of New Jersey couple Eric and Betty Hayes and their two sets of twins and one of sextuplets. Tonight we get to see the kids "help" dad with making dinner and then make a card and video messages for mum's birthday. If you don't have that many kids, you can't really relate. If you do, you don't have time to watch.Lucy Culliton: Big SkiesOvation, 8pmA PLEASANT little documentary that follows painter Lucy Culliton as she captures the drought-parched landscapes of NSW's Monaro Plains on canvas. It's interesting to watch as Culliton explains what she sees and as her paintings get the locals to see their land differently.Worth a lookRiver Monsters (Discovery, 6.30pm)Clash of the Dinosaurs (Discovery, 7.30pm)RocKwiz (Max, 8pm)
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