Friday at 6.00pm on World Movies - God Willing
Tommaso is a successful, respected cardiac surgeon who also happens to be an atheist. However, Tommaso's son Andrea who is a medical student announces in a family get-together that he wants to become a priest. Tommaso is petrified with he hears the news as he expected his son was going to come out as homosexual. Irritated, Tommaso goes undercover on retreat in a monastery, to investigate and bring down the charismatic Father Don Pietro, who he believes has 'brain-washed' his son.
Saturday at 8.30pm on SBS Food - Rhodes Across Italy
Gary Rhodes travels to Emilia-Romagna - the culinary capital of Italy and the home of Parma ham, Parmesan cheese and much more, on the latest leg of their grand tour of Italian regional cuisines.
Saturday at 8.30pm on World Movies - Zero Dark Thirty
For a decade, an elite team of intelligence and military operatives, working in secret across the globe, devoted themselves to a single goal: to find and eliminate al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden.
Sunday at 8.30pm on Viceland - Star Trek: Generations
Stardate: the 23rd Century. Retired Starfleet officers James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Montgomery Scott (James Doohan) and Pavel Chekov (Walter Koenig) are guests of honour aboard the newly christened Enterprise-B. A test run takes an unexpected turn, however, when the starship encounters two vessels trapped inside the Nexus, a mysterious energy ribbon. During a perilous rescue attempt, Kirk is swept out into space. Seven decades later, Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and the crew of Enterprise-D rescue an El Aurian physicist named Soran (Malcolm McDowell). Unbeknownst to Picard, Soran harbours a deadly plan that includes the destruction of the Enterprise and millions of lives. Now Picard's only hope for a future rests within the Nexus - and a legendary captain from the past.
Monday at 5.30pm on SBS Food - Lidia's Italy
While in Lombardy, Lidia visits Monica Maggiano and learns about how this accountant-turned-farmer raises her own chickens with care and attention, what they eat, and how they roam her farm. Monica helps us become better acquainted with the types of birds we eat, and back in the kitchen, Lidia demystifies the duck and talks about the Mallard, Peking and Muscovy. She then prepares a delicious and crispy roasted duck, a simple rice with lentils, and an almond cake for dessert.
Tuesday at 7.30pm on SBS Food - Italian Food Safari
Join Maeve O'Meara and Melbourne chef Guy Grossi in an Australian-wide celebration of traditional Italian food and culture. Tonight, Maeve takes a look at the tradition of the wood-fired oven, which many Italians constructed in their backyards when they arrived in Australia.
Tuesday at 8.00pm on SBS Food - Made In Italy With Silvia Colloca
Silvia Colloca ventures to the seaside town of Termoli on the spectacular Adriatic coastline to pick up the freshest seafood money can buy. In Abruzzo, Silvia finds inspiration from the meat cold cuts the region is renowned for; then travels to Isernia, and back home to Torricella with her son Miro to make his favourite sweet: honey drizzled cluster cake.
Thursday at 9.00pm on SBS Food - Gino's Italian Escape: Hidden Italy
Affectionately known as Chiantishire, Gino is going to unearth the secrets of the Chianti Classico wine in the beautiful region of Tuscany by making his own in the place where Chianti was invented. He then joins the vintage bike riders of the Eroica, riding on the symbolic white gravel roads through the Tuscan countryside.
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