Week 36 Highlights

24 August 2011

 

Ground Zero Mosque

 

There are 36 gallons in a standard barrel of beer. Or indeed cider.

36 is the atomic number of krypton, which I always got confused with kryptonite, which goes some way to explaining why I got a C in GCSE chemistry.

The sum of the integers 1 to 36 is 666. It is therefore recommended you spend the entirety of week 36 in solemn prayer, lest the Lord of Darkness come down and smite you blind, and you can't watch all of this wicked stuff:

 

Saturday, 03/09/2011
8:15pm
Athletics: IAAF World Championships 2011
The penultimate day of competition in Daegu with highlights included the Men's 200m Final (with Usain Bolt the man to beat), the Men's 1500m, Women's 100m Hurdles and the Women's 4x400m Relay.

 

Sunday, 04/09/2011
Athletics: IAAF World Championships 2011
7pm
It's the final day at Daegu, South Korea, with seven finals taking place, including the Men's Marathon, the Men's 4x100m Relay, and the Men's 5000m.

 

Sunday, 04/09/2011
8pm
Nelson's Navy: Back from the Dead 1/3
Extraordinary discoveries of skeletons found in mass graves of warriors are bringing back to life the world's most legendary fighting men. In this series medieval Crusaders, Nelson's sailors and Japanese Samurai all come under cutting edge investigation. In this first episode, 350 skeletons, exhumed from Royal Navy graveyards from the age of Nelson's Navy, are throwing an extraordinary new light on how these sailors lived, fought, outwitted their enemy, and, from the oldest to youngest, suffered for victory.

 

Sunday, 04/09/2011
9pm
Four Lions
The hit comedy from Chris Morris receives its UK TV premiere. Four Lions takes 'home grown' British suicide bombers beyond media stereotypes providing a portrayal that is both accurate and very funny. Written by Morris with Peep Show's Jesse Armstrong and Sam Bain. Starring Riz Ahmed, Kayvan Novak, Nigel Lindsay, Arsher Ali and Adeel Akhtar. Network Premiere

 

Monday, 05/09/2011
8pm
Ground Zero Mosque
BAFTA Award-winning director Dan Reed (Dispatches: Terror in Mumbai) untangles the hysteria, fury and politics surrounding the 'Mosque at Ground Zero'. His film explores how this proposed mosque and Islamic community centre, two blocks away from the site of the 9/11 attacks in lower Manhattan, has thrown into sharp focus the tensions at the core of American democracy regarding the country's Muslim population.

 

Monday, 05/09/2011
9pm
9/11: Emergency Room
This brand new film tells of the emergency treatment of the injured that took place in and around the World Trade Center as the jets crashed and the towers fell on the morning of 9/11. With access to new footage and testimony from those on the ground 9/11: ER reveals how lives were saved.

 

Tuesday 06/09/2011
8pm
Inside Nature's Giants 2/4: Dinosaur Bird
The BAFTA-winning Inside Nature's Giants team returns to Australia on the trail of a bird that's been described as a living dinosaur and hides in Queensland's tropical rainforests: the Cassowary.

 

 

Thursday, 08/09/2011
9pm
The Killing: Missing
Sarah stumbles upon a break in the case when she discovers that Adela, the person Rosie was supposed to meet on the night she disappeared, isn't a person but the name of a ferry.

 

Friday, 09/09/2011
10:30pm
Coma Girl
This upbeat, 30-minute, single-camera comedy follows a group of female friends united by a shared history but divided by almost everything else.

 

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