THIS WEEK’S TOP TV TIPS
SUNDAY
Stampede 100! CBC marks the centenary of the Calgary Stampede with this star-studded special, featuring appearances by several of the network’s stars. The one-hour show looks at some of the Stampede’s most popular features, including the parade, rodeo and the races. It also covers the aboriginal history of the Stampede and takes a nostalgic look at Guy Weadick, and how the first Stampede came to be.
CBC
True Blood
Sookie ( Anna Paquin) has a sense of foreboding following events at the asylum, while Lafayette ( Nelsan Ellis) visits Ruby Jean ( Alfre Woodard), who also has received a troubling message from Jesus. Sam ( Sam Trammell) offers to help Andy ( Chris Bauer) investigate recent shootings, while Roman ( Christopher Meloni) reveals his plans for Russell ( Denis O’hare) in the new episode, Hopeless.
HBO Canada
MONDAY
Degrassi
Classes resume for a 12th season of the award-winning Canadian high school drama series, which sees the arrival of players from a junior hockey team at the school. In the season premiere, Drew ( Luke Bilyk) loses his courage to break up with Katie ( Chloe Rose) in favour of Bianca ( Alicia Josipovic), and Clare ( Aislinn Paul) worries that Eli ( Munro Chambers) doesn’t reciprocate her affections. Newcomer Sarah Fisher joins the cast as an American transfer student.
Muchmusic
Dig WW2
Military historian Dan Snow unearths new insights into how Canada and Britain made formidable allies during the Second World War in this new four-part documentary series. In the first episode, Dan and his team discover the almost perfectly preserved wreckage of a downed Spitfire in a Northern Ireland peat bog. A second episode follows immediately.
History TV
TUESDAY
3 Needles Though it’s not an easy film to watch, this 2005 drama from Canadian filmmaker Thom Fitzgerald is a very important one. Telling three remarkable stories about AIDS, the film stars Chloe Sevigny, Sandra Oh and Olympia Dukakis as Cana- dian nuns in Africa, trying to combat local superstitions that lead to the disease’s spread. Another segment stars Lucy Liu as a blood collector in rural China, while the third deals with an HIVpositive adult film star and his mother.
Bravo
Chef Roblé & Co.
Chef Roblé caters a 60th wedding anniversary for a very eccentric shop owner who wants pigs in a blanket and cheesecake on the menu. Then he makes what could be a bad move, when he goes against the influential – and militantly vegetarian – founder of a well-connected party website in the new episode If You Can’t Stand the Heat...
W
WEDNESDAY
Roseanne’s Nuts Ever heard something so awful, you thought your ears might bleed? Roughly 21 years after one of the biggest public relations disasters in her career – remember that bone-jarring rendition of the American anthem that had a stadium of fans booing her – Roseanne is invited to sing it once again at a local softball game. Is this a chance at vindication or a fool’s errand?
W
Dallas John Ross ( Josh Henderson) chafes at having to do his father’s ( Larry Hagman) dirty work, so he decides to move into Southfork. Bobby ( Patrick Duffy) is very displeased when he learns that Ann ( Brenda Strong) went to her despicable ex-husband ( Mitch Pileggi) for help with a family problem, while Rebecca ( Julie Gonzalo) thinks she may have information that could save the ranch, in this new episode, The Enemy of My Enemy.
Bravo
THURSDAY
The 2012 British Open
The British Open takes centre stage in the golf world, as the likes of Luke Donald, Rory Mcilroy, Bubba Watson, and Phil Mickelson make their way to Royal Lytham & St. Annes Golf Course in the western county of Lancashire, in the hopes of hoisting the coveted Claret Jug. Stay tuned for coverage of all four rounds live through Sunday.
TSN
Duets Tonight, the season finale reveals which pairing of superstar and amateur will be crowned the top duo, with the amateur half of the couple winning a recording contract. Kelly Clarkson, Jennifer Nettles, John Legend and Robin Thicke are the celebrity mentors and singing partners.
ABC
FRIDAY
I Didn’t Do It The new episode Clarence Elkins - Smoking Gun chronicles how a Barberton, Ohio, man is sentenced to 55 years in prison on the basis of testimony by his 6-year-old niece, who tells investigators that “someone who looked like Uncle Clarence” assaulted her and murdered her grandmother, Judy Johnson. Elkins’ only hope lies in trying to prove another inmate in the same facility actually committed the crimes.
Discovery