WEEKEND ARRIVES
appear in supporting roles.
The other eight Best Picture nominees are: Call Me By Your Name, Darkest Hour, Dunkirk, Get Out (look out for it on M-Net Movies Premiere), Lady Bird, Phantom Thread, The Post, and The Shape Of Water, which has 13 nominations and will definitely win some of them. I reckon Guillermo del Toro for best director, as well as a sprinkling from the design, costume and editing categories.
Our own Lalla Hirayama will be on the red carpet, wearing a oneof-a-kind dress by fashion designer David Tlale, chatting to the stars as they arrive.
M-Net Movies Premiere coverage begins at midnight on Sunday with three-and-a-half hours of red carpet arrivals, followed by the live broadcast of the ceremony from 3.30am. Lalla’s Red Carpet Special is on this channel at 8.30pm on Monday, and the delayed broadcast of the ceremony is on M-Net 101 at 9pm. Here And Now, Vikings and American Horror Story will be on a broadcast break to accommodate the Oscars. Divorce (M-Net 101, 10pm): Sarah Jessica Parker, who, in my opinion, is a dreadfully one-dimensional actress even though she has won awards in her time, stars as Frances Dufresne, a woman who has an affair which precipitates a divorce; her now ex-husband Robert is played by Thomas Haden Church, who – again in my opinion – is the real star of this show. Season two opens with them having signed the papers and beginning their new single lives.
Loudermilk (M-Net 101, 10.30pm): Television trivia is a hobby of mine; Ron Livingston played Jack Berger, one of Carrie’s (Sarah Jessica Parker) boyfriends in Sex And The City. Here he stars as Dave Loudermilk, a recovering alcoholic and substance abuse counsellor with a bad attitude. In the series premiere, he agrees to help a wayward young girl get into rehab.
Dance India Dance L’il Masters (Zee TV, 7.30pm): As the name suggests, this show makes stars out of children who display talent and passion for dancing. Actor Jay Bhanushali is the host, and the judges dance master Marzi Pestonji, director Siddharth Anand and actress Chitrangada Singh. American Dad! and Family Guy (FOX, weeknights at 6.35pm): Joining The Simpsons, who are on at 6.05pm every evening, these two animated series are among the significant body of work by Seth McFarlane. Family Guy is now in its 16th season while American Dad! has recently concluded its 15th and been renewed for two more. The Simpsons, which Time named the 20th century’s best television series, has 29 seasons in the bag, but we’re currently seeing season 19 on FOX so are way behind at the moment, although the scheduling seems to flip flop backwards and forwards between seasons. While all these series are kind of timeless, they do provide social and political commentary and satire which dates them, as you will see when watching the first seasons of Family Guy and American Dad! You won’t have to do any research to pick up
The Simpsons either of these.
Philip K Dick’s (M-Net 101, influence on Electric Dreams
Wednesday at 10pm): Gather around, geeks and nerds – this sci-fi anthology series comprises 10 standalone episodes based on the works of Dick.
The first episode is The Hood Maker, a short story originally published in the June 1955 issue of the magazine Imagination.
Those in the know say this tale is quite different on screen than on paper but overall seem impressed with writer Matthew Graham’s loose adaption.
The setting is a world where telepaths – called “teeps” – are the only mechanism for long-distance communication.
Agent Ross (Richard Maddon), a police detective, is given a telepathic woman as a partner. He also learns that someone is distributing hoods which block telepathy.