SATURDAY

G SPECIAL PROGRAM-
MING 24 bours in
Amsterdam (TV5, Channel
56, starts at 1 p.m.) The
international French channel
TVS proposes to take view-
ers on 2 virtual tour of

: Amsterdam over the nevt 24
hours.

t~ . FV5 will present live
reports throughout the day

~ with Karine Le Marchand,
Jean-Baptiste Guillet and
Chazia Mourali.

» Documentary films sched-
uled will deal with various
aspects of the social history
and culture of Amsterdam

. For full details and
times on this am! :
tous French-language pro-

ening venture go to the
ius 5 Website

<www.tv5. org/amsterdam/f_
-amst.prog-himl>.

B MOVIE eee Battling
Butler (1926) (BRAVO
channel 28; 1:30'p.m.) |
‘Alfred Butler’s 's Fother
nds him to the country to
make @ ran out cf hisn in.
Buster Keaton’s silent! come-
dy. Image Entertainment
relezecd the fim on DVD
ast sveek with two shows,
The Frozen North (1921, 2
min)and The Haunted |
(1922, 17 min).

This week’s highlights

» Vitud Amsterdan —

aturday 1V5 ch. 56

> The X-Files — Sunday Gobal/Fox ch. 13/35
> Remembrance Day pregrams — BRAVO ch. 28

(Global & Fox, Channels 13
& 35, 9 p.m.) Season pre-
miere.

AWARDS The 14th
Annual Gemini Awards
(CBC, Channel 3, 8 p.m.)
North Shore residents actor
Donnelly Rhodes and pro-
ducer Nick Orchard are
both in the running for
Geminis this year. Comedian
Rick Mercer hosts the pro-
ceedings.

DRAMA Plastic Man
(Showcase, Channel 24, 10

p.m.) A new British made-

er TV movie wore He 4
spect producer lea
starving John Thaw and
Sorcha Cusack. The family
life of a plastic surgeon
unravels in the first part of
the story with the conclu- ©
sion scheduled for tomor-
row night at 10 p.m.

MONDAY

Shadows (BRAVO, Channe!
28, 5 p.m.) Based on the
Greek myth Theseus,: -
Ariadne and the Minomur,

‘ this is a mixture of opera,

: and rock video star-
ring Jackie Burroughs.
Produced by! Rhombus
Media.-*":

band’s current logo is based
on the London soccer team,
Arsenal (Matt’s favourite
team). So what better place
to discuss the band’s current
release Beautifiel Midnight,
than at the soccer game
berween Canada and
Jamaica. And Canada won!
plus Mogwai and the Jungle
Bros. Rave.

WEDNESDAY
& MOVIE *&& The
eo lde Me Daughter
(La de Maquignon
(Quebec 1996) (BRAVO -
channel 28, 5:30 p.m.)
A young Irish man falls
in love with the horse-trad-
er’s daughter in tumn-of-the-
century Quebec. English TV
premiere.

@ DRAMA Law & Order

. (VTV & NBC, Channels 9

& 32,10 p.m.)

Carey Lowell returns (as
Jamie Ross) on the opposite
side of the courtroom.

THURSDAY

@ SPECIAL PROGRAM-
MING Rememébrance Day
(BRAVO, Channel 28, starts
at 3 a.m.)

BRAVO begins a full slate,
of Remembrance Day spe-
cials with No Price Too High -
the highly-acclaimed six-part’
(in one-hour episodes) docu-
mentary about Canadians in
World War I. Far-From
Home follows at 9 a.m. -—-
the three-part (six-hour film)
looks at Canada’s role in
World Waz I.

Several other films follow
with Michael Powell and
Emeric Pressburger’s One of
Our Aircraft is Missing
(Britain 1941) closing out
the day. In this thriller an
RAF crew are shot down
over Holland and must
make their way back to:
England. A chilling docu-
ment of wartime suspense

by ewo masters of cinematic

=_ Jolm Goodman

tension.