Indholdsfortegnelse for September 2017 i Foxtel Magazine

He has a reputation for dabbling in many things at once. So it makes sense James Franco was the first person television producer David Simon (The Wire) thought of to take on the acting challenge of playing identical twins – who aspire to be Mafia kingpins – in his gritty series The Deuce. Set during the early 1970s and continuing through to the mid-1980s, the drama follows the rise of the newly legalised porn industry and the turbulent world of ‘the Deuce’ – a slang term used to describe New York’s 42nd Street neighbourhood. It’s a seedy part of Manhattan rampant with pimps, prostitutes, drug pushers and police corruption. Joining Franco is fellow Oscar-nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal (Crazy Heart), who portrays Candy – a prostitute pursuing a better quality of life…

You know a Midnight Oil song within seconds of hearing it. The propulsive rhythms of drummer Rob Hirst, the duelling guitars of Jim Moginie and Martin Rotsey, the throbbing bass from Bones Hillman and the distinctive yowl of Peter Garrett – the Oils sound like no other band. Since blasting out of Australia’s pub rock dens of the 1970s, the band have made an indelible contribution to the soundtrack of our lives with songs to make you think and feel as you lose yourself in the music. This Father’s Day, on the eve of Australia’s leg of their Great Circle world tour, MAX and the band present Midnight Oil – Kings of the Mountain, a collection of their videos. In preparation, we take our own stroll down memory lane by…

Get your front-row seat to a consecutive week of laughs with Live at the Apollo this month. It’s the show where the best international comedians perform in front of a crowd of 5000 at the world-famous Hammersmith Apollo in London. These crème de la crème comedic performances started way back in 2004, when the event was hosted by Jack Dee, and they introduced such luminaries as Joan Rivers and Jo Brand. Now, the sixth full season screens, featuring Sean Lock from 8 Out of 10 Cats, who delivers his trademark insightful wit before introducing John Bishop. In general, Liverpudlians are great storytellers, but Bishop – who delivers perfectly-timed sketches about himself – is out-of-this-world brilliant. Also performing across the series are other incredibly funny professionals including the acerbic Rich Hall,…

DISNEY’S MOST DARING from Saturday September 23 at 6.30pm on Disney Movies [404] FAM-TASTIC FLICKS! from Saturday September 23 at 7.30pm on Family Movies [405], both available in the MOVIES pack and On Demand It’s that time again: the school holidays! But before you start panicking about entertainment options during those inevitably rainy September days, we have you covered with an array of fantastic movies that appeal to kids of all ages – including the biggest kids: Mum and Dad! Nightly on Disney Movies, re-familiarise yourself with the animated world’s most inspiring and courageous characters who encourage you to believe in yourself with Disney’s Most Daring. Meanwhile, every evening on Family Movies get the gang together and settle in for Fam-tastic Flicks!. With so much to choose from every night…

1 TENNIS US OPEN continues LIVE from Friday September 1 at 3am on ESPN [508] New York once again plays host to the stars of world tennis as the first week of the fourth Grand Slam of the year continues on ESPN. Flushing Meadows, in the borough of Queens, is a brilliant tennis venue, with Arthur Ashe Stadium positively coming alive for the night sessions – timed perfectly for lunchtime TV viewing in Australia. Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka and Germany’s Angelique Kerber (pictured) are the respective defending men’s and women’s singles champions playing to win. 2 AMERICAN FOOTBALL NFL LIVE from Friday September 8 at 10am on ESPN2 [509] The NFL is back! After a long off-season and preseason, America’s biggest sport returns for a new campaign. Defending Super Bowl champions…

DOCOS Year Million It’s the year one million and though Earth’s continents will look roughly the same as now, can the same be said for humans? This six-part series is inspirational in the ideas it poses about the future. One of those is Erica, a neural network android ‘who’ is the merging of technology with the human body. She is proposed by Brian Greene, professor of theoretical physics based at Columbia University in New York City. He says people of today, “Would require intense education to even understand the parameters of life a million years in the future” – and the professor has a point. After all, imagine trying to explain the logistics of an office job to Homo erectus a million years ago. Marvel Comics science fiction writer Charles…

DRAMA BEFORE IT RETURNS, CATCH UP ON... Fear the Walking Dead (s1-3A) Available On Demand Devotees of Fear the Walking Dead have long been holding their breath in anticipation of all-out war between Qaletqa Walker’s (Michael Greyeyes) Native American clan, The Nation, and the Broke Jaw Ranch, led by landowner Jeremiah Otto (Dayton Callie). But come season three’s July midseason finale, perhaps surprisingly, no such war was declared. Instead, following the discovery that Otto had murdered Walker’s father and uncle, Nick Clark (Frank Dillane) gunned Otto down for his crimes. That then left Madison Clark (Kim Dickens, pictured) to deliver the severed head to Walker as a peace offering! Subsequently, the stage is set for a new storyline when the action picks back up this week with a midseason return.…

DRAMA Super Take Over Can’t get enough superheroes? Then this two-week block of The Flash, Arrow, Supergirl and DC’s Legends of Tomorrow is for you. The collection of superheroes usually resides on FOX8, but will be visiting Binge in preparation for their respective upcoming new seasons. Everyone loved comic book adaptation Arrow when it hit screens in 2012. It propelled lead Stephen Amell into hunky superhero status, as it did Grant Gustin when The Flash premiered in 2014. Then Supergirl (starring Melissa Benoist, pictured) flew onto screens a year later to great fanfare, followed by DC’s Legends of Tomorrow. The four series continue to go from strength to strength, with characters jumping universes and making crossover appearances. Catch up on all their heroics this week. From Saturday September 23 at…

ACROSS 1. Caitriona Balfe’s nurse character in showcase drama series Outlander, ... Randall (6) 4. Two-part BBC First drama about the search for a missing Yorkshire schoolgirl, The ... (8) 7. The Comedy Channel improv show, Whose ... is it Anyway? (4) 8. Channel screening The Archibald and Inside Art, Foxtel ... (4) 9. FOX Classics’ Cult ... Week (5) 11. Popular long-running cooking competition shown on Lifestyle FOOD, The Great ... Bake Off (7) 13. showcase drama starring Dwayne Johnson as retired NFL player-turned-financial manager Spencer Strasmore (7) 15. ... Coleman plays the titular role in BBC First period drama Victoria (5) 17. Food writer and TV presenter seen frequently on Lifestyle FOOD, ... Berry (4) 19. Discovery Science show that explores colossal contraptions on Earth, Alaska ... Machines…

YOUR FIRST STOP FOR ENTERTAINMENT NEWS FIRST LOOK When we pick back up with the residents of Inverness in A Place to Call Home’s fifth season, it’s 1958 – and there’s a hot new couple in town. Young lovebirds Larry and Leah (George Pullar and Madeleine Clunies-Ross, both pictured) are head over heels for each other. But just like a certain couple before them, this pairing is guaranteed to cause waves within the tight-knit community. When we first met Leah in season one, she was a young girl suffering from tuberculosis, played by Avital Greenberg-Teplitsky. Now, she’s all grown up and causing grief for her uncle Isaac Goldberg – portrayed by returning guest star Martin Sacks. “Leah is a 17-year-old Jewish girl who has strayed from her Jewish roots and…

SNEAK PEEK If this first image from the upcoming HBO film Fahrenheit 451 is anything to go by, the small-screen adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s classic dystopian novel paints a bleak and harrowing future. Set during a time in which media is considered an opiate and history has been outlawed, ‘firemen’ are recruited not to put out fires but to start them – their target specifically the destruction of all books. But when young fireman Montag (Michael B Jordan, pictured right) falls for informant Clarisse (portrayed by The Mummy star Sofia Boutella), he begins to question his actions and rebel against society’s expectations. As he struggles to regain his humanity, he goes head-to-head with his fire chief, Beatty, played by two-time Oscar-nominee Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road, Nocturnal Animals, pictured left). Though…

Brian Johnson is known as one of the music world’s richest and most enigmatic stars, and for the better part of 35 years he has somehow ensured we know very little about what makes him tick when he’s not onstage. However, since the AC/DC legend began hosting Cars that Rock, we’ve come to learn of his deep passion for motorsport. The 69-year-old recently revealed he gets just as much pleasure from hitting the track in an automobile from his vast personal collection as he did performing in front of a screaming AC/DC audience. “Both are noisy, exciting and fast-paced,” he says. “They are connected in a parallel universe kind of way. I get the same thrill from the roar of the engine and the roar of a 100,000 [strong] crowd.”…

It was writer Mark Twain who once stated, “Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; truth isn’t” – which goes some way in explaining why documentaries have emerged as a provocative format in recent decades. This month, whatever your interests, there’s an eye-opening documentary for everyone – from the Archibald Prize to possible rehabilitation through a prison boot camp, crime in a time of mandatory sentencing and a world struggling with constant change in the age of terrorism. We break down seven of the best new documentaries that are guaranteed to get you talking in September. 1 REDEMPTION ROUND Normally, a group of young men would be thrilled to have a meeting with Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson – but not the…

2017 FORMULA 1 WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP: HEINEKEN ITALY GRAND PRIX every practice, qualifying session and race LIVE from Friday September 1 at 5.45pm; SINGAPORE AIRLINES SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX every practice, qualifying session and race LIVE from Friday September 15 at 7.45pm, both on FOX SPORTS 506 available in the SPORTS pack The Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix redefines cool, as the world’s fastest racing cars go wheel-to-wheel at up to 320km/h under bright lights, surrounded by skyscrapers; while thousands of fans party trackside in the balmy equatorial heat. So you can understand why this is an event all drivers want to win. For Australia’s Daniel Ricciardo (pictured opposite) though, there’s more motivation to claim the podium’s top step, with the event considered a second home race; Australia is a short flight…

MUSIC IF YOU LOVE THIS, WATCH... The Wolfe Brothers Live at CMC Rocks QLD Available On Demand The artist, two stages, a rocking good time with no ounce of pretentiousness – this is CMC Rocks QLD! You can almost see the moment the penny drops for first-timers to the CMC Rocks QLD stage because this festival rocks like no other. And for Texan-born country sensation Eric Paslay (pictured), who has been dubbed country music’s answer to Ed Sheeran, that penny drop finishes in him delivering two epic sets to more than 15,000 music-lovers over the three-day festival in Queensland’s Ipswich. “This is incredible,” the Nashville-based artist says during his first trip to Australia. “There are a ton of country music fans here!” Australia was Paslay’s very first stop on his…

DOCOS The Zoo For the first time ever be escorted behind the enclosures of the world-renowned Bronx Zoo in this fascinating documentary series. It’s home to 6000 animals cared for by a dedicated staff of more than 500 professionals. Located just 16km from Times Square, the metropolitan zoo encompasses 107 hectares – that’s the equivalent of roughly 107 stadium sports fields in the middle of a bustling city! Filmed over eight months, this addictive eight-episode series looks at the welfare of the menagerie that includes a silverback gorilla with glaucoma, two born-in-captivity Malayan tiger cubs and an orphaned snow leopard cub that was rescued from a remote region in Pakistan. Saturdays from September 16 at 8.30pm on Animal Planet [615] LIFESTYLE Married with Secrets (s2) You never really know what…

DRAMA IF YOU LOVE THIS, WATCH... I, Daniel Blake Available On Demand Who can forget the ‘giggle and wiggle’ of Barbara Windsor, the busty blonde who is mostly known for her wonderfully ditsy characters in the Carry On films. She’s considered a national treasure in Britain and became a dame last year, so it’s no surprise this biopic was very well-received in her home country. One-off movie Babs is all-encompassing, with four actresses portraying the British star. Florence Keen plays the child Windsor, Honor Kneafsey takes her on as a teen, with the adult roles played by Samantha Spiro and Jaime Winstone (pictured from left, respectively, with Windsor, centre, who makes a cameo). The film captures 50 years of ups and downs in the life of Windsor from 1943 to…

1 WONDER WOMAN (M) STORE AND NEW RELEASE SESSIONS ON SEPTEMBER 20 While the words ‘long-awaited’ are bandied around regularly, this is one instance where it couldn’t be truer. Iconic hero and feminist icon Wonder Woman finally got her big-screen debut earlier this year. There was a lot riding on this action film from director Patty Jenkins (Monster), as fans of Diana Prince (aka Wonder Woman) theorised about how she would be reinvented for a modern audience. “I felt passionate about her not losing anything,” Jenkins says of her vision for the movie, which holds the honour of the best box office debut ever for a female director. “I wanted her to be everything that she wanted to be... beautiful, kind, loving, but also bad-arse, strong and amazing.” The reviews…

OUTLANDER (s3) EXPRESS Mondays from September 11 at 7.30pm on showcase [114] available in the DRAMA pack The birth of a man’s first child is a momentous event, but actor David Berry almost missed the arrival of his son last year. The star of Foxtel’s A Place to Call Home was travelling back from Scotland when he got an urgent text from wife Kristina Tesic. “The flight had wi-fi and my wife was texting me: ‘I don’t want to alarm you but I think I’m in labour’,” Berry (pictured) shares. “So of course I’m freaking out because I’m still about six hours away from Sydney on the flight.” Berry had been in Glasgow filming season three of time-travelling fantasy drama Outlander, based on Diana Gabaldon’s novel series, which makes its…

THE MOORSIDE on BBC First [117] available in the DRAMA pack. For screening time, check the EPG or visit foxtel.com.au/tvguide On paper, true crime drama The Moorside doesn’t look like the kind of program you’d expect to smash ratings records. But that’s what it did when it aired in the UK, with a staggering average of 10 million viewers making it the most-watched new drama in the region since 2012. The two-part series tells a new side to the real-life story surrounding the search for nine-year-old Shannon Matthews, who disappeared in 2008. What happened to Shannon made front-page news in Britain, and the twist in the tale saw Karen Matthews dubbed ‘Britain’s most hated mum’. In this dramatisation, Game of Thrones’ Gemma Whelan is unrecognisable as the seemingly grief-stricken Karen,…

ACTION/ADVENTURE THE A-TEAM 2010, Action/Adventure (M v) September 17, 18, 22, 30 Liam Neeson, Jessica Biel, Bradley Cooper, Sharlto Copley. When a colourful team of former soldiers are falsely set up for a crime, they must use their unique talents to complete their mission and clear their names. THE BODYGUARD WORLD MOVIES 2016, Hong Kong/China, Action Drama (MA 15+) September 28, 29 Dir. Sammo Kam-bo Hung Sammo Kam-Bo Hung, Jacqueline Chan, Zhu Yuchen. A retired bodyguard befriends the young girl who lives next door. When her life is threatened by a local crime lord and her family abandons her, the skilled bodyguard must call upon his long-forgotten talents to save her. CAPTAIN AMERICA:CIVIL WAR ACTION MOVIES 2016, Action/Adventure (M v) September 2 Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr After an incident…

LEAGUE LIFE continues Wednesdays at 7.30pm 2017 NRL TELSTRA PREMIERSHIP FINALS every final in September LIVE and ad-break free during play from Friday September 8 at 7pm, both on FOX LEAGUE [502] available in the SPORTS pack In the future, people will look back at 2017 and pinpoint it as the year rugby league changed the game. Back in March, FOX LEAGUE took flight – and the dedicated 24-hour NRL channel has been soaring ever since. This new home of rugby league represents a fresh approach to how the game is delivered to its most important stakeholders: the fans. NRL has always strived to be inclusive of everyone regardless of race, gender, class or anything else that sets people apart in the broader realm of society. It celebrates its blue…

The lap [at Singapore] is busy as there are not many points to rest, so it’s about putting it all together as it’s very tight, twisty and bumpy. You’ve also got to be smooth as the tyres overheat very easily. I try to avoid wheelspin, which can help you at the end of the lap. It’s a technical lap and you need to get as close as possible to the walls to push the car, so it’s like a controlled aggression. TURNS 1-3 It’s bumpy on braking here and important to use the exit kerb for a smooth line through Turn 2, quickly arriving at Turn 3. TURN 5 This is a critical corner to get right, as you exit onto the back straight, the fastest part of the circuit…

ENTERTAINMENT Last Night of the Proms 2017 In Britain, the BBC host classical concerts over eight weeks with the Proms mission statement declaring: “Offering the best quality music to the greatest possible number of people.” Indeed, the concerts are egalitarian, with standing room ticket prices an affordable £6 (AU$10). Chief conductor Sakari Oramo (pictured) leads this three-hour special screening of the final concert from the series, broadcast live from Royal Albert Hall, that includes BBC Singers, BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Symphony Chorus. Composer Lotta Wennäkoski launches the festivities, featuring the premiere of Lola Montez Does the Spider Dance by John Adams, while Zoltán Kodály’s Budavári Te Deum honours the Hungarian composer. The program also deftly weaves together performances of Jean Sibelius’s Finlandia (in its rarely heard choral version) and…

LIFESTYLE IF YOU LOVE THIS, WATCH... Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby Available On Demand There is something rather enticing and a little voyeuristic about observing the behind-the-scenes happenings at a luxury five-star hotel. Welcome to three-part documentary Inside the Mandarin Oriental, a look at all the goings-on at the 198-room Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park in London. The impressive building that has eclectic Franco-Flemish architecture on show opened its magnificent doors as a hotel in 1902. It’s where Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret learnt to ballroom dance, and where former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher held her 80th birthday party. Its staff have oodles of charm, as displayed when French concierge Francois-Xavier Girotto answers the phone in hilarious fashion: “Thank you so much for asking, I am always wonderful.”…