Indholdsfortegnelse for October 2022 i Foxtel Magazine

THE WALKING DEAD (s11C) Starts October 3, Mondays EXPRESS at 5pm, ENCORE at 9.30pm and watch On Demand FOX SHOWCASE [112] When horror-drama hybrid The Walking Dead, based on the popular comic-book series, premiered in 2010, the focus was on Andrew Lincoln’s Rick Grimes, a sheriff’s deputy who wakes from a coma to find himself living in an undead apocalypse. He went on to be more than just a survivor, emerging as a provider, warrior, romantic and leader. Twelve years on, dozens of compelling characters have journeyed through the critically acclaimed franchise, the anchor series of which heads into its final eight-episode stretch this month. “At the end of the day, zombies are such a key, fun part of it, but it has never just been about zombies,” showrunner Angela Kang tells FOXTEL magazine…

HOUSE OF HAMMER Saturday October 8 from 9.30pm on Investigation Discovery (ID) [136] and watch On Demand When text messages sent by The Social Network (watch On Demand) star Armie Hammer to various women – detailing fantasies involving violence, rape and cannibalism – were leaked on Instagram in January 2021, it was just the beginning. In the weeks that followed, others joined the chorus with shocking accounts of abuse and manipulation, while the original poster, Effie Angelova, accused the married Golden Globe winner of violently raping her over a period of four hours in 2017. But, as must-see docuseries House of Hammer reveals, this sordid Hollywood scandal is just the latest chapter in the saga of a rich and powerful dynasty mired in controversy. “Magnify Succession a million times and it was my…

KING RICHARD Saturday October 8 at 8.30pm and watch On Demand Foxtel Movies Premiere [401] Oscar-winner Will Smith and Oscar-nominated Aunjanue Ellis (Lovecraft Country, watch On Demand) star as Richard and Oracene ‘Brandy’ Williams – the parents of tennis greats Venus (Saniyya Sidney) and Serena (Demi Singleton) – in King Richard. But while the film’s focus is on Richard and his 78-page plan to write his daughters into the history books, when they jointly received the Santa Barbara International Film Festival’s Outstanding Performers of the Year Award, the actors revealed that both parents contributed to their daughters’ success. Will, what made you want to take on this role? WILL SMITH: The timing felt so perfect, and Venus and Serena and the Williams family were involved from the beginning, so the textures of…

REPCO SUPERCARS CHAMPIONSHIP: BATHURST 1000 LIVE from Wednesday October 5. For session times, check the EPG FOX SPORTS 506 Chaz Mostert knows how tough racing at Mount Panorama can be. In 2014, he started from the very back of the grid at the Bathurst 1000 following an infringement in qualifying, yet managed to win it. The following year, a colossal crash in qualifying saw him airlifted to hospital with a broken leg and wrist. In 2021, Mostert again experienced the high of Australia’s great race by being fastest in qualifying and leading all the way to claim the Bathurst 1000 for a second time. Now he returns to the mountain knowing it’s a fine line between triumph and disaster, but the Walkinshaw Andretti United driver is steeled for more success, as…

They may have been strangers when they were cast to front LifeStyle’s new home-renovation series Selling in the City but, as Paddy Milne and Rosie Morley tell FOXTEL magazine, they quickly became fast friends. And luckily so. Spending so much time on the road filming the series, they were separated from their loved ones which, at times, proved challenging. “I have a fiancée, Renae, and a two-year-old little girl, Maddison,” Milne explains. “It’s particularly hard at that age [being away]. Earlier on, they don’t really have too much concept of time and whether you’re home or away all that often, but now that she’s past two, she’s onto it and aware how often I’m away, so it makes things a little bit trickier. But always, the thing that I love…

From the moment it roared back onto our screens, Game of Thrones prequel House of the Dragon – which has been renewed for a second season – gripped audiences with its familiar tale of the ruthless pursuit of ultimate power, graphic and gruesome bloodshed, overt nudity and extravagant costumery. This month marks the final episodes of the first outing, in which a bitter war of succession known as the Dance of the Dragons is waged between Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen (Emma D’Arcy) and her former closest confidante-turned-stepmother, Queen Alicent Hightower (Olivia Cooke). Determined to see her firstborn son, Aegon Targaryen (Tom Glynn-Carney), rule the Seven Kingdoms per his birthright as King Viserys I Targaryen’s (Paddy Considine) first surviving son over his older half-sister, Alicent proves obsessed in her quest. “It’s centred…

THE WINCHESTERS Starts EXPRESS October 12, Wednesdays at 8.30pm and watch On Demand FOX8 [108] When hugely popular fantasy series Supernatural ended in 2020 after an epic 15-season run, fans were left clinging to the hope that the fright-filled world of demon-battling brothers Dean (Jensen Ackles) and Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki) would one day be revisited. It turns out they didn’t have to wait long, with prequel series The Winchesters – co-created and executive produced by Ackles and wife Danneel, who played Sister Jo/Anael in the original – premiering this month. Narrated by Ackles as Dean, it’s centred around the siblings’ parents, John (Drake Rodger) and Mary (Meg Donnelly), telling the story of how they met, fell in love and risked everything to save the world from dark forces hell-bent on destroying it. “After…

THE NORTHMAN (MA 15+) Years after his uncle Fjölnir (Claes Bang) kills his father (Ethan Hawke) and kidnaps his mother (Nicole Kidman), viking prince Amleth (Alexander Skarsgård, pictured) seeks revenge in this adaptation of the Norse legend that inspired Shakespeare’s Hamlet.  Saturday October 22 at 8.30pm on Movies Premiere [401] AFTER YANG (PG) Jake (Colin Farrell) seeks to repair his daughter’s (Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja) decadesold android companion, Yang (Justin H Min, all pictured with Jodie Turner-Smith, second from left), discovering a video log of its memories in the process. Sunday October 23 at 8.30pm on Movies Premiere [401] THE DUKE (M) Jim Broadbent (pictured with Dame Helen Mirren) stars as unlikely real-life hero Kempton Bunton, who in 1965 confessed to stealing Francisco Goya’s Portrait of the Duke of Wellington as part of a crusade against…

WOMEN IN SPORT AWARDS LIVE Sunday October 16 at 7.30pm FOX SPORTS 505 From rugby league player Jessica Sergis’s on-field dynamics to Aussie rules gun Chloe Molloy’s midfield power and star netballer Kiera Austin’s attacking dominance, Australian sportswomen are having more than a moment. These three charismatic athletes are just some of the talents making their mark on the Australian sporting landscape as we celebrate the Women’s Health Women in Sport Awards, exclusively broadcast live and ad-break free on FOX SPORTS. Jessica Sergis NRLW NRL TELSTRA WOMEN’S PREMIERSHIP: SEMIFINALS LIVE Sunday September 25 on FOX LEAGUE [502]. For game times, check the EPG When Jessica Sergis started playing rugby league, she was the only girl at her club – an all too familiar story for our young female athletes. “I just thought rugby league was…

ON THE ROAD GORDON, GINO & FRED’S ROAD TRIP (S3) Starts October 19, Wednesdays at 9.30pm and watch On Demand LifeStyle [106] From seafood on Crete to souvlaki in Athens and truffles in Meteora, the two-part latest instalment in this series sees chefs Gordon Ramsay and Gino D’Acampo, and maitre d’ Fred Sirieix get up to all sorts as they graze the vast meze platter that is Greece. “When you think of Greece, it’s never at the forefront on that gastronomic, culinary map in Europe,” says Ramsay. “But this trip has confirmed it deserves to sit in amongst the very best.” ISLANDS IN THE SUN After diving for clawless lobster – or “slap arses” – in the azure waters of Crete, crashing an electric tuktuk and trying their hand at sheep cheese-filled…

AVENUE 5 (s2) Coming EXPRESS. For screening times, check the EPG or visit foxtel.com.au/tvguide FOX SHOWCASE [112] After a catastrophic error in judgement at the culmination of season one saw Karen (Rebecca Front) jettison the Avenue 5’s excess weight out of the port side of the ship rather than the stern, the intergalactic misadventure for the passengers and crew aboard the luxury space vessel was extended – to a whopping eight years! When the action picks back up this month, it’s anyone’s guess just what state fraudulent captain Ryan Clark (Hugh Laurie), his motley crew and despondent space tourists will be in, their will to go on – and food supplies! – fading fast with every slowly passing day. “This is the craziest thing I have ever been a part of,” says Josh…

KIDS’ CORNER SHRIEKTOBER  From Saturday October 22 to Friday October 28 from 4pm to 7pm and all day and night from Saturday October 29 to Monday October 31 on Cartoon Network [713] and watch On Demand This spooky season, Cartoon Network transforms with fun Halloween-themed episodes of Jellystone, We Baby Bears and more, along with movie premieres Happy Halloween, Scooby-Doo! and Scooby-Doo! The Sword and the Scoob. HALLOWEEN STUNT Monday October 31 from 12.30pm on Nick Jr [703] and watch On Demand Settle in for a five-hour marathon featuring some of your favourite All Hallows’ Eve-themed episodes of shows including Baby Shark’s Big Show!, Blaze and the Monster Machines, Santiago of the Seas, Blue’s Clues & You! and PAW Patrol. FAMILY FRIGHTS HALLOWSCREAM! From Saturday October 29 from 7.30pm on Foxtel Movies Family [403] and watch On Demand Over…

SELLING IN THE CITY Starts October 19, Wednesdays at 8.30pm and watch On Demand LifeStyle [106] With the cost of living rising and more of us turning to inner city apartments, townhouses and other small residences, making the most of tight spaces and stretching budgets has become an artform. Just ask award-winning interior designer Rosie Morley and landscape expert Paddy Milne, whose new show Selling in the City is a fresh take on your typical home renovation series for a “more millennial” crowd. “We’re obviously very lucky to be launching our brand off the back of Selling Houses Australia and there are probably some similarities,” Milne tells FOXTEL magazine. “But at the same time, it’s a new concept. We’re going around the suburb and finding out about the people and what makes…

THIS IS GOING TO HURT Starts October 5, Wednesdays at 8.30pm and watch On Demand BBC First [119] If you’ve ever wondered what is really going through your doctor’s mind while you’re being treated in hospital, BBC First limited series This Is Going to Hurt pulls back the curtain to reveal – warts and all – exactly this. And it may make you wish you’d never asked! Based on the autobiographical book by Adam Kay, the seven-part dramedy stars Ben Whishaw (Paddington 2, watch On Demand) as the junior doctor working on an NHS labour ward, stretched to the limit both physically and emotionally. It’s a raw, unfiltered examination of a very flawed medical system. “[Adam is] someone who’s really trying to do good but also deal with his own flaws, foibles,…

For 100 years, people all over the world have turned to the BBC, a pioneer of public broadcasting with a mission to “inform, educate, entertain”. “We are the first public service broadcaster to reach the age of 100 and it’s an opportunity for us to celebrate all the unique things the BBC brings to the world,” James Stirling, executive editor of BBC 100, tells FOXTEL magazine. “We’re incredibly proud of our history, but it’s also a really good opportunity to think about the BBC as the here, the now and the future. We are going to celebrate with a year of incredible moments and content, and really focus on the things that the BBC does for our audiences. “[We’re also] interested in the next 100 years and how we can…

MARGARET’S TOP PICK WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING (M) Available from October 12 This adaptation of Delia Owens’ bestselling novel stars Daisy Edgar-Jones (pictured) as Kya – or ‘Marsh Girl’, as the local townsfolk disparagingly call her. When the son (Harris Dickinson) of a prominent local family is found dead in the marshes, Kya is arrested for his murder and small-town lawyer Tom Milton (David Strathairn) decides to defend her. While she’s in prison, the film flashes back to various periods in Kya’s life – her abandonment by her family, her knack for survival, her friendship with a local couple (Sterling Macer Jr and Michael Hyatt) who give her provisions in exchange for the mussels she brings them. We also see the significance of her friendship with Tate (Taylor John Smith)…