Indholdsfortegnelse for April 2023 i Foxtel Magazine

If you’ve ever wondered how much better your house could be once designer extraordinaire Wendy Moore, landscaper Dennis Scott and the Selling Houses Australia team have worked their magic on it, then you’ll love our sneak peek at one of this season’s makeovers. FOXTEL magazine was given a special before-and-after tour by real estate guru Andrew Winter inside one of the show’s reno projects, which you have to see to believe. The trio also talks us through what we can expect from their 15th season, all from page 8. Also this month, new dad Bob Morley reveals how his character’s fertility struggles during season two of Foxtel Group-commissioned series Love Me hit close to home. Speaking of family, the Roys return for Succession’s final outing, while Bridget Everett tells us…

More than three decades after the world was rocked by one of the worst ever man-made disasters, Ben Fogle ventures where few have gone before: into the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. The British adventurer spends a week living in the long-abandoned Ukrainian town – which still records high levels of radiation – gaining unprecedented access to Reactor 4’s control room, from where the infamous core explosion was first detected during routine testing on the night of April 26, 1986. Due to the threat of radiation poisoning, Fogle and his crew were only permitted inside the toxic site for a maximum of five minutes. “You had to be tested with machines for radiation levels before, after and multiple times during,” Fogle explains of the safety procedures, adding: “You’re advised to burn your…

PALESTINE: LAST LIGHT HORSEMEN TELL ALL Historian Jonathan King speaks to veterans in this gripping examination of Australia’s involvement in WWI’s Battle of Beersheba – the last great cavalry charge in history, which resulted in the beginning of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI This Oscar-winning 1957 movie – widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time – follows a group of British soldiers who, during WWII, are held at a Japanese prison camp in Thailand. There, they are forced to construct a railway bridge – unaware the Allied Forces are planning a raid. KOKODA: THE SPIRIT LIVES This fascinating feature-length documentary is a modern look at the Kokoda story, taking viewers in the footsteps of the Australian and Papua New…

SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE (s2) Starts EXPRESS April 25, Tuesdays at 9.30pm and watch On Demand FOX SHOWCASE [112] Whether she’s onstage fronting her band, The Tender Moments, or commanding attention in a one-woman cabaret act, Bridget Everett is a brash, bold tour de force, telling wicked jokes and singing ribald ditties at the top of her lungs. But as the star of acclaimed semi-autobiographical dramedy Somebody Somewhere, Everett plays Sam, a stubborn yet vulnerable everywoman facing middle age with cynical resignation. Stuck in her small Kansas hometown with a barely functioning family and a well of unchannelled grief after the death of beloved sister Holly, Sam needs space to grieve and to breathe. She seems to find that path forward at the end of season one, buoyed by her growing friendship with former high-school classmate Joel…

NRL 2023 NRL TELSTRA PREMIERSHIP LIVE from Saturday April 1 at 2.30pm on FOX LEAGUE [502] April is serving up an NRL smorgasbord, with the ANZAC Day clash between the Roosters and Dragons a real highlight. The Eels are also on a mission to go one better than last year’s runner-up finish, and star halfback Mitchell Moses (pictured) is set for a bumper season. AFL 2023 TOYOTA AFL PREMIERSHIP LIVE from Thursday March 30 at 7pm on FOX FOOTY [504] The 2023 AFL season heads into overdrive this month. The action kicks off with the inaugural Gather Round from April 13-16. All 18 clubs will descend on South Australia for the festival no fan will want to miss. Then, defending premiers Geelong – served brilliantly by Tom Hawkins (pictured) –…

General Around the Horn [ESPN] 1 April 8am, 4.30pm 4-5 April 7am The Back Page [FOX SPORTS] 4, 11, 18, 25 April 7.30pm, 8.30pm, 9.30pm, 10.30pm First Take [ESPN] 1 April 1am 11, 13 April 12am, 7am 12 April 12am, 5am 14 April 12am 15 April 12am, 5.30am Get Up! [ESPN] 10 April 10pm 11, 13 April 5am, 10pm 12 April 3am, 10pm 14 April 6.30am, 10pm 15 April 3.30am In Depth with Graham Bensinger [ESPN] 1 April 5am, 9am, 4pm 2 April 8am, 1pm 5 April 12.30pm 8-10, 12 April 8am Pardon the Interruption [ESPN] 1 April 8.30am, 5pm 4-5 April 7.30am The Point [ESPN] 5 April 9am 12-14 April 8.30am SC: Australia and NZ [ESPN] 5 April 9.30am 7 April 9am SportsCenter [ESPN] 1 April 4am, 2.30pm 4 April…

THE WAR: AUSTRALIA’S BIKIE KILLINGS Wednesday April 26 at 7.30pm on Crime + Investigation [135] and watch On Demand Over the course of 18 months, Sydney’s streets were besieged by the worst gang wars in a generation, resulting in 13 deaths. This gripping doco, produced by The Daily Telegraph, takes viewers behind the headlines to reveal what caused the bloodshed. KIRSTIE & PHIL’S LOVE IT OR LIST IT (s7) Starts April 19, Wednesdays at 9.35pm on LifeStyle [106] and watch On Demand Phil Spencer and Kirstie Allsopp travel the UK, from West Sussex to Wandsworth, Buckinghamshire to Poole. Can Allsopp work within their homeowners’ budgets to breathe new life into their old homes or will Spencer convince them to move on?…

They were the English rock band from Liverpool that stormed the world in the ’60s to become one of the most influential bands of all time. By their own admission, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr could never have predicted the pandemonium known as Beatlemania that would greet them wherever they went, the likes of which has not been seen to such an extent since. In this film, insiders close to ‘the Fab Four’, including Pete Best – the band’s initial drummer, who was let go in favour of Starr shortly before they found global fame – engineer Norman Smith and Bill Harry, the editor of local Liverpudlian music magazine Mersey Beat, among others, reveal how their whirlwind success saw them go from landing their first hit…

SELLING HOUSES AUSTRALIA (s15) Wednesdays at 8.30pm and watch On Demand LifeStyle [106] Meeting with homeowners who are having trouble selling their homes is a pretty standard day’s work for the Selling Houses Australia team, but trying to sell these homes in a declining market? And on the back of a record year of house sales across the country that had filled potential sellers with high hopes of making a very tidy profit? “All I’m going to say for the viewers is that this season is not typical,” longtime host and property expert Andrew Winter (pictured left) tells FOXTEL magazine. “We have quite a lot of things that didn’t go to plan.” Indeed, in season 15 of the popular program, viewers will see firsthand the sweat, tears and challenges that Winter, landscape…

Can a nun battle malevolent tech, save humanity and resist temptation at the same time? Sister Simone (Betty Gilpin, pictured) needs to be in the habit of doing all three in Mrs. Davis, the new sci-fi drama from Tara Hernandez (Young Sheldon, watch On Demand) and Damon Lindelof (Watchmen, watch On Demand). Mysterious AI Mrs Davis has been gathering acolytes, and not in a good faith kind of way – people are getting hurt. Luckily for Simone, her ex Wiley (Jake McDorman) is aligned with her goal of taking down Mrs Davis, but teaming up again brings complications. For Gilpin, who earned three Emmy nominations as spandex-clad wrestler Debbie ‘Liberty Belle’ Eagan in Netflix drama GLOW (watch via the FOXTEL* home screen), dressing down in a religious habit should have…

PLANET EARTH EARTH WEEK From Monday April 17 from 7.30pm and watch On Demand BBC Earth [134] When it comes to stunning visual displays, it’s hard to beat those produced by Mother Nature. With that in mind, to mark Earth Day on April 22, BBC Earth is treating viewers to a week-long feast of documentaries and series premieres showcasing the wondrous world around us, from the depths of the ocean to the tallest peaks and beyond. Here, we look at highlights from the awe-inspiring line-up. THE GREEN PLANET It’s hard to think of the growth of plants as being particularly action-packed, but Sir David Attenborough’s five-part series The Green Planet – filmed over three years and across 27 countries – seeks to change that. Thanks to time-lapse photography, drones and specially designed camera…

LOVE ME (s2) Starts April 6, Thursdays from 8.30pm and watch On Demand FOX SHOWCASE [112] Season one of AACTA- and Logie-nominated multigenerational Aussie drama Love Me broke the mould in more ways than one. From a family fractured by grief who each found love unexpectedly at perhaps the worst possible time – and how they dealt with the subsequent guilt – to some rather risqué senior love scenes, it was candid, raw, honest and, above all, relatable. Returning this month, the Foxtel Group-commissioned series picks up nine months down the track, as exes Aaron (William Lodder) and Ella (Shalom Brune-Franklin) become first-time parents in their early 20s. Having distanced herself from the complicated situation, Jesse (Mitzi Ruhlmann) returns and she and Aaron try to make a go of their relationship, with…

SUCCESSION (s4) Starts March 27, Mondays EXPRESS at 1pm*, Encore at 8.30pm and watch On Demand FOX SHOWCASE [112] For all the ups and downs Succession’s Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong) has shown in his never-ending battle against dad Logan (Brian Cox) to control the Waystar Royco empire, his siblings have demonstrated a steadiness in their own temperaments. Eldest sibling Connor (Alan Ruck) has long turned his back on business in favour of arts and politics, baby brother Roman (Kieran Culkin) has toadied up to Daddy with fast talk and sarcasm, while only sister Shiv (Sarah Snook) has tried to manoeuvre with a level head. “Shiv is really allowing her power to come out and seeing where her position is the strongest,” Snook notes. “She’s not going to blow it all up just to win…