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Sydney Morning Herald

Monday May 26, 2008

Robin Oliver

Happy Birthday, Kylie

Max, from 10am

Back to back Kylie Minogue (pictured) as Max celebrates the popstar's 40th birthday with seven hours of highlights and hits from her career. From the early days of Locomotion and I Should Be So Lucky, the tribute continues with gold hot pants in Spinning Around to Can't Get You Out of My Head and 2 Hearts. In addition, Max is sending Yumi Styles to accompany the winner of a Kylie competition to Munich to see the birthday girl in concert. Winner and friend will go backstage to present Kylie with a birthday cake and greetings cards from Australia. On Saturday and Sunday between noon and 4pm, Max is screening two further Kylie programs, which will include the Homecoming and Showgirl concerts.

The Girl In The Cafe

(2005) Hallmark, 8.30pm

Easy to run out of superlatives for this heartwarming TV drama from Richard Curtis (Notting Hill, The Vicar of Dibley, Four Weddings And A Funeral). Featuring Bill Nighy and the equally incomparable Kelly Macdonald (Trainspotting, Gosford Park, State Of Play). Amusing, touchingly romantic and, while highly improbable, it's a powerful and considered amen-to-that handling of serious matters. Nighy is delightful as a brilliant, incredibly diffident senior public servant. He slips out of the office for a cup of tea and in a crowded cafe begs a seat at a table where Gina (Macdonald) is the sole occupant. Matchmaking to drool over, delivered with humour and purpose upon which to marvel.

Inspector Gadget

Boomerang, 5.30pm

The appeal of the bumbling Gadget in his never-ending battle with crime and corruption and his arch-enemy, Dr Claw, is that when it comes to the crunch, he can always depend on an incredible array of gadgets to get him out of scrapes. Gadget's incompetence knows no bounds. The nearest he ever gets to capturing Claw is in the opening segment of each episode when he confidently handcuffs a decoy metal glove, only to have it explode in his face.

Leo Schofield In Conversation With Andre Rieu

Ovation, 7pm

Australia is awash with publicity for Andre Rieu, the ever-smiling Dutchman with a violin tucked under his chin, for he and his orchestra will visit later this year for a series of lavishly staged concerts and the time has come to get bums on seats. Leo Schofield got in first with this revealing interview, in which he meets waltz king Rieu at the gates of his grand 14th-century home in Maastricht. Leo is given breakfast in the same room where D'Artagnan of the Three Musketeers had his last meal before his death in the battle of Maastricht.

© 2008 Sydney Morning Herald

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