Flip through the latest issue of Gulf Weekly.
wednesday (Jan 9)Docu/series - A Place in France on BBC Prime at 9.30pm
Journalist Nigel Farrell and his friend Nippi Singh set off in search of a dream; to buy and renovate an old house to share as a family holiday home in France.
Follow their adventure they struggle as one dream turns into another and the two find that being friends doesn't always mix well with business.
THURSDAY (Jan 10)
Series - Cutting It on BBC Prime at 10pm
A series revolving around a hair dressing salon in Manchester, Cutting It is drama at its best. In the best traditions of soap operas, this series is full of love and betrayal, plotting and back-stabbing. Follow the lives of salon owners Allie and Gavin as the battle through the everyday tribulations that life and business bring.
FRIDAY (Jan 11)
Film - Idiocracy on Star Movies at 8.30pm
In 2005, Pvt Joe Bowers (Luke Wilson) is a soldier chosen to take part in a secret military experiment in which he will be put into induced hibernation, along with Rita (Maya Rudolph) - a prostitute who's been ordered to do community service. Bowers and Rita are forgotten when the military base where the experiment takes place is closed down and when they wake up in the year 2505, Bowers finds himself living in a society where intelligence has taken such a landslide he's now the smartest man in the world.
SATURDAY (Jan 12)
Documentary - The Toilet Men on NGC at 3pm
This is a story about four individuals from four different cultures, each fighting a deep-seated taboo in their society while attempting to revolutionise toilet habits - a subject that their societies would rather not discuss in polite company. Jack Sim can be called the stereotypical Singaporean who waits for a cue from his government to initiate anything. He has taken it upon himself to campaign for clean toilets, but only after he heard his Prime Minister lamenting the state of them. Jack fights a hard-to-break habit and faces public ridicule but has the backing of the bureaucrats, even when he wants to start what everyone said was a pipe dream - a World Toilet College. Jack's battle is a clever satire on Singapore.
SUNDAY (Jan 13)
Film - Rebound on Star Movies at 8.30pm
Old school meets middle school in this family comedy starring Martin Lawrence as hotshot college basketball coach Roy McCormack. After Roy throws a very public temper tantrum, he's banned from college basketball for the rest of the season. To redeem himself, he takes on the job of coaching a junior high school team comprised of unfit misfits and streetwise thugs.
MONDAY (Jan 14)
Documentary - Tribal Odyssey: The Dinka on NGC at 10pm.
The dancing begins just after sunrise as the thump of a drum splits the cool morning air in the Mangalatore camp in the vast Savannah of southern Sudan, Africa. A bull's horn wails and a swell of song fills the air. Young men run and leap - this is a traditional Dinka dowry dance. During the dance, men try to jump the highest to impress the women and family of the new bride-to-be. Learn all about The Dinka people, their belief systems and their rituals.
TUESDAY (Jan 15)
Film - Big Trouble In Little China on Star Movies at 8.30pm
When trucker Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) agreed to take his friend, Wang Chi, to pick up his fiancŽe at the airport, he never expected to get involved in a supernatural battle between good and evil. Wang's fiancŽe has emerald green eyes, which make her a perfect target for immortal sorcerer Lo Pan and his three invincible cronies. Lo Pan must marry a girl with green eyes so he can regain his physical form. Now, Jack must save Wang's fiancŽe. But how can he defeat an enemy that has no body?
