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Wednesday (Jun 10) Documentary - Culture shocks: Gross Food on NGA at 9.30pm

In some societies around the world, snacking on cockroaches, dining on worms and swallowing the still-beating heart of a snake are traditions and even considered delicacies. In this episode of Taboo, travel across cultural borders to explore extreme food customs that are acceptable in some cultures, but forbidden or reviled in others. In rural Vietnam, it is traditional to eat insects, such as a six-course meal of bee larvae, locusts, fried scorpions, silkworms, crickets and stinkbugs.

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THURSDAY (Jun 11)

Film - Rat Race on Cinema City at 9pm

Donald Sinclair owns the biggest, snazziest, flashiest, high rolling casino in Las Vegas. And to entertain some of his wealthiest patrons, he's staged the most original high stakes game that Sin City has ever seen! The contestants? Six teams. The jackpot? Two million dollars stuffed in a locker hundreds of miles away. The odds of winning? One in six. The rules? Well there's only one - get there first! What the racers don't know is that the tycoon and his rich buddies are betting on the outcome and are tracking every move the teams make.

FRIDAY (Jun 12)

Film - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street on Super Movies at 9pm

Based on true events, this darkly comic musical tale tells the story of London barber Benjamin Barker (Johnny Depp) unjustly sentenced to a prison term in Australia by a judge who covets Barker's wife. When Barker returns to England, he takes up his former profession, using the name Sweeney Todd - and slits the throats of customers who come into his shop. Now, while Sweeney confronts the problem of accumulating corpses, a local businesswoman (Helena Bonham Carter) finds a novel and enterprising use for the bodies . . . a bloody business that profits them both.

SATURDAY (Jun 13)

Film - The Salon on Super Movies at 9pm

Where you get more than just a hair cut! Jenny is being forced to sell her shop to the Department of Water and Power (DWP) due to eminent domain, and is being pressured into accepting the money they've offered for her property. Regardless of the legal advice Jenny receives, she refuses to let the corporate giant take the one remaining pillar of her inner city neighbourhood. She declines the money and decides to take on the DWP in court, all the while keeping the battle hidden from her outrageous employees and clientele.

SUNDAY (Jun 14)

Film - Boys on Star Movies at 8.30pm

John Baker Jr (Lucas Haas) is a high school senior outcast, weary of his upper-class boarding school life. His life is awakened when he finds Patty Vare (Winona Ryder), a young 20-something woman, lying unconscious in a field after being thrown from a horse while fleeing the police. Seeing this as an opportunity to break out of his mundane existence, he evades the cops by smuggling her into the school and taking care of her. But as their relationship blossoms into a love affair, John discovers that Patty is concealing a much darker secret that involves a missing famous baseball player.

MONDAY (Jun 15)

Film - The Punisher on Fox Movies at 9pm

Frank Castle (Thomas Jane) is a man who has seen too much death in his life, first as a Delta Force Op and later as an FBI special agent. On his final assignment, the operation spins out of control and a young man is inadvertently killed. This places the FBI on the wrong side of Tampa businessman Howard Saint (John Travolta), his wife Livia, and their underworld ties. Inflamed by the death of their son, the Saints are on a mission of blood vengeance. Frank's worst nightmare comes true when Howard and his lieutenants unleash hell at the Castle family reunion.

TUESDAY (Jun 16)

Documentary - Destroyed In Seconds on Discovery Channel at midnight

A front row seat into the implosions, explosions and devastation of tornados, hurricanes, crashing trains, dilapidated skyscrapers and more. Prepare to be amazed by these incredible spectacles of destruction, showcasing the mesmerising power of savage forces wreaking havoc and devastation. Witness a factory fire spewing deadly shrapnel, a nine-storey building collapsing in Russia and a helicopter crashing into a mountain.