The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • Page 229

THIS WEEK TV REVIEWS RACHEL BROWNE ALL SAINTS Tuesday, Channel 7, 8.30pm Catholic guilt looms large in this episode in which a young lad is admitted to hospital suffering a nasty injury to his nether regions. Is God punishing Adam Stone (Mitchell McMahon)? The housemaster at his Catholic boys' school seems to think so. Meanwhile a sighting of the ghost of Nurse Sophie Williams, INSIDE STORY: ROMANCING THE CHAKRA Tuesday, ABC, 8.30pm Feeling a little spiritually bereft? Inner child having a tantrum? Tune in to this entertaining film in which a number of people search for fulfilment using various New Age techniques. And wait until you meet the practitioners: a veritable coven of shamans. recently deceased in a murder-suicide, opens old wounds.

Thankfully hospital clown Connor (Jeremy Cumpston) is on hand to add a dash of levity to the story due to his amorous adventures with an acupuncturist man behind Scream and Know What You Did Last Summer and their sequels sets a serial killer loose on Capeside as Dawson Leery (antes Van der Beek) plans his Friday the 15th party. Spooky. Then, while the party is in full swing, the lights suddenly go out. Gasp. Fortunately, the blood and guts we're accustomed to seeing in Williamson's big screen work are not in evidence here but those in-jokes he's famous for are.

FITZ Tuesday, Channel 7, 9.30pm Robert Pastorelli is no Robbie Coltrane. Fit: is not Cracker. Then again, it's not a complete fizzer either. Actually, it helps a lot if you don't compare the two. This American version of the gritty UK police drama features Pastorelli as a hard-living criminal psychologist who lectures at university for a living between helping the police crack cases.

In this instalment he uses one of his students to delve deeper into a murder. Sr I VJiMl the world but what of Chiune Sugihara? The Japanese consul general stationed in Lithuania in 1940 is the rescuer of the second largest number of lews from the Holocaust. Visas And Virtue, the short film airing in this final instalment of Short And Sweet, is the pared-back. starkly-shot story of his life. The winner of the Academy Award for Best Short Film in 1998.

it might not be the best movie ever but the story is most intriguing. DAWSON'S CREEK Tuesday, Channel 10, 8.30pm Dawson's Creek creator Kevin Williamson gets back to his slasher film roots in this episode. The HP VERONICA'S CLOSET Monday, Channels, 8.30pm Ohmigod! Ronnie's (Kirstie Alley) lingerie business has been taken over by a rank amateur who wants to superimpose the heads of aliens on models and run with the slogan: "Women may be from Venus but they still need Ronnie falls into a wretched heap, wrings her hands and whines. Maybe it's the stress of having to act opposite real-life on-off partner lames Wilder as the young wannabe CEO. Whatever.

This series seems to have lost some of its sass but is still good for a few chuckles. SHORT AND SWEET Monday, ABC, 9.20pm Oskar Schindler's name is recognised throughout spirit channellers. astrol -ogers. rebirthers and tarot readers. For cynics, the film also poses questions about the effectiveness of such therapies.

Introduced by New Age guru Deepak Chopra. SUNDAY BEST off at 2pm with pre-match and post-match interviews ano analysis, it motor racing is more vour speec' Sunercars have rptnmprf tn Eastern Creek after a two-year break. Channel 10's direct two-hour coverage revs up at 3pm. Commentators are Barry Sheene, Leigh Diffey and Mark Oastler. Break out the red and white for round one of the AFU pitching the Sydney Swans against Port Adelaide at the Sydney Cricket Ground.

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