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English crime drama at its finest ... season one of The Interceptor premieres on BBC First.

This week’s new and returning Foxtel shows including The Interceptor, MasterChef, Ex On The Beach, Game Of Thrones S1-5, Graceland, The Great Chelsea Garden Challenge and the Bledisloe Cup.

A law-enforcement officer finally gets a chance to fulfil his dream of taking down the underworld’s biggest players in The Interceptor.

See how HBO’s epic tale of violence and corruption concludes in season two finale of True Detective.

Enjoy all 50 episodes of Game of Thrones from the very beginning as showcase screens seasons 1-5 weeknights from Monday.

We pay tribute to one of the world’s most beloved comedians during Inside The Actors Studio: Robin Williams and doco Robin Williams.

The search is on for the next MasterChef champion during season 11 of the hit cooking contest.

Get ready for more devious dating drama and some seriously sexy singletons in Ex On The Beach.

Follow the high-stakes lives of six undercover federal agents who live together in a Californian beachfront house in Graceland.

World Movies presents a series of films that are so bad they’re good including Striptease, Welcome To Woop Woop and Road House.

There are also new seasons of Girl Meets Gown, Swamp People, Richard Hammond’s Wild Weather, The Great Chelsea Garden Challenge, Donut Showdown, The Auction House, The Amazing Race and Chasing Monsters.

The Wallabies will face their toughest challenge when they take on the All Blacks in Auckland for the second Bledisloe Cup match.

And it’s a huge week in sport with the AFL, the NRL and more.

Continuing series: Ray Donovan (showcase), Penny Dreadful (showcase), Hannibal (showcase), Village Vets Australia (The LifeStyle Channel), Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell (BBC First), The Firm (SoHo), I Am Cait (E!), Orange Is The New Black (showcase), Bitten (FOX8), Rogue (BBC First), From Dusk Till Dawn (FX), Suits (Universal Channel), Dark Matter (FOX8), Atlantis (FOX8), Pretty Little Liars (FOX8), Sleepy Hollow (FOX8).

Foxtel Movies: Insurgent, Unfinished Business, The Duff.

Enjoy!
- Charles Purcell

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Monday, August 10   All times AEST

MotoGP: Indianapolis (LIVE) – FOX Sports, 12.30am
With the practice and warm-up over, it’s time for the races coming at you LIVE.

Cycling: Eneco Tour (LIVE) – Eurosport
The 11th edition of the Eneco Tour gets under way in another thrilling instalment of the seven-stage race through the Netherlands and Belgium.

Swamp People, Season 6 – A&E, 4pm
The swampers fight massive alligators and Mother Nature attempting to win the bounty on the Bayou. One hunter heads deep into the swamp to catch a legendary reptile while another seeks advice from his mother.

It's back ... relive every episode of Game Of Thrones from the beginning on showcase.

Game Of Thrones, Season 1-5 – showcase, weeknights at 5.30pm
Go back to where it all began. Watch for the first time or relive every thrilling episode to date in showcase's new weeknight encore of S1-5.

The Art Of Spiegelman (doco) – Foxtel Arts, 7.30pm
This is a portrait of Pulitzer Prize winner Art Spiegelman, who was a major figure in the underground comics movement of the 1960s and '70s.

True Detective, Season 2 finale – showcase, 3.30pm/7.30pm encore
See how HBO’s epic tale of murder, corruption and deceit concludes.

Tales From The Royal Wardrobe (doco) – Bio, 7.30pm
Lucy Worsley uncovers the artefacts and stories surrounding the royal household past and present, revealing how their wardrobes, tours, servants and mistresses defined their legacy.

Inside The Actors Studio: Robin Williams – Bio, 8.30pm
This memorable episode will touch the hearts of his fans. Robin Williams almost single-handedly paved the way for comedians who wanted to take their comedic timing and successfully turn it towards the world of drama.

WM Cult: Best Of The Worst (movie series) – World Movies, Monday-Friday, 9.30pm
Hosted by Andrew Mercado, World Movies presents a series of films that are so bad they’re good, as we showcase five of the world’s best bad films.
Monday: Striptease
Tuesday: The Room
Wednesday: Welcome To Woop Woop
Thursday: Road House
Friday: Deep Throat

MasterChef, Season 11 – LifeStyle FOOD, 9.30pm
Forty fantastically talented amateur cooks are through to battle it out over four weeks of heats, producing some of the most inspiring, exceptional, unusual and disastrous food ever seen on the series.

Tuesday, August 11   All times AEST

Bhutan: The Last Shangri-La (doco) – Nat Geo Wild, 7.30pm
Nature and religion have combined to turn a tiny Buddhist kingdom into the world’s last Shangri-La. For the people who have adapted to its extremes, respect for life endures like the land itself.

Knights, Season 1 – HISTORY, 7.30pm
Who and what were the knights? How did they live? Castle-builders, royal henchmen, battle-enthusiasts and holy warriors all rolled into one, they are among history's enigmas.

The Art Of Australia – Foxtel Arts, 7.30pm
The Art of Australia is a stunning three-part landmark series on how art and artists helped to shape Australia's national identity.

Tribute to a comedy legend ... the life of the late television and movie star will be remembered during Robin Williams on Bio.

Robin Williams (doco) – Bio, 8.30pm
Take a commemorative look at the career of the actor-comedian who became one of the world's most loved entertainers.

The Graham Norton Show, Season 17 – BBC UKTV, 8.30pm
BAFTA Award-winning comedian Norton hosts this hit talk show on which he discusses the people, trends and news stories that interest him the most.

Don’t Tell The Bride, Season 1 – LifeStyle YOU, 8.30pm
Groom Andrew plans a fun-packed, big-top wedding to transport his fiancée Jenni away from their troubled lives. Can he get his act together in time to deliver the wonderland wedding his bride desires?

Richard Hammond’s Wild Weather, S1 – National Geographic Channel, 8.30pm
Weather: it’s big, it’s beautiful and it’s wild. Tornadoes, sandstorms and flash floods take air, earth and water and transform them into something spectacular. Richard Hammond gets right in among real weather to uncover the unexplained, the unexpected and the just plain unlikely.

Jodie Marsh On… Virginity – TLC, 9.30pm
Jodie takes an in-depth look at society's attitude to the value of virginity. She explores abstinence by speaking to those who preach purity and show sexual restraint.

The Great Chelsea Garden Challenge, Season 1 – The LifeStyle Channel, 9.30pm
Six amateurs designers compete to win the biggest prize in gardening ... to design and build a garden on Main Avenue at this year's RHS Chelsea Flower show.

The Great War Begins (doco) – HISTORY, 10.30pm
The Great War Begins encapsulates the human stories at the heart of the outbreak of war. Each vignette has been chosen because it reveals the human impact of war.

Wednesday, August 12   All times AEST

Insurgent (new release movie) – Foxtel Box Office
Beatrice Prior must confront her inner demons and continue her fight against a powerful alliance which threatens to tear her society apart with the help from others on her side.

The Duff (new release movie) – Foxtel Box Office
A high school senior instigates a social pecking order revolution after finding out that she has been labelled the DUFF … Designated Ugly Fat Friend … by her prettier, more popular counterparts.

Unfinished Business (new release movie) – Foxtel Box Office
A hard-working small business owner and his two associates travel to Europe to close the most important deal of their lives. But what began as a routine business trip goes off the rails in every way imaginable ... and unimaginable.

Motorsport: British Elite Speedway (LIVE) – FOX Sports, 4.30am
LIVE action from the prestigious event.

Meet Amy ... she's just one of the new crop of sexy singletons in season three of Sex On The Beach on MTV.

Ex On The Beach, Season 3 – MTV, 8.50am
Get ready for more devious dating drama and some seriously sexy singletons because television's most devious dating show is back.

Edison (doco) – HISTORY, 7.30pm
He invented the light bulb, the phonograph, the movie camera and the nickel-iron-alkaline storage battery. By the time of his death, Thomas Alva Edison could lay claim to 1093 successful US patents. But perhaps his greatest invention was himself.

The Interceptor, S1 – BBC First, 8.30pm
Marcus Ashton is a law-enforcement officer who takes crime personally. He’s committed and uncompromising in fighting it on the same streets where he grew up. After 15 frustrating years of low-level drug busts, he finally gets a chance to fulfil his dream of taking down the underworld’s biggest players when he’s recruited by the Undercover Narcotics Intelligence Team.

People Just Do Nothing, Season 1 – Channel [V], 9.30pm
This mockumentary series follows the highs and lows of one of West London’s most talked-about pirate radio stations (within a 0.3-kilometre radius of the transmitter): Kurupt FM.

The Fantastic Mr Feynman (doco) – HISTORY, 9.30pm
Twenty-five years after the death of the brilliant and charismatic Richard Feynman, this fascinating film explores the remarkable life of the Nobel Prize winner who was one of the greatest scientists of the 20th Century.

Thursday, August 13   All times AEST

American Pickers, Season 8 – A&E, 7.30pm
In Louisiana, Danielle calls the shots from HQ when the guys are in over their heads. Frank strikes a side deal that leaves a permanent mark.

Africa’s Deadliest, Season 2 – Nat Geo Wild, 7.30pm
There is no peace in Africa for nature's giant killers. Hippo, elephant, buffalo and others battle it out to become Africa's deadliest. There will be blood.

The Night The Iron Curtain Closed (doco) – HISTORY, 7.30pm
In the dead of night, one of Europe's largest cities has been divided by the beginnings of what the world will come to know as the Berlin Wall: a structure that will define the European landscape and world politics for the next 30 years.

Dragons’ Den, Season 12 – BBC Knowledge, 8.30pm
Follow budding entrepreneurs who get only three minutes to pitch their business ideas to five “Dragons” willing to invest their own millions.

Girl Meets Gown, Season 1 – Style, 8.30pm

At the largest bridal salon in America, see the lengths extraordinary Southern brides will go to, the thousands they will pay and the staff who'll stop at nothing make their wedding dreams come true.

OJ: Trial Of The Century (doco) – CI Network, 8.30pm
The People vs. OJ Simpson was the first of its kind. This is the story of how the murder of two human beings became the first nationally televised soap opera, a story of tangled and salacious plot lines that would beget countless others.

Undercover action ... federal agents fight crime in season three of Graceland on SoHo.
 
Graceland, Season 3 – SoHo, 9.15pm
Graceland tracks the high-stakes investigative lives of six undercover federal agents who live together in a government-seized Southern California beachfront house.

Secret Societies, Season 1 – HISTORY, 9.30pm
Take a look at the world’s secret societies and the impact they have had on history. Tonight’s episode features the Freemasons. Their fundamental ideals are, according to them, liberty, equality, fraternity, tolerance and humanity. However, others say they have very different goals.

Atlanta: Real Housewives Of… 100th Episode Special – Arena, 9.30pm
The one-hour special will take a trip down memory lane and relive the series’ most unforgettable and buzziest moments.

Friday, August 14   All times AEST

Golf: 2015 PGA Championship (LIVE) – FOX Sports, 3am
All the LIVE action during round one.

Motorsport: MotoGP: GP of Czech Republic (LIVE) – FOX Sports, 5pm
FOX Sports showcases a massive long weekend of LIVE racing when the GP of Czech Republic begins.

Known Unto God (doco) – HISTORY, 5pm
This documentary follows the brave deeds of a Z Special operative whose remains seemed lost forever. Our hero was recently discovered in a grave marked Known Unto God. His story is a tribute to the brave volunteers of Z Special Unit.

AFL: Round 20 (LIVE) – FOX Sports, 7.50pm
Round 20 kicks off as the Sydney Swans play Collingwood.

Donut Showdown, Season 1 – LifeStyle FOOD, 8.30pm
This competition show takes the iconic donut to epic heights. Each episode showcases three of the best pastry chefs from across the US as they test their creativity in the kitchen.

The Auction House, Season 1 – The LifeStyle Channel, 8.30pm
They say one man’s trash is another man’s treasure and nowhere is that more true than at Lots Road Auctions, nestled in the heart of the glamorous London borough of Chelsea. This unique institution is an Aladdin’s cave bursting with magnificent artefacts.

Monkey business ... Sarah Silverman will make you laugh during her special We Are Miracles on the Comedy Channel.
 
Sarah Silverman: We Are Miracles (special) – Comedy Channel, 8.30pm
Prepare for an intimate evening of sharp-witted material, performed in front of just 39 fans at LA’s Largo nightclub, where Silverman takes aim at phone porn, bad roommates, eyebrow waxing and the miracle of existence.

Catching Monsters, Season 1 – Discovery Channel, 8.30pm
In the North Atlantic, treasure lurks in the deep with the biggest and most valuable fish in the sea: the monster Atlantic Bluefin Tuna. The toughest fishermen on Earth battle these giants in hopes of bringing home a fish that can earn a $US30,000 fortune.

Inquisition, Season 1 – HISTORY, 8.30pm
Learn the stories behind the dreaded Inquisition. Tonight, it's not clear if the process against the Templars was initiated by the Inquisition on the basis of suspected heresy or if the Inquisition itself was exploited by the king of France, Philip the Fair.

Capitulation (doco) – HISTORY, 9.30pm
May 8, 1945. While the Allied troops were parading through liberated towns to cheering crowds, WWII was in its final, apocalyptic hours.

Tony Bennett: Legends In Concert – Foxtel Arts, 9.50pm
The velveteen tones of the master of smooth croon Tony Bennett delivers some of his best-loved hits including I Left My Heart In San Francisco and From Rags To Riches.
 
Saturday, August 15   All times AEST

NRL Super Saturday: Round 23 – FOX Sports, from 3pm
A Super Saturday triple during round 23.
Tigers v Knights, 3pm
Panthers v Warriors, 5.30pm
Roosters v Eels, 7.30pm

LIVE on FOX Sports ... the Wallabies face the All Blacks during the second Bledisloe Cup match.

 Rugby: The Rugby Championship: New Zealand v Australia (LIVE) – FOX Sports, 4.30pm
The Wallabies will face their toughest challenge when they take on the All Blacks in Auckland for the second Bledisloe Cup match.

Shocking Sharks (doco) – Nat Geo Wild, 7.30pm
From a shark that can crawl out of water to a shark so mysterious that it has only been caught once on film, meet the most bizarre predators to ever roam the oceans.

Epic Mancave Builds, Season 1 – Discovery Channel, 8.30pm
Brandon and Tomas help city dweller Jim transform his ramshackle country cabin in time for a big weekend with his buddies.

A Short History Of Nuclear Folly (doco) – HISTORY, 8.30pm
In the spirit of Dr Strangelove, this blackly sardonic people's history of atomic blunders and near-misses reveals the hushed-up and forgotten episodes in which the great powers gambled with catastrophe.

New contestants, new challenges ... catch season 23 of The Amazing Race on FOX8.
 
Sunday, August 16   All times AEST

The Amazing Race, Season 23 – FOX8, 7.30pm
The new season begins in Los Angeles with 11 two-member teams flying to Chile where they take to the sky for paragliding. Then the race heats up when one team steals another duo’s taxi.

Beethoven Symphony No.8 – Foxtel Arts, 8.30pm
The “Little Symphony”, Beethoven's Symphony No. 8 in F major, is performed here by the Berlin Philharmonic.

Partners In Crime: Fred And Rose West (three-part series) – CI Network, 8.30pm
From the violence of their early lives to the trial that brought them to justice, this is the full story of how Fred West first met Rose and why the couple went on to murder 12 girls and young women.