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TELEVISION GUIDE Wednesday April 11 to Tuesday April 17, 2012 Highlights this week 1. The very talented Alan Bates and Janet Suzman star in the very dark comedy A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (ABC2, Saturday, 8.30pm), from the award-winning 1967 work by English playwright Peter Nichols. It’s a dialogue-driven tour de force about a married couple whose little girl, Josephine, is confined incommunicado to a wheelchair by cerebral palsy. The wife gives her life to the child while the husband fantasises about having the child institutionalised or even killing himself and Josephine. 2. It will be interesting to see how James Cameron’s sci-fi epic Avatar (TEN, Sunday, 8.30pm) translates to the small screen. Basically, the humans are stuffing up the planet of Pandora with their mining and rogue Marine, Jake Sully, well played by the ever-reliable Australian Sam Worthington, goes to the aid of the native people, the Na-avi. It has some stunning CGI FX, is overlong and its good environmental intentions are tainted by spiritual flimflam, though it’s tempting to be drawn into the anthropomorphic tendency to regard a planet as ‘conscious’ like us. The truth of natural selection, or natural elimination, is best expressed by the film’s character Colonel Miles Quaritch: ‘Out there beyond that fence every living thing that crawls, flies, or squats in the mud wants to kill you and eat your eyes out for jujubes.’
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