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The Age
Friday April 1, 2011
FREE TO AIRWHITECHAPELABC1, 9.25pmWHEN an unsuspecting sot is shot in his local alehouse, it's clear a copycat killer is on the loose. The crime mirrors a 1966 murder committed by notorious gangster Ronnie Kray, who ruled the East End of London for more than a decade with his twin brother, Reggie. The only witness, a blood-spattered barmaid, points the police to a nearby resident a lean, pale and sinister-looking Jimmy Kray (Craig Parkinson), who claims to have a paternal connection to the Kray lineage. But before DI Joe Chandler (Rupert Penry-Jones) can get too excited by this clue, he discovers Jimmy is a twin putting paid to any hopes that his forensics team can clear up who actually pulled the trigger.MEGAN JOHNSTONPAY TVHEAVEN ON EARTHHistory Channel, 9.30pmIRISH writer, poet and TV presenter Christy Kenneally takes a look at world religions. Tonight it's paganism (the old kind) and Kenneally flits from the 5000-year-old dolmen at Pentre Ifan in Wales to the similarly ancient (but much bigger) megalithic tomb mound at Newgrange in Ireland, to the standing stones of Carnac in France and on to the Stone Age cave paintings at Altimira in Spain. Frustratingly, Kenneally can't offer much information about the significance of the sites.BRAD NEWSOMEMOVIEHE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU (2009)Channel Nine, 8.30pmKEN Kwapis's film posits that odd notion that someone who is horrible to you romantically probably has the hots for you. Apparently girls are taught this at a young age, by mothers who should know that a person acting badly is simply a person acting badly. Because this is an American film, everything is spelt out with explicit visuals and in words of no more than two syllables. It has a good cast Scarlett Johansson, Jennifer Connelly, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston but you would only know they were good if you had seen them in other movies. This feels like the pilot for a sitcom that failed to get any support from the network.SCOTT MURRAY
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