Television What To Watch RT1 RT2 TV3 7.25 The Afternoon Show (R) 9.05 Casualty 10.05 Judge Joe Brown 10.25 Leaders Questions 11.30 As Time Goes By 12.00 Shortland Street (T) 12.30 Doctors (T) 1.00 News And Weather 1.25 Home And Away (T) 1.55 Neighbours (T) Donna runs away. 2.20 EastEnders (R,T) 3.00 How Clean Is Your House? 3.30 Fair City (R,T) 4.00 The Afternoon Show. Entertainment and lifestyle features. 5.45 Nuacht RT 6.00 The Angelus 6.01 News And Weather (T) 7.00 Nationwide (T) Regional round-ups. 7.30 Fair City (T) Yvonne asks Louie not to reveal her pregnancy to anyone. 7.57 Lotto 8.00 Off The Rails (T) Three leading facial cleansers are put to the test. 8.30 Buyer Beware! Disappointed Dublin customers of a UK-based kitchen company. 9.00 News And Weather (T) 9.35 FILM: Fun With Dick And Jane (2005) Premiere. An executive loses everything when his corrupt bosss double- dealings bring the company down, leaving him to take the blame. With no income or savings to maintain their lavish lifestyle, he and his wife have to turn to crime to support themselves. 11.10 Oireachtas Report 11.40 RT News And Weather 11.45 Brat Academy The progress of four Chinese students. 12.45 FILM: The King Of Marvin Gardens (1972) 7.25 Ice 7.50 Hey Arnold! 8.15 Kazoo 8.25 The Scooby-Doo Show 8.50 Mr Bean: The Animated Series 9.05 Den Tots 2.25 The Den: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Back To The Sewer 2.50 Garth And Bev 3.05 Dennis And Gnasher 3.15 Kazoo 3.30 Tracey McBean 3.45 The Sleepover 4.15 The Suite Life Of Zack & Cody 4.40 Ice 5.00 News 5.10 Sabrina The Teenage Witch. Supernatural comedy. 5.35 Neighbours (T) 6.00 The Simpsons (T) Cartoon capers with the unmistakable all-American family. 6.30 Home And Away (T) Robertson makes a surprise arrest. 7.00 RT Sport On 2: Champions League Live Manchester United v Besiktas (Kick-off 7.45pm). Coverage of the Group B encounter at Old Trafford, as the hosts aim to clinch top spot in the group. United have already qualified for the knockout stages with two matches to spare, but needed two late goals to draw 3-3 with CSKA Moscow in their last home European fixture. Presented by Bill OHerlihy, with commentary by George Hamilton and Ray Houghton. 10.50 Colin And Grahams Excellent Adventures Colin Carroll and Graham Little visit Bavaria, Germany. 11.25 RT News On 2 And World Forecast (T) 11.55 The 11th Hour Dave Fanning interviews Gloria Estefan. 12.55 FILM: The Werckmeister Harmonies (2000, b/w) 7.00 Ireland AM 10.00 The Jeremy Kyle Show 11.00 The Morning Show With Sybil And Martin 11.50 Midday 12.50 Xpos (R) 1.20 The Oprah Winfrey Show (R) 2.10 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3.05 Emmerdale (R,T) 3.30 Colin And Justins Home Heist (R) 4.30 Judge Judy. Double bill. Real-life court cases, presided over by outspoken New York judge Judy Sheindlin. 5.30 News@5.30 6.00 Xpos 6.30 Friends (R) Ross discovers who mugged him as a child and Chandlers internship gets off to an uninspiring start. 7.00 Emmerdale (T) Moira is stunned by Marlon. 7.30 Little People, Big World (R) The lives of dwarfs Matt and Amy Roloff and their children. 8.00 Supernanny USA (R) Jo Frost helps Michael and Lorraine Amaral, who struggle to balance running a restaurant with looking after their three children. 9.00 Chasing The Lions 2 Hector hEochagain and Risterd Cooper present a tongue-in-cheek commentary on the 2009 British and Irish Lions rugby tour to South Africa. See highlights. 10.10 Hells Kitchen USA The contestants are given 30 minutes to prepare a dish, but they have to figure out the ingredients through a taste test. 11.00 Nightly News 11.05 Tonight With Vincent Browne The journalist presents a panel discussion on a variety of subjects. 12.00 to 3.00 Play TV. Sweet SA: Risterd Cooper goes lion chasing with Hector Todays highlights With Adam Hyland Pick Of The Day Chasing The Lions 2 TV3, 9pm Following the phenomenal success of Chase The Lions in 2005 and Chasing The Blues in 2007, Hector hEochagin and Aprs Matchs Risterd Cooper are back again with their irreverent commentary on the recent British and Irish Lions rugby tour of South Africa. Converting an old Volkswagen Camper van into a mobile studio (The Lion Chaser), the duo chase down all the drama and action during one of the most closely contested Lions tours of all time. Great fun, stories, scandals and debates abound. This World: Can Obama Save The Planet? BBC2, 7pm BBC reporter Justin Rowlatt sets out across the US on a fact-finding mission to see if Barack Obamas ambitious vision for a greener future is achievable. Along the way, there are both uplifting and demoralising views from ordinary citizens, but the real drag-factor in moving forward proves to be the massive influence industry has over our collective future. Inside Sport BBC1, 11.15pm Following the recent tragic death of German goalkeeper Robert Enke, who took his life after years of depression, Inside Sport tackles the taboo issue of mental illness, and explores the dark side of sporting fame and fortune. Boxer Frank Bruno, footballers Paul Gascoigne and Neil Lennon, and former All Black rugby star John Kirwan have all suffered from depression, and in this interesting documentary Gabby Logan asks whether we ask too much of our sporting heroes. 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm :60second interview Sam Trammell Actor Sam Trammell, 38, plays bar owner Sam Merlotte in Channel 4s new hit vampire show True Blood. His fanbase has grown thanks to his frequent nude scenes on the show. True Blood Season 1 by HBO is out on DVD and Blu-ray now Interview by Andrew Williams There are varying degrees of vampire fans. I met a woman who shaved her teeth to look like fangs. Thats commitment Have you been surprised by the success of the show? Really surprised. I thought it would do well but its really taken off with the second season. During the first year the audience grew every week through word of mouth. Im blown away by that. This is the biggest role youve had. What effect has that had on you? I get recognised every day. Its exciting Im not going to pretend Im bored by it. I got a round of drinks bought for me last night in a bar, that was nice. Im also getting more offers for work, too. Youve done lots of stage work in New York. Will doing a vampire show ruin your credentials as a serious actor? I hope not. Its a quality show. I could have been on a show that was as popular but not as well written there are plenty of those but this has a good pedigree. It wont hurt me in New York they love anyone who is popular. Have you got any crazy fans? There are varying degrees of vampire fans. I met a woman who shaved her teeth to look like fangs. Thats commitment. Did you have a teenage interest in the occult? I went through a phase of reading a lot of Stephen King books but I was never a vampire person. I grew up in a rural community and the local cemetery was in our front yard but nothing supernatural ever happened. They must have been pretty chilled-out ghosts. I went to university in Paris and lived in a really old apartment which Im sure was haunted. Things moved around inexplicably. Youre from Louisiana. Does that help with the southern accent? I grew up in West Virginia and Louisiana. I have the sound of my grandparents and cousins accents in my ear. I lost mine but it comes naturally to me. make them look like people. It was pretty silly. Your character is a bar manager. Have you ever worked in catering? I worked in catering for a few weeks when I first got to New York. I ended up having to serve an acquaintance of mine who was from a wealthy family. He asked me how it was going and I was like, Fine thanks, while I was standing there ladling his soup into a bowl. It was a bit of an uncomfortable situation. Have you ever been attacked by an animal? I was bitten in the neck by a Saint Bernard once. I was around 17 but those dogs are huge, so it was scary. Whats been your most extravagant purchase? Im not an extravagant guy. I spend more on my girlfriend than I do on myself. I got a nice surfboard recently, which isnt very extravagant. Hopefully itll make me sound charming and outdoorsy. How do the rest of the cast deal with the challenge? We were all over the place in the first year but people do a good job now. There are a lot of sex scenes in the show. Have you had to do any yourself? Yes, Ive had to do a couple. I have to get naked a fair amount. It happens more towards the second half of the series. Ive done full frontal nudity three times on stage, so its not new to me. Its scarier as you get older, as its more difficult to keep in shape. I have to diet and exercise for nude scenes. Its always odd and Im always naked in weird places outside, usually. Thats always strange. You cant close the set in the woods. Everyone sees me. Whats the worst acting job youve had? I played a dinosaur on a sci-fi show that wasnt great. The idea was dinosaurs were smarter than humans and created holograms to 18 metrolife Wednesday, November 25, 2009 index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html24.html25.html26.html27.html28.html29.html30.html31.html