Picture:BBCPictureArchive Television What To Watch RT1 RT2 TV3 8.55 Casualty 9.55 MasterChef 10.25 Leaders Questions 11.25 As Time Goes By 12.00 Shortland Street (T) Hospital drama. 12.30 Doctors (T) 1.00 News And Weather 1.25 Home And Away (T) 1.55 Neighbours (T) 2.20 EastEnders (R,T) Archie proposes to Janine. 2.50 Fair City (R,T) 3.20 Budget 2010. Live coverage from Dil ireann of the Budget speech by Brian Lenihan TD. 5.50 Nuacht RT 5.50 European Weather 6.00 The Angelus 6.01 News And Weather (T) 7.00 Nationwide (T) 7.30 Fair City (T) Lara reveals she is staying at Zumos, but she gets a mixed reception from Dolores. 7.57 Lotto 8.00 Off The Rails (T) A look at the revival of 1980s fashion. 8.30 Buyer Beware! Philip Boucher-Hayes looks at consumer affairs. 9.00 News And Weather (T) 9.40 Prime Time Budget Special See highlights. 10.30 FILM: Surviving Christmas (2004) A millionaire decides a family Christmas is the thing that is missing from his life, so he hires a family to spend the season of goodwill with him. Comedy, starring Ben Affleck, James Gandolfini, Christina Applegate and Catherine OHara. 12.05 Oireachtas Report 8.15 Kazoo 8.25 The Scooby-Doo Show 8.50 Mr Bean: The Animated Series 9.00 Den Tots 2.10 The Den: Chuggington 2.25 Tak And The Power Of Juju 2.50 Garth And Bev 3.00 Dennis And Gnasher 3.15 Kazoo 3.30 Tracey McBean 3.45 Tracey McBean 3.55 The Sleepover. Drama based on the best-selling books by Rose Impey. 4.25 Budget 2010. Live coverage from the Dil as the opposition make their responses to Minister for Finance Brian Lenihans Budget speech. 7.00 RT Sport On Two: Champions League Live Dynamo Kiev v Barcelona (Kick-off 7.45pm). Bill OHerlihy is joined by Eamon Dunphy, John Giles and Ray Houghton to present live coverage of both teams final Group F encounter at the Lobanovsky Dynamo Stadium. Barca only need to avoid losing by two or more goals to guarantee qualification for the last- 16, while Kiev can only progress if they win by that margin or take all three points and tonights meeting between Inter Milan and Rubin Kazan is drawn. 10.50 Colin And Grahams Excellent Adventures The duo take part in the Musclemania Bodybuilding Championships. Last in the series. 11.25 RT News On Two And World Forecast (T) 11.55 The 11th Hour A Radiohead special edition. 12.55 FILM: The World (2004) Premiere. Chinese drama, with Tao Zhao. 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) Ashleys trip to see Laurel does not go well. 3.30 Vincent Brownes Budget Special 5.30 News@5.30: Budget Special. Initial reaction and opinions, live from Buswells Hotel on the doorstep of Leinster House. 6.30 Xpos Daily entertainment news. 7.00 Emmerdale (T) Doug flies off the handle with Ashley and Sally. 7.30 You Are What You Eat (R) A woman nominates her obese daughter. 8.00 Supernanny Jo Frost sets out to help desperate parents cope with their badly behaved children. 9.00 Im a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! Coming Out Following winner Gino DAcampo and this years other contestants after the final. 10.00 Hells Kitchen USA The final two chefs prepare to design their restaurant, as well as create a winning menu when they go head to head for the title. 11.00 Nightly News 11.05 Tonight With Vincent Browne: Budget Special Vincent gauges reactions at the Community Hall in Fatima Mansions. 12.00 to 3.00 Play TV The file of Brian: What impact will Lenihans Budget have? Todays highlights With Adam Hyland Pick Of The Day Prime Time Budget Special RT1, 9.40pm The dreaded Budget dominates the TV schedule today and it is hard to escape coverage of what will surely be a litany of bad news and harsh cuts. This will probably be the best time to tune in as Mark Little and Miriam OCallaghan present analysis and reaction at a time when we will all have had a few hours to digest the impact of Brian Lenihans financial plan for the coming year. Tighten those belts and get ready to take the strain. Slinte Agus Easlinte TG4, 9.30pm While the nation turns its eyes towards Brian Lenihan, TG4 also cast a critical eye over the tenure of Mary Harney as Health Minister and ask a very pertinent question: Whatever happened to healthcare in Ireland? Mire Bhreathnach travels the country meeting the people failed by the system and compares it with one that runs very successfully for a tenth of the cost in Cuba. Horizon BBC2, 9pm The worlds population is predicted to peak in 2050, when nine billion people will be packed on to our planet. But how many more of us can the Earth actually accommodate? David Attenborough looks at the impact of so many humans and investigates what can be done to manage and more importantly, change, the effects of this over-population. Its a grim prospect, but we like to think that if anybody has the answers, its Mr Attenborough. 6pm 7pm 8pm 9pm 10pm 11pm :60second interview John Hurt Actor John Hurt, 69, has appeared in the Harry Potter, Hellboy and Indiana Jones series. His stomach-exploding scene in Alien is often voted one of the most memorable film scenes ever. His latest film, Jim Jarmuschs The Limits Of Control, is out this Friday Interview by Graeme Green It was two prop men with the alien on the end of a stick trying to poke it through all this chopped liver and lambs membrane Your first ever acting part was a girl. Were you a convincing girl? I hope so. It was a school play. I cant remember what I was wearing, but it mustve been a smock girls didnt wear trousers then. But I remember the feeling of it, feeling absolutely in my own space, in a fantastic, exciting way. Because you were acting, or because you were dressed as a girl? Oh, that didnt matter in the slightest. I just knew that I was in the right place, there on stage. I played Lady Bracknell in The Importance Of Being Earnest a bit later, too, when I was 16. I was a rather tall, thin Lady Bracknell, quite angular, not particularly busty. You shot The Limits Of Control in Spain. Did you get much time off to enjoy the food, wine and dancing? I certainly enjoyed it. We were filming in Seville what a fabulous town. Im sure a lot of drinking of wine went on but I dont drink myself. But I saw a lot of dancing. We got some great flamenco in the film. Do you do a mean flamenco yourself? I havent dared do that for a year or two, but I love watching it when its real, not the stuff for tourists. Theres some fabulous stuff if you seek it out. Are Jim Jarmuschs films strange to work on when you dont have a script or know what theyre actually about? Its kind of unparalleled. I dont know how Jim has managed to forge that as a way of working, but its a thrilling way of working. You dont know what hes going to ask you to do. Hes sparing with what he tells you, because quite honestly hes not completely sure what it is himself until hes worked it out. He tends to do that as he goes along. Do you prefer making these kinds of left-field arty films to blockbusters like Harry Potter done was quite funny when I rolled onto the table in agony, the camera cut to the other side of the table, at which point my body was put through a hole in the table and a fake body was built on. It was a matter of two prop men with the alien on the end of a stick trying to poke it through all this chopped liver and lambs membrane, going: Is it coming through yet, Alf? and Alf going: No, no, I cant see it yet, Ed. Give it a bit more welly. How often do you get asked to re-enact the scene? Quite frequently (laughs). Do you oblige? Yes, of course I do. Children and young people love it. When Im doing a play in town and people come to the stage door for autographs, Id say 50 per cent of them have a photograph from Alien. Thats not bad considering its a film that was made 30 years ago. Its rather thrilling that we did it and its still in many peoples Top Ten. and Indiana Jones? I enjoy what Im doing at the time, so comparisons can be odious. But if I was given the opportunity of spending my life in independent film, I would. I think the films, because theyre not intended to be blockbusters, are not so limited and they can be of more interest to the audience theyre hoping to reach. Do you like being part of the Harry Potter circus? I was in it from the first one and it wasnt a circus then they didnt even know if it was going to be a success. The books were successful, but there are plenty of precedents to say books can be successful and films arent. Then it took off and became the biggest film franchise in film history. You see it for what it is its a phenomenon. Are you proud of your chest- bursting scene in Alien? Sure, its become part of showbusiness mythology. Im thrilled. How it was 14 metrolife Wednesday, December 9, 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.html