Free to air highlights December 10 - 16, 2021
Summer of Cricket:
The Ashes - Friday, 10am-6pm; BBL -7pm-11pm, AEDST, Network Seven - check local guides
Some heavy hitters will bowl onto our TV screens throughout the Seven Network's Summer of Cricket, including legendary England all-rounder Lord Ian Botham and Australia's all-time leading Test run-scorer Ricky Ponting.
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With the Ashes on the line, it promises to be a hot contest, and not just on the pitch.
Also in the British on-air contingent will be much-loved actor, comedian and writer Stephen Fry, 2019 Ashes fast-bowling hero Jofra Archer, ex-Test player and leading commentator David "Bumble" Lloyd, and charismatic former star off-spinner Graeme Swann.
A who's who of former on-field stars and fan favourites including Damien Fleming, Simon Katich, Mel McLaughlin, James Brayshaw, Lisa Sthalekar, Greg Blewett, Matthew Hayden, Brad Hodge, Trent Copeland, Tim Lane, Alison Mitchell, Callum Ferguson, Abbey Gelmi, Jason Richardson, Andy Maher, Alister Nicholson and Erin Holland will talk fans through every ball bowled in the Ashes series which began with a flying start this week (Wednesday, December 8), at the Gabba.
They will be joined by former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum and five-time ICC umpire of the year Simon Taufel, while current Big Bash stars Glenn Maxwell, Marcus Stoinis, Aaron Finch, Andre Russell and Ashton Agar will be regulars on Seven's BBL coverage which began on Sunday.
Tonight is the last of six straight nights of BBL in prime-time. On 18 days of the season, BBL matches will follow stumps in the Ashes.
The regular season BBL fixture concludes on the earlier date of January 19, with the finals series beginning Friday, January 21, and the winning team crowned on January 28.
Born to Spy: Premiere
Friday, 5pm, ABC ME and iview
The premise is familiar (think 2001 US film Spy Kids starring Antonio Banderas and Carla Gugino), with Korean teens Yu Na (Hannah Kim) and her brother Min (Ocean Lim) waking one day to find their parents missing.
This Aussie TV series has the siblings leading a normal life in the suburbs with their supposedly regular parents (Danny Kim and Julia Yon) who run a hardware store two blocks from home.
Yu Na often wishes her life was more exciting and her brother, while at a family dinner, unwittingly wishes their parents would disappear when they have a waiter take a family photo of their 10,000th kiss.
When all they find the next morning is a note left on a kitchen table spread with breakfast foods they normally don't eat, paranoia sets in. The note calls for them to stay safe, trust no one, act normal, and feed a heretofore unknown dog named Ludwig.
The comedy flows when Min tries to "act normal" at school and Yu Na pretends to be her mother to take him home after he accidentally walks into his locker door.
Realising something is wrong Min seeks help from his drama club friends Allegra (Alex Kis) and Raph (George Holahan-Cantwell), while Yu Na recruits her bestie Dutch (Lulu Quirk).
The teens put in excellent performances, while the adults (who we see little of in this episode) not-so-much. They may be trying too hard to appear "normal". The first episode is quirky and will entertain the whole family.