Daily Picks M Magazine May 19 - Friday
NEIGHBOURS
**1/2
6.30pm, 10Peach
Tim Robards (pictured) may be married off thanks to a freakishly successful reality-show romance, but he’s still able to summon the essence of the slick single man that he portrayed so well in his first acting role on Australia’s debut season of The Bachelor. Back on Ramsay Street as the rich hotelier whose name bears a nod to a certain suave sex prince of the big screen, he’s wooing his old flame, sugar baby Chloe (April Rose Pengilly).
THE LIVING ROOM
***
7.30pm, Ten
Taking on a renovation project from the real world – one with considerably more emotional impact than that required for a powder room makeover on a reality contest – Cherie Barber guides two sisters through the minefield of preparing their recently inherited parents’ home for sale. Elsewhere, travelling veterinarian, Dr Chris Brown soaks up the rays in Tahiti, and Miguel Maestre makes a batch of moch-chip biscuits at a Sydney coffee bean roastery.
MARY POPPINS
Movie ****
6.30pm, 9Go!
If Emily Blunt’s smashing performance as the supernatural supernanny in the 2018 sequel left you wanting more, then where better to turn than this 1964 original motion picture? Making her feature film debut, a young British triple threat known as Julie Andrews is bewitching in the role that was to be a dress rehearsal for her most famous – that of another perpetual optimist, the singing nun in The Sound of Music, released the following year.