TV for Sunday, July 26
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COMPASS
★★★
6.30pm, ABC
This loving look at the life and work of the late Sydney-born artist, Justin O’Brien, explains the long and winding process from inspiration to exhibition. Charting O’Brien’s POW experience, his artistic awakening in Rome, where he refined his interpretations of Italian Renaissance and Byzantine-inspired styles, and his influence as a high school art teacher of artists Martin Sharp and Peter Kingston, this is an important chapter of Australian modern art history.
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FARMER WANTS A WIFE
Series return ★★
7pm, Seven
This corn-chewing, hay-bale straddling courtship show tries ever so hard to distance itself from its more sordid cousins. But how wholesome can proceedings remain when lonesome farmers take four fawning “lay-dees” back to the farm and set them upon each other in a fight to the altar? Tonight, the standard types (busty and ballsy, shy and virginal, mature and well-maintained) line up for inspection.
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BETWEEN TWO WORLDS
New series ★★★
8.30pm, Seven
Cold Feet’s Hermione Norris (pictured) leads a local cast featuring fresh faces in this elaborate saga about the merging spheres of a tycoon and a suburban widowed mother of two. Created by Bevan Lee, whose eight Seven drama series includes Packed to the Rafters and A Place to Call Home, this is outrageously heightened glamour-soap in which it’s best not to take anything – especially the gender archetypes – too seriously.