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The Age
Thursday October 1, 2009
Home truthsHE'S interviewed everyone from Harry Potter to the Prime Minister but is talk-show host Rove McManus ready to face his wife, Tasma Walton (pictured together below)? McManus will interview actor-author Walton on his show while she is on the publicity trail for her first novel, Heartless. Walton has dipped a toe into fiction with a book described as "a moving and confronting fable about the power of the human heart". She will appear on the October 11 edition of Rove.Doctor at seaFORMER All Saints star Tammy MacIntosh has joined the cast of Nine's naval drama Sea Patrol. MacIntosh will play a senior officer at naval headquarters replacing Steve Bisley's Commander Steve Marshall. The series will return for a fourth outing next year minus three of its shipboard crew €” Jeremy Lindsay Taylor, Saskia Burmeister and Jay Ryan. Among those signing on to HMAS Hammersley are Conrad Coleby (All Saints) and, in a small guest role, Getaway's Jason Dundas.Dream debutTEN looks to be holding the hit new one-hour drama out of the US this year. The Good Wife, which stars Julianna Margulies (ER) as a lawyer who must restart her life when her cheating husband (Sex and the City's Chris Noth) is jailed, made its debut last week in the US to 13.2 million viewers. Another Ten property, the NCIS spin-off NCIS: Los Angeles, made its debut the same night, drawing 18.3 million viewers. It airs on Wednesdays on Channel Ten.Walk this wayBERT Newton, Matt Preston, Kate Ceberano, Alan Brough and Kaz Cooke are a few of the popular personalities who have "curated" walks through the city as part of the Melbourne International Arts Festival. The self-guided tours include pointers to locales such as favourite bars, the place of a first kiss, inspiration for a novel, film or artwork. Maps can be collected from the Melbourne Visitors Centre from October 9.Family tiesTHE National Geographic Channel is offering Melburnians the chance to unravel their family DNA at an event organised in conjunction with the channel's telecast of The Human Family Tree. A "public DNA sampling day" will be held at the Bio21 Institute at Melbourne University, Parkville, on October 4, from 10am, where the public can "uncover their ancestors' migratory journey". The first 100 DNA sampling kits are free (first come, first swabbed) after which kits will be for sale. See natgeotv.com. The Human Family Tree airs on Sunday, October 11.
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