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Thursday, March 10
MICHAEL JACKSON: THE TRIAL Produced by Britain’s SkyTV, this nightly word-for-word re-enactment of testimony from the King of Pop’s un-televised sex trial, with a look-alike portraying Jacko – is more convincing than the real thing. 7 pm on Star and 9 pm on MuchMoreMusic, continues Monday through Friday
ORCHID HUNTER ORCHID HUNTER
After being held by guerrillas for nine months while searching for rare orchids in Colombia, a botanist heads to Papua New Guinea determined to find an even more exotic species amongst cannibals and headhunters. Midnight on PBS
Friday, March 11
AUSTIN CITY LIMITS 23-piece pop orchestra Polyphonic Spree and east L.A.’s 10-member Ozomatli share the stage and outnumber their audience.
Midnight on PBS
JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE British baggy revivalists Kasabian do their Happy Roses shtick, and ex-champ Sugar Ray Leonard plugs his new boxing reality series, The Contender. 12:05 am on ABC and Citytv
Saturday, March 12
WICKEDLY PERFECT Silly reality series concludes with the coronation of the next Martha Stewart. And it’s the new-and-improved post-incarceration Martha Stewart! 8 pm on CBS/CHCH
BOOTY CALL BOOTY CALL
(1997, dir Jeff Pollack , w/ Jamie Foxx , Vivica A. Fox and Tommy Davidson ) Though Foxx has entered the $20-million-per-picture pantheon thanks to his Oscar-winning turn in Ray, he’ll always have this sexist hiphop claptrap on his resumé. 9 pm on Citytv, repeated at 3 am
Sunday, March 13
INSIDE THE ARTISTS STUDIO Jamie Foxx apologizes to the students for his roles in Booty Call, The Players Club and Date From Hell. 5 pm on Bravo
THE EDUCATION OF SHELBY KNOX THE EDUCATION OF SHELBY KNOX
Sundance-winning doc follows a 15-year-old small-town Texas girl as she evolves from a conservative Baptist into a liberal Christian feminist. Dang that book learnin’! 10 pm on Newsworld
Monday, March 14
CONCERT FOR GEORGE Eric Clapton leads an all-star band in tribute to the quiet Beatle. With Harrison’s family, Sir Paul McCartney , Ringo Starr , Ravi Shankar and the Monty Python gang. 8 pm on PBS
THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN The Reverend Al Green takes it to the river in a rare television appearance alongside heartthrob Ashton Kutcher . 11:35 pm on CBS/Omni1
Tuesday, March 15
LIVE AT THE REHEARSAL HALL Canada’s own Kathleen Edwards performs songs from her new CD, Back To Me, live before a studio audience. Blue Rodeo’s Jim Cuddy duets on Hockey Skates from the soundtrack of Men With Brooms. 8 pm on Bravo
LATE LATE SHOW WITH CRAIG FERGUSON After 20 years in obscurity, enigmatic rockin’ Scots the Blue Nile make their North American TV debut alongside comic Drew Carey and best-selling crime writer Lawrence Block . 12:35 am on CHCH and CBS
Wednesday, March 16
RETURN OF MARIA CALLAS After a decade-long absence, the opera legend returns to the stage in 1973 with tenor Giuseppe di Stefano for one of her final performances. 8 pm on PBS
SHAMELESS Meet the Gallaghers of Manchester. No, not barmy Liam and Noel of Oasis, but another dysfunctional family prone to swearing, drinking and fisticuffs, and the subjects of this offbeat 03 Brit-com. 10 pm on Showcase
