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Thursday, May 5
CHRISTO IN PARIS . Planning to wrap Paris’s Pont Neuf bridge in fabric, the controversial environmental sculptor gets caught up in 10 years of bureaucratic red tape. 10 pm on TVO, repeated 1:35 am Sunday
Friday, May 6
KINK The fourth-season premiere of the sex-obsessed series heads to manly Manitoba to investigate Winnipeg’s gender-bending drag scene. 9:30 pm on Showcase
Saturday, May 7
A HARD DAY’S NIGHT (1964, D: Richard Lester, w/ the Beatles, Wilfred Brambell and Victor Spinetti) From the influential film’s opening chord (Gsus4), this fictionalized day-in-the life of the Fab Four has become the blueprint for virtually every rock biopic since. Watch for the teenage Pattie Boyd – later George’s ex – and Phil Collins as school kids on the train. 9 pm on MuchMoreMusic, repeated at midnight
PUNCH LIKE A GIRL Reality series follows a group of women including a Jamaican-born Olympic hopeful and a prominent Bay Street lawyer as they pursue their dreams of becoming amateur boxers. 10:30 pm on Life
Sunday, May 8
FLATLY STACKED Former fashion model Judy Holm’s documentary addresses health issues including menopause, breast cancer and the extremes some women will go to to enhance their bust line. 10 pm on TVO
Monday, May 9
MUCH ON DEMAND: COLDPLAY Gwyneth Paltrow’s favourites interrupt westbound rush-hour traffic to promote their new CD in the music net’s front window. 5 pm on Much
THE COLOUR OF WAR The initial episode of this three-part series uses colour newsreel footage – and Eva Braun’s home movies – to chart the rise of European facism on the eve of WWII. 7 pm on TVO, repeated at 10 pm continues 7 pm Tuesday and Wednesday May 10 and 11), repeated at 10 pm
Tuesday, May 10
THE AMAZING RACE The final three teams race to the finish line in a special two-hour conclusion to the globe-trotting game show that’s the highest rated program in Toronto. 9 pm on CBS/CTV
Wednesday, May 11
THE MAKING OF THE MISFITS With stunning archival photography by Henri Cartier-Bresson and remembrances from surviving cast and crew, this 2001 documentary recounts the troubled production of John Huston ‘s mythic film starring three of Hollywood’s most fabled icons – Clark Gable , Marilyn Monroe and Montgomery Clift – shortly before their tragic life-imitating-art deaths. 10 pm on PBS
