Is sex enough ti sell for Prime?

By David Ellery
Updated November 5 2012 - 10:19am, first published September 14 2003 - 12:12am

Prime is putting its original new theory that sex sells to the test once more with the launch on Tuesday of the new series of "Temptation Island".
The third round of the popular reality television series that puts fidelity to the test goes to air on Tuesday nights at 9.30pm.
The couples under pressure this time around include Anthony and Stephanie of Chicago, Eric and Kristin of Farmville, Michael and Melissa of New York and Jason and Kara of Las Vegas.
Also continuing to add sizzle is the ongoing "For Love or Money", the latest - and raunchiest - take on "The Bachelor" formula so far, and "Mile High".
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Is ESP nonsense or is it not? Like the UFO phenomenon, this is one of those fields of inquiry where, regardless of how much dross, hysteria and deliberate misinformation is discarded, some unexplained things always seem to remain.
This is the focus of a chilling dramatised documentary to screen on Prime on Sunday night at 8.30pm.
Hosted by Rebecca Gibney, presumably because of her work in "Halifax F.P", "Sensing Murder "takes on a 26 year old murder case in which two young women lost their lives.
The crime in question is the infamous Easey Street murders, the brutal events of the night of January 10, 1977, when Suzanne Armstrong and Susan Bartlett were brutally stabbed to death by a person or persons unknown.
Profiling the two victims, "Sensing Murder "makes it easy to realise why the crime shocked the nation at the time.
"Sensing Murder" is the story of the involvement of two psychics, Roslyn Roberts and Cassandra Stevens, in the case.
Roslyn is a "medical intuitive" while Cassandra is a "spiritual psychologist".
With no prior knowledge of the crime, they retrace the last moments of the two dead women, visit the crime scene and attempt to identify the killer.
The claim is made that at the end of the day they are instrumental in identifying three new "valid" suspects, providing detailed physical descriptions of a possible killer and a surname.
What the police will ultimately make of the evidence remains to be seen.
This said, the program is a thought-provoking exercise that deserves to be viewed with an open mind.
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For those with a more historical bent, "The Dam Busters", to screen on the ABC on Wednesday night at 8.30pm as part of "The Big Picture" series, fills in the blank pages from the classic movie of the same name.
Featuring interviews with survivors of the squadron responsible for destroying two massive dams in Germany's industrial heartland in 1943, "The Dam Busters" is a valuable historical study of wartime
ingenuity and courage.

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