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MONDAY: Thalu (Double Episode, PREMIERE), 6.30PM on NITV

Episode 1
Escape!
With a mysterious Cloud spreading across the land making the country and its people sick, two groups of Kids join forces with a mysterious unspeaking girl to try to save the world. As their journey begins a pair of mystical Nannas tell the Kids they need to collect eight special stones and a key and a strange pedlar gifts them a compass to try and help them find their way to wherever it is they need to go.

Episode 2
Man Up The Tree
The Kids encounter a strange Man who has been chased up a tree by a tiny horse and refuses to come down until it is gone. Knowing that the Man has important information about the Cloud for them the Kids have to find a way to get him down. When they do the Man tells them that inside the Cloud are the Takers, real bad fellas, and if they want to stop them they’re going to need to get to the Thalu, a sacred place of great power, before the Takers do.

Also catch: Bushwhacked! – Series 1, 3.26PM on NITV.

TUESDAY: Dance Academy – The Movie on Family Movies HD

Former ballet student, Tara Webster, was destined to become one of the top dancers of her generation before a devastating injury crippled her career. Over the last eighteen months she has tried to move on but cannot get over her dream of dancing professionally with the National Ballet Company. In her quest to defy the odds in a near impossible comeback, Tara leaves her life and love behind in Sydney and travels to New York, determined to prove she still has what it takes. But as the rejections pile up, and Tara tears herself apart trying to fit the unrelenting ballet mould, she must learn to find, and trust, her own voice before she loses everything that truly matters in the dogged pursuit of who she thought she was, rather than who she has become.

Also catch: Bushwhacked! – Series 1, 3.26PM on NITV, The Inbestigators, 4.32PM on ABC ME and Thalu (Double Episode), 6.30PM on NITV.

WEDNESDAY: The Inbestigators – Series 1, 4.32PM on ABC ME

Episode 20
The Case of the Baffling Birthday
Ava wants to give Maudie her first proper birthday party but Maudie gets sidetracked by a mystery.

Also catch: Bushwhacked! – Series 1, 3.26PM on NITV and Thalu (Double Episode), 6.30PM on NITV.
 

THURSDAY: Bushwhacked! – Series 1, 3.26PM on NITV

Episode 4
Cassowary – Daintree National Park, Queensland
Cape Tribulation in far north Queensland is the home to the unusual and shy Cassowary, one of the world’s largest flightless birds that are high on the endangered species list. The boys track the bird through the rainforest, careful not to come in striking distance of its powerful feet and claws!

Also catch: Thalu (Double Episode), 6.30PM on NITV.

FRIDAY: First Day (Series) on ABC iview

It’s Hannah Bradford’s first year of high school. As a transgender girl, Hannah not only has to navigate the challenges that come with starting a new school, but find the courage to live as her most authentic self.

Also catch: Bushwhacked! – Series 1, 3.26PM on NITV and Thalu (Double Episode), 6.30PM, (Single Episode) 7.30PM on NITV.
 

SATURDAY: Little Lunch (Specials) on ABC iview

The Halloween Horror Story
The Halloween Horror Story cracks open the heart of the spooky celebration to explore, beyond a scary costume, what it is that children really fear and how they can overcome it.

The Nightmare Before Graduation
The countdown to Christmas and summer holidays is exciting every year but no more so than now, when Mrs Gonsha’s class is graduating from Grade 6.

SUNDAY: The Funny Ones on ABC iview

Four bright-eyed young comics keen to develop their skills, team up with some of Australia's funniest women to create their first comedy show. 

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