MOVIN' TO THE COUNTRY
7.30pm, Friday, ABC
Maybe it's showing my age a little bit but, as soon as I saw the title of this show I thought about peaches.
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That's because of the Presidents of the United States of America - the band, not the leaders of aforesaid nation.
They had a hit in 1996 with a song called Peaches, and the title of this show is the first line of the song.
The second involves the singer's promise to eat a lot of peaches when he gets there.
Despite the title putting the prompt into my head, I am disappointed to have to say there are no actual peaches in this show.
There are tiger prawns, charcoal, solar power and dog food - but no peaches.
This episode focuses on primary producers in Queensland coming up with innovative ways to use what would otherwise be chucked away.
There's the former fisherman who, together with his wife, decided to use the bits of fish that never make it to our plate.
While that used to be thrown away, they managed to turn into fancy dog food.
Another Queenslander managed to come up with a similar idea using bananas.
In the outback Queensland town of Barcaldine, two brothers returned home to help on the family farm and ended up developing a whole new revenue stream.
They take all the fallen trees on their property and turn it into restaurant-grade charcoal.
Another eye-catcher is the guy who manages to farm tiger prawns in Esk - a town more than 100 kilometres from the coast.
It's quite illuminating to see the creative ways people are coming up with to make use of waste.
MODERN MARVELS: TOYS
6.35pm, Saturday, SBS Viceland
In this two-part series Adam Richman explores the serious world of toys and tries to work out why some of them move from simple playthings to iconic collectables.
Among the toys on that list includes Monopoly, He-Man toys and Play-Doh.
Among the interesting bits is the reverence with which Monopoly's fake money is treated in the factory.
Similar to a mint that prints real money, the Monopoly makers use only certain kinds of paper and inks and there is a special machine to cut the bills.
THE LIZZIE BORDEN CHRONICLES
7am, Thursday, 7Plus
At first glance, the most interesting story around Lizzie Borden is the fact she may or may not have killed her parents with an axe.
That immediately calls into question the premise of this show, which imagines what happened to Lizzie after she was acquitted of her parents' murder.
Those murders were covered in a popular pay TV series, so obviously the makers felt a need to capitalise on that success with a spin-off.
Which is The Lizzie Borden Chronicles. It's a bit of a risk to go beyond the headline event in the lead character's life and hope the audience will come along.
I'm not sure they've been entirely successful on that score.
While there is a bit of a Deadwood-lite feel to this show which I liked, I wasn't hooked into finding out what Lizzie did next.