AMBULANCE UK
8pm, Saturday, Channel 10
I'll take a punt and say that, in every country that has a television industry, there will be at least one show that follows ambulance crews out on the job.
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It never used to be like that. For years no-one thought seeing people sucking on the green whistle (if you don't get that reference, then you've never watched one of these shows) while dealing with all sorts of injuries was good TV.
That all changed somewhere in the mid-2010s when some bright spark cottoned onto this concept. Then, because the TV industry thrives on copying a winner, they all made their own versions.
In Australia we have two of them - Paramedics and Ambulance Australia. Now I'm a fan of the concept but, really, one ambulance show is enough.
This UK series pre-dates both Australian versions - and could well be the originator of the idea.
In this episode, a horse rider ends up with a broken ankle and a foot pointing in the wrong direction (yes, you get to see it) and 100-year-old Marian stars as a cheeky charmer who managed to survive a fall down the stairs - from the top to the bottom.
TAKE FIVE WITH ZAN ROWE
8pm, Tuesday, ABC
It was a radio show and then a podcast and now the format where a famous face - not necessarily from the world of music - is asked to pick five songs has made its way to TV.
It's not simply their five favourite songs, but rather five songs set around a pre-determined theme.
First up in the TV series is actor and musician Guy Pearce.
In a sign that this series is about so much more than music, Pearce speaks about the death of his test-pilot father in a plane crash and other personal matters that I'd not heard before.
THE AUSTRALIAN WARS
7.30pm, Wednesday, SBS
Really, no-one likes being the bad guy. When it comes to Australian history, us white people really don't like being the bad guy.
We get all upset when First Nations people refer to Australia Day as Invasion Day because, to accept they have a point (and they do - when one country lands on another's soil and takes over, that's an invasion) would mean having to face the reality that white settlers weren't the top blokes we want them to be.
This excellent three-part documentary is going to make some of us white people rather uncomfortable. Well, it would if the people who needed to watch it the most actually did - but of course they won't.
Directed by Rachel Perkins, the series looks at the uncomfortable truth that the British settlers actually declared war on the indigenous population. And a war is exactly what it was - the settlers themselves described it that way.
So they shot First Nations people in random acts of retribution, cut off heads to place in hessian sacks and take back to their settlement, kidnapped children and raided native camps and then herded them over nearby cliffs to their deaths.
As unpalatable as some of this might seem, The Australian Wars is vital viewing. You can't appreciate your country's history until you know all of it - especially the bad parts.