LEGO MASTERS BRICKSMAS SPECIAL
7pm, Sunday, WIN
Remember the good old days, when Christmas specials actually aired close to Christmas?
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I do. Yet here we are more than a month out from December 25 and the Christmas shows have already started.
Of course, it's more about finding a new way to get a few more episodes of a popular show on air, which will at least be good for Lego Masters fans.
Here a bunch of celebrities - The Block judge Darren Palmer, former Wiggle Emma Watkins, actor Lincoln Lewis, and chef Poh Ling Yeow - team up with former Lego Masters contestants to build something with a Christmas theme.
There is so much Lego Christmas-themed stuff that they couldn't fit it into one episode, so there is another special on the following week.
Which is still a long way from Christmas Day.
RIDE
9.30pm, Sunday, ABC TV Plus
This documentary focuses on BMX riders Sam and Alise Willoughby. He's Australian and she's American.
After they fell in love he moved to the US to live and train with her.
But the dangers of the sport loom as Alise narrowly avoids being left paralysed after a serious crash.
Sam isn't so lucky; during a routine training session, he has an accident where he breaks his neck and ends up a quadriplegic.
Told through the family's video and still photo archives, it's a great story about tragedy - and what happens afterwards.
TINY KITCHEN COOK-OFF
2.30pm, Monday, SBS Food
Cooking shows have become a staple of both free and pay TV these days, with whole channels devoted to various ways of creating programs around food.
A byproduct of that is the need to come up with different ideas because, really, there are only so many shows hosted by a celebrity chef people can stomach.
Though, the makers of these shows obviously think we have a higher tolerance than we actually do, given that it seems almost anyone who has set foot in a kitchen more than four times has a cooking show.
Tiny Kitchen Cook-Off is an example where that quest for a new spin on the cooking show theme gets it wrong.
Now, this isn't a show in which kids cook - that's not the reason for the "tiny" bit of the name.
Instead, what we have here is two 'celebrities' (inverted commas are used because I didn't recognise either of these people, even after they were introduced) having to use tiny measures of ingredients to make a dish.
The kitchen they have to cook it in is tiny as are the utensils they use and, at the end of the show, they need to build a tiny table setting to serve it.
While seeing the tiny utensils and ingredients is kind of cute, that wears thin very, very quickly.
What you're left with is a show where the two 'celebrities' (which, in this instance, includes a stand-up comedian who says nothing funny in the whole episode) are clearly enjoying themselves.
But that enjoyment certainly doesn't extend to the viewer.
And it's a big problem if there's no fun for the viewer.