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Sydney Morning Herald

Monday October 20, 2008

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Hell's Kitchen USA

Lifestyle, 9.30pm

More mayhem as the inept chefs competing for a job in one of Gordon Ramsay's restaurants cook for a 16th birthday party. Top stuff.

Paddy Whacked: The Irish Mob

The History Channel, 5.30pm

Viewers who've been sucked in to Brotherhood (Showcase, Thursday, 8.30pm) should take a look at this feature-length doco that tells the remarkable and bloody story of Massachusetts politician William Bulger and his gangster brother, James, who provided the inspiration for Brotherhood's Michael and Tommy Caffee.

This documentary paints a sweeping social portrait of how the structure of Irish-American criminal organisations provided a template for the Italian gangsters who would eventually supplant them.

Space Crab

National Geographic, 6.30pm

An interesting documentary looking at how the humble, prehistoric horseshoe crab will be used in efforts to protect the Earth from possible extraterrestrial plagues.

The horseshoe crab has been scuttling about the sea floor for 400 million years so it clearly has a bit of experience to lend us. Problem is, it is endangered.

The doco takes us to Taiwan to look at a conservation program and to the US, where crab-catchers harvest their blood and then plonk them back in the water.

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