By Debi Enker
Giggle and Hoot 10th birthday
ABC Kids, 7am
Some people with inexorably growing children (ahem) will be getting misty-eyed that Jimmy Giggle and his owl sidekick Hoot have reached their 10th birthday, their attainment of double digits the parental equivalent of J Alfred Prufrock measuring out his life in coffee spoons. For many Australian families Giggle and Hoot is the wallpaper to infancy and early childhood, the early morning and evening bedtime bookend to life starring the pyjama-clad, guitar-playing Jimmy Giggle (Jimmy Rees) and owl Hoot (played with aplomb by Hoot). By the looks of the clip provided by Aunty, celebrations are going to be one massive under-age hootenanny led by the lovable Rees. Ten years is mildly terrifying, but then the beauty of children's entertainment is that the audience magically replenishes itself again and again.
Jimmy Giggle and his owl sidekick Hoot have reached their 10th birthday.
The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
9Life, 9.30pm
Lisa Vanderpump has just revealed to a shocked world that she will be leaving TRHOBH at the end of the current ninth season (we in the colonies are merely savouring season seven), although in this case "shocked" actually means "completely underwhelmed to the point of catatonia". This tribe of affluent, back-stabbing, front-stabbing women who appear to share the same plastic surgeon will probably continue to entertain their pouting neuroses forevermore but Lisa V has seen fit to go out with her dignity intact (insert laughter here). In the meantime, you can catch her buying her son Max a condominium, as all good mothers do, while Lisa Rinna receives a humanitarian award at one of those egregious ceremonies beloved by rich people where they pose for photographers and congratulate themselves for helping feed the poor. Jesus wept.