TV program notes -- week of Jan. 27

NEW YORK (CNS) -- Here are some television program notes for the week of Jan. 27 with their TV Parental Guidelines ratings if available. They have not been reviewed and therefore are not necessarily recommended by the Office for Film & Broadcasting.

Sunday, Jan. 27, 8-9 p.m. EST (PBS) "Parrots in the Land of Oz." Parrots are everywhere in Australia. Their colors, behaviors and habitats are all described in depth by the scientists studying them and by the Australians who live among them. A presentation of "Nature" (TV-G -- general audience).

Sunday, Jan. 27, 9-10:30 p.m. EST (PBS) "The Complete Jane Austen: 'Mansfield Park'" (PBS). Jane Austen's most complex plot stars Billie Piper as Fanny Price, who goes to live with prosperous relatives at Mansfield Park. Fanny navigates a labyrinth of intrigues and affairs among the occupants of the house, while her cousin Edmund Bertram (Blake Ritson) remains her stalwart confidant. Gillian Anderson hosts this "Masterpiece" presentation (TV-PG -- parental guidance suggested).

Tuesday, Jan. 29, 8-9 p.m. EST (PBS) "Secrets of the Parthenon." With unprecedented access, the "Nova" series presents the inside story of the official restoration of the Parthenon, erected by the ancient Greeks as a temple to Athena, but has served as a church, a fortress, an ammunition dump and the model for countless banks, courthouses and museums across the world (TV-G --general audience).

Tuesday, Jan. 29, 8:30-9:15 p.m. EST (HBO) "Baghdad ER." A doctor's look inside Al-Yarmouk hospital in Baghdad, which has been transformed by insurgency and sectarian strife into a "field hospital in a civil war" (TV-14 -- parents strongly cautioned).

Wednesday, Jan. 30, 9-10 p.m. EST (PBS) "Eden at the End of the World." This film tracks several species that call the extreme environment of Tierra del Fuego, at the southern tip of South America, home (TV-PG -- parental guidance suggested).

Wednesday, Jan. 30, 10-11:40 p.m. EST (EWTN) "Don Bosco: Part 1." This dramatic presentation of the life of St. John Bosco reveals how the saint's unconditional love and glowing witness of Christ changed the lives of countless impoverished boys. Concludes Thursday, Jan. 31, 10-11:40 p.m. EST.

Saturday, Feb. 2, 8-9 p.m. EST (EWTN) "The Two Suitcases: St. Guiseppina Bakhita." This story of St. Josephine Bakhita, the first African nun canonized by the church, highlights her heroic virtue in the midst of physical suffering, and takes you to the cities of Italy where she lived after her release from slavery.

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