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The Daily Star, Oneonta, N.Y., Friday, September 6, 2019 18 Cable Conversion Chart O SB C NB GG N Dish DTV ABC WIVT Binghamton - 6 - - - 6 - - ABC WUTR Utica 7 - - 7 10 - 20 20 CBS WKTV2 Utica 5 3 - - - - 12 - CBS WRGB Schenectady 26 - 6 - 6 - - - CBS WTVH Syracuse - - - - - - - 5 CW+ WBU Utica 11 - - - - - - - FOX WFXV Utica 6 9 - 6 - - 33 33 FOX WICZ Binghamton 3 3 - 3 - 10 - - FOX WOLF Scranton - - - 10 - - - - FOX WXXA Albany - - 8 - 8 - - - IND WISF Oneonta - 1231 - - - - - - MNT WPNY Utica - - - 27 - - - - NBC WBGH Elmira - 5 - - - 5 - - NBC WKTV Utica 4 - - 4 - 17 2 2 NBC WNYT Albany - - 13 2 13 - - - NBC WSTM Syracuse - - - - - 3 - - NBC WTEN Albany - - 10 - - - - - PBS WCNY Syracuse 12 12 - 12 - 12 - - PBS WMHT Schenectady - - 11 - 11 - - - PBS WSKG Binghamton 8 8 - 8 - 7 - - WGN Chicago 25 25 87 - 87 28 239 307 ABC FAMILY 16 16 35 16 35 25 180 311 AMERICAN HEROES CHANNEL 140 140 140 140 140 140 195 287 AMERICAN MOVIE CLASSICS 66 66 29 66 29 66 131 254 ANIMAL PLANET 67 67 132 67 132 67 184 282 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT 42 42 38 42 38 42 118 265 BRAVO 29 29 59 29 59 29 129 237 CABLE NEWS NETWORK 15 15 46 15 46 24 200 202 CNN INTERNATIONAL - - 216 - 216 - - - CARTOON NETWORK 59 59 32 59 32 59 176 296 CINEMAX 531 531 531 531 531 531 310 515 CINEMAX 2 (MOREMAX) 532 532 532 532 532 532 312 517 CNBC 39 39 48 39 48 39 208 355 COMEDY CENTRAL 32 32 36 32 36 32 107 249 COUNTRY MUSIC TELEVISION 30 30 293 30 293 30 166 327 CSPAN 47 47 14 47 14 18 210 350 CSPAN2 226 226 21 92 21 92 211 351 DISCOVERY CHANNEL 41 41 37 41 37 41 182 278 DISCOVERY LIFE 70 70 180 70 180 70 - 261 DISNEY CHANNEL 51 51 34 51 34 51 172 290 E! 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I would blame this fact on Australia be- ing half a world away and full of wacky island folk, but the U.K. is an island as well (though admittedly a little more austere), and we've ex- perienced many "invasions" of British music, film and televi- sion since the transmission was scientifically possible. We may not get a lot of Aus- tralian TV over here, but we do watch a lot of Aussie actors on our big and small screens. Hugh Jackman ("Logan," 2017), Chris Hemsworth ("Avengers: Endgame," 2019), Heath Ledger ("The Dark Knight," 2008) and Eric Bana ("The Forgiven" 2017) — Aus- tralia has been a prime source of leading Hollywood men for decades. While Scott Ryan may not fall into the Hemsworth heartthrob category, FX is hop- ing North American audiences will fall in love with him, too. Season 2 of his series "Mr. In- between" premieres Thursday, Sept. 12, on the cable channel. Ryan stars as Ray Shoe- smith, a perfectly average man at first glance: he has an ex- wife, a daughter who is grow- ing up too fast for his liking, and a couple of idiot friends. Ray is also a hitman, however, which can make his average- man life a lot more complicat- ed. Ryan is relatively new to acting. His portrayal of Ray is amazing, but his contribution to this series goes much deeper than that — he created the show, is the head writer, and also wrote and created the short film that started it all: "The Magician" (2005). After it screened at the St. Kilda Film Festival in Port Phil- lip, Australia, stuntman-turned- director Nash Edgerton took an interest in Ryan's 30-minute short film and decided to turn it into a feature. The original cost a total of $3,000 to make and was shot over just 10 days. Three years later, FX Australia snapped up the rights and commissioned its first original drama series, keeping Ryan as the star and Edgerton as writer and director. If Edgerton's name sounds familiar to you, you may be more familiar with his famous brother, Joel, who has starred in the hit films "Warrior" (2011), "Black Mass" (2015) and "Loving" (2016). In the end, "Mr. Inbetween" premiered in the U.S. before it did Down Under, thanks to FX Australia's dissolution. (The network's series were trans- ferred to Fox Showcase Austra- lia, which is where the show airs now.) Although the true star of the show is undeniably Ryan, there wouldn't be much to the dead- pan hatchet man's life without the people in it. Nicholas Cas- sim ("Home and Away") plays Bruce, Ray's increasingly ill old- er brother who, despite being part of the criminal underworld himself, never really had a knack for it the way his young- er brother does. Moments shared between the two are some of the best in the series: funny and heart- warming all at the same time. Cassim spoke to Fox Showcase about Bruce and Ray's rela- tionship, saying, "I think they're very close in that Aus- tralian male way of not being overly demonstrative emotion- ally. They're extremely loyal to each other." Ray's best friend, Gary (Jus- tin Rosniak, "Squinters"), and his forever-crumbling relation- ship with paramedic Ally (Brooke Satchwell, "Wonder- land"), who is way out of his league, is always fun to watch. And just try not to fall in love with Ray's much-too-obser- vant daughter, Brittany, played by 10-year-old Chika Yasumura in her very first role. The people over at FX seem to love a good black comedy, and "Mr. Inbetween" fits in well on the network. I'm a big fan of the show's rather unique episode titles — "Captain Ob- vious," "Unicorns Know Every- body's Name" and "Your Mum's Got a Strongbox" are some good examples — which somehow, despite their ridicu- lousness, always define the content of the episodes quite well. Not many showrunners are brave enough to center their premiere episode on a man's urolagnia. (Not familiar? The episode's title, "The Pee Pee Guy," should tell you every- thing you need to know.) Yet, while taking a ride on this ab- surd and initially off-putting plot vehicle, you end up learn- ing everything you need to know about the relationship between two of the show's main characters. Hitman for hire: Season 2 of 'Mr. Inbetween' premieres on FX featurestory Nicholas Cassim and Chika Yasumura in a scene from 'Mr. Inbetween

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