Scott Kara's week of it

Altiyan Childs winner of the <i>X-Factor Australia</i>. Photo / Supplied

MUSIC
It's another week where there's something for everyone. Tomorrow metal and punk fans will be putting their necks on the line at the first No Sleep 'Til Auckland music festival at the ASB Showgrounds headlined by Megadeth.

On Saturday night the special guest at Christmas In the Park in Auckland Domain is X-Factor Australia winner Altiyan Childs. I just hope Altiyan remembers all his words and doesn't pass out when he hits the high notes (because have you noticed that weird eyes-rolling-back-in-head look that he has when he lets loose with that husky rock holler of his?). Then on Monday British post-punk oddities The Fall play the Powerstation.

TV
I've never been much of a Coro St fan - it celebrates its 50th birthday this week. My mum watches it, and my nana was a big fan and I've always wondered what she would have made of the show when it got a saucy, sexy makeover a few years back. I'd imagine there would have been a fair bit of tut-tutting. This week's Sunday Theatre, The Road To Coronation Street, is a drama about creator Tony Warren's struggle to make a show that no one wanted and is a must for all Coro fans.

Elsewhere on the box it's the double-episode finale of Boardwalk Empire (Sky Movies, 8.30pm, Saturday); and starting today on Prime at 9.30pm is Warnie, the new chat show fronted by Australian cricket's most famous spinner, Shane Warne, who this week talks to Coldplay's Chris Martin. Gwyneth will be expecting a few rogue texts this week then.

MOVIES
The third Narnia film, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, opens this week and Edmund and Lucy return to Narnia and meet up once again with Caspian, who is now King. Also up to its third and final instalment is the latest film adaptation of the best-selling Millennium trilogy following on from The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played With Fire. In The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest Lisbeth is in intensive care with a bullet wound to her head and when - or if - she recovers, she will stand trial for three murders.

OR...
...be a bit outrageous. Ten Cheryl West lookalikes from around New Zealand will open Auckand Museum's Outrageous Fortune exhibition on Tuesday night, made up like their heroine. They were selected from 80 applicants who claimed to embody the West family matriarch, and part of their prize involves flying up for the opening (singing karaoke on the plane with Robyn Malcolm) and having a Cheryl makeover. The exhibition goes beyond the scenes, into character analysis and why the show was so successful. It runs until next year.

-TimeOut