HD Heads-Up: April 27

The Guardian hailed Prime’s latest Sex Diaries instalment, Transgender Love (May 9, 9.30), as an “accomplished documentary” in which “the men with transgender partners came across as shallow and uninteresting. Unlike their often fascinating other halves.” Quipped The Times: “What do men look for in a transgender lover: love, understanding, a lack of menstrual cycle?” Among other things, the Channel 4 doco reveals how a heterosexual 51-year-old window cleaner “found love” with a transgender bride who’s 28 years younger …

TV2 will screen a Sunday edition of My Kitchen Rules on May 8 at 7.30, which will push The Simpsons back to an unusually late 8.15 slot. Incidentally, Much Apu About Nothing marks the second time in  27 seasons that the ‘toon has used Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing for a spoof title (“the episode was layered and in some ways took advantage of the extra time afforded by the missing couch gag, but it didn’t provide any side splitters,” said Den of Geek)  …

Prime will premiere Deer Devils on May 11 at 9.30. The HD documentary explores the live capture of deer from helicopters 30-40 years ago, when shooters leapt from the skids of a chopper with nets onto the running deer.  Says the blurb: “In an age of OSH and Government hand holding, Deer Devils celebrates these aerial Kiwi cowboys and their off siders who forced their helicopters and equipment to do the impossible.” It will screen ahead of a new series of Back Benches …

Australians accounted for 12.5% of the torrent traffic that pirated Monday’s season-six premiere of Game of Thrones, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. At the same time, its launch on pay-TV platform Foxtel was “the most watched series premiere in Australian subscription television history”. It’s not known how the premiere fared on SoHo as Sky doesn’t release ratings data for its premium drama channel …

A “roommate civil war” breaks out on tonight’s The Big Bang Theory (TV2, 8.45), when the gang falls out amid a Game of Thrones viewing party. “The resulting split offered a lot of entertainment value and some amusing one-liners,” said IGN, but The Daily Fandom complained it “just felt like a big promotion” of Thones’ return (which is probably true given Warner Bros is behind both hits) …

Monday’s 60 Minutes (Prime, 8.30) covers the programme’s botched bid to help a desperate Australian mother tries to retrieve her two children from their father in Lebanon; another Australian mother who has been trapped with her children for years in Egypt, after her estranged husband made her sign forms stopping her from leaving the country; how decades of war in the Congo has kept researchers away from one of the least-understood apes on the planet, the Bonobos; and how being a grandfather helps to keeps Michael Caine going strong in his 80s …

Guesting this week on Prime’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon are: Chelsea Handler, Eric Bana and Graham Nash (tonight); Gisele Bündchen and Fitz & The Tantrums (tomorrow); and Adam Levine, Patton Oswalt and Rae Sremmurd (Friday) …