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	FRIDAY 12TH SEPTEMBER 22.30 BST - BBC TWO PRESENTED BY KIRSTY WARK Hello, Gordon Brown Tonight - Is Gordon Brown's time in Downing Street now running out? For the first time a member of the government has called for a challenge to Gordon Brown's leadership. Junior whip Siobhain McDonagh says he should face a contest. Newsnight has learned at least one backbencher has also called for nomination papers. So is this the start of a concerted move to replace the Prime Minister, and if so is the smart money on David Miliband? I'll be speaking live to Siobhain McDonagh and we have convened our panel of political insiders to assess this political moment. Zimbabwe More details have been agreed at talks about forming a power-sharing government in Zimbabwe. Under the plan, Robert Mugabe would remain president and head of the armed forces. The detail will be revealed and the deal signed on Monday - tonight we'll we analysing what it might contain and whether there is any chance the MDC leader will have full executive powers. We'll be speaking live to Zimbabwe's Ambassador to the United Nations. And don't forget to scroll down to see what is planned for Newsnight Review at 11pm.
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	FROM MARTHA KEARNEY Watching a film at a screening filled with cynical critics can often cast a dampener on proceedings but when I went to see Tropic Thunder this week, I found myself laughing uncontrollably. Ben Stiller directs and stars in this satire on Hollywood which takes a group of actors in a war movie and puts them in a real jungle. It's been highly controversial in the States both because Robert Downey Jr blacks up (to play an obsessional Australian method actor) and because Ben Stiller is mocked for playing a "retard" -the film's word not mine. Members of my family have learning disabilities so I could easily have been offended but in fact I thought the joke was far more at the expense of Hollywood's sentimentality and actors' desire for Oscars than at disabled people. It will be interesting to hear what my guests think tonight- Rachel Campbell-Johnston, Tony Parsons and Dotun Adebayo. We'll also be discussing the first major retrospective of Francis Bacon's work since his death in 1992. The exhibition at Tate Britain has assembled many of his best known paintings. As well as the visceral anguish which is so strong in his art, there are some surprising elements of tenderness and delicacy too. It was a challenge for our cameraman Ian Pritchard to film as all the paintings are behind glass-apparently Bacon liked the reflections- but you can see for yourself later. Paul Theroux has retraced the famous train journey he made across Europe and Asia in The Great Railway Bazaar in 1975. We'll be discussing whether his new book Ghost Train to the Eastern Star is as successful. And we'll round off with the new album from The Streets, Everything Is Borrowed. Mike Skinner has moved away from his cataloguing of daily life in suburbia towards a more universal outlook. You'll hear some of the album tonight. Do join us all then, Martha Missed Newsnight? Click here to watch online Newsnight Blog Add your comments to our correspondents' blogs: CLICK HERE
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