A mind-bending, time-warping season finale of Fringe, and there's a lot of pretty on Rove's couch.
TV
Fringe
Rove LA (TV3, 9.00pm). Guests tonight are Justin Timberlake, James Marsden, and Eliza Dushku. That is a lot of pretty. (Not a final, by the way, despite our listing.)
20/20 (TV2, 9.30pm). Tonight: an interview with Kelly Clarkson, the American Idol who actually had a career post-Idol; a story about the Bethany Centre, where unwed mothers have been giving birth since 1913, but is about to close up; and a report from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
Fringe (TV2, 10.30pm). The end of season three, and another time-travelling mind-bender in which Peter has fast-forwarded into the future and is on the other side. Freaky! Brad Dourif guest-stars as an “End of Dayer” who is deliberately creating vortices in the soft spots between the two universes, and Emily Meade plays Ella Dunham, Olivia’s niece, who is all growns up and a rookie FBI agent. There’s something of a shock ending, however, when one of the lead characters disappears. Literally. Geeks, don’t worry; TV2 brings back Chuck next week.
FILM
The Kingdom (Sky Movies Greats, Sky 022, 6.40pm). Muddled nonsense that possibly sums up the US’s confusion over the Middle East: director Peter Berg acknowledges an entirely different culture in which the US is not necessarily welcome – in this case, Saudi Arabia – but wants to give US audiences their shoot-outs and explosions. A team led by Jamie Foxx goes to Saudi Arabia to investigate a suicide bombing at a US compound. Although a Hollywood-style car chase through Riyadh’s streets is novel, it’s not going to save this mess. (2007) 4
Paranormal Activity 2 (Sky Movies, Sly 020, 8.30pm). It’s not surprising that there’s a Paranormal Activity 2 and 3; the first movie was one of the most profitable movies of all time, based on return on investment. Paramount/DreamWorks acquired the US rights for $350,000, and the movie went on to make $19 million worldwide. It’s a “parallel prequel” to the first movie, featuring the same kind of in-house frights of the first movie: about 19 gotcha! moments, according to Roger Ebert, captured via security cameras. Fun if you like a few frights, but not as low-tech clever as the first movie. (2010) 6
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