Wild, wild food, and a bad acid trip for Fringe's Olivia.
TV
Monteiths Wild Food Challenge
Coronation Street (TV1, 7.30pm). A secret affair, a secret baby; there’s plenty of mileage to be had in the Kevin-Molly fallout. Nine months, in fact, of heaping on the guilt, which is what happens tonight when Tyrone asks Kevin to be the baby’s godfather. Meanwhile, Natasha and Rosie are on to Graeme.
Hunting Aotearoa (Maori, 9.30pm). Howard Morrison jnr has been checking out the hunting in the wider Pacific this season. In tonight’s episode he’s on the Samoan Islands of Savai’i and Upolu hunting with – get this – the Prime Minister and a couple of villagers from the tsunami-stricken village of Poutasi.
Monteith’s Wild Food Challenge (TV1, 9.30pm). A wild foods restaurant challenge that is now in its 14th year, apparently, and this year has its very own TV series. Chefs Mark Southon and Wylie Dean travel the country checking out the dishes created by competing restaurants; tonight features Greymouth restaurant the Coalface (marinated venison with Celtic cabbage and brandied Blackball bacon) and Geraldine’s Taste (wild chocolate hare éclair, and wallaby, blue cheese and stinging-nettle spring roll).
aimRenderAd(300, 250, '300X250','ContentRect','/POS=POS2'); if(!$.browser.msie){ ContentRect_frame = $("#ContentRect")[0]; ContentRect_frame.src = ContentRect_frame.src; }Fringe (TV2, 10.30pm). The title of the episode is Lycergic Acid Diethylamide, by which we presume it means that being invaded by William Bell’s consciousness is akin to a massive acid trip. Unfortunately, like an acid trip, it could make Olivia insane. Kind of a mean trick, Belly, although quite fun hearing Anna Torv (Olivia) mimicking Leonard Nimoy’s cadences.
The Late Show with David Letterman (Prime, 11.40pm). Tonight, Hugh Jackman, with music from Feist.
FILM
Intolerable Cruelty (Movies Greats, Sky 022, 6.50pm). Joel and Ethan Coen make a screwball comedy. Results, as they say, are mixed. George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones are the sparring couple; he is a vacuous divorce lawyer with dazzling white teeth, she is the schemer he falls for. Clooney is always happy to mock his own Hollywood-ness, and Zeta-Jones is a good sport, but for all their gorgeousness, there’s not much chemistry. Not exactly intolerable cruelty to watch, but the film is too slick and not nearly as much fun as the Coen brothers were hoping for. (2003) 6
The Last Airbender (Sky Movies, Sky 020, 8.30pm). More unkind adjectives have been applied to everything about this family fantasy adventure than poor old M Night Shyamalan could have dreamed possible. The once-acclaimed director of The Sixth Sense hasn’t just lost his way, but programmed his satnav to “Oblivion” and cranked it up to warp speed 10. Flying bison? M Night, what were you thinking? (2010) 3 – Diana Balham
Piranha (Sky Movies, Sky 020, 10.15pm). A sort-of remake of the 1973 Joe Dante movie that came out in 3D in theatres. Which could make it a lot more fun. A good cast, including Richard Dreyfuss, Ving Rhames, Elisabeth Shue and Christopher Lloyd, are trapped in this gore-athon which has many references to Jaws, as well as all the movies ever that featured young, randy college kids on Spring break being murdered/eaten alive by a giant prehistoric fish. Also stars The Vampire Diaries‘ Steven R McQueen. “Shamelessly entertaining B movie bottomfeeding,” said Rolling Stone. (2010) 5
RADIO
Music Alive (Radio New Zealand Concert, 8.00pm). Tonight from the Proms, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is back to perform works by Wagner and Mahler with German violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter.
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