TV & Radio Tuesday October 11

The Grey's Anatomy characters are sent back to their sad places in the season finale, and creation of a supercar.

TV

Grey's Anatomy: back to their sad places

Megafactories (National Geographic, Sky 072, 7.30pm). A doco that follows the three years from conception to launch of the Aston Martin supercar, the One-77. Astonishingly, Aston Martin created this production car at the height of the global economic crisis; presumably the iconic British marque thought there would still be enough millionaires left in the world to buy them. Delivery of the cars began in October 2010, with a limited run of 77 – in May this year, Mainfreight co-founder, New Zealander Neil Graham, bought one for $2.8 million. After it arrived in the country on a Singapore Airlines 747, Graham was reported to be “chuffed”.

Peta’s Culinary Adventures in France (Prime, 8.00pm). In which Peta Mathias and her students in the South of France have a perfectly awful time foraging and cooking in and around the medieval town of Uzès. Dreadful, just dreadful, we don’t know how they did it.

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Grey’s Anatomy (TV2, 8.35pm). A surprisingly excellent season of Grey’s Anatomy (we’ll just ignore that musical episode), which is pretty good going when a show is seven seasons in. (Yes, there will be an eighth season, and showrunner Shonda Rhimes has confirmed it will continue after that.) Plus, in tonight’s season finale, Rhimes manages to hit the reset button and sends her characters back to the sad places they came from. After all, in this world, too much relationship happiness is a bad thing.

Private Practice (TV2, 9.35pm). Oh no, another season finale – and with Nothing Trivial ending this week too, what are we going to do for girlie drama now? The fate of the practice is in the balance, apparently, but never mind that – Addison has a new squeeze, and it’s Benjamin Bratt! Bet he wants babies
 and everything.

The Truth About Traffic (TVNZ7, Sky 077 and Freeview 7, 10.05pm). A US documentary about the headache traffic has become in the modern world. Science and technology writer Jake Ward explains the complexities of a system with millions of variables, and how the traffic organism is, in fact, completely counter-intuitive. People steer themselves into accidents; we can all move faster by individually driving slower; and humans drive best when rules are taken away.

FILM

Miss March (Four, 8.30pm). A guy wakes from a coma to discover his high-school sweetheart has become a Playboy centrefold, so he and his sex-maniac mate go on a road trip to win her back. Oh, this sounds promising. Hugh Hefner features in this long ad for that most venerable of men’s mags. Robert Wagner was cast to play him and shot all his scenes, but Hef insisted on playing himself because he found the whole project so amusing. Unless you are a hormonal boofhead, you probably won’t. So moronic and inept, many reviewers bypassed “worst movie of the year” and went straight to “worst movie ever”. (2009) 2 – Diana Balham

Avatar (Sky Movies, Sky 020, 8.30pm). James Cameron’s epic is really only epic in 3D; without the dazzling depth, it’s just a high-tech Dances with Wolves. A colonial (Sam Worthington) infiltrates the tribe, and becomes one of them. Literally in this case. But what special effects they are – our 2009 interview with Weta Digital’s visual effects supervisor Joe Letteri here. (2009) 8

Team America: World Police (Movies Greats, Sky 022, 8.30pm). Funny puppets, and funny puppet sex, cannot disguise the fact that South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone just love making fun of Hollywood, especially earnest actor types such as Sean Penn and Tim Robbins. But no one is safe, from Kim Jong-il to American ultra-patriotism: “America! F— yeah! Freedom is the only way, yeah!” goes one song. (2004) 7