TV & Radio Tuesday October 4

Disaster, folly, an Irishman, a Welshman and and Englishman. Also, girls in bikinis!

TV

Fatal Attractions

Coronation Street (TV1, 7.30pm). Enjoy it while it’s still at 7.30pm. Also, Corrie now has Audio Description on Teletext page 801. Tonight may include “slap sound”, when Sophie admits she love Sian.

America’s Next Top Model (Four, 7.30pm). Cycle 16 begins. Excited? Nah, neither are we.

Air Crash Confidential (TV1, 8.30pm). It’s all disaster and folly on TV1 this evening – Air Crash Confidential examines crashes between aircraft and follows the teams that investigate. It’s followed by Fatal Attractions, featuring people who stupidly have dangerous animals as pets. Yes, we said it. It’s stupid.

Three Men Go to Scotland (Prime, 8.30pm). The Welshman, the Englishman and the Irishman of course have to go to … Scotland. Griff Rhys Jones, Rory McGrath and Dara O’Briain sail around some of Britain’s remote areas. Naturally, whisky is involved and also salmon.

The Late Show with David Letterman (Prime, 11.40pm). Tonight, Samuel L Jackson, comedian Karen Rontowski, and music from Anne-Sophie Mutter.

FILM

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Blue Crush (Four 8.30pm). Stop! If you don’t like girls in bikinis, do not watch this movie. An above-average surfer story that was inspired by a magazine article by Susan Orlean and focuses on three young working-class women, rather than the usual dudes trying to find the elusive perfect wave (how boring is that?) Blue Crush falls somewhere between Saturday Night Fever (also inspired by a magazine article) and Girlfight – it’s an aspirational story of triumph through sport, but it also stays grounded in the realities of scraping out an existence as a hotel maid in Hawaii. Kate Bosworth, Michelle Rodriguez and Sanoe Lake are the three surfer chicks; Bosworth has a chance in a big competition, but is haunted by a previous accident. Enter cute football player Matthew Davis, who may or may not be a distraction. (2001) 7

Scott Pilgrim vs the World (Sky Movies, Sky 020, 8.30pm). A joyous mash-up of comic-book culture, manga, video games and math rock made by British pop culture obsessive Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz). Based on the graphic novel by Bryan Lee O’Malley, the film features Michael Cera as the wimpy hero in a world where it’s not unusual to have to fight, comic-book-style, the seven evil exes of the girl he likes (Mary Elizabeth Winstead). Really good fun, although seven exes seems like a lot, and drags the movie out just a little. (2010) 8

RADIO

Nine to Noon with Kathryn Ryan (Radio New Zealand National, 10.06am). He looks about 17 in photos, but international security consultant to the US Government Dan Twining is, apparently, a Senior Fellow and he’s so clever you shouldn’t go anywhere near his website unless you were educated at Oxford, as he was. Twining is an expert on Asia’s relationship with the West and knows a lot about the rise of China and India. Which brings me to the subject of tea. What I really want to know is, is he part of the great English tea dynasty? Also today, Professor Swee Tan discusses lack of data collection on non-melanoma skin cancers; Anne Buchanan reviews Autumn Laing, by Alex Miller; business commentator Rod Oram; and media commentator Gavin Ellis. Info and audio here. – Diana Balham

BBC Proms 2011 (Radio New Zealand Concert, 9.00pm). Tonight from the Proms, British cellist Natalie Clein, the BBC Singers and the Britten Sinfonia, conducted by David Hill, present works by Tippett, Tavener and Gubaidulina. – Diana Balham

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