Robert Carlyle ups the thesp count on Stargate Universe to one, and The Big Bang Theory's Jim Parsons on Rove LA.
TV
Stargate Universe, photo Carole Segal/Syfy
Airways (TV2, 8.00pm). It’s not that we object to television this cheap and dull, it’s just that we’re thinking of all the things we could be doing in the half-hour that shows Australians trying to board planes, failing to board planes, losing their baggage, or otherwise having travel problems. If you think it’s boring when it actually happens to you, just think how bad it will be watching it.
Media 7 (TVNZ 7, 9.05pm). A SPADA special, featuring movers and shakers from the Screen Production and Development Association’s conference which just took place in Auckland. The future of free-to-air television is under discussion, and Broadcasting Minister Jonathan Coleman fronts up for a chat with Russell Brown.
Monteith’s Wild Food Challenge (TV1, 9.30pm). What is an advertorial doing on at this time of the night?
Rove LA (TV3, 9.30pm). Tonight’s guests are Jim Parsons (The Big Bang Theory); Pink (a singer); and Chris Hardwick from nerdist.com.
SGU (Prime, 9.40pm). Nerds, it’s the final season of Stargate Universe, the Stargate spin-off that somehow failed to set the world on fire, despite the presence of proper thesp Robert Carlyle. Yes, that Robert Carlyle. It begins with a bang – the crew are in a desperate struggle for control of the Destiny with mercenary smugglers the Lucian Alliance. What happens after that is probably confusing if you haven’t read the requisite Wikipedia pages. Start with “Stargate Universe”, then move on to “Mythology of Stargate”. Go on, you know you want to.
FILM
The Matrix Revolutions (Movies Greats, Sky 022, 8.30pm). The paranoid cyber-cool of the first Matrix movie had completely disappeared by the time that the Wachowski brothers made the final in their trilogy, replaced with overblown effects, video game martial arts battles and cod religious philosophy. Dudes, from go to Keanu’s ”whoa”, you totally blew it. (2003) 3
RADIO
Appointment (Radio New Zealand Concert, 7.00pm). Without wealthy Russian patroness and dancer Ida Rubinstein, we might never have heard Ravel’s famous Bolero, which she commissioned, but we would also have missed out on her saucy 1908 strip to the Dance of Seven Veils from Oscar Wilde’s Salome. In Forgetting Ida Rubinstein, Elric Hooper and Des Wilson present the first of two programmes about Rubinstein and her artistic contribution to the 20th century. – Diana Balham
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