The novelistic, multi-layered Treme begins, and All New Motorway Patrol, but how can you tell?
TV
Treme
NB: The TV1 listings in the November 5 and 12 issues of theListener say “To Be Advised” at 4.55pm every weekday, and at 7.30pm on Tuesday and Thursday because, at the time we went to press, TVNZ had not made a decision about the programmes that would screen in those timeslots. However, TVNZ has since announced it will screen Coronation Street at 7.30pm on Thursdays and Fridays starting November 10. Ellen will screen at 5.00pm every weekday. TVNZ’s full TV guide is here.
All New Motorway Patrol (TV2, 8.00pm). They say “All New”, but how can you tell? It’s like Waiting for Godot, everything and nothing happens at the same time. Or is that string theory? Surely the greatest existential television ever made.
Embarrassing Teenage Bodies (TV2, 8.30pm). The final in the series, thank Buddha, who, by the way, embraced his curvy bits. Wait, a new series of Embarrassing Bodies next week? Noooooo!
Rove LA (TV3, 9.30pm). Tonight’s guests are Modern Family‘s Ty Burrell, John Krasinski from The Office, and Stone Cold Steve Austin.
aimRenderAd(300, 250, '300X250','ContentRect','/POS=POS2'); if(!$.browser.msie){ ContentRect_frame = $("#ContentRect")[0]; ContentRect_frame.src = ContentRect_frame.src; }Treme (SoHo, Sky 010, 9.30pm). David Simon takes the novelistic, multi-layered style he used in The Wire and applies it to New Orleans, three months after Katrina. The series is another naturalistic tour de force, capturing, over a long arc, the people, places, issues and music of an amazing city. John Goodman, Steve Zahn, Khandi Alexander and Wendell Pierce (Bunk in The Wire) star, and there are guest appearances from Dr John, Elvis Costello, Steve Earle and Allen Toussaint.
Greatest Plastic Surgery Shockers (TV2, 9.35pm). Congrats, TV2, you found something worse than Embarrassing Bodies.
FILM
Burlesque (Sky Movies, Sky 020, 8.30pm). Just as well they don’t make dear old Cher dance – all her staples would fall out. Previously wooden, she’s now hilariously immobile – every wrinkle terrified into submission by Botox. And Christina Aguilera? Well, she’s young … A very long and somewhat old-fashioned music video that comes across as a slightly nervous challenge to Lady Gaga. We’re waiting. (2010) 5 – Diana Balham
The Matrix Reloaded (Movies Greats, Sky 022, 8.30pm). Apparently, the suggestion that the music on Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon syncs with The Wizard of Oz is not the only case of it: they say Metallica’s album Load syncs with The Matrix Reloaded. Which is awesome, as it totally saves us from the dialogue while we’re pondering how the Wachowski brothers could have got two (two!) sequels to one of the coolest movies ever so wrong. (2003) 4
RADIO
Appointment (Radio New Zealand Concert, 7.00pm). Peter Mechen looks at Douglas Lilburn’s song cycle Elegy, talking to singers and pianists who have performed the work. It was composed in 1951 and is a setting of poems by Alistair Te Ariki Campbell, written as a memorial to Roy Dickson, who died in an accident in the Southern Alps in 1947. – Diana Balham
Music Alive (Radio New Zealand Concert, 8.00pm). Direct from the Auckland Town Hall, tonight’s concert, Russian Fire, is the APO’s tribute to three giants of the Russian scene, Rimsky-Korsakov, Shostakovich and Stravinsky, featuring Russian-born violinist Alina Ibragimova. The programme includes Sadko Op 5 by Rimsky-Korsakov, Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto and Stravinsky’s ever-popular Firebird Suite. Conductor Eckehard Stier will have to work hard to contain so much Russian passion. – Diana Balham
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