TV & Radio Wednesday December 21

Comedy for the Christmas season, and its the end of the world as we know it in the final episode of V.

TV

She has a tail: Anna in V

Comedy Christmas Special: A Feast of Funny (TV2, 8.30pm). TV2 sees TV3’s Comedy Convoy and raises it a Feast of Funny. This stand-up special filmed at the Sky City Theatre last month is hosted by British comedian Jason Cook, and features Australians Wil Anderson and Tom Gleeson, with American Des Bishop and Irishman Peter O’Doherty. Looks like we’re about to find out what happens when an Englishman, an Australian and an Irishman walk into a casino. Also on the bill are Kiwis Brendhan Lovegrove and Simon McKinney and honorary New Zealander Urzila Carlson.

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Parenthood (Four, 9.30pm). The penultimate episode of season two, and the kids are not alright. Well, Amber anyway, who is spiralling downwards. In American family dramas, this means that something terrible is going to happen to show where this sort of behaviour gets you. No, not murdered in a cabin in the woods by a supernatural evil, something else. On a lighter note, Haddie accidentally dials her parents while doing it with Alex. Embarrassing. Damn mobile phones.

V (TV2, 10.30pm). It’s been going swimmingly for the Visitors, but can the resistance save the world in its 11th hour? It’s the final of the series forever, so we may never know. Look out for Morena Baccarin in the brilliant new drama Homeland (TV3 next year), and Charles Mesure hasn’t exactly fallen on hard times either – he’s guest-starring on Desperate Housewives as a new love interest for Renee (Vanessa Williams).

FILM

Wedding Crashers (Movies Greats, Sky 022, 8.30pm). Yuk-worthy Vince Vaughan/Owen Wilson comedy that goes limp in the last quarter. Both actors do a fine line in guys who haven’t grown up yet – and whose easy charm lets them get away with crashing weddings for the booze, the boogying and, most of all, the babes. You know where this is heading: Wilson falls for the lovely Rachel McAdams and finds himself in a Meet the Fockers scenario at the family compound of Christopher Walken, while Vaughan has a crazy – and we mean that in the nicest way – time with Isla Fisher. (2005) 7

RADIO

Nine to Noon with Kathryn Ryan (Radio New Zealand National, 9.06am). Today: the stoush between the Earthquake Recovery Minister and the Christchurch council; the pre-Christmas surge in demand for food parcels at Auckland and Christchurch City Missions; Australia correspondent Karen Middleton; an interview with photojournalist Holly Pickett, who has been covering the Arab Spring; Quentin Johnson review Nightwoods, by Charles Frazier; Marty Duda’s artist of the week is the Damned; legal commentator Ursula Cheer; arts commentator Courtney Johnston. Info and audio here.