KEY POINTS:
8.30PM, TV2
DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES
A month has passed on Wisteria Lane since season three ended and we find the main characters struggling with personal issues: Bree is having a hard time maintaining the charade of her fake pregnancy, Susan is finding married life more difficult than expected, Lynette's health
and marriage problems continue, Gabrielle is torn in love, and we find out if Edie committed suicide or not.
Meanwhile, a former resident returns to the street - Katherine Mayfair (Dana Delaney) is back after a long absence. She returns with her young husband Adam (Nathan Fillion) and daughter Dylan (Lyndsy Fonseca).
Series creator Marc Cherry originally wanted Delany to play the Bree character, and, having finally lured her to the series, sets her up as a manipulative version of the home-maker from hell. Also look out for the arrival of gay couple Lee and Bob later in the series.
9:30PM, TV ONE
AMERICA'S MOST HATED FAMILY
Louis Theroux revels in presenting offbeat cultural subjects or portraying people living on the margins of society. From his beginnings as a correspondent on Michael Moore's TV Nation, where he covered topics such as Avon ladies in the Amazon jungle, he has gone on to front his owns shows, from a series dealing with the day to day lives of celebrities to hanging out with gangsta rappers, survivalists and skinheads.
He's back into the margins of society, and begins with the extended Phelps family, the core of a church community in Kansas. They believe America has become damned ever since it condoned homosexuality. They picket places gay people congregate, newsworthy events and even soldiers' funerals. One of their many websites has a page celebrating the death of actor Heath Ledger, saying he's gone to hell for playing a gay cowboy in Brokeback Mountain.
3:25PM, TV3
STICKY TV
Hosts Sam, Drew and Erin return for another year of fun kids' stuff in and around some favourite shows. For the past four years the show has followed a similar format, with popular segments such as Howzit, which distributes advice, and Doggone, in which kids and their dogs compete in challenges. While those much-loved parts of the show remain, there will be some new elements on Mondays and Fridays with two teams of two kids helping out the presenters on those days.
On Mondays, the show will be all about how to make things, and on Fridays it will focus on investigating substances. Things will remain much the same on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays with stories that deliver information in an entertaining way. The show will be kick off with Hannah Montana, in which Miley Cyrus plays a teen who does her best to hide her double life as a famous pop singer.
8.30PM, TV3
LIFE
When a husband and wife are involved in a carjacking where the wife is murdered, Crews and Reese suspect the husband when he refuses to identify the suspect.
8.30PM, TV ONE
WITHOUT A TRACE
When an 18-year-old girl and her father go missing, the team suspect their disappearance has something to do with his job as a crime-scene cleaner.
9.30PM, TV3
PRISON BREAK
Michael tries to get in touch with Sara but has to rely on T-Bag's help because the only phone is in Lechero's quarters.
9.30PM, TV2
PUSHING DAISIES
In this new series, we meet Ned, a young man with a special but sometimes deadly gift. See story page 8.
MOVIES
6.30PM, RIALTO SKY DIGITAL
JINDABYNE
Herald rating: * * * *
Engrossing Aussie drama from director Ray Lawrence (Lantana), starring Gabriel Byrne and Laura Linney. A group of men on a fishing trip find an Aboriginal girl's dead body. Rather than reporting it immediately, they stay on fishing for a day and come under fire from local Aboriginals and their own wives. (2006)
8.30PM, SKY MOVIES
16 BLOCKS
Herald rating: * * *
A mustachioed Bruce Willis appropriately plays an ageing cop who must escort a trial witness (Mos Def) across town to a courthouse. Turns out he's testifying against some corrupt cops and their lives are in grave danger. (2006)
8.30PM, SKY MOVIES GREATS
ALMOST FAMOUS
Herald rating: * * * *
Semi-autobiographical story from director Cameron Crowe about 15-year-old William (Patrick Fugit), a budding music journalist who is offered a chance to tour with a rock band. Phillip Seymour Hoffman plays Creem magazine writer Lester Bangs and Kate Hudson plays Penny Lane, one of several groupies who call themselves the Band-Aids. (2000)