Friday's TV highlights

7.30PM, TV3
AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL

Get the clippers out because the girls are getting their heads shaved. They are given little time to settle into their posh new Los Angeles mansion before Jay reveals that they will be bald for their first photo shoot.

7.30PM, TV ONE
NZ HOUSE AND GARDEN

Imagine renting out your home for $16,000 a night. That's what New Zealander Jill Gilmour does when she's not living at her house on Wakaya Island in Fiji. We've heard it's popular with Hollywood's rich and famous.

8.30PM, TV ONE
ROSEMARY & THYME

One of the actors in Rosemary's cousin's play accidentally shoots himself during rehearsals and the police discover someone had replaced the gun's blanks with live bullets.

8.30PM, TV3
24

A lot can happen between 8pm and 9pm. On 24 even more happens than normal. Homeland Security's Karen Hayes takes over command of the CTU and Jack captures Collette, with Stoller's help.

9.30PM, TV ONE
RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES

There's nothing wrong with the food that Charita Jones has on the menu at her restaurant, Momma Cherri's Soul Food Shack. It's just that there's no customers. This sounds like a job for Super Ramsay.

9.30PM, TV2
THE JOAN RIVERS POSITION

Warning, if you're averse to loud, attention-seeking people then steer clear of this show tonight. Joan Rivers has OTT American Ruby Wax as her special guest.


MOVIES
[rating out of 5]

11.30PM, TV3
LA VEUVE DE ST. PIERRE
Herald rating: * * * *

Set in 1849, on the island of Saint Pierre off the coast of Newfoundland, two drunk men commit a senseless murder and one is sentenced to death by guillotine. He waits in the custody of the captain of the island's guard until a guillotine can arrive. Juliette Binoche plays the captain's wife, who guides him to redemption. (2000)

8.30PM, MGM SKY DIGITAL
THESE ARE THE DAMNED
Herald rating: * * *

Paranoid sci-fi parable, starring Oliver Reed, about children who are born cold-blooded and radioactive, the intended survivors of a nuclear war. Biker gang subplot has traces of Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange. (1965)

10.05PM, SKY MOVIES 1
CARLITO'S WAY
Herald rating: * * * *

Al Pacino plays a Puerto Rican gangster, recently out of jail and trying to go straight in this excellent crime film from director Brian De Palma. Sean Penn's portrayal of cokehead lawyer David Kleinfeld is a highlight. Also watch out for ER's John Leguizamo as pencil-moustached drug dealer Benny Blanco from the Bronx. (1993)


SPORT

7.30PM, SKY SPORT 1 LIVE; 11.40 PM, PRIME
RUGBY: AIR NEW ZEALAND CUP SEMIFINAL 1
AUCKLAND v WELLINGTON

This would have been a dream final with two attacking sides going at it. Wellington had the edge in the round robin encounter and might have enough forward muscle to win again.