Friday's TV highlights

7.30PM, TV3
PROJECT RUNWAY
In part one of the finale, the three remaining designers - Daniel, Chloe and Santino - return to their homes to create the lines they will show at New York Fashion Week.

8.30PM, TV3
24
As Ostroff prepares to attack the motorcade, Logan learns Martha's in the limousine but decides not to intervene.

8.30PM, TV ONE
ROSEMARY AND THYME
When Rosemary and Laura are called on to do some work at a house that's on the market they find a dead man in the garden.

11PM, TV ONE
THE WEST WING
This episode was filmed and aired live in the US, with actors Jimmy Smits and Alan Alda as two fictional presidential candidates going head to head in a live political debate. Their performances were a mix of scripted dialogue and improvisation. The debate was moderated by US news anchor, Forrest Sawyer, and US political pollster Zogby surveyed viewers after the debate to find out who won.


MOVIES
[rated out of 5]

8.40PM, PRIME
BATMAN FOREVER
Herald rating: * * *
The third film in the Batman franchise has Val Kilmer donning the cape, and introduced nipples on the Batsuit. He's joined by Chris O'Donnell as youthful ward Dick Grayson, an orphaned acrobat who joins the crusade against crime. Jim Carrey plays the Riddler and Tommy Lee Jones is Two-Face. (1995)

8.30PM, SKY MOVIES 1
ASSAULT ON PRECINCT 13
Herald rating: * * * *
A gripping remake of the 1976 John Carpenter film, which was a cross between Rio Bravo and Night of the Living Dead.

Precinct 13 is a police station scheduled for closure, where Sergeant Jake Roenick (Ethan Hawke) ends up after a drug bust goes wrong and his team is killed.

On New Year's Eve a busload of prisoners, including a junkie, a con-man and a cop killer, are jailed at the precinct overnight because of a blizzard.

Soon after, masked men show up in black SUVs, surround the building, and demand the release of one of the prisoners. Outnumbered and outgunned, Roenick enlists the help of the prisoners.

It's not hard to pick holes in the plot, but the action is relentless. The strong supporting cast includes Laurence Fishburne as mobster Marion Bishop, John Leguizamo (ER) and Drea De Matteo (The Sopranos). (2005)

8.30PM, SKY MOVIES 2
FANTASTIC FOUR
Herald rating: * * *
Reed Richards, Sue Storm, Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm are on a privately funded research mission in space when their bodies are bombarded by cosmic rays, altering their DNA and giving them super-powers. They face off against the hooded Doctor Doom. Panned by critics, this adaptation of the well-known Marvel Comic did okay at the box office. A sequel, entitled Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is in production at present. (2005)

11.30PM, TV3
MALENA
Herald rating: * * * *
Beautifully filmed World War II drama about a Sicilian boy who observes a beautiful outsider named Malena (Monica Bellucci, The Passion of The Christ), who has moved into town to be with her husband Nico. When Nico goes to war, Malena suffers from the ill will of the villagers. (2000)


SPORT

9.30PM, SKY SPORT 2 LIVE; 11.55PM, PRIME
NRL: SEMIFINAL 1, DRAGONS v SEA EAGLES
The Dragons will have their tails up after putting Brisbane to the sword but they'll face a steely Sea Eagles pack that might just have the edge.

10PM, SKY SPORT 1 LIVE
A-LEAGUE: NEW ZEALAND KNIGHTS V QUEENSLAND ROAR
The Knights came crashing back to Earth last weekend against Melbourne and they face another stern examination away to the second-placed Roar.