Friday's TV highlights

Peta Mathias (L) hosts Taste Takes Off’.

7.30PM, TV ONE
TASTE TAKES OFF - NORTHERN INDIA
Ever-enthusiastic foodie Peta Mathias takes us on another gastronomic journey around the world, exploring the flavours and sights of six destinations in the second series of this show.

As Mathias says in tonight's episode set in India: "There's no better way to discover the culture of a country than through its food."

She heads to the north of India and in Delhi finds a spice market that's so pungent it leaves her breathless.

She also samples spicy Muslim cuisine. Moving on to Rajasthan, Peta discovers two quite different food cultures. In the desert villages there's camel's milk yoghurt, bread rotis and biscuit balls baked in dung while in the palaces there's the rich and elaborate food of the maharaja.

Future episodes take her through Europe, Australia and America.

7.30PM, TV3
AMERICA'S NEXT TOP MODEL
Tonight America's Next Top Model turns Fear Factor when the girls face giant hissing Madagascan cockroaches as they prepare for designer Jared Gold's show.

8.35PM, TV ONE
ROCKETMAN
Dreamy-eyed Robson Green (Wire in the Blood) is the perfect lead in this heart-warming six-part series about a bereaved husband who employs his engineering skills in a bid to send his wife's ashes into space. Green plays George Stevenson, a skilled engineer who came to South Wales to build trains, but when that male-dominated industry went into decline he had to take a job on the assembly line of a sweet factory, where he's surrounded by women.

Building the rocket in his garden shed (aka Mission Control) gives George the chance to get over his loss and pay tribute to his wife, Bethan. His dream is to allow himself and his children, Tom (John Rhys Halliwell) and Angela (Lucy Evans) a chance to say a final goodbye to Bethan and also for the family to be able to gaze up at the stars and know she's up there. His rocket-building is also a magnet for the other redundant men in the community and gives them such a sense of purpose that they form the Welsh Aeronautic and Space Administration (WASA).

While George focuses on his dream, he loses sight of the fact that he is also a solo dad and his family needs him. Tom's schoolwork is suffering and Angela is going through the turmoil of her first love. On top of that, he has to find liquid oxygen in a Welsh village.

9.30PM, TV3
ROVE LIVE
Guests include buxom British girl-about-town Jordan and her hubby, former pop star Peter Andre, and Jackass star Johnny Knoxville.

9.50PM, TV ONE
RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES
Can Gordon help the seaside hotel and restaurant, The Sandgate, from going under? When you're losing more than $11,000 a month it's a tough ask.


MOVIES

11.30PM, TV3
LOVE, SPEED AND LOSS
Doco about New Zealanders Kim and Janeen Newcombe who went to Europe in 1973 and chased their dream to become part of a convoy of Grand Prix motorcycle riders competing in the World Championship Road Race. (2006)

8.30PM, SKY MOVIES 1
CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
Director Tim Burton's version of the Roald Dahl story sees the candy man emerging after 15 years of seclusion, and opening his London chocolate factory to five lucky children, who are each allowed to bring one relative as their escort. It's full of bizarre characters, re-imagined sets and computer graphics. Johnny Depp's zany take on Willy Wonka is more Michael Jackson than Gene Wilder. (2005)

10.30PM, RIALTO SKY DIGITAL
SHATTERED GLASS
The true story of young journalist Stephen Glass (Hayden Christensen), whose career grew quickly because of the calibre of news stories he produced as staff writer at Washington DC's The New Republic magazine in the late 1990s. However, most of his stories were made up. Glass managed to get stories past editors for several years until an internet magazine became suspicious. (2003)


SPORT

8PM, SKY SPORT 1 LIVE
SOCCER: A-LEAGUE
NZ Knights v Melbourne Victory

The Knights are redefining the meaning of the word abysmal, and tonight they'll be up against it once more when they face the runaway league leaders.