Saturday's TV highlights

7.30PM, TV ONE
THE F WORD
Just when you thought the schedules had thankfully consigned celebrity chefs to a locked pantry for the winter, up springs Gordon Ramsay in his delightfully titled new show - oh it's for "food", ho ho - alongside restaurant critic Giles Coren. Their mission is to offer a "bold new approach to food on TV" says the publicity. "It's a brand-new recipe for a food show; it's great fun, but it has guts, brains and balls the size of profiteroles."

9.50PM, TV ONE
THE NATIONAL BANK YOUNG FARMER CONTEST 2006
The busy Mark Leishman - he's doing the Great New Zealand Spelling Bee tomorrow night - hosts the 38th competition to decide our best exponent of the agragrian arts.


MOVIES
[rated out of 5]

7PM, TV2
HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE
Herald rating: * * * *
The adaptation of J.K. Rowling's first novel about an orphan boy who attends a school of wizardry. Good film, although much time is spent establishing the premise for subsequent adventures. (2001)

8.30PM, TV3
BOUNCE
Herald rating: * *
Ben Affleck escapes death when he swaps airline tickets with another passenger and doesn't take the flight. He meets the dead man's widow (Gwyneth Paltrow) and falls for her. Warm and sappy. (2000)

10.05PM, TV2
RANSOM
Herald rating: * * *
Mel Gibson plays a wealthy rich airline owner whose son is kidnapped. More than willing to co-operate, he agrees to pay the ransom, but the drop goes wrong. Good cast of villains includes Lili Taylor, Liev Schreiber and Gary Sinise. (1996)

10.40PM, TV ONE
THE BIRDS
Herald rating: * * * *
The small coastal Californian town of Bodega Bay is terrorised by an avian menace in this outstanding Hitchcock thriller. Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier, a series of small attacks escalates into an ominous presence as pigeons and seagulls swoop on screaming humans. Stars Tippi Hedren and Rod Taylor. (1963)


SPORT

SKY SPORT 1 LIVE 7.30PM, PRIME 9.10PM
RUGBY: TRI-NATIONS ALL BLACKS V AUSTRALIA
The All Black selectors might finally field what they think is their best side three matches into the international season - but it could be expecting too much for combinations to gel immediately. The Aussies have been reinvigorated by new coach John Connolly.