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Saturday's TV highlights

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4.30 PM, TV2
HENDERSON TO HOLLYWOOD

If you've ever seen local group Spacifix in concert you know they have the energy to make it on the international stage. This is the show about whether they do.

7PM, TV ONE
HUNGER FOR THE WILD

The people of Kawhia have been eating
flounder from their harbour for more than 700 years. Logan and Brown visit to find out more about the flat fish.

7.30PM, PRIME
HOLMES

Paul talks to the producers of Out of the Blue, which tells the story of the Aramoana massacre.

7.30PM, TV3
SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE

This 12-week competition seeks to find the best undiscovered dance talent in America. Tonight, the focus is on contestants from New York and Chicago as they audition for the judges.


MOVIES
[rating out of 5]

8.30PM, TV2
A GUY THING
Herald rating: * * *

A man wakes up next to a stranger and presumes he must have cheated on his fiancee. With Jason Lee and Julia Stiles. (2003)

8.30PM, TV3
THE BOURNE SUPREMACY
Herald rating: * * * *

In the second of the Jason Bourne films, a Russian hit-man (Karl Urban) tracks down Bourne (Matt Damon), kills his lover and leaves him for dead. (2004)

10.40PM, TV2
3000 MILES TO GRACELAND
Herald rating: * * *

Kurt Russell and Kevin Costner star in this trashy crime film, about a bunch of Elvis impersonators who rob a Las Vegas casino during an Elvis convention. (2001)

10.55PM, TV ONE
AMERICAN SPLENDOR
Herald rating: * * * *

Yet another great performance from Paul Giamatti, as underground comics author Harvey Pekar. In 1976, Pekar began publishing an autobiographical comic called American Splendor, allowing his mundane life to be seen and developing an alternative to superhero comics.

The film's strength lies in the characters - it's a refreshing turn for misfits and weirdos to be presented as normal. The real Harvey Pekar intrudes into several scenes, and his friends and companions appear on screen next to the actors.

Pekar still lives in Cleveland, Ohio, where he writes jazz reviews and contributes to the Cleveland Free Times as a columnist. The film-makers supplement this portrait of the man with real interviews, sequences from his comic, and recreate Pekar's appearances on The Letterman Show. (2003)

11.45PM, TV3
SECRETARY
Herald rating: * * * *

A mentally unstable girl (Maggie Gyllenhaal) gets a job as a secretary in a law firm and embarks on a kinky affair with her boss (James Spader). It hits the mark as a clever, dark comedy. (2002)

8.30PM, RIALTO SKY DIGITAL
OPEN WATER
Herald rating: * * *

A scuba diving couple is left floating in the open sea after their charter boat gets their passenger head count wrong. They face dehydration, saltwater sickness, jellyfish and sharks. (2003)


SPORT

2.30PM, TV ONE LIVE
HOCKEY: NATIONAL LEAGUE WOMEN'S FINAL

Midlands have been the form side this season and should make the final.

7.30PM, SKY SPORT 1 LIVE; 9.30PM, PRIME
RUGBY: AIR NEW ZEALAND CUP SEMIFINAL 2
WAIKATO V OTAGO


Waikato need to be convincing if they are to repel Otago.

8PM, SKY SPORT 2 LIVE; 9PM, MAORI TV; 2.30PM (SUNDAY), PRIME
RUGBY LEAGUE: TRI-NATIONS
NEW ZEALAND V AUSTRALIA


Injuries and a lack of time together are obstacles for the Kiwis up against an Australian side desperate to reclaim the title.

10PM, SKY SPORT 1 LIVE
SOCCER: NZ KNIGHTS V NEWCASTLE JETS

The Knights face fellow cellar-dwellers the Jets in a fight to avoid the wooden spoon.

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