Thursday's TV highlights

Rock Star: Supernova hosts Brooke Burke and Dave Navarro.

7.30PM, TV3
ROCKSTAR: SUPERNOVA
The elimination episode sees another wannabe bite the dust. If only the process applied to those on the panel. That way, voters could finally get rid of Dave Navarro. He might play a mean guitar but the guy is an idiot.

8.30PM, TV ONE
DRAGONS' DEN
In the final episode of the Aussie series, proposals range from the "stikboard", an all-purpose, all-terrain extreme "sport board" to "surfume", a new fragrance inspired by the beach and surfing. Mmm, nothing like the scent of fishy wetsuit. Wonder what Darryn Lyons will say about that.

9.30PM, TV ONE
HUSTLE
The third series returns to find the con artists strapped for cash after a spell in Las Vegas and prepared to go to any lengths to change that - and to prove themselves to each other. Mickey (Adrian Lester) pretends to be a hip-hop record producer and later goes nude when Danny puts him up to a challenge.

8.30PM, PRIME
AMERICAN CHOPPER: BIKETOBERFEST
And you thought there was only Oktoberfest. Something spectacular is called for but Paul snr leaves the entire project to his son. Will the young gun finish on time?


MOVIES
[rated out of 5]

8.30PM, TV3
MEN IN BLACK
Herald rating: * * *
Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith star as government agents who protect the Earth against a hidden menace - shape-shifting extra-terrestrials who live among us. Jones plays Agent K, who must recruit a new partner and press a New York detective (Smith) into service. Entertaining sci-fi comedy from director Barry Sonnenfield. (1997)

10.15PM, SKY MOVIES 1
21 GRAMS
Herald rating: * * * *
Three previously unconnected people are drawn together in tragedy. A hit-and-run driver (Benicio Del Toro) kills a man and his two daughters and flees the scene. The mother and wife of those who died (Naomi Watts) turns to drugs in her grief, and a terminally ill man (Sean Penn) becomes the recipient of her husband's heart. The title refers to the weight that a body supposedly loses at the time of death, and which some consider to be the weight of the soul. (2003)

8.30PM, SKY MOVIES 1
BEING JULIA
Herald rating: * * *
Based on a novella by W. Somerset Maugham, this takes place in 1930s England. Burned-out diva Julia Lambert (Annette Bening) is bored with her lot, including her tiresome husband (Jeremy Irons). She has a fling with a young American man and later, when she has been spurned, seeks revenge. (2004)


SPORT

GOLF: THE OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP
8PM, SKY SPORT 3 LIVE

The first round of the 135th Open, this year hosted by the Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake, Merseyside. As it's a links course, the strength of the wind will be a huge influence on how hard the course plays and which players will be in contention. New Zealander Michael Campbell would prefer it to be windy, but those conditions would also suit Tiger Woods.