Today's TV highlights

9.30PM, TV ONE
THE IT CROWD

This new British comedy is written by Graham Linehan, the guy behind Black Books and Father Ted, and produced by Ash Atalla of The Office. The show focuses on Roy, Moss, and Jen, from the IT team at Reynholm Industries, who are relegated to work in a basement.

10PM, TV ONE
ABOUT NOW

Mark Sainsbury finally gets a seat he doesn't have to share, as he hosts this new current affairs chat show which aims to be illuminating as well as fun. How many times have we heard that? You never know, Sainsbury is a smooth operator so he could be the one to make it work.

7.30PM, TV ONE
BORDERLINE

You thought parking wardens and plumbers had a dirty job. Spare a thought for the men and women of the Immigration Service who are the subject of this new show. Every day they deal with migrants and tourists wanting to come to New Zealand. The thing is, and this is where the job gets tricky, sometimes we want these people, but some are not welcome at all.


MOVIES
Rated out of 5 stars

8.30PM, TV3
RED DRAGON
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This is the prequel to The Silence of the Lambs, which was filmed as Manhunter in 1986 by now-famous director Michael Mann (The Insider) and starred CSI's William Petersen. In this version, a series of murders brings damaged-goods FBI agent Will Graham (Ed Norton) out of retirement and on the hunt for a killer called the Tooth Fairy (Ralph Fiennes). Key to his success is the advice from psychopath Dr Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins). Way better than Hannibal, but it's still not up there with Lambs. (2002)

8.30PM, SKY MOVIES 1
PATRIOT GAMES
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Harrison Ford played Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan character twice: in this film and in Clear and Present Danger. Here, former CIA analyst Ryan is holidaying in London where he interrupts a terrorist attack outside Buckingham Palace on Lord Holmes (James Fox), a member of the royal family. His actions mark him as a target for an IRA splinter group, whose leader (Sean Bean) is out to avenge the death of his brother. (1992)

10.35PM, RIALTO SKY DIGITAL
THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES
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Based on the separate memoirs of revolutionary Che Guevara (Gael Garcia Bernal) and his friend Alberto Granado (Rodrigo De la Serna), this road movie is a modest epic following two young men whose lives are about to take different paths. Travelling across South America on a motorcycle to do their medical residency at a Venezuelan leper colony, their destinies are changed by their experiences. Directed by Walter Salles, (Central Station) who is slated to helm a movie adaptation of Jack Kerouac's On The Road. (2004)