Wednesday's TV highlights

7.30PM, TV3
ALL-NEW SIMPSONS
Homer for mayor! Homer for mayor! Oh dear. After winning popularity as the Safety Salamander, Homer challenges Quimby during a special mayoral election.

8PM, TV3
BRO'TOWN
Dad becomes a member of the posh Northern Club but when Valea starts dating the club president's daughter, the president tries to kick Dad out.

8PM, TV ONE
IT'S ME OR THE DOG
This is like Supernanny for riotous pooches. Victoria Stilwell, who runs dog-training schools in Britain and the US, visits homes to whip bad doggy behaviour into shape.

8.30PM, PRIME
QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY
Adam Greene is a philanthropist hippie who helps keep kids off the street by getting them to build boats. But just because he's a do-gooder doesn't mean he's got style.

9.30PM, PRIME
WEEDS
The dopest comedy on our screens has the outstanding Mary-Louise Parker in the role of Nancy, a suburban mum who deals cannabis to maintain the facade of the American dream after her husband dies. A second series has already begun airing in the States. Tonight, Heylia is in a spiteful mood, so she forces Nancy to choose between her friendship with Conrad or her supply of weed. Silas confronts Nancy and Shane asks questions.

9.35PM, TV ONE
GREEN WING
This surreal and misanthropic British comedy may be set in a hospital but you won't find Dr Caroline Todd (Tamsin Greig, Black Books) or any of her colleagues having anything to do with patients. No, they're way too busy trying to sort out their self-absorbed lives or competing in games of one-upmanship.
The second series begins with most of the cast emerging from a lift in sparkly costumes and acting as if they are on Star Trek. It's all a figment of the imagination of Caroline's love interest Mac (Julian Rhind-Tutt), who has been lying in a coma for two months since series one, which ended in an ambulance crash.
The staff take advantage of the fact that Mac is unconscious to visit all manner of insults and indecent acts on him. Meanwhile, Joanna (Pippa Haywood) is trying to come to terms with the fact that she accidentally slept with her son. Crikey.


MOVIES
[rated out of 5]

8.30PM, TV2
BAD COMPANY
Herald rating: * *
A CIA agent is killed and the agency recruits his twin brother (Chris Rock), a jive-talking hustler with little idea of what's actually going down. The CIA wants him to finish a project his siblingwas working on, and they appoint an experienced agent (Anthony Hopkins) to train him. The title says it all. (2002)

8.30PM, SKY MOVIES 1
PHILADELPHIA
Herald rating: * * * *
Tom Hanks stars as a lawyer with HIV who is fired from a conservative law firm because of his condition. He hires a homophobic lawyer (Denzel Washington) and sues his old firm. A very smart, perceptive film from director Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs). (1993)