KEY POINTS:
8.30PM, TV2
FLOOD
The computer graphics department gets a good workout as a wall of water sweeps up the Thames, but this two-part mini-series doesn't look that far-fetched, given the spate of floods in Britain.
Our hero is Rob Morrison (Robert Carlyle - Hamish Macbeth, Trainspotting), head of Atlantis Engineering (ho, ho, ho), who is just back from holiday when a combination of hurricane conditions and seasonal high seas threaten to inflict a perfect storm on London, overwhelming the high-tech Thames Barrier.
As usual, the authorities are sceptical about the threat and Morrison has personal difficulties: his estranged father and engineering genius Leonard Morrison (Tom Courtenay), who believes the barrier will fail, and ex-wife Sam (Jessalyn Gilsig, Nip/Tuck), the barrier's director of operations. All three must put their differences aside and convince the Government to evacuate London. Part two next Wednesday.
7.30PM, TV3
DEAL OR NO DEAL
The premise is the same but the format has changed. Two contestants will join host Jeremy Corbett in a bid to win up to $200,000. The models get new outfits. And the set has been revamped. Who knows if that means viewers will want to hang on for the entire hour in what the producers say is now a more exciting game.
9:30PM, PRIME
DEAD LIKE ME
George is in a foul mood thanks to Trip, Daisy makes a new friend which makes Mason jealous and Rube leaves, looking for a mysterious woman from his past. Deaths? Sure. A Jackass-style stunt guy throws himself off a multi-storey carpark and an arm wrestler dies from spontaneous combustion.
8PM, TV2
SCRUBS
Is this series turning into a Broadway revue? A patient wakes up and sees everything happening around her as a musical. Meanwhile, Elliot must find a way to tell JD he can't move into her new house. Wonder if she'll break it to him in song?
9.30PM, TV ONE
REAL CRIME: FRED WEST - BORN TO KILL?
Interviews with a pathologist, psychiatrist, journalists and a victim paint a profile of British serial killer Fred West. For 20 years, he and his wife abducted, tortured, raped and murdered girls, then buried them in the garden. This doco attempts to find the motivation behind the crimes that led to West becoming one of history's most infamous killers.
MOVIES
8.30PM, SKY MOVIES
PRIDE & PREJUDICE
Herald rating: * * * *
The most recent adaptation of the Jane Austen classic romance novel, set in Georgian era England, stars Keira Knightley as Elizabeth and Matthew Macfadyen (Spooks, In My Father's Den) as Darcy. (2005)
8.30PM, SKY MOVIES GREATS
DEEP IMPACT
Herald rating: * * *
Underrated sci-fi disaster thriller, with life on Earth under threat from a seven-mile-wide comet. The ensemble cast includes Robert Duvall, Tea Leoni, Elijah Wood, Vanessa Redgrave and Morgan Freeman as the US president, and the story follows government plans for underground survival. (1998)
8.30PM, MGM SKY DIGITAL
ORIGINAL SIN
Herald rating: * * * *
Antonio Banderas and Angelina Jolie star in this erotic thriller, a thinly disguised remake of Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo. Set in Cuba in the late 19th century. (2001)
