Friday's TV highlights

8.30PM, TV3
24
The season opener of the fifth series in which Jack Bauer - who faked his death at end of series four - must return to CTU from his new life after someone he knows is assassinated.

8.30PM, TV ONE
NEW TRICKS
The excellent Amanda Redman (At Home With the Braithwaites) stars as the sole female superintendent in charge of a bunch of old fogies, er, highly experienced former detectives. The team are put in charge of working on unsolved crimes, and because they're no longer officially in the force they're allowed to bend the rules. Donut break? Yeah, that's bound to be earlier than usual.

8.30PM, TV2
THE CLOSER
Kyra Sedgwick is the unlikely star of cop drama The Closer in which she plays Deputy Police Chief Brenda Johnson, a skilled interrogator. Sedgwick has received rave reviews for her portrayal of the unconventional and neurotic cop, and the show has been renewed for a third season in the US. In tonight's premiere, Johnson, who has transferred from Atlanta to Los Angeles, faces hostility from her new colleagues as she investigates a murder.

9.35PM, TV ONE
MURDER IN SUBURBIA
Another one for Brit crime fans, only this time the detectives are young, hot and come from the 'burbs. They're the Spice Girls of the policing world, the down-home doyennes of crime-fighting: Emma is the "instinctive, chaotic and street-smart" one; Kate is "meticulous and often stubborn". In tonight's episode they delve into the world of a singles club after one of its patrons is killed.

9.30PM, TV3
ROVE LIVE
Is there such a thing as quality reality TV? Well, if super-producer Mark Burnett has anything to do with it, quite possibly. He's the guy behind Survivor, Rock Star and The Apprentice, and who knows, he might offer Rove a job tonight. The next guest on the couch is Elmo from Sesame Street. (Guess it was a slow celebrity week in Oz.) Finally, Ben Elton, (stand-up comedian and the writer of Blackadder, Mr Bean and several novels) gives Elmo a run for his money in the funny bone-tickling department, plus bands Airway Lane and the Grates perform.


MOVIES
[rated out of 5]

8.40PM, PRIME
SIX DAYS, SEVEN NIGHTS
Herald rating: * *
Anne Heche plays a new york magazine writer who agrees to cover a story on a tropical island. The only charter plane around is piloted by a laid-back drunkard (Harrison Ford), who she doesn't like. The plane crash-lands on an island that's uninhabited - apart from Temuera Morrison and Cliff Curtis as local pirates - and the rest is inevitable. (1998)

11.30PM, TV3
ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER
Herald rating: * * * * *
For anyone whose interest in the tragic events at the 1972 Olympics was piqued by Steven Spielberg's recent Munich, this gripping Academy Award-winning documentary is a must-see. It traces how events escalated after members of the Black September Palestinian terrorist group took Israeli athletes hostage in the Games village through to the airfield shoot-out in which the kidnapped and many of the kidnappers died. (1999)