Friday's TV highlights

7.30PM, MTV
MTV VIDEO MUSIC AWARDS
Comedian, musician and movie star Jack Black hosts this annual awards bash. Live performances include Beyonce, jumped up punks Panic! at the Disco, rockers the Killers, and sex pot, pop star Justin Timberlake.

7.30PM, TV3
PROJECT RUNWAY
There's four designers left and only three can make the finals. Tonight, with guest judge Iman looking on, the designers must create a red carpet dress for Fashion Week.

8.30PM, TV ONE
ROSEMARY AND THYME
The dynamic duo of horticulture lecturer Rosemary Boxer and former policewoman Laura Thyme return. Tonight, they are asked to help create an Arabic garden in Malaga. When a local resident is found dead Rosemary and Thyme are on the case.

8.30PM, TV3
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Jack is forced to help release nerve gas at a shopping mall after being kidnapped while delivering the trigger chip to Erwich's men. Also, in this episode which takes in the period from 2pm to 3pm, Martha is determined to tell the public about Cumming's misconduct.


MOVIES
[rated out of 5]

8.40PM, PRIME
ARACHNOPHOBIA
Herald rating: * * *
An exciting thriller with top-notch effects and an excellent cast. Jeff Daniels plays the new doctor in a small town, dealing with an invasion of tropical spiders. The smaller spiders that feature are Avondale spiders from New Zealand. Creepy crawly fun. (1990)

11.30PM, TV3
LIAM
Herald rating: * * *
A family's financial decline through the eyes of a 7-year-old living in Depression-era Liverpool. Moving drama from director Stephen Frears. (2000)

8.30PM, SKY MOVIES 1
OCEAN'S TWELVE
Herald rating: * * *
Danny Ocean (George Clooney) recruits another member to his rogues gallery in order to pull off a heist and justify the title to this sequel. Whereas the first one was a clever caper film, this one is really hard to follow. Directed by Stephen Soderburgh. (2004)

8.30PM, SKY MOVIES 2
RAY
Herald rating: * * * *
Jamie Foxx stars as Ray Charles, who against all manner of adversity - growing up in an impoverished southern family, losing his sight through glaucoma and battling racism in show business - enjoyed a lifelong, highly successful musical career and smashed barriers between the traditionally separate genres of rhythm and blues, country and pop music.

Foxx nails it, portraying Charles as a charming womaniser with an irrepressible sense of mischief, who must face up to his drug addiction and lingering guilt about the death of his brother, one of his last childhood memories before he lost his eyesight.

This role, with his part in Michael Mann's Collateral the same year, was a turning point for Foxx's career. He started as a comedian on early 1990s TV show In Living Color and progressed through lightweight comedies like Booty Call, but now lands more serious dramatic roles. (2004)


SPORT

WORLD BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP SEMIFINALS
7.20PM, SKY SPORT 3 LIVE; 11.30PM TV2
This is the business end of the competition with the first of the semifinals (the second semi is live on Sky Sport 2 at 10.20pm). Losers play off for the consolation spots, with coverage continuing through to Sundays final (10.20pm, Sky Sport 3 live; TV2 10.45pm).

AIR NEW ZEALAND CUP: AUCKLAND V NORTH HARBOUR
7.30PM, SKY SPORT 1 LIVE
The Battle of the Bridge is a top-of-the-pool clash from Eden Park in which Auckland should have the edge over its little brother.