Monday's TV highlights

TV3, 5.30PM
HOME AND AWAY
In what sounds more like Scream than your favourite Aussie beach soap, the stalker attacks, six go missing and this week one of the core cast members kicks the bucket.

TV2, 7PM
SHORTLAND STREET
Chris discovers the dangers of ex-wives, Tania finds her boyfriend has been lying to her, Maia confronts Jay and Dylan, Alice profits from the upheavals in Craig's love life, Scarlett and Eti make plans to leave town, and flatmates Baxter, TK and Alice learn their landlord is selling the flat.

TV ONE, 8PM
EMERGENCY
Before you switch over to the medical dramas on ER, check out the real thing. This new reality series goes behind the scenes of Wellington Hospital's emergency department, with sometimes gory results. Victims tonight include a lion-mauled zookeeper and a man who had a nasty encounter with a cooking knife.

TV2, 8.30PM
ER
What's better than last night's two-hour ER extravaganza? How about an hour of ER, flanked by Emergency and Grey's Anatomy? Yep, just call it medical Monday. All together now: Monday, bloody Monday ...

TV2, 11.30PM
THE COMEBACK
Lisa Kudrow tries to do what Matt Le Blanc couldn't: star in a successful sitcom post-Friends. She plays a B-list sitcom star so desperate to revive her career that she agrees to star in a reality show called The Comeback. Ooh, the old show-within-a-show trick.


MOVIES
[rated out of 5]

8.30PM, TV3
DAREDEVIL
Herald rating: * * *
Ben Affleck plays Matt Murdock, a lawyer who was blinded by toxic chemicals when he was a kid. With his remaining senses heightened, he becomes the costumed hero known as Daredevil. He gets the hots for Elektra, played by Jennifer Garner and faces off against villains The Kingpin (Michael Clarke Duncan) and Bullseye (Colin Farrell). (2003)

8.30PM, SKY MOVIES 1
CELLULAR
Herald rating: * * *
Kim Basinger has been kidnapped by a thug (Jason Statham) and is about to be killed, with her husband and son. She doesn't know where she is but she manages to call a young man (Chris Evans) on his mobile and scream for help. From a story by Larry Cohen, who also wrote Phone Booth. (2004)

9.40PM, RIALTO SKY DIGITAL
EMILE
Herald rating: * * *
Drama starring Ian McKellen as Emile, a loner who abandoned his family and is now trying to reconnect with his last living relatives. (2003)