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TODAY'S PICKS
7PM, TV2
SHORTLAND STREET
Alice is not happy about the arrival of her mother Fran on Shortland Street this week. She's moved to Ferndale from Matamata and wants to be a big part of poor old Alice's life.
7.30PM, TV ONE
COASTWATCH
In a high-powered collaboration, kind of like Dan Carter and Joe Rokocoko combining on a slick All Black back move, MAF and the Air Force join forces to investigate rock lobster fishing.
8.30PM, TV ONE
THE FINAL 24 - SID VICIOUS
One thing's for sure, the final 24 hours of Sid Vicious' life would have been messy. This documentary looks into the events leading to the death of the Sex Pistols bass player and there's a shocking revelation that sheds new light on his last day.
9.30PM, TV2
NIP/TUCK
As usual there's been some naughty goings-on in the new series of Nip/Tuck, and not surprisingly Christian is in the thick of it. But in this episode he's back at work where he and Quentin come to the aid of two students whose faces have been glued to the bottom of another student.
9.30PM, TV3
KILLER INSTINCT
You'd think you'd be happy if you got away with murder. Not so on Killer Instinct, where Cavanaugh is stalked by a computer hacker who's angry that police arrested the wrong person for a murder he committed.
MOVIES
8.30PM, SKY MOVIES 1
ALEXANDER
Colin Farrell stars as the legendary explorer and soldier Alexander the Great, who conquered most of the known world by the age of 25. Oliver Stone chose to create a historically accurate film which one critic said was over-indulgent and sprawling. Another dubbed it Alexander the So-so. Anthony Hopkins, Val Kilmer and Angelina Jolie also star. (2004)
10.30PM, SKY MOVIES 2
SLIVER
Sharon Stone plays a book editor who moves into a new apartment in a Manhattan high-rise and then learns that the previous tenant fell to her death. Two men (Tom Berenger, William Baldwin) have designs on her and someone's got her under surveillance. Directed by Phillip Noyce, with a screenplay by the master of tacky erotic thrillers, Joe Eszterhas. (1993)
8.30PM, MGM SKY DIGITAL
STRIPES
Screwball comedy starring Bill Murray and Harold Ramis as losers who decide to join the Army. They are chosen as part of a crack team to test a new urban assault vehicle. Directed by Ivan Reitman, who would again team up with Murray and Ramis for Ghostbusters. (1981)
SPORT
3AM, SKY SPORT 2 LIVE
ATHLETICS: NEW YORK MARATHON
Last year's men's and women's winners, Paul Tergat of Kenya and Jelena Prokopcuka of Latvia, return to defend their crowns in one of the world's great road races.
4.25AM, SKY SPORT 1 LIVE; PRIME 9.35PM
RUGBY: ALL BLACKS V ENGLAND
The All Blacks help to launch the new-look Twickenham and hopefully themselves on the path to World Cup glory. England are supposed to be in disarray but with their big pack they will still provide a challenge up front.
