Saturday's TV highlights

2.25PM, TV ONE
Saturday's TV highlights
It's not on at a convenient time but it's the return of your nana's favourite show. Antiques Roadshow visits venues around Britain where people present their objects to a team of experts to find their value.

7PM, TV ONE
HUNGER FOR THE WILD
Logan and Brown head to the West Coast's mighty Mokihinui to see what whitebaiting culture is all about.

7.30PM, PRIME
HOLMES
Holmes is in the kitchen with Peter Gordon, to discuss his restaurants, food and a life-changing event from his childhood.

8.35PM, TV ONE
LADETTE TO LADY
The five ladettes are having some distinguished guests for dinner. They have to present a classic buffet, create elaborate flower arrangements, and wear outfits they made themselves.

9.35PM, TV ONE
BYRON
In this BBC bodice-ripper, Jonny Lee Miller portrays the poet Byron as the Mick Jagger of the 19th-century literary set, which he undoubtedly was.

His sexual exploits were legend and led to him living away from England for long periods, to leave behind scandalous affairs at home while seeking them out abroad.

If you've ever wondered where the expression "mad, bad and dangerous to know" comes from, one of Byron's lovers used it to describe him.

Byron attacked his poetry with the same energy as his affairs with both sexes. This two-part production picks up the story with Byron a young nobleman embarking on the traditional two-year tour of Europe, where he surrenders to his carnal desires.

On his return to London, he writes the first parts of the narrative poem Childe Harolde's Pilgrimage, to great acclaim.

The flamboyant Byron, at age 23, finds himself debt-ridden but the toast of London society. He is surrounded by adoring women but falls in love with his half-sister, Augusta Leigh (Natasha Little).

Miller plays Byron with a real rock'n'roll swagger and he can certainly identify with suddenly being thrust into the spotlight: his breakthrough role as Sick Boy in the movie Trainspotting came roughly at about the same time as he married Angelina Jolie.

Byron, whose works included the unfinished epic Don Juan, survived all manner of scandals but died in Greece at age 36. He had thrown in his lot with some Greek rebels, funding a refit of their fleet, and was planning on leading a seaborne attack on a Turkish fortress when he succumbed to a fever.


MOVIES
[rated out of 5]

8.30PM, TV3
DOWN WITH LOVE
Herald rating: * * *
Renee Zellweger and Ewan McGregor star in this rom-com, which is based on old screwball comedies like 1959's Pillow Talk. Zellweger plays Barbara Novak, a writer with a book that promotes women taking a career. MacGregor plays Catcher Block, a journalist who sees Novak as a potential conquest. (2003)

8.30PM, TV2
THE SWEETEST THING
Herald rating: *
An attempt at gross-out humour along the lines of There's Something About Mary, starring Cameron Diaz, Christina Applegate and Selma Blair. Gives chick-flicks a bad name. (2002)

11.10PM, TV ONE
THE KID STAYS IN THE PICTURE
Herald rating: * * * *
Documentary telling the life story of Hollywood producer Robert Evans, who, at 34, became chief of production at Paramount Pictures, responsible for The Godfather, Rosemary's Baby and Love Story. (2002)

11.30PM, TV3
LIFE
Herald rating: * * *
A bittersweet comedy about two criminals who discover the true meaning of life and friendship by serving a life sentence in prison. Small-time hustler Ray Gibson (Eddie Murphy) tries to swindle a bank-teller Claude Banks (Martin Lawrence) to pay off his own debts. The pair are framed and sentenced to life in prison. (1999)


SPORT

7.30PM, SKY SPORT 1 LIVE
AIR NEW ZEALAND CUP: AUCKLAND V WAIKATO
The big boys finally come out to play in the second round, with the two pool-topping teams facing off. Tomorrow (4.30pm, Sky Sport 1 live) Wellington hosts Canterbury.

9.30PM, SKY SPORT 1 LIVE; 11.40PM, PRIME
NRL: SEMIFINAL 2, KNIGHTS v BRONCOS
The Broncos are in an awful mess, having to take on a resurgent Newcastle for a place in the semis.

10.15PM, TV2
K-1 OCEANIA ROUND 2
Waitakere's Trusts Stadium hosts the second leg of this series with New Zealand and Australia's best heavyweights battling to qualify for the K-1 World Grand Prix.