Sunday's TV highlights

7PM, TV ONE
MUCKING IN
Over the course of 12 years, Gina Gibson has taken care of more than 70 children who needed her help. So, it's about time somebody gave a little love back to Gina. Step on up the team from Mucking In.

7.30PM, TV2
NZ IDOL
For Indira and Matt it's come down to this - one two-hour show. The NZ Idol finale will be tense, hard-fought and no doubt, emotional. Gosh, we're starting to sound like host Dominic Bowden, aren't we? And remember, you hold the contestants' future in your hands, because you can vote.

7.30PM, TV3
SURVIVOR: COOK ISLANDS
It's only two shows old and one contestant is being lazy and the tribe involved forgoes immunity to try to get rid of the weak link.

8.30PM, TV3
CSI: MIAMI
The creators of CSI Miami really know how to hook you into the show. Tonight's episode starts with a glamorous modern-day Bonnie & Clyde moment. But it's not long until reality strikes and the body of club owner Jake Richmond is found hanging under a bridge. Sounds like a job for Horatio and the team.

9.45PM, PRIME
DEADWOOD
This foul-mouthed western starts up again on Prime and the town is in the lead-up to its first true elections which will decide the offices of sheriff and mayor.


MOVIES

[rated out of 5]

8.30PM, TV ONE
ABOUT SCHMIDT
From writer-director Alexander Payne, who made Sideways, this has Jack Nicholson playing a character in a trough of despair.

Warren Schmidt (Nicholson) has got several crises on the boil - he is retiring from hisone-job-for-life career at an insurance company, his only daughter Jeannie (Hope Davis) is set to marry a waterbed salesman, and Helen (June Squibb), his wife of 42 years, drops dead.

Now a sad and hollow man, he's desperate to find something meaningful in his life.

In other words: road trip.

He journeys across Nebraska in an 11m motor home he had planned to drive around the country in with his wife, heading to Denver, where he deludes himself that he is strong enough to break off his daughter's wedding. (2002)


10.55PM, TV3
REMEMBER THE TITANS
Herald rating: * * * *
A black man (Denzel Washington) is hired to coach a high school football team in Virginia during the early 1970s. Racism ishigh, with locals incensed by a local murder and many white players threaten to strike until he is replaced. Good character drama rather than a straight football movie. (2000)

9.30PM, TV2
THE PUNISHER
Herald rating: * *
Thomas Jane stars as the vengeance-seeking punisher, a Marvel Comics character who devotes his life to taking down evil-doers. Charles Bronson's Death Wish seems to be the influence. (2004)

6PM, SKY MOVIES 2, 8.30PM, SKY MOVIES 1
FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX
Herald rating: * *
Remake of the 1965 film about a group of air crash survivors, stranded (this time) in Mongolia. Their only hope is to do the impossible and build a new plane from the wreckage of the old one. Dennis Quaid stars as the reluctant leader. Has none of the nervous anticipation of the earlier film. (2004)


SPORT

9.30PM, SKY SPORT 1 LIVE
CRICKET: ICC CHAMPIONS TROPHY
India v Australia
A real heavyweight clash from Mohali, with the Aussies looking to be back on form after their crushing win over England.