Thursday's TV highlights

7.30PM, TV ONE
CORONATION STREET
Leanne and Danny think they can get away with their affair, but little does Danny know his mistress is spilling the beans. Could the couple be about to be caught out?

7.30PM, PRIME
DOCTOR WHO
In 1953 London, the police are abducting people from their homes. The people gather around their new-fangled TV sets to celebrate the Queen's coronation but something strange is affecting the signal.

8.30PM, TV2
McLEOD'S DAUGHTERS
When brumbies are found shot dead, the Drovers girls suspect Riley, a handsome stranger. Meanwhile, Sandra moves back into Killarney, Moira and Regan go into business, and Kate finds her inner daredevil.

9.30PM, TV ONE
HUSTLE
In the season finale, the gang is hauled off to the police station on false drug charges. The cop who has them is obsessed with catching a notorious thief so he blackmails them into doing his dirty work.

9.30PM, TV3
PULP SPORT
Sport-mad pranksters Bill and Ben return with their comrades the Mad, Mad Butcher, Steve Urban, Father and Son, and the always-useless Mascot. Avert your eyes as soon as you spot the boys in their cheerleading outfits - or worse, in the beige.


MOVIES
[rated out of 5]

8.30PM, SKY MOVIES 1
MELINDA AND MELINDA
Herald rating: * * *
This Woody Allen film plays comedy and tragedy. For the sake of argument over dinner, Wallace Shawn tells a story, which the other guests embellish. The story is about Melinda (Radha Mitchell), the long-lost friend of a young Manhattan couple, whose contrasting destinies, comic and tragic, are told. Suffers from form over function syndrome. (2004)

10.25PM, MGM SKY DIGITAL
HOUSE OF GAMES
Herald rating: * * * *
David Mamet-directed tale of a psychologist (Lindsay Crouse) who tries to help one of her patients to evade a gambling debt. She visits the bar where the debt is owed, and meets Mike (Joe Mantegna), who runs the poker games. He agrees to clear the debt if she will help him in a game by looking for signs such as body language to indicate a player's hand. Sharply written. (1987)

9.35PM, RIALTO SKY DIGITAL
ANITA AND ME
Herald rating: * * *
Meera Syal's uplifting story of a 12-year-old Indian girl whose routine is disrupted with the arrival of a new neighbour. (2002)


SPORT

6.30PM, SKY SPORT 1 LIVE; 10.30PM, TV2
BASKETBALL WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS: NEW ZEALAND V PANAMA
At the time of writing, the Tall Blacks had lost their first two games so a win in this last pool match could be vital if they are to make the cut from 24 to 16 teams for the knockout stage, which begins on Saturday. Sky and TV2 have daily coverage.

9.55PM, SKY SPORT 1 LIVE
WORLD ROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS
Semifinals day at Dorney Lake in England, where New Zealand has six crews competing, four of them gold- medal winners at last year's championships in Japan. Daily coverage continues until Sunday.