Today's TV highlights

7.30PM, TV3
ROCK STAR SIMPSONS

After hanging out with U2 and the Who last week, Homer thinks he's got what it takes to be a rock'n'roll star. He gets inspired to write a song called Everybody Hates Ned Flanders. Of course, it's a hit.

7.30PM, PRIME
HOLMES

Holmes gathers three editors of three New Zealand magazines - Pamela Stirling of the New Zealand Listener, Simon Wilson of Cuisine magazine and Ian Wishart of Investigate - for an undoubtedly fascinating chat about the joys of life on the newsstand.

8PM, TV2
JOEY

The last episode of Joey won't exactly be a grand occasion like the final of Friends, but some will no doubt miss the goofball. Joey has a healthy sex life with Alex but he feels the need for something deeper. Lucky it's the last show because that doesn't sound like the Joey we know.

8.30PM, TV2
LOST

Libby continues to cling to life as Michael sweats it out in the background. Meanwhile, in the jungle, Locke and Mr Eko have bonded. They not only discover a new hatch but their findings within make Locke question his beliefs about the island.

9.30PM, TV3
PRISON BREAK

In the second episode of the entertaining, if baffling, prison drama, Michael's got the sink partially pulled away from the wall and is making good progress on the digging, though he decides his cellmate Haywire won't be joining him on the great escape.


MOVIES
Rated out of 5 stars

8.30 PM, RIALTO SKY DIGITAL
LAUREL CANYON
***
Frances McDormand plays a successful record producer whose life, work and partying is interrupted when her son Sam (Christian Bale) and his fiancee Alex (Kate Beckinsale) move back home. The clash of lifestyles and attitudes generates conflict as Sam yearns for a more stable traditional mother figure but instead is greeted with a pot-smoking flirt. (2002)


SPORT

SKY SPORT 1 LIVE 9.30PM, PRIME 12.30AM
STATE OF ORIGIN: NEW SOUTH WALES V QUEENSLAND

The stage is set for a bone-shuddering showdown in the third and deciding match of this series at the neutral ground of Melbourne's Telstra Dome. Queensland have the momentum after their crushing win in game two but NSW are unlikely to turn in two limp performances in a row.