Today's TV highlights

7.30PM, TV3
PROJECT RUNWAY

It's not just the models who get catty. If you saw the first series of this reality show then you'll remember how fashion designers can be right little drama queens too. Once again the show is hosted by supermodel Heidi Klum with mentor Tim Gunn, designer Michael Kors, and fashion editor Nina Garcia.

9.30PM, TV ONE
PAPARAZZI

Part two of a three-part documentary about Darryn Lyons, the technicolour-haired Aussie who founded British paparazzi photo agency, Big Pictures. Tonight the London-based Darryn is having problems with his other business - his nightclub in hometown Geelong. It's tough at the top, Dazza.

8.30PM, C4
48 HOURS - THE LIVE TV FINAL

The winner of New Zealand's largest film-making competition will be decided live on C4. Five short films have been chosen to compete against some Wildcard selections that were picked by director Peter Jackson. And viewers will be able to text-vote for their favourites.

9.30PM, TV3
ROVE LIVE

Rove McManus talks to two funny men tonight - actor Adam Sandler, and stand-up comedian, Charlie Pickering, who visited New Zealand last month for the comedy festival. Sandler is promoting his new movie, Click which stars David Hasselhoff and Henry Winkler, who was the Fonz in Happy Days. And performing will be former Superjesus frontwoman Sarah McLeod.


MOVIES
(rated out of five stars)

8.30PM, SKY MOVIES 1
THE WHOLE NINE YARDS
* *
Bruce Willis and Matthew Perry in a weak crime caper, with the former playing a mafioso who relocates to suburban Montreal under a witness-protection programme, moving in next door to Perry, a dentist and his wife (Rosanna Arquette) who wants to reveal the wiseguy's location to the mob. (2000)

8.40PM, PRIME
A DEADLY VISION
* *
Sex and the City's Kristin Davis plays a waitress with psychic abilities who is asked by police to help to find a serial killer. Ellen Burstyn steals the show, as a mother who preaches to her daughter about the evils of fornication. (1997)

11.30PM, TV3
THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE (2001)
* * * *
Sometimes the more you look, the less you really know. That's the rub with many an old black-and-white crime film, and more than appropriate here in this Coen brothers' tribute to the days when every character smoked a cigarette under a ceiling fan and delivered a Ssh-am Shh-pade voiceover. Set in Santa Rosa, California, in 1949, it's a nod to the film noir era - movies like Mildred Pierce and Double Indemnity - and when pulp novels had taglines that screamed of delinquency, insanity and deceit.

Chain-smoking Ed Crane, played to stony perfection by Billy Bob Thornton, is a second-chair barber who is content to watch life go by and be walked over by his boss at the barbershop (Michael Badalucco), who is also his brother-in-law. Also stomping all over him is his alcoholic wife (Frances McDormand), who is having an affair with furniture store boss Big Dave, played by James Gandolfini.

If that isn't enough intrigue for you, there's post-war UFO paranoia thrown into the mix as well. The Coens kicked off their career in 1984 with an homage to film noir called Blood Simple, and here they make a welcome return to the genre.

- Steven Shaw

11.40PM, PRIME
GLORY
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US Civil War flick about the first all-black volunteer company in the Union Army, starring Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman and Matthew Broderick as their commanding officer. Directed by Edward Zwick, who went on to helm The Last Samurai. (1989).