Wednesday's TV highlights

7.30PM, TV3
THE SIMPSONS
There's been so many Simpsons episodes that it's got to the point where you can watch one and you may have seen it - but who knows? In tonight's episode Kirk and Luann rekindle their relationship, Bart and Milhouse plot to end it, only they cause Homer and Marge to break up instead.

8PM, TV3
BRO 'TOWN
It's the return of the lads from Morningside. Inm this week's show, called In My Mother's Den, the boys wake up to find a Canadian at their table who turns out to be dad's new girlfriend. It looks like she's dead set on being their new Mum!

8.30PM, PRIME
QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT GUY
The Fab Five try to tame Michael, who has been the tent master of the Big Apple Circus for many years. They make a start on his waist-length beard but then there's his rough-and-ready trailer home and junk-food habit to deal with.

8.30PM, TV2
BIG LOVE
Two hours of Big Love in this season finale. When Bill is asked to become a member of the Salt Lake City Leadership League and Barb is a finalist in the Mother of the Year competition, there's a few stresses about the family's risk of being exposed.

9.30PM, PRIME
WEEDS
Nancy meets a guy she could really like, but is she ready? Gosh, that weed can make you indecisive. But there's also more serious problems at home when a rival dealer comes to scare her out of business.


MOVIES
[rated out of 5]

8.30PM, SKY MOVIES 1
MILLION DOLLAR BABY
Herald rating: * * * *
Put Raging Bull, The Shawshank Redemption and Eastwood's own Unforgiven in a blender and this is what you'll get. Clint Eastwood directs and plays Frankie Dunn, the manager of a run-down gym he inhabits with one of his former fighters, Scrap (Morgan Freeman). Hilary Swank is Maggie, the trailer-trash girl who wants to train under him and become a champion. (2004)

8.30PM, RIALTO SKY DIGITAL
WONDER BOYS
Herald rating: * * * *
Oddball comedy in which Michael Douglas plays a wayward academic who mentors an eccentric student (Tobey Maguire). (2000)

10.20PM, RIALTO SKY DIGITAL
THE STRAIGHT STORY
Herald rating: * * * *
David Lynch surprised fans of his usual eerie tales with this family friendly true story of 73-year-old Alvin Straight (Richard Farnsworth), who drove his ride-on lawnmower across several states to visit his ailing brother (Harry Dean Stanton). (1999)