Wednesday's TV highlights

7.30PM, TV3
ALL NEW SIMPSONS
The Simpsons go to Italy to retrieve Mr Burns' expensive new sports car, and end up encountering Sideshow Bob and his murderous family.

8PM, TV3
BRO'TOWN
Mack sees how bad the St Cardinal's netball team is and decides to disguise himself as a Muslim to impress them with his excellent skills.

8.30PM, TV3
SVU: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT
A girl is kidnapped, and what is initially thought to be an extortion attempt by a paedophile turns out to have ramifications much closer to home.

9.30PM, TV3
PRISON BREAK
With their escape hole discovered, the cons are forced to make their break. But with Lincoln under 24-hour watch, Michael may have to leave him behind.


MOVIES
[rated out of 5]

8.30PM, TV2
BASIC
Herald rating: * * *
John Travolta stars as an ex-Army ranger turned DEA agent, who is investigating the disappearance of a reviled Sergeant (Samuel L. Jackson), as well as several of his elite Special Forces trainees. (2003)

6.30PM, SKY MOVIES 2
THE BEACH
Herald rating: * * *
Leonardo DiCaprio plays a young man on holiday in Thailand, who hooks up with two French tourists to follow a treasure map. (2000)

8.30PM, SKY MOVIES 1
TRAFFIC
Herald rating: * * * *
Director Steven Soderbergh's unsettling story of a US Supreme Court Judge (Michael Douglas), appointed to head the Government's war on drugs, who is so busy that he doesn't notice his own daughter's decline into drug addiction. Meanwhile, other plotlines roam the same film universe, with Catherine Zeta-Jones playing the wife of a drug trafficker facing prosecution, and Dennis Quaid appearing as a sleazy lawyer. (2000)