Thursday's TV highlights

4:55AM Thursday April 24, 2008

7.30PM, TV ONE
CORONATION STREET
With no job, Janice confides in Leanne that she's broke; Tracy assumes her mother is on her side; and what do you know, Liz and Derek find some common ground.

9.35PM, PRIME
ENCORE - FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS: ONE NIGHT STAND
Here's another look at the special that kicked things off for Bret and Jemaine's TV series.

9.30PM, TV ONE
RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES USA
When you're a million dollars in debt you'd think you would have cut your losses. But Peter Matthews has struggled for seven years and now Gordon is his last chance.

MOVIES

6.50PM, RIALTO SKY DIGITAL
FALLING
Herald Rating: * * *
Based on the real life of novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard, here named Daisy (Penelope Wilton). A middle-aged writer going through a difficult marriage break-up, she moves to a cottage in the north of England and meets Henry (Michael Keating), who convinces her to hire him as a caretaker. (2005)

8.30PM, SKY MOVIES
THE GOOD GERMAN
Herald Rating: * * * *
Stephen Soderbergh-directed film starring George Clooney and Cate Blanchett, which honours the old-fashioned way of film-making by returning to fixed focal-length lenses and using harsh, unnatural lighting. Clooney plays an American military journalist who is drawn into a murder investigation. (2006)

8.30PM, SKY MOVIES GREATS
THE PEACEMAKER
Herald Rating: * * *
After a train carrying several nuclear warheads crashes in Russia, a White House nukes expert (Nicole Kidman) and a US Army Colonel (George Clooney) must get to the bottom of a conspiracy and stop a terrorist plot to blow up the United Nations building. (1997)

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