Top 10 TV picks: March 31 - April 6

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OPINION: Television critic Philip Wakefield chooses the best shows on the box this week, for Tuesday, March 31 to Monday, April 6.

1. Mad Men: The season finale unfolds amid the Cuban missile crisis, leaving key characters to drop one or two bombshells of their own in an explosive climax that could radically change the course of the series.
Prime, 9.35pm Thursday

2. The Colbert Report: Making its belated debut here, on Sky Digital's newest channel, is the satirical stablemate of Jon Stewart's Daily Show. Ironically, the latter won't be joining Colbert on Comedy Central as it's exclusively licensed to C4 (10.30pm Tuesday-Friday).
Comedy Central, 11pm Wednesday

3. Sunday Theatre: Piece of My Heart: Keisha Castle-Hughes, Emily Barclay, Rena Owen and Annie Whittle star in an adoption drama from writer/director Fiona Samuel.
TV One, 8.30pm Sunday

4. Sense and Sensibility: New Zealand premiere of a BBC Jane Austen dramatisation that you'd expect to see on Sunday Theatre. The New York Times thought Andrew Davies' dramatisation "lush and tidy" and noted it "pays close attention to some of the novel's more subsidiary characters". Part one of three.
UK TV, 8.30pm Wednesday

5. True Blood: Sookie sees the spooky side of Bill's nightlife while her brother's implicated in another woman's murder. Mine was the first of two episodes that John Dahl (Rounders, Red Rock West) directed for this season. Prime, 9.30pm Wednesday

6. Flight of the Conchords: Sarah Wynter, who flirted with Jack Bauer on season three of 24, guest stars as Jermaine's grungy new Australian girlfriend. Crikey!
Prime, 9.30pm Monday

7. Real Crime: Killer Couples: Crime novelist Mark Bellingham presents the first of four programmes on how couples who slay together stay together, starting with Myra Hindley and Ian Brady.
TV One, 9.30pm Wednesday

8. Jono's New Show: The Best Entertainment Programme of 2008 returns with a new format that teams Jono Pryor with Dai Henwood (Insert Video Here, Roll the Dai), Matt Heath & Chris Stapp (Back of the Y, The Devil Dared Me) and Jimmy the Dwarf. You've been warned ...
C4, 8.30pm Monday

9. Iconoclasts: The third series open with Milk Oscar-winner Sean Penn in conversation with author Jon Krakauer, whose book, Into Thin Air, he turned into the movie, Into the Wild.
Rialto Channel, 8.30pm Wednesday

10. The Late Show With David Letterman: Guests include Lyle Lovett (Tuesday), Seth Rogen (Wednesday), Bill O'Reilly (Thursday), Marg Helgenberger (Friday) and Michael J Fox (Monday).
Prime, post-11pm weeknights/4pm weekday repeats

- © Fairfax NZ News

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Eddie Hartnett   #3   08:04 am Apr 04 2009

I dont even look at these ones never been asked buy a poll so perhaps you only ask your mates to get a resolt that you like or just make it up as you think what we should like

Xenu   #2   03:52 pm Mar 31 2009

Sky is not worth getting, full stop.

Most people aged 14-30 know that if you want to watch good TV you have to download it.

Shawn   #1   12:43 pm Mar 31 2009

hmm i wonder if comedy central is worth getting sky for. Probably not, Colbert is fantastic but you can watch them online at motherload for free anyway.