Top 10 TV picks: November 3-9

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Television critic Philip Wakefield chooses the best shows on the box this week, for Tuesday, November 3 to Monday, November 9.

1. Glee: Time thought this innovative high school musical drama "the freshest and most joyful new show of the year" and the Washington Post, "pitch perfect".
TV3, 7.30pm Friday

2. Little Dorrit: What the Dickens? Here's yet another Andrew Davies dramatisation of another period classic that is having its premiere on pay-TV because none of the free-to-air channels deemed it a good fit. Predictably, the critics swooned.
UKTV, 8.30pm Wednesday

3. Let's Play, Boy! This history of Playboy magazine isn't being presented in "16:9 booberama", as it was across the Tasman, because The Documentary Channel is still, disappointingly, 4:3. But it has other attributes that the Sydney Morning Herald says make it "a magnificent piece of television".
Documentary Channel, 9.30pm Sunday

4. Dexter: Sunday nights are what MySky HDi was invented for: tune into episode six of this serial killer sensation while recording TV One's The Tudors and Prime's Mad Men simultaneously. Otherwise, agonise over which to watch.
The Box, 9.30pm Sunday

5. National's First Year: The first in a month-long season of specials about the economy analyses how well the Government’s managed the recession.
TVNZ7, 9.10pm Tuesday

6. ER: The Final Season: William H Macy is the first of the original cast to return for the series finale countdown. Expect an influx of old faces in a couple of weeks with prophetically named episodes like The Beginning of the End and Old Times.
TV2, 9.30pm Monday

7. Inside New Zealand: The $181 Dream: Meet the woman who bought a Christchurch restaurant for the cost of a night out.
TV3, 9.30pm Wednesday

8. Leverage: Smart-alec update of Mission: Impossible that threatens to self-destruct in its first five minutes but then improves to become passable escapism. Ordinary People Oscar-winner Timothy Hutton stars.
Prime, 9.35pm Tuesday

9. Later With Jools Holland: The Rialto Channel claims this is the "latest" series of Later but it screened a year ago in the United Kingdom, where two more have since gone to air. The eclectic line-up includes Metallica, Kaiser Chiefs, Coldplay, Tom Jones, Grace Jones, and The Killers.
Rialto Channel, 8.30pm Wednesday

10. Dominick Dunne's Power, Privilege & Justice: The show's namesake may have passed but given this series dates to 2002, there's plenty of celebrity crime cases in the can. The first investigates the murder of Atlanta socialite Lita McClinton.
Documentary Channel, 9.30pm Tuesday

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Jennifer   #1   09:15 am Nov 03 2009

'Glee' is absolutely fantastic - but certainly not for everyone. There is certainly plenty of things to critise about the show, however it has a certain charm, and wit, that can only be acomplished by Ryan Murphey (creator of Nip/Tuck and Popular)

The best part is by far Jane Lynch as Sue Sylvester - who is the main anatongist. If you watch it for nothing else, watch it for her!

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