Top 10 TV picks: July 1-7
Television critic Philip Wakefield chooses the 10 best shows on the box this week, for Tuesday, July 1 to Monday, July 7.
1. Burying Brian: Premiere of a Kiwi black comedy that was the first NZ drama to be made in high definition. Ironically, TV One won’t broadcast in HD until the start of next month’s Olympic Games.
TV One, 8.30pm Wednesday.
2. Brotherhood: With Underbelly gone, this Boston gangster drama is now the best crime show on TV. A pity it clashes with two of the week’s other best dramas, The Tudors and Mad Men, but at least there’s an overnight re-run at 2.15am.
The Box, 8.30pm Sunday.
3. Inside New Zealand: Life, Death and a Lung Transplant: Rachel Jean, who produced The Market and Ride With the Devil, documents her husband’s five-year ordeal of becoming the country’s 96th lung transplant recipient.
TV3, 9.30pm Thursday.
4. Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned: Prime uses the 2007 Christmas special to launch the fourth series of the new-look Time Lord on a new night, as the lead-in to its fab Mad Men. It opens where the third series ended, with the TARDIS in a Titanic struggle, and guests stars Kylie Minogue.
Prime, 7pm Sunday.
5. Amazing Extraordinary Friends: New adventures of the Kiwi superheroes hit that is being spun off into a digital drama that will screen as “mini-sodes” on websites like tvnz.co.nz and bebo.
TV2, 4pm Saturday.
6. Real Life: Obedient Wives: Documentary about devoted housewives and subservience in suburbia.
TV One, 9.30pm Wednesday.
7. How to Have Sex After Marriage: New British documentary series that’s about more about self-improvement than kiss-and-tell. The first beneficiaries clearly knew what was expected of them, quipped The Daily Telegraph: "To exaggerate their problems at the start and to be completely cured at the end."
TV One, 9.30pm Tuesday.
8. Scrubs: This once cutting-edge, now middling sitcom scrubs up for its truncated seventh season. Lamented USA Today of the premiere: "Makes you think six really would have been enough."
TV2, 8pm Wednesday.
9. My Name Is Earl: Like Scrubs, Earl’s not the pearl it used to be but the third-season finale will be worth a look when Billie steals Earl’s list and starts undoing his good deeds.
TV3, 8pm Sunday.
10. The Late Show With David Letterman: Guests include Morgan Freeman (Tuesday), Julia Roberts (Wednesday), Jack Black (Thursday), Adam Sandler (Friday) and Sarah Jessica Parker (Monday).
Prime, post-11pm weeknights.
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