TV HIGHLIGHTS

The tribe speaks no more

Survivor New Zealand TVNZ 2, Sunday, 7pm; MondayWednesday, 7.30pm Over four possibly incredible nights,

Survivor New Zealand comes to its potentially thrilling conclusion. From Sunday to Tuesday we’re promised threats, tests and the potential overthrow of the core alliance, and then on Wednesday, we get the two-hour live finale, broadcast from Auckland’s Civic Theatre, featuring the show’s first-ever New Zealand winner and their $100,000 prize, which would once have been nearly enough for a deposit on a house.

Too smart by half

Cleverman

On Demand, available now The dystopian near-future is an increasingly popular and creatively fruitful place to locate modern televised drama — The Handmaid’s Tale being the most recent brilliantly compelling example. Much-acclaimed Australian series Cleverman goes there too, in its post-apocalyptic, Aboriginal Dreamtimeinfused second series following hero Koen and his dastardly half-brother.

Music of the future

Prime Rocks: Sgt Pepper’s Musical Revolution

Prime, 8.30pm, Tuesday The last in this latest series in the genre-leading Prime Rocks slot is an exploration of one of the greatest albums of all time, as first experienced by its audience at the time of its release — mind-bending and genre-transforming. Featuring some of the band’s leading studio banter, out-takes and isolated vocal and instrumental tracks, it looks at how their individual tastes and ambitions came together to make it happen.

Golden age of TV movies

Okja

Netflix, Available now Maybe Netflix’s first truly great original movie, Okja is about the circumstances surrounding the life and relationships a giant pig-type creature in a vaguely dystopian near-future in which giant pig-type creatures have been created specifically for our eating pleasure. It’s weird and unclassifiable but it’s also full of joy and thrilling moments and a lot of laughs.

Madoff gone wild

The Wizard of Lies Soho, Thursday, 8.30pm Starring Robert De Niro and Michelle Pfeiffer, and directed by Barry Levinson this terribly-named film is effectively a psychological examination of Bernie Madoff, who was sentenced to 150 years in prison for perpetrating what may have been the largest financial fraud in US history. It’s full of big names, about a big subject, and based on Madoff’s interviews from prison with New York

Times journalist Diana Henriques. Spoiler: Madoff doesn’t come off looking great.