The Box Set
Lost & Found, 8.30pm, Tuesday, Three
Hosted by David Lomas, this third season of the popular Kiwi reality series features complicated cases in which family members have been abandoned, stolen or torn apart from loved ones. The subjects in each episode try to find closure and answers, with some also after an understanding about their cultural heritage. This week’s first episode follows Faith as she looks for her father, who was known to be an American stripper.
Project Runway, 7.30pm, Thursday, Vibe
For the first time in Project Runway history, season 16 breaks out of the conventional modelling mould and celebrates body diversity by incorporating ‘‘size-inclusive’’ models on the catwalk. This season’s designers must show off their skills and ability to make stunning creations, for any size. Guest judges making their way to the runway this season include Demi Lovato, Katie Holmes, Olivia Munn, Yolanda Hadid, Kate Upton, Maddie Ziegler and Georgina Chapman.
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines, 8.30pm, Thursday, Three
Seriously underrated 2003 sci-fi sequel in which Arnie takes on a female Terminatrix (Kristanna Loken) in order to protect the vital John Connor (Nick Stahl) and his future wife, Kate Brewster (Claire Danes), from meeting a grisly end. Contains plenty of thrills and spills and a real jawdropper of a finale. ‘‘It puts almost everything it has into its explosive set pieces, but manages to instil the audience with just enough emotional involvement,’’ wrote Premiere’s Kelly Borgeson.
Vice Principals, 9pm, Thursday, SoHo
As the second and final season of this dark US comedy begins, the euphoria that Gamby (Danny McBridge) and Russell (Walter Goggins) experienced in being named interim co-principals is short-lived. Their cars are set on fire and Gamby is shot by a masked assailant. Could it be the principal they set-up and disgraced, Belinda Brown’s (Kimberly Herbert Gregory), revenge?
The Dreamers, 8.30pm, Friday, Rialto
Eva Green stars in Bernard Bertolucci’s 2003 drama about a young American studying in Paris in 1968 who strikes up a friendship with a French brother and sister. ‘‘It may go slack when you most want it to soar, but it also seduces with eroticism and resonates with ideas,’’ wrote Rolling Stone’s
Peter Travers.
Bones, 8.35pm, Friday, Prime
In the final-ever episode of this much-loved US crime series, the Jeffersonian lab is in ruins following an explosion. Brennan (Emily Deschanel) has been very badly injured, sustaining enough of a head injury that she cannot decipher her own notes.
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