IT'S the last day of the holidays and those of you who are all Chinese New Year-ed out are faced with a patchy array of couch potato options.
Although sports fans might be content to while away the hours watching Prime Sports' coverage of the Australian Tennis Open, Day Eight, and music lovers can tune in to Paul Simon in Concert (World, 11am), the rest of the day's viewing is eclectic at best.
* * * * THE best bet movie-wise is Jacknife (Pearl, 9.45pm, Original running time 102 mins), a film which for once is perfectly-suited to Pearl's programme title, in this case, The Actors Studio.
Given only a fleeting first run at theatres back in 1989, this modest little drama features superb acting from its three leads: Robert De Niro, Ed Harris and Kathy Baker. Although it is predictable and sometimes frustratingly understated, Jacknife, at least manages to be a Vietnam vets film that doesn't make you reach automatically for the remote control unit.
De Niro plays a vet who landed the nickname ''Jacknife'' while in 'Nam for his habit of turning over vehicles. Long after the war is finished, he arrives at the house former buddy Harris shares with his sister, Baker, and begins a romance with her.
Harris then has to face some disturbing truths about himself, his wartime memories and his relationships with the pair.
* * * *PRIMETIME World's offering, Wisdom (World, 9.30pm, ORT 109 mins), lines up two of the original brat-packers, Emilio Estevez and Demi Moore, in a 1986 tale of a modern-day Robin Hood which Estevez wrote and directed at the tender age of 23.