TV Picks: A-League football on SBS, Ray Donovan and Luck on Foxtel

TONIGHT means a high-pressure football match, rebellious twerking on Glee and time to relive Ray Donovan and Dustin Hoffman's Luck on Foxtel.

If you missed it the first time, don't miss it this time ... Dennis Farina as Gus Demitriou and Dustin Hoffman (Chester Be

TONIGHT means a high-pressure football game, rebellious twerking on Glee and time to relive Ray Donovan and Dustin Hoffman's Luck on Foxtel.

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A-League, SBS 2/Fox Sports 1, 7.30pm (6.30pm Foxtel viewers in Qld) 3 and a half stars

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Smiling assassin ... Alessandro Del Piero at Sydney FC training. Picture: Phil Hillyard

I seem to recall I tipped Melbourne Heart to beat Sydney FC tonight. Sydney may have lovely Alessandro del Piero back but Marc Warren's out and that other guy, Calvano. And you're thinking, so what, Harry Kewell's still injured, probably will be injured for the rest of his life. And my response is Michael Mifsud. He's going to kick our goal. Yes. A goal. Hasn't been done in months, you'll hear the racket from there because everyone's going to watch this game tonight. Two reasons: 1. There's a lot on it. 2. Three episodes of Big Bang Theory followed by a Harry Potter movie on Channel 9. But why single Nine out? Ten's got two NCIS repeats, and Seven may be the worst of all: Robin Hood. The Russell Crowe one. With, at last count, 126 versions of Robin Hood to choose from, including 1958's Robin Hood Daffy, with Friar Tuck Porky, and Yahoo Serious's Ned Kelly movie that was released in Italy as Robin Hood Junior, and 1973's Robin Hood where he was a fox and Peter Ustinov was Prince John and Roger Miller the singer was a rooster, but not including next year's Untitled Robin Hood Project (in development), because god knows we need another Robin Hood movie, this is the one we get. Russell Crowe's.

Glee, Eleven, 7.30pm 3 and a half stars

Not many principals in Australia like this woman ... Jane Lynch as Sue Slyvester in . Picture: Supplied

But then there's Glee. This show is so onto everything: tonight Sue Sylvester - now the school principal, thanks to her CIA-style blackmail of the old principal Figgins, now the janitor - is out to get rid of the pandemic that is twerking, which my computer keeps trying to change to tweaking. That right there tells you something. I love the fantasy world this show lives in, where it's considered completely normal for the early middle aged Spanish teacher who runs the glee club to sing Robin Thicke's Blurred Lines amid a throng of twerking teenage girls, and for Sam the adult schoolboy to go out with the school nurse, who, I would've thought, is technically a teacher. It's all allowed here.

Ray Donovan, Showcase, Foxtel, 7.30pm (6.30pm Qld) 4 stars

This is worth watching ... Liev Schreiber as Ray Donovan and Jon Voight as Mickey Donovan in Picture: Suzanne Tenner/Showtime

And now for something you will seriously want to stay home and watch. Ray Donovan, episode one to six. Liev Shreiber is Ray, a kind of fixer, handler, you'll see in the first episode he swoops in and gets rid of dead bodies for celebrities in Hollywood, straightens out secretly gay movie stars who have big heterosexual movies about to come out, that kind of thing. But his work goes way beyond that, and now his scary father Mickey - Jon Voight - is getting out of prison after about a 20-year stretch. This is ugly family stuff, complicated by Ray's wife quite liking Mickey and Ray psychotically hating him. Ray's brothers work in the family gym and have lingering issues related to a Catholic priest, and this involves their father as well. It's good and messy, and kiddie fiddling Catholic priest obviously couldn't be more timely. There's also murder ahead, and James Woods, and the FBI. Elliott Gould plays Ray's boss, another deeply complex character. I suggest you start watching this if you missed it earlier this year, because there's a second season next year and you'll need to be across it. Plus it's a very, very good show.

Luck, Soho, Foxtel, 7.30pm 4 stars

If you missed it the first time, don't miss it this time ... Dennis Farina as Gus Demitriou and Dustin Hoffman (Chester Bernstein) in TV drama .

And so is Luck. Dustin Hoffman on TV? Yep. This isn't new but a lot of you maybe missed it the first, second time it was on. He's Ace Bernstein - great name - also getting out of jail tonight. He immediately starts his big revenge plan - he's some kind of mob guy - and also ignites his plan to take over a racetrack. Meanwhile we're seeing these three sad sacks working their system and making money. HEAPS of money. They're degenerate gamblers though, you should see them, horses, poker, anything. And then there's this old trainer, Nick Nolte, who's got this amazing horse. So there's also that side of it, with this really talented jockey, a girl. This was a hot show, got picked up as soon as it started for a second season and then three horses died during the show - for real, you wait til you see the racing scenes, they're incredible - and a pretty full on campaign started and HBO just canned it. Shame, I loved it. It's sad about the horses but seriously, stunt people die on movies and nobody gives a nob. Michael Mann directed tonight's first episode, he's the Miami Vice guy who went on to big movies - Heat, The Insider, Ali etc. Your only problem here is which one do you record and which one do you watch. Ray Donovan or Luck. A good problem to have though.

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