The week's best television

REVIEWED: Hubble's Amazing Rescue, Suits, Deadwood, Cutting Edge: Power Surge, Japan Tsunami: How it Happened, Ingrid Betancourt: 6 Years in the Jungle.

Deadwood

REVIEWED: Hubble's Amazing Rescue, Suits, Deadwood, Cutting Edge: Power Surge, Japan Tsunami: How it Happened, Ingrid Betancourt: 6 Years in the Jungle.

Hubble's Amazing Rescue
Sunday, 9.30pm, SBS One
It never occurred to me that the Hubble space telescope had undergone a physical upgrade in the 20 years since it was launched into orbit, until mention of it was made in two different places I encountered within days of each other. So, from a personal perspective, the timing of this documentary looking at the 2004 mission to replace failing gyroscopes and sensors is perfect. Even without that, the scale of humanity's achievement with Hubble is nothing short of amazing.

Suits
Monday, 9.40pm, Seven
The latest batch of dramas to arrive from the US has been a pretty lacklustre bunch so I didn't have high hopes for this. But while it doesn't scream breakout hit, it's different enough to charm, mixing legal drama with the jaunty con-man air of White Collar or Burn Notice. Charmingly slimy lawyer Harvey Specter (Gabriel Macht) takes a chance in hiring dropout Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams) who, thanks to his amazing memory, has passed the bar exam despite not attending law school.

Deadwood
Monday, 9.30pm, ABC2
The third-season finale and since, as the years pass, the planned telemovies to tie up the series are looking less likely, so this is the final chance to savour delicious chunks of Al Swearengen (Ian McShane) and his sweary mouth. It's frustrating that some stories don't reach the conclusion it seemed to be building towards, but there's still lots to love.

Cutting Edge: Power Surge
Tuesday, 8.30pm, SBS One
A documentary from US broadcaster PBS's science series Nova, taking the pulse of green energy and examining its role in tackling global warming. It's an important topic but not the liveliest one for TV. This does a good job of laying out the issues clearly, throwing in a few little creative flourishes to make sure it's not all talking heads and footage of power stations.

Japan Tsunami: How it Happened
Tuesday, 8.30pm, ABC1
This documentary, from Britain's Channel 4, was pumped out soon after the earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan in March, but despite graphics explaining the science appearing to have been done on a computer running Windows 95, it's still worth a look. The horrible images of the tsunami consuming the land remain fresh in the mind, but this has some other astonishing footage, including a tourist's video of cracks opening up in the ground and a view of the tsunami from sea.

Ingrid Betancourt: 6 Years in the Jungle
Wednesday, 9.20pm, ABC2
A great documentary. Ingrid Betancourt was running for president of Colombia in 2002 when she was kidnapped by FARC, a Marxist-Leninist revolutionary guerilla group and held in the jungle until her 2008 rescue. It's an amazing story, one that benefits incredibly because there is so much footage of these events with which to tell it, giving the proceedings an almost fly-on-the-wall feeling. Interviews with Betancourt and campaign manager Clara Rojas, who was with her, fill in the blanks.