TV highlights for Wed, Sept 26

National TV highlights for Wednesday, September 26.

THE FARMER WANTS A WIFE: LOVE BITES - NINE, 8.30pm

Finally, it's the moment Farmer fans have been waiting for, as the popular reality dating show offers some resolution to its faithful band of followers in tonight's series finale. Leaving behind the comfort of their friendly rural confines, the six loveable lads set off for the city to find out whether the flame is still burning between them and their respective chosen ones. Then, the gang join host Natalie Gruzlewski on the couch to discuss their choices and reveal whether they have defied the odds and actually found their soul mate on reality television. Fingers crossed.

PUBERTY BLUES - TEN, 8.30pm

It's not easy growing up. Just ask Aussie teenagers Debbie (Ashleigh Cummings) and Sue (Brenna Harding), the stars of this home-grown series who mature before our eyes as they tackle the all-too-familiar adolescent minefield of family drama, peer pressure and everything else you'd expect of a quality drama. Set in the turbulent 1970s, the girls grow with experience as they navigate the tricky waters of being a teenager. Tonight's episode sees the Greenhills gang gather for an ocean ceremony, while Sue's parents Pam (Susie Porter) and Roger (Dan Wyllie) plan a radical career move - one that could see them leave behind their beloved Cronulla forever.

THE CHASER: HAMSTER WHEEL - ABC1, 9.05pm

The Chaser boys have come a long way since Charles, Dominic and Chas first met at Sydney Grammar School. Having added more members - and more comedy - since then, the team make their way back into our living rooms tonight with the season two premiere of Hamster Wheel. Delving into recent headlines and taking an up-close look at the world of media, politics and censorship, there's no doubt the crew are back to their brilliant best. For those who couldn't get enough of the first series, the second should not disappoint as it brings back several popular segments, including The Henry! Hotline , The Pitch and Photo Finish.

THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES - SBS, 11.05pm, M (2004)

Based on the memoirs of Alberto Granado and Ernesto "Che" Guevara (the iconic leader of the Cuban Revolution), this wonderful film follows the road trip the pair embarked on in 1952, travelling across Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Peru. The two buddies (Gael Garcia Bernal as 23-year-old med student Che and Rodrigo De la Serna as biochemist Alberto) set out on a battered 1939 bike with little more than a couple of coins to rub together - the people and places they encounter will forever change their lives. Intimate, quietly thrilling and always mesmerising, director Walter Salles' journey of the heart will certainly strike a chord.

JERSEY GIRL - GO! 9.30pm, M (2004)

A hot-shot New York music PR man (Ben Affleck) finds his world torn apart when his wife (Jennifer Lopez) dies giving birth. He loses his job and has to live with his dad (George Carlin) in New Jersey so he can provide for his bright, loving daughter Gertie (Raquel Castro). Director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Chasing Amy) jettisons his trademark raucous humour for this pleasant drama, that scoots by on Affleck's charm and the chemistry he generates with love interest Liv Tyler. Watch out for cameos by Will Smith, Jason Biggs and Matt Damon.

WHAT'S UP, DOC? - GEM, 12.00pm, G (1972)

This throwback to the screwball comedies of 1930s Hollywood (by director Peter Bogdanovich, who has encyclopedic knowledge of the era) refreshes Hepburn and Grant's Bringing Up Baby with loopy Barbra Streisand running rings around dumbfounded musicologist Ryan O'Neal in a rapturous tale of mistaken luggage and unscrupulous thievery. Their hilarious Kermit/Miss Piggy double-act has great chemistry. In her feature debut, the late Madeline Kahn is feverishly funny, and possibly the defining reason for its status as a comedy classic.

JARHEAD - ONE, 9.30pm, AV15+ (2005)

After the stream of praise for Jake Gyllenhaal in Brokeback Mountain, he traded his cow! boy hat for a short back and sides in a different kind of meaty role, taking him to the first Gulf War. Shrewdly directed by American Beauty's Sam Mendes and based on the best-selling 2003 memoir by Anthony Swofford, it tells the story of a US marine's sense of tedium and pointlessness and the craziness of being far from home, in a situation he cannot understand. In the Saudi desert, Swofford's platoon holes up to wait for action, prompting a nightmare, not of the violence of war, but of simple human foibles and existential angst.

PARADISE NOW - SBS TWO, 9.40pm, M (2005)

The disturbing subject matter of this Palestinian film is given impartial treatment in the story of two suicide bombers recruited for a mission in Tel Aviv. Presented as an insight into the mind of childhood friends Said (Kais Nashif) and Khaled (Ali Suliman), rather than a black-and-white account of the planned attack, we see the emotional turmoil the two men experience in their final days and their personal reasons for targeting Israel. Described as an "artistic point of view of a political issue" by director Hany Abu-Assad, this study garnered an Academy Award nomination and a win at the Golden Globes.