Tonight in HD: October 12

SPCA Rescue (TV One, 8.00)

Friends (TV2, 6.30, R) ✫✫✫

Rachel goes into the longest labour of all time, and a marriage proposal is on the cards – but who’s doing the proposing? Entourage’s Debi Mazar guest stars. (Part one of two.)

Shortland Street (TV2, 7.00) ✫✫✫

Brooke fights to free Winston; Evan and Ula face off; Daniel makes a serious accusation.

SPCA Rescue (TV One, 8.00) ✫✫✫✫

The untold story of the animal victims of the Christchurch earthquake and the people who worked to rescue and reunite them with their owners.

Nothing Trivial (TV One, 8.30, F) ✫✫

Season finale: Emma’s big news is a wake-up call for Brian, and when tragedy strikes Mac, the team have big reasons to pull together.

Underbelly: Razor (TV3, 8.30) ✫✫✫✫

Kate’s profits take another dive so she decides to poach Tilly’s prostitutes to sell more snow on the streets.

Harry’s Law (TV One, 9.30) ✫✫✫

Season premiere: Oscar-winner Kathy Bates stars in this quirky dramedy as a once-successful patent attorney searching for a fresh start and a new practice. Reviews: NZ Herald, Los Angeles Times, USA Today.

The Borgias (TV3, 9.30, 5.1) ✫✫✫✫

While Pope Alexander installs his beloved new mistress Giulia in the late Cardinal Orsini’s palace, his enemies are gathering against him. Reviews: IGN, What’s Alan Watching?

Undercovers (TV2, 10.30) ✫✫

After a chance meeting with a former criminal accomplice, Steven resumes his former bad guy cover in an attempt to foil a plot to release a deadly smallpox virus.

CSI (TV3, 11.35, 5.1, R) ✫✫

An entire college football team comes under investigation when their beloved coach is murdered.