Best on television - September 27, 2008

Agent Cody Banks
Today, Italia 1, 9.10 p.m.

To his family and friends, Cody Banks is a typical teen. But Cody's got a secret - he's actually part of a secret teen CIA programme. Cody's living every boy's dream life - he can drive like a stuntman, has an incredible arsenal of cool gadgets, and his agency mentor, Ronica Miles, is totally hot. But Cody's training is put to the test when he's sent to pose as a prep school student and befriends fellow teen Natalie Connors in order to gain access to her father, a scientist unknowingly developing a fleet of deadly nanobots for the evil organisation Eris. From runaway cars and high-speed snowboard chases to a spectacular final mountaintop showdown, Cody has to use everything he's learned to prove himself as an agent and stop Eris... and maybe even get the girl.

Fire Down Below
Monday, Rete 4, 9.10 p.m.

EPA agent Jack Taggart has set out on assignment to discover the killer of his most trusted colleague. Following the agent's last known path, Taggart travels through Appalachia only to discover lethal chemical dumping sites. The people in the region are getting sick and whoever is responsible for the dumping is being protected by a wall of silence. Infiltrating the community, Taggart centres his investigation around mining tycoon Orin Hanner who is tied to those mines being used for the illegal dumping. Taggart also meets Sarah Kellogg who protects a family secret that may lead to an ecological disaster.

The Last Boy Scout
Tuesday, Rete 4, 9.10 p.m.

Joe Hallenbeck, a disillusioned former Secret Service agent has hit rock bottom as a detective for hire. His marriage is on the rocks, his adolescent daughter has a smart mouth, he drinks too much, and he's broke. Hallenbeck takes an assignment protecting Cory, the stripper girlfriend of Jimmy Dix, a former professional football player banned from the league for gambling. When Cory is murdered gangland style, Hallenbeck teams up with the former football hero to find the killers. Their search leads them deep into the world of professional football, politics, legalised gambling and sadistic hitmen.

Bedazzled
Wednesday, Italia 1, 11.25 p.m.

Elliot Richards, a low-level white-collar worker, has fallen in love with his co-worker Allison, who barely knows he exists. Desperate to win her love, sad sack Elliot is approached by the Devil, who offers him seven wishes in exchange for his soul. Elliot accepts, but none of his wishes works out quite the way that he had hoped; after transforming himself into a South American tycoon, a champion NBA basketball player, a famous author, the most sensitive man in the world, and even the President of the US, Elliot discovers that the Devil has added a crucial loophole each time, and for all his troubles, Allison still isn't interested in him.

John Q.
Thursday, RaiTre, 9.05 p.m.

When John Q. Archibald's young son is stricken during a baseball game, he and his wife discover that their child is in need of an emergency heart transplant. Although the Archibalds have health insurance, they are informed by the hospital administrator that their policy doesn't cover such an expensive procedure. Unable to raise the money himself, John persuades the hospital's compassionate cardiac surgeon to waive his lofty fee, but is still left with too much of a financial burden to bear. With no recourse but to take his son home to die, John snaps and holds the staff and patients of the hospital's emergency room hostage at gunpoint.