AUSTRALIAN OPEN
★★★½
7pm, Nine

Yes, it's the men's singles final, the end of another memorable Australian Open and a major cultural marker: school goes back, only a few weeks of summer left, and the start of the television ratings year. Before all that, though, there's still a match to play and no matter how uninspired or one-sided it might turn out to be (and it might not be – who knows?) it's a television moment few care to miss.

ADAM HILLS: CLOWN HEART
★★★½
9.10pm, ABC Comedy

If you like your comedy black and bitter, don't even bother. This live show recorded at the Hammersmith Apollo (but performed here too a few years ago at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival) is classic Adam Hills. The first section is all ad-lib and audience interaction (and if you were going to be audience-involved by a comedian, you'd want it to be Hills). The second is scripted, written not long after the death of his father, and as insightful and bittersweet as it is funny.

GOODFELLAS
Movie ★★★★
10.30pm, 7Mate

One of the best gangster films of all time still looks great – and still has the power to make us gasp and shudder – almost 30 years down the track. This is Martin Scorsese at his absolute best, and surrounded by his most fruitful collaborators: Robert de Niro, Joe Pesci, Paul Sorvino. Both Lorraine Bracco and Michael Imperioli of course went on to even larger gangster greatness but it's Ray Liotta as Henry Hill who really sets this film on fire.