Tonight's TV: An eclectic Friday night

FRIDAY highlights include Lady Gaga, Harry Kewell, Jack Vidgen and a skateboarding budgie.

CHOCCYWOCCYDOODAH, ABC1, 6pm

BRITISH version of one of those cake-shop reality shows you usually see from America and on cable TV. This is based in a bakery staffed by "square pegs" in Brighton. As with the US shows, the weirder the request, the better the TV. Like a 70kg cake in the shape of a pair of designer shoes. Christine, who runs the shop, has a Willy Wonka vibe. She refuses to use fondant, rather she has a secret chocolate recipe used as "glue" and, like KFC, anyone who works there has to sign a confidentiality clause over the ingredients.

A-LEAGUE - ADELAIDE UNITED V MELBOURNE VICTORY, FOX SPORTS 2, 7.30pm

COULDN'T get a ticket tonight? Every other Reds fan will be desperate to see Harry Kewell make his competitive bow at Hindmarsh Stadium. Hopefully our local lads can bounce back from their lacklustre showing last week.

RULES OF ENGAGEMENT, CHANNEL 10, 7.30pm

YOU know the ratings year is ending when Rules returns. In a double dose. In prime time. Or at least Friday night. And look at poor House's season return at 8.30pm. Once a ratings king, now a Friday-night hole filler. Ouch. Anyway, Rules - yes, nothing's changed. Russell (David Spade) is still a pantsman with ladies' hair. And Jeff (Patrick Warbuton) relives his Puddy-on-Seinfeld days when he cracks it after being constantly asked to give money for presents for workmates he barely knows.

BETTER HOMES & GARDENS, CHANNEL 7, 7.30pm

WHAT other Channel 7 shows can Jack Vidgen get on? The Australia's Got Talent winner surfaces on Better Homes tonight. He's not showing off his makeover skills (his dentist certainly renovated his mouth) - rather, his cooking prowess. Is there anything this teenager can't do? There's some non-Vidgen recipes - from chocolate fudge to, er, white chocolate truffles. But tonight is really all about one thing - a skateboarding budgie!

THE JONATHAN ROSS SHOW, ABC1, 9.20pm

MORE fast-tracked UK talk show. Lady Gaga arrives on set with a sheep on a lead (his name is Kevin) and sits on a hay bale. She talks about bathing her godson with his dad Elton John. "Did he look up and say 'gaga' to you?" Ross asks. Fellow guest Jamie Oliver cooks up a replica of Gaga's meat dress. "You can't serve a lady up her own dress as an appetiser," Ross says.