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Media Release: HBO Max to launch Turner Classic Movies hub in New Zealand on 6 November A dedicated destination for iconic films, spanning timeless classics, acclaimed dramas, musicals and genre-defining favourites. Thursday 15 October, 2026 – HBO Max New Zealand will launch the Turner Classic Movies hub on Friday, 6 November, giving subscribers access to […]

Media Release: NZ On Air goes trans-Tasman with new children’s direct-to-audience initiative 15 October 2026 — NZ On Air has teamed up with Screen Australia and the Australian Children’s Television Foundation (ACTF) to take part in their joint initiative, offering a new opportunity to develop New Zealand IP for digital first children’s series. The Kids […]

Prime Video will drop all eight episodes of Muhammad Ali bio The Greatest on November 4. Reads the tagline: “The World Remembers Muhammad Ali as an Icon. The Series Reveals the Man.” Here’s media release: Today, Amazon MGM Studios and Prime Video unveiled the official trailer for The Greatest – the first authorised scripted series […]

Media Release: 2026 New Zealand Screen Awards Finalists Announced Pike River leads film nominations with 15, while Bust Up tops television with 12   (Auckland – October 15, 2026) The New Zealand Screen Awards (NZSA) have today announced the finalists for 2026, selected from almost 600 entries across 57 categories spanning drama, comedy, documentary, news and current […]

➢➢ TVNZ 1 double-bills two light-hearted whodunits on Sunday nights: season two of Ludwig (8.00) and S2 of Death Valley (9.10). The former stars David Mitchell as a puzzle-making maestro turned crime scene consultant; the latter features Timothy Spall as an ex-TV copper turned real-life sleuth. Critics felt Ludwig still cracked the code of success […]

Within hours of Apple announcing its long-delayed next-gen Apple TV 4K media streamer would go on sale on November 13, it released the trailer for its latest thriller, 12 12 12, which premieres the same day. The twist with this eight-part series is each episode unfolds across three timelines of a heist: the 12 months […]

Sky has acquired Cold War drama Honey, a “darkly comedic thriller” starring House of Guinness’ Ann Skelly. She plays a deep cover agent in 1982 Berlin, seven years before the fall of the wall, who explores a shadowy world of counterespionage while being blindsided by desire in a ménage à trois. The series has just […]

TVNZ+ has expanded its October slate with the additions of top British drama The Party, Love Island Australia and its first blockbuster movie rental. The Party and another new drama, Gnomes, already are on the platform while Love Island Australia premieres the same day as its TVNZ 2 broadcast: 9pm on October 27. It will […]

HBO Max today released the trailer for season four of The Gilded Age, which premieres on November 2. It will be the first new season of the Downton Abbey successor from Julian Fellows to stream here in 4K, as the previous instalments screened on Sky. S4 follows the fallout from Bertha Russell’s transformation of New […]

At least they waited nearly a generation before reviving Sex & the City as And Just LikeThat …. But just like that, only 10 years after its series finale, HBO Max is rebooting Girls. Today it announced the Emmy-winning Lena Dunham comedy will return for a “limited run” of five more episodes in 2027. Most […]