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Andrew (Pride & Prejudice, Les Miserables) Davies’ latest period drama adaptation, A Suitable Boy, will stream next month on Netflix. Director Mira Nair (The Namesake, Vanity Fair) has dubbed the six-part dramatisation of the Vikram Seth novel “The Crown made brown” and much has been made of this being the first BBC series to feature an all-brown cast. Said […]

Prime is upending its schedule to maximise viewership of its new lifestyle show, This Could Go Anywhere, in which cricket legends Phil Tufnell and Brendan McCullum tour the country. It was meant to have aired 8.30 Wednesdays from September 30 but now will air 9.30 Wednesdays, with a stronger lead-in: the movie Men in Black […]

Spark Sport is adding Matchday Live to its Premier League coverage from Saturday. Here’s the media release: Spark Sport Premier League coverage gets even better with the arrival of Matchday Live  From this weekend, Premier League fans will be able to tune into the full matchday studio programme, ‘Matchday Live’ on Spark Sport, wrapping each Premier […]

➢➢ The Walking Dead returns for a mid-season final on October 5 (TVNZ 2, 10.10) nearly six months after the penultimate episode. Episode 16 of this season was meant to be the final when it was scheduled for April – but that was before Covid-19 concerns stopped its postproduction. In the interim, AMC ordered six […]

And the winner of last night’s debate? TVNZ 1! Here’s the media release: Huge audiences turn to TVNZ for 1 News Your Vote 2020 Leaders’ Debate More than a million New Zealanders tuned into the first live Leaders Debate between Jacinda Ardern and Judith Collins on TVNZ 1 last night. Tuesday evening’s face-off was the […]

Sky’s Rialto Channel will celebrate Halloween with a Saturday night season of highbrow horror in October. Four of the movies will be NZ TV premieres and the fifth will be new to the channel. The season will open on October 3 with The Hole in the Ground, about a youngster in rural Ireland who returns […]

Next month TVNZ OnDemand will fast-track a new David Tennant true-crime drama and the latest season of The Bachelorette. Des (October 8) is three-part series about serial killer Denis Nilsen, a civil servant who murdered 15 boys and men on the streets of Soho from 1978-83. While he confessed after his arrest, he couldn’t remember […]

The latest season of time-travelling adventure Outlander spearheads this week’s Blu-ray releases. The four-disc set combines 10 episodes with extensive extras, including commentaries, deleted scenes and solid behind-the-scenes insights. “Sony has delivered another first-class 1080p transfer for its Outlander: Season Five release,” Blu-ray.com said. “The image is remarkably efficient, yielding superior highly end clarity and intricate […]

The latest true-life drama from award-winning writer Jimmy McGovern will have its NZ premiere on the Acorn TV service. Anthony is a 90-minute BBC dramatisation of how 18-year-old devout Christian Anthony Walker was murdered in a racist attack 15 years ago. McGovern (The Street, Hillsborough) was asked by Walker’s mother, Gee, to write Anthony; they […]

Neon is adding The History of Home Narrated by Nick Offerman to its platform next month. The three-part series bearing the Parks and Recreation star’s name interviews architects, designers, craftspeople and historians to explain the “story” of various rooms in a house, including hallways, kitchens, bedrooms and bathrooms. The CuriosityStream show features the likes of Highclere Castle […]