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A new season of the unique web series about homelessness in NZ, K’Road Chronicles, starts Monday on the Stuff platform. Unlike the acclaimed first season, the second won’t be streaming on TVNZ OnDemand (where you can still view S1). But S2 will still boast the same high production values. It was directed and edited by Paul […]

Panasonic has added side-firing speakers, new AI processing and improved gaming specs to its flagship OLED TV for 2021, the JZ2000. It has yet to reveal details of the rest of its range but will continue to be the only major brand that offers Dolby Vision and HDR10+ compatibility on its 4K TVs. (Samsung continues […]

A weekly guide to what’s new of note on air and online Sunday ➢ A Perfect Planet TVNZ 1, 7.00 “A near-perfect programme. The cinematography is as awesome in scale and majesty as anything that has gone before, capturing both vast panoramas of tropical atolls and the tiniest wrinkly detail of a giant tortoise’s backside. The theme […]

Samsung is promising a “quantum leap” in TV viewing with its 2021 range of Neo QLED TVs, which it’s launching next week at CES. It also will expand screen sizes with its new MICRO LED TVs and has refreshed its Frame series to make the TVs even thinner and more customisable. Specific models, pricing and […]

Today Sony revealed a line-up of groundbreaking 4K and 8K TVs for 2021 that boasts a new processor across the entire range it claims “mimics the human brain to deliver a never-before-seen immersive viewing experience” and streaming quality that rivals UHD Blu-ray. Specific models, pricing and availability have yet to be announced for NZ but […]

Saturday Cars 3 (TVNZ 2, 7.00) The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies (Three, 7.00) Charlotte’s Web (Maori TV, 7.00) The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (TVNZ 1, 8.05) Predator (Duke, 8.30) 45 Years (Maori TV, 8.40) Police Academy 3: Back in Training (TVNZ 2, 9.00) American Assassin (Three, 9.55) Secret in Their Eyes (TVNZ 2, […]

Amazon Prime Video has added to its January line-up a new series starring The Grand Tour’s Richard Hammond as an escape artist. The Great Escapists follows Hammond and Mythbusters’ Tory Belleci as they use their smarts and scrap shipwreck to try to escape a deserted island. Reads the blurb: Can they invent themselves off the island? Or […]

➢➢ One of UK TV’s longest-running series marks its 20th anniversary in a retrospective series that will air 8.35 Wednesdays on TVNZ 1 from January 20. Location Location Location: 20 Years and Counting has Phil Spencer and Kirstie Allsopp looking back over two decades of boom and bust. Yet whatever the state of the market, their […]

An HBO documentary about golf phenomenon Tiger Woods will have its NZ premiere on Sky’s Neon. The two-part Tiger will land here on January 22, nearly two weeks after its January 10 tee-off on HBO, and also will screen on Sky’s golf channel, Sky Sport 6. Reads the blurb: The series paints an intimate picture […]

Sky’s SoHo channel has added the latest CB Strike mystery to its January schedule. CB Strike: Lethal White (8.30 Mondays from January 25) is a four-part BBC adaptation of the fourth book in Robert Galbraith’s Cormoran Strike series. Written under a pseudonym by JK Rowling, it’s about an ex-solder-cum-private detective (Tom Burke) and his overqualified PA and partner-in-crime […]