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A weekly guide to what’s new of note on air and online MONDAY The Parachute Murder Plot | TVNZ 1, 8.40 “The Parachute Murder Plot is totally chilling and literally everyone’s worst nightmare come true. The documentary delves deeper into the story and tells the story of this case, which is actually too horrific to even […]

Spearheading the coming attractions this month and next on documentary streaming platform DocPlay is McKellen: Playing the Part, complete with footage of Sir Ian McKellen on the set of The Lord of the Rings. “The thrilling clips here of his big Shakespearean roles are worth the price of a ticket alone,” The Guardian said. “About […]

Next month’s premieres on Amazon Prime Video may leave you questioning the value of your subscription. It adds 13 seasons of the comedy It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (June 5), S1-8 of Keeping Up With the Kardashians (June 1) and S1-13 of Criminal Minds (June 5). There’s one movie premiere that should be worth a look, 7500 […]

This could be the best reason to subscribe to Disney+: The Simpsons has been restored to its original 4:3 aspect ratio. Subscribers can choose between watching the series in 16:9 widescreen, so the image fills the entire screen of modern TVs, or the original aspect in which the episodes were broadcast before their conversion to […]

TVNZ OnDemand is bustin’ out all over for June, with a slew of premieres, the return of Flack and The Twilight Zone, and express from the US, The Bachelor: The Greatest Seasons – Ever! Here’s the trailer for the new Bachelor highlights show (weekly from June 9): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iRD22Gf5g4 In each episode, host Chris Harrison will recap the […]

Saturday The Young Victoria (TVNZ 1, 11.55am) The Giver (TVNZ 2, 7.00) Johnny English Strikes Again (Three, 7.00) Due Date (TVNZ 2, 8.40) Eraser (Three, 8.45) Red Planet (Duke, 9.25) The Enforcer (Prime, 9.30) The Disaster Artist (TVNZ 2, 10.30)   Sunday Jumanji – Welcome to the Jungle (TVNZ 2, 7.00) The Martian (Three, 8.30) The Inland Road (Maori TV, 8.30) Aloha (TVNZ […]

Neon trawls the video vault next month to showcase series as old as HBO’s Mr Show (1995-1998), From the Earth to the Moon (1998) and the BBC’s Five Days (2007-2010). But there’s also a raft of shiny new premieres and the addition of movies like Judy and Ad Astra. Here’s the full line-up:  

Atlanta’s Missing and Murdered | SoHo (9.30 Wednesdays from June 3), Neon (June 28) A five-part documentary series about the abduction and murder of at least 30 African-American children and young adults in Atlanta from 1979-1981. Following the official reopening of the case by Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, the series sheds new light on the […]

➢➢ Two new local lifestyle series will air on Saturday nights from June 6: A New Zealand Food Story (Three, 5.30) and Dream Home Dilemma (Prime, 8.00). In the former, chef Ben Bayly travels the country to seek inspiration for the menu at his new New Zealand cuisine restaurant while wrestling setbacks, like a global pandemic, to […]

In a sign of the looming merger between Lightbox and Sky, both platforms will premiere on the same day the dramatisation of the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? scandal, Quiz. It will stream weekly on Lightbox from 8.30 on June 25 — the same time it goes to air on SoHo. The three-part series […]