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Disney+ will premiere its Doogie Howser M.D. spin-off Doogie Kamealoha, M.D. on September 8, with new episodes streaming weekly. The coming-of-age dramedy set in Hawaii was inspired by the Neil Patrick Harris ’80s hit  and is named after Lahela “Doogie” Kamealoha, a 16-year-old prodigy juggling a budding medical career and her life as a teenager. Reads […]

The return of The Undateables didn’t make TVNZ 2 unbeatable on Monday as TVNZ 1’s top-rating Tokyo Games run continued. But it did top Three’s 9-1-1 in the core commercial demographics, averaging 4.1% of 25-54 year-olds and 3.6% of 18-49s — which was up sharply on the previous week’s Wife Swap (2.8% / 2.4%). Week-on-week the season […]

Overnight Amazon Prime Video revealed it would stream season one episodes of its Lord of the Rings prequel weekly from 2 September 2022 and released its first still from the NZ-based production. Filming wrapped yesterday of the “epic drama” that’s been shooting here since February 2020, subject to COVID-19 interruptions. It’s set in the Second […]

While speculation mounts on who will be in the next season of Dancing With the Stars, TVNZ has revealed the last batch of contestants bound for Celebrity Treasure Island includes former Bachelor star Art Green. Here’s the media release: FINAL CELEBRITY TREASURE ISLAND CASTAWAYS REVEALED! The final five castaways joining TVNZ 2’s Celebrity Treasure Island have […]

A weekly guide to what’s new of note on air and online Sunday ➢Smother TVNZ OnDemand A widow (Dervla Kirwan) investigates her husband’s murder in this six-part Irish thriller. “A new County Clare-set thriller by novelist and television writer Kate O’Riordan, reminds me – and I have few higher compliments – of the work of […]

Amazon Prime Video will stream the acclaimed Val Kilmer documentary that was officially selected for the Cannes Film Festival from August 6. Val is billed as a “raw, wildly original and unflinching”, sometimes hilarious take on what it means to be “one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors”, as documented through thousands of hours […]

Sci-fi fans will benefit from TVNZ’s NBCUniversal deal next month when TVNZ OnDemand streams the complete Battlestar Galactica reboot in all its forms. NBC is the ad-supported streaming service’s newest branded channel and from August 23 will offer: The Andromeda Strain Battlestar Galactica: The Mini-series (2003) Battlestar Galactica S1-4 (2004) Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (2009) […]

The latest Peacock series to stream on TVNZ OnDemand will be the acclaimed 2019-20 Canadian thriller, Departure. Premiering August 28, It stars The Good Wife’s Archie Panjabi and the late Christopher Plummer as airline investigators whose enquiry into why a jetliner with 256 passengers has vanished over the Atlantic Ocean is blocked by conspiratorial forces.. […]

After trailing The Block NZ all week, TVNZ 2’s MasterChef Australia won the 7.30 hour with 25-54 year-olds on Thursday opposite TVNZ 1’s Tokyo Olympics. It averaged 4.4% of the core commercial demo versus 4.0% for the games and 2.5% for Three’s LEGO Masters (USA). It lost to TVNZ 1 in the 18-49 demo, when […]

Saturday Cool Runnings (TVNZ 2, 7.00) The Final Destination (Duke, 8.30) Moon (Maori TV, 8.40) Late Night (Three, 8.25) Wild Wild West (TVNZ 2, 8.50) Kindred Spirits (Three 10.30) Blade Runner 2049 (TVNZ 2, 11.00)   Sunday Wedding Crashers (TVNZ 2, 1.50am) Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (TVNZ 2, 8.20) The Hitman’s Bodyguard (Three, 8.30) […]