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If you subscribed to AMC+ on the promise of its outstanding drama pipeline, you’ll be underwhelmed by December’s premieres — two lifestyle show about travel and cooking — but sister service Acorn TV has a festive feast for whodunit fans. In the Kitchen with Harry Hamlin: A Holiday Special (December 13) teams the LA Law/Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches […]

Neon’s Gotham Knights, which also streamed on Sky Go, gets its first linear run next month on Sky Box Sets, along with a slew of vintage HBO shows. The Batman spin-off lasted only one season, which didn’t surprise the critics. Screening in order of their 7.30 nightly rotation are: Six Feet Under S1 Boardwalk Empire S1 How to Make It […]

We Need To Talk About Cosby (December 2) is a 2022 Showtime docuseries about the “rapist who had a really big TV show once”. “This heartfelt documentary, made by a Black standup and former superfan, lets women tell their horrific stories – and finds the alleged predator was always hiding in plain sight, even during […]

Within a week of the new ThreeNow site going live, the Warner Bros. Discovery platform will live-stream cricket for the first time. Here’s the media release: CRICKET TEST MATCH SERIES BANGLADESH VS. NEW ZEALAND TO STREAM ONLY ON THREENOW  Commencing tomorrow, the test match series is a landmark event for ThreeNow, as it’s the first […]

New seasons of The Restaurant That Makes Mistakes, David Lomas Investigates, Heavyweight With Dave Letele and Down for Love are among the winners of a turbo-charged NZ On Air funding round that pumped an extra $5.7 million into non-fiction projects. Originally it had allocated $13 million for non-fiction but boosted this by nearly a third, partly due to the “knock-on effects” […]

Great news for fans of the original Frasier: TVNZ+ will stream all 11 seasons in HD from December 7. Frasier is one of the most repeated comedies on linear TV, popping up simultaneously on channels like Sky Open, Jones! and Comedy Central. But only on Comedy Central has the series, somewhat haphazardly, aired in 16:9 […]

NZ On Air has greenlit a gothic horror movie that will screen on Whakaata Māori, a teen drama series for TVNZ+ and a slew of returning shows, including Taskmaster, Kairākau and Hui Hoppers. Here’s the media release: A scripted comedy and dark drama join slate of popular returning series funded by NZ On Air  A new teen […]

Saturday Mia and the White Lion (Whakaata Māori, 7.00) The Meg (TVNZ 2, 8.30) The Switch (Three, 8.30) The Zookeeper’s Wife (Eden, 8.30) Two Faces of January (Whakaata Māori, 8.50) Double Jeopardy (Duke, 9.45) Ride Along (TVNZ 2, 10.30) Body Snatchers (Duke, 11.40)   Sunday Almost Christmas (TVNZ 2, 12.20am) Justice League Dark: Apokolips War (TVNZ 2, 3.05am) Trolls World Tour (TVNZ 2, […]

Unwanted (December 1) is an eight-part Sky Atlantic thriller about a luxury cruise ship that’s hijacked by the shipwrecked refugees it rescues. The Irish Independent said it “has quality stamped all over it. It’s created and co-written by Stefano Bises (Gomorrah) and directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel of Downfall fame”. Marco Bocci, Jessica Schwarz, Dada Fungula, Sylvester […]

➢➢ Three steps up its peak-hour stripping mania post-The Project. It is replacing the axed newsmag with The Block Australia, which airs half-an-hour earlier Monday-Wednesday and is being double-billed with season four of SAS Australia. On Thursday, SAS Australia follows The Graham Norton Show (guests include Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Saunders, Daisy Haggard and Take That). A […]