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Sky will not be replacing National Geographic with a new HD service but hopefully the bandwidth that’s freed up will be used to improve picture quality on other channels. “Our team will allocate that to its best use,” a Sky spokesperson says. “We don’t have any channel announcements at this time.” NatGeo fades to black […]

As well as the long awaited premiere of Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches, AMC+ next month will stream for the first time the latest seasons of Acorn TV’s Dalgleish, Agatha Raisin and Candice Renoir. S2 of Dalgleish is based on the PD James novels Death of an Expert Witness, A Certain Justice and The Murder Room. […]

AMC+ will stream the long-delayed Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches in April. The series was a casualty of AMC+ making abrupt cutbacks that have decimated its global libraries. Here’s the media release: The new hit series Anne Rice’s Mayfair Witches is set for a two-episode premiere in New Zealand on AMC+ on Sunday, April 2, with […]

Movie spin-offs and reboots abound on TVNZ+ next month, complete with new takes on Django, Fatal Attraction and Grease, as well as the belated premieres of US comedy Party Down and UK drama The North Water plus the launch of Kiwi and cult catering comedies. Django (full season, April 13) Until season one of the acclaimed Billy […]

April premieres include global spy thriller Citadel, another landmark Sir David Attenborough series, the fifth and final season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and Rachel Weisz as twin gynaecologists who perform ethically questionable procedures on infertile women in Dead Ringers. Eight years ago, Citadel fell. The independent global spy agency—tasked to uphold the safety and security of all people—was […]

Yahoo! The first six seasons of Justified join the Disney+ line-up next month ahead of the belated seventh season’s mid-year premiere. The modern western starring Timothy Olyphant as a Deputy US Marshall ran from 2010-2015 on FX and had a short run on TVNZ 1 before being picked up by Sky for SoHo. But because […]

War Sailor: Limited Series (02/04/2023) When WWII erupts, two sailors on a Norwegian merchant ship face brutal conditions as they fight to survive a conflict they were never asked to join. The Signing (04/04/2023) In this reality show, young Latino artists must impress music legends like Lex Borrero, Tainy and Rauw Alejandro to score the […]

A rugby league invasion of Match Fit kicks off next month, with Warner Bros. Discovery promising “the most transformative season yet”. Here’s the media release: THE KIWI LEAGUE ICONS TAKING ON THE CHALLENGE IN NEW SEASON OF MATCH FIT – LEAGUE LEGENDS 22 March 2023 – Award winning men’s health docu-series Match Fit, premiering in April on Three and […]

Sharon Horgan’s new comedy Dreamland will stream on Neon from April 6. It’s based on the Catastrophe/Bad Sisters star/creator’s BAFTA-winning short of the same name about “secrets, lies, loves and aspirations within a family of four sisters.” Reads the blurb: Set in the sun-drenched British seaside town of Margate, it is a dark comedic exploration of multi-generational female […]

TVNZ 1 will revert to re-runs of The Celebrity Chase from Wednesday. The network says this is due to ITV being unable to deliver new episodes, although it’s still possible these will surface during the current run. In the meantime, TVNZ 1 will repeat the series from episode two of season 12. It will feature […]