HD Heads-Up: April 9 – 15

➢➢ Social Media Murders: Grace Millane (Three, 9.00 Monday) will spearhead a new-look weeknight line-up for the Discovery network. The documentary about the 22-year-old  British tourist who went missing while on a Tinder date here in 2018 will premiere on the back of the season final of the top-rating Married at First Sight Australia. Replacing MAFS on Tuesdays will be a double-bill of Bondi Rescue first-run episodes and repeats, ahead of the season premieres of NCIS (8.30) and NCIS: LA (9.30). The former will be entering its 19th season and the latter its 13th. (Taking over from MAFS on Wednesdays from April 6 will be S2 of Parental Guidance) …

➢➢ Star Trek: Discovery (TVNZ 2, 3.05 Saturday) will premiere on linear TV here with S4 (the first three can be streamed OnDemand). Another express-from-the-US OnDemand series, Bel-Air, also will air off-peak, after the Saturday night movies from the same weekend …

➢➢ Also new will be S2 of UK thriller Smother (TVNZ 1, 10.30 Saturday, in double-episodes) and S2 of Why Women Kill (TVNZ 2, 10.30 Sunday) while ending their runs will be Home Economics, Punky Brewster, Grand Designs UK, Holding, Australian Crime Stories, Beyond the Veil, The Walking Dead, Dog Squad, Question Team, Motherland: Fort Salem and Our Flag Means Death …

➢➢ Screening for the first time on free-to-air TV will be H is for Happiness (TVNZ 2, 3.55 Sunday), Little (TVNZ 2, 7.30 Thursday) and Knives Out (TVNZ 2, 9.40 Thursday). Other HD coming attractions will include:

• Wonder (TVNZ 2, 7.00 Saturday)
• Raiders of the Lost Ark (Three, 7.00 Saturday)
• Hotel for Dogs (Maori TV, 7.00 Saturday)
• The Assistant (Eden, 8.30 Saturday)
• The Duchess (Maori TV, 8.50 Saturday)
• Deepwater Horizon (TVNZ 2, 9.05 Saturday)
• Night School (Three, 9.10 Saturday)
• Dodgeball Thunderdome (Three, 11.25 Saturday)
• The Dark Knight (TVNZ 2 12.25am Sunday)
• Trolls (TVNZ 2, 5.50 Sunday)
• The Huntsman – Winter’s War (TVNZ 2, 7.30 Sunday)
• The Hustle (Three, 8.30 Sunday)
• Mabo (Maori TV, 8.30 Sunday)
• Official Secretes (Eden, 8.30 Sunday)
• The Emperor’s New Clothes (Maori TV, 8.30 Monday)
• John Wick: Chapter 2 (Prime, 9.30 Monday)
• Enter the Dragon (Duke, 8.30 Tuesday)
• The Curse of the Dragon (Duke, 10.25 Tuesday)
• Robot and Frank (Maori TV, 8.30 Wednesday)
• Peter Rabbit (TVNZ 2, 7.05 Friday)
• The 5th Wave (Three, 7.30 Friday)
• The Green Mile (TVNZ 1, 7.45 Friday)
• Ride Along (TVNZ 2, 8.35 Friday)
• Evan Almighty (Duke, 10.10 Friday)
• Vanity Fair (TVNZ 1, 11.55 Friday).