HD Heads-Up: December 22 – 28

Movies and Christmas specials will dominate primetime in the week starting December 22.

Scattered among the wall-to-wall re-runs will be the network premieres of Sully, Silence, Lion and Moana while TVNZ 2 will promote Home & Away to 7.00 weeknights over summer, and Three will replace The Project with season nine re-runs of Modern Family and strip House Rules at 7.30.

Here are the first-run Christmas specials:

• Gordon, Gino and Fred’s Great Christmas Roast (TVNZ 1, 7.00 Sunday)
• Extreme Cake Makers (TVNZ 1, 7.00 Monday)
• It’s Christmas (Prime, 7.30 Monday)
• The Graham Norton Show: Christmas Special (Three, 9.05 Monday)
• The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo (Prime, 9.30 Monday)
• Santa Makes You Laugh Out Loud (TVNZ 2, 6.10 Tuesday)
• Travel Man: Hong Kong Christmas Special (Duke, 7.00 Tuesday)
• Mrs Brown’s Boys – Christmas Special Mammy’s Mummy (TVNZ 1, 8.30 Thursday)
• The John Bishop Christmas Show (TVNZ 1, 10.40 Thursday)
• Call the Midwife Christmas Special 2018 (TVNZ 1, 8.30 Friday).

Primetime movies in HD will include:

• Norm of the North (TVNZ 2, 7.00 Saturday)
• Rise of the Guardians (Three, 7.00 Saturday)
• Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (TVNZ 2, 8.40 Saturday)
• Ghost Town (Three, 8.55 Saturday)
• Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (Duke, 9.30 Saturday)
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (TVNZ 2, 10.40 Saturday)
• Happy Christmas (Three, 11.00 Saturday)
• Moana (TVNZ 2, 7.00 Sunday)
• Sully (TVNZ 1, 8.15 Sunday)
• Taken 2 (Three, 8.30 Sunday)
• Bad Santa (Duke, 8.30 Sunday)
• Silence (Maori TV, 8.30 Sunday)
• The Night Before (TVNZ 2, 9.00 Sunday)
• Arthur Christmas (TVNZ 2, 7.00 Monday)
• Home Alone (Three, 7.00 Monday)
• Love Birds (TVNZ 1, 8.30 Monday)
• Bad Santa 2 (Duke, 8.30 Monday)
• Four Holidays (TVNZ 2, 8.45 Monday)
• While You Were Sleeping (TVNZ 2, 10.25 Monday)
• Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (TVNZ 1, 10.35 Monday)
• Lion (TVNZ 1, 7.00 Tuesday)
• The Santa Clause (TVNZ 2, 7.00 Tuesday)
• Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (Three, 7.00 Tuesday)
• Paddington (Prime, 7.40 Tuesday)
• The Blind Side (TVNZ 2, 8.30 Tuesday)
• The Beatles: Eight Days a Week (Prime, 8.30 Tuesday)
• Music and Lyrics (TVNZ 1, 8.55 Tuesday)
• The Holiday (Three, 8.55 Tuesday)
• The Pursuit of Happyness (TVNZ 1, 7.00 Wednesday)
• San Andreas (TVNZ 2, 7.30 Wednesday)
• A Good Day to Die Hard (Three, 8.40 Wednesday)
• Must Love Dogs (TVNZ 1, 10.45 Wednesday)
• Ghost Rider (TVNZ 2, 8.30 Thursday)
• Die Another Day (Three, 8.40 Thursday)
• The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (TVNZ 2, 7.30 Friday)
• See No Evil, Hear No Evil (Duke, 8.30 Friday).