HD Heads-Up: December 4 – 10
November 25, 2021 
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➢➢ Back to Life is back for a late-night run on a new channel (TVNZ 2, 11.05 Wednesdays from December 8). The excellent first season aired on TVNZ 1 and both can be streamed OnDemand. About an ex-con (Breeders’ Daisy Haggard) who tries to start life over in her home town, its return in the UK was hailed by The Guardian as “near-perfect TV … a pure and painful delight, which can move you from tears to laughter within a single line.” Concurred The Telegraph: “Series two improves on series one in every way. Put the two together and you have an instant, 12-episode classic” …
➢➢ Dame Helen Mirren will host Harry Potter: Hogwarts Tournament of Houses (TVNZ 2, 7.30 Sunday), a “magical competition series” in which Wizarding World fans put their Harry Potter knowledge to the test in the hope of becoming House Cup champion. “Though it seemed during the making of the movies that Harry Potter employed all of the working actors in the U.K., the game show will mark Helen Mirren’s first time doing anything Harry Potter-related, WhatToWatch notes. “Now she’ll serve as the temporary headmaster for this trivia tournament” …
➢➢ Three will launch its own “Shark Weekend” in December with a Shark Alley episode of Bay Patrol (7.00 Saturday) and the hour-long Shark Lockdown (7.30 Saturday). The latter documents how researchers built a self-propelled cage to see how the hunting patterns of female great whites have changed in NZ waters …
➢➢ Debris (TVNZ 2, 12.45am Wednesdays from December 8) is a new sci-fi series about two agents from different continents investigating the wreckage from an alien spacecraft that has mysterious effects on humankind. It’s already streamed OnDemand and ran for only 13 episodes …
➢➢ Incredible Christmas Trees and How to Decorate Them (TVNZ 1, 7.30 Friday) will show you how to spruce up the tinsel trap in the corner of your lounge …
➢➢ Drug Wars (Duke, 8.30 Wednesday) is a four-part documentary series about contemporary drug culture in the UK. Reads the blurb: “Each episode focuses on a distinct theme, from hedonistic, thrill seeking uppers used on the party drug scene, to the increase of recreationally consumed prescription drugs amongst Britain’s youth, to the psychedelic revival that has every day people seeking transcendental highs to improve their mental health. The final episode reveals the thriving, underground cannabis trade, where strength and form have no limit” …
➢➢ Resuming from episode five of its eighth and final season will be Mom (TVNZ 2, 8.30 Wednesday) and, from S8, Mountain Men (Prime, 7.30 Sunday) while ending their runs will be Lie With Me, Bradley Walsh’s The Larkins, Dr Death, Doctor Who, Fair Go, Sydney Harbour Force, Designing Dreams, Massive Engineering Mistakes, Motorway Patrol and The Great Kiwi Bake Off …
➢➢ Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Nadiya Hussain, Josh Gad and Sir Rod Stewart will guest on the December 9 broadcast of The Graham Norton Show (Three, 8.25) …
➢➢ HD coming attractions for the week starting December 4 will include:
- Big Momma’s House (TVNZ 2, 7.00 Saturday)
- Rise of the Guardians (Maori TV, 7.00 Saturday)
- The Green Mile (Three, 8.30 Saturday)
- Big Momma’s House 2 (TVNZ 2, 8.55 Saturday)
- Twilight Zone: The Movie (Duke, 9.35 Saturday)
- The Killer Trainer (Three, 11.50 Saturday)
- Guess Who (TVNZ 2, 10.50 Saturday)
- Due Date (TVNZ 2, 12.45am Sunday)
- Batman: Hush (TVNZ 2, 4.05am Sunday)
- Early Man (TVNZ 2, 8.15am Sunday)
- Blast From the Past (TVNZ 2, 2.45 Sunday)
- Men In Black 2 (Three, 8.25 Sunday)
- Bad Moms (TVNZ 2, 8.30 Sunday)
- Farewell, My Queen (Maori TV, 8.30 Sunday)
- It: Chapter Two (TVNZ 2, 10.30 Sunday)
- Total Recall (Prime, 8.30 Monday)
- In My Blood It Runs (Maori TV, 8.30 Monday)
- Rambo: First Blood Part II (Duke, 8.30 Tuesday)
- The Spy Who Dumped Me (TVNZ 2, 8.45 Tuesday)
- Elf (TVNZ 2, 7.30 Friday)
- Eagle Eye (Three, 7.30 Friday)
- Big Game (Maori TV, 8.30 Friday)
- American Pie (Duke, 10.00 Friday)
- Concussion (TVNZ 2, 2.25am Saturday).
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November 25, 2021 at 6:37 am
I really love the first 2 episodes of Hawkeye on Disney+. I thought it was really well done and looking forward to episode 3 next week. Kate Bishop has definitely got a BIG future in the MCU ?
It was a pleasant surprise !