HD Heads-Up: January 25-31

➢➢ Three adds two crime dramas that already are streaming on ThreeNow: Sight Unseen (9.40 Monday) and The Teacher: Body in the Lake (9.45 Wednesday). The latter is a “gripping” Channel 5 mystery about an affair between a married art teacher (Kara Tointon) and another teacher that spirals out of control when a student disappears on a school trip, sparking a murder investigation. “The story plays out as a whodunit over four episodes,” The Telegraph said. “I’ve watched the lot and the ending isn’t bad – I didn’t guess the identity of the villain – but the quality of the drama is pretty schlocky” …

➢➢ Sight Unseen is a Canadian detective drama about an ex-homicide cop who’s diagnosed as being clinically blind and uses an “assistance app” to connect with a professional seeing-eye guide — with a dark past — 5000 km away to help solve crimes. The Wall Street Journal thought it “a conceptually adventurous way of getting into all manner of thorny moral issues and strategic dilemmas, as well as putting its hero in precarious situations” …

➢➢ Appearing on The Graham Norton Show (Three, 7.00 Thursday) are Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz, Michelle Yeoh, Jonathan Bailey and Griff …

➢➢ New to TVNZ 1 are the Stephen Mangan-fronted game show Password (7.40 Saturday), the return of The Great British Bake Off (7.30 Thursday) and a belated Mrs Brown’s Boys Christmas Special (9.00 Thursday) …

➢➢ Also new are Australian Gladiators (TVNZ 2, 5.40 Sunday) and The Amazing Race Australia: Celebrity Edition (TVNZ 2, 7.00 Sunday) while returning are Tulsa King S2 (Duke, 8.30 Friday) and Rogue Heroes S2 (Duke, 9.25 Friday). S1 of Rogue Heroes aired on TVNZ 1 to underwhelming ratings; its double-bill with Tulsa King anchors a new-look Friday night on Duke that includes the 1am premiere of The Horne Section, in which Taskmaster’s Alex Horne pitches his own TV show alongside his band …

➢➢ Ending their runs are:

• Bondi Vet
• The Box
• Outback Farm
• There She Goes
• Find My Country House New Zealand 
• Dinner Date …

➢➢ Live/delayed free-to-air sport includes:

• Super Smash Women’s Cricket: Northern Brave v Otago Sparks (Duke, 2.00 Saturday)
• Trackside Premiere – TAB Karaka Million (Duke, 4.00 Saturday)
• L2D A-League Men’s Wellington Phoenix v Central Coast Mariners (Sky Open, 4.30 Saturday)
• Super Smash Men’s Cricket: Northern Brave v Otago Volts (Duke, 5.45 Saturday)
• Tennis: Australian Open (Sky Open, 9.30 Saturday & Sunday)
• Premier League: Goal Rush (Sky Open, 10am Sunday)
• Super Smash Women’s Cricket: Canterbury Magicians v Central Hinds (Duke, 12.30 Sunday)
• Super Smash Men’s Cricket: Canterbury Kings v Central Stags (Duke, 4.15 Sunday)
• Hungry Jack’s NBL25 Season: Adelaide Canterbury Kings v Central Stags (Duke, 7.45 Sunday)
• Super Smash Men’s Cricket: Auckland Aces v Wellington Firebirds  (Duke, 12.30 Monday)
• Super Smash Women’s Cricket: Auckland Hearts v Wellington Blazes (Duke, 4.40 Monday)
• Super Smash Women’s Cricket: Canterbury Magicians v Northern Brave (Duke, 2.00 Tuesday)
• Super Smash Men’s Cricket: Canterbury Kings v Northern Brave (Duke, 5.45 Tuesday)
• Super Smash Women’s Cricket: Central Hinds v Auckland Hearts (Duke, 2.00 Wednesday)
• Super Smash Men’s Cricket: Central Stags v Auckland Aces (Duke, 5.45 Wednesday)
• Super Smash Women’s Cricket: Wellington Blaze v Northern Brave  (Duke, 12.30 Thursday)
• Super Smash Men’s Cricket: Wellington Firebirds v Northern Brave  (Duke, 4.45 Thursday) …

➢➢ HD coming attractions include:

• 2 Hearts (TVNZ 2, 12.25 Saturday)
• Hathi (Whakaata Māori, 7.00 Saturday)
• The Smurfs 2 (Three, 7.25 Saturday) 
• Sex Tape (TVNZ 2, 8.00 Saturday)
• The Conspirator (Whakaata Māori, 8.40 Saturday)
• The Other Guys (Three, 9.30 Saturday)
• Spirit Untamed (TVNZ 2, 2.50 Sunday)
• Spider-Man: No Way Home (TVNZ 2, 8.30 Sunday)
• The Catcher Was a Spy (Eden, 8.30 Sunday)
• Six Minutes to Midnight (Whakaata Māori, 8.40 Sunday)
• The Dark Knight Rises (Three, 9.10 Sunday)
• Furious 7 (TVNZ 2, 8.10 Monday)
• Sherlock Holmes 2: A Game of Shadows (Sky Open, 8.30 Monday)
• Dragon Girls (Whakaata Māori, 8.30 Monday)
• Jackass 3 (Duke, 9.45 Monday)
• The Fate of the Furious (TVNZ 2, 8.05 Tuesday)
• The Lovely Bones (Duke, 9.15 Tuesday)
• The Longest Yard (TVNZ 2, 8.15 Wednesday)
• Quo Vadis Aida (Whakaata Māori, 8.30 Wednesday)
• The Bourne Legacy (TVNZ 2, 8.20 Thursday)
• The Bank Job (Three, 8.35 Thursday)
• Sing 2 (TVNZ 2, 7.30 Friday)
• Big Fish (Sky Open, 7.00 Friday).