HD Heads-Up: July 9 – 15

➢➢ Two UK thrillers and the latest season of an action drama that previously screened on Prime are the latest TVNZ+ series to go to air. S5 of SEAL Team will replace FBI International from July 12 (TVNZ 2, 9.30) while destined for overnight are Hollington Drive (TVNZ 1, 12.25am Sunday) and Chapelwaite (TVNZ 2, 12.20am Wednesday) …

➢➢ Hollington Drive concerns two sisters whose families come unstuck when a 10-year-old in their street goes missing. “Before you know it, we’re being served up the full English of middle-class parent terrors: vanishing children, marital ennui, class frictions, fears about technology,” said the Independent …

➢➢ Based on Stephen King’s short story “Jerusalem’s Lot”, Chapelwaite stars Adrien Brody as a newly widowed 1850s sea captain who confronts dark family secrets when he relocates his children to their ancestral home in small-town Maine. Rotten Tomatoes said the “drab proceedings are stretched a bit thin over 10 episodes, but those looking for an atmospheric whodunit with a few genuine frights could do worse” …

➢➢ A superior “yummy mummy murderer” thriller that first screened on BBC UKTV will premiere free-to-air on July 14. Too Close (Eden, 8.30) is a three-part series about psychiatrist (Emily Watson) assessing a woman (Denise Gough) accused of murdering her two children. The Guardian reckons it “boasts one of the most convincing cat-and-mouse games ever seen on screen” …

➢➢ Prime will score big-time for FTA sports fans in the second week of July, with live Wimbledon coverage of the ladies singles final (12.45am Sunday) and men’s single final (12.45am Monday), Maori All Blacks vs Ireland (6.30 Tuesday), and Cadbury Netball Series: Silver Ferns vs NZ A (8.00 Wednesday), … vs NZ Men (8.00 Thursday) and … vs Mixed International (8.00 Friday). It also will premiere the documentary, 1 to 39: The Highlanders Story (9.30 Saturday) …

➢➢ And Just Like That … The Documentary (Prime, 9.30 Tuesday) will go behind the scenes of the Sex & the City reboot …

➢➢ TVNZ 2 is following Three’s lead and launching a matinee movie slot from July 11. The season of romances will screen 12pm Monday-Friday and overlap Three’s 1pm movies. It will open with Starting Up Love, which stars Kiwi Anna Hutchison …

➢➢ Police: Hour of Duty (Duke, 8.30 Wednesday) is a new observational reality series about the challenges Derbyshire cops face every night between 9 and 10 …

➢➢ The Disappearance of Phoenix Coldon (TVNZ 2, 12.55am Monday) is a two-part true-crime docu about an unsolved case …

➢➢ Girl in the Woods (TVNZ 2, 3.10am Monday) is a young adult drama from Peacock about a child’s otherworldly disappearance in a small mining town. The Hollywood Reporter called it “a bland pastiche of YA horror tropes” …

➢➢ Returning for new seasons will be Junior Bake Off (TVNZ 2, 3.00 Saturday), B Positive (TVNZ 2, 2.30 Sunday) and In Ice Cold Blood (TVNZ 2, 1.35am Monday) while ending their runs will be Grace, Eden: Untamed Planet, 20/20, Match Fit, Your Garden Made Perfect, East Coast Rising, Icons of Auto, How to Build a Motorcar and Selling Houses Australia …

➢➢ Screening for the first time on FTA TV will be Pokemon Detective Pikachu (TVNZ 2, 7.00 Saturday), Brexit: The Uncivil War (Eden, 8.30 Sunday) and Omar (Whakaata Māori, 8.30 Sunday). Other HD coming attractions will include:

• Missing Link (Three, 7.00 Saturday)
• Watership Down (Whakaata Māori, 7.00 Saturday)
• The Judge (Eden, 8.30 Saturday)
• Loving (Whakaata Māori, 8.40 Saturday)
• The Switch (Three, 8.55 Saturday)
• The Chronicles of Riddick (TVNZ 2, 9.00 Saturday)
• Daredevil (Duke, 9.30 Saturday)
• After We Collided (Three, 11.00 Saturday)
• Shutter (TVNZ 2, 11.10 Saturday)
• Nancy Drew (TVNZ 2, 3.55 Sunday)
• Tomb Raider (Three, 8.00 Sunday)
• Kingsman 2 – The Golden Circle (TVNZ 2, 8.35 Sunday)
• McQueen (Whakaata Māori, 8.30 Monday)
• Magnum Force (Prime, 9.30 Monday)
• Goodfellas (Duke, 8.30 Tuesday)
• Jasper Jones (Whakaata Māori, 8.30 Wednesday)
• Sherlock Holmes (Three, 7.30 Friday)
• Batman (Duke, 8.30 Friday).