HD Heads-Up: March 22-28

➢➢ Mel Giedroyc: Unforgivable (TVNZ 2, 10.00 Wednesday) is a ‘new’ UK panel show in which celebrities try to convince comedian Mel Giedroyc that they are the most unforgivable person in the room. The series ran for four seasons on Dave but only this month was cancelled. “This is essentially a chat show stripped back to the good bits,” said Chortle. “Guests can forget plugging the latest project or telling us what a delight their co-stars were. Just tell the entertaining and embarrassing stories from your past”. The premiere has Graham Norton revealing a lie to his mother that went too far and Alex Brooker talking about trying to catch a girl in a trap. Other S1 guests include Jimmy Carr, Jennifer Saunders and Richard Ayoade …

➢➢ My Wife, My Abuser: Caught on Camera (TVNZ 1, 8.30 Monday) is a “harrowing” 2024 Channel 5 documentary about spousal abuse in which Richard Spencer shares his story “in a bid to raise awareness about male victims of domestic abuse”, complete with footage from the nanny cams, written testimonials, audio recordings and photographs …

➢➢ TVNZ 2’s off-peak resumption of Junior Taskmaster continues with the semi-finals (4.10 Saturday) while Sky Open premieres S5 of New Amsterdam (11.30 Saturday) for fans haven’t already streamed it on Netflix. Also returning after a three-week break is The Repair Shop (TVNZ 1, 7.30 Friday) …

➢➢ Ending their runs are:

• Jamie’s Air Fryer Meals 
• The Crow Girl
• From 
• Black Snow
• Our Other Islands 
• Stone Cold Takes \on America  
• Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
• The Time Traveler’s Wife
• Mental Samurai 
• Tokyo Vice
• The Graham Norton Show
• Vince
• The Amazing Race …

➢➢ Fever Pitch: The Battle for the Premier League (Three, 9.30 Tuesday) is a 2021 series that originally streamed on Prime Video. The Guardian said it “traces the revolution that Rupert Murdoch and the breakaway group of top-flight teams inflicted on English and Welsh football from 1992 onwards. Fever Pitch! proposes that in the 1980s the game was so overrun by hooliganism and free of entertainment that plutocratic football chairmen and an Australian-born tycoon were necessary to save football from oblivion. And they did” …

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

• SRA: Hurricanes Poua v Matatu (Sky Open, 2.00 Saturday)
• SailGP San Francisco (Three, 4.30 Saturday & Sunday)
• SRP: Blues v Crusaders (Sky Open, 7.00 Saturday)
• NRL: Dolphins v Wests Tigers R3 (Sky Open, 9.30 Saturday)
• Sal’s NBL: Canterbury Rams v Southland Sharks (Sky Open, 10.30am Sunday)
• Cricket T20i: White Ferns v Australia (TVNZ 1, 2.30 Sunday & Wednesday)
  
• Sal’s NBL: Auckland Tuatara v Taranaki Airs (Sky Open, 3.00 Sunday)
• Cricket T20i: Black Caps v Pakistan (TVNZ 1, 7.00 Sunday & Wednesday)
• FIFA World Cup 2026 Oceania Qualifiers – Finals (TVNZ 2, 7.00 Monday)
• NRL Premiership (Sky Open, 7.00 Friday) …

➢➢ HD coming attractions include the off-peak premiere of She Said (TVNZ 2, 11.40 Saturday) and:

• Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs Evil (Three, 6.30 Saturday)
• Amazonia (Whakaata Māori, 6.30 Saturday)
• Grown Ups (TVNZ 2, 8.00 Saturday)
• Police Academy (Three, 8.15 Saturday)
• Zero Dark Thirty (Whakaata Māori, 8.30 Saturday)
• Nanny McPhee (TVNZ 2, 3.20 Sunday)
• Ticket to Paradise (TVNZ 2, 8.30 Sunday)
• The Suicide Squad (Three, 8.30 Sunday)
• The Bodyguard (Eden, 8.30 Sunday)
• The Mystery of Henri Pick (Whakaata Māori, 8.40 Sunday)
• The Invisible Man (TVNZ 2, 12.30am Monday)
• 16 Blocks (Eden, 8.30 Monday)
• Money Train (Duke, 9.35 Monday)
• A Few Good Men (Duke, 8.30 Tuesday)
• Halloween (Duke, 11.05 Tuesday)
• Donnie Darko (Whakaata Māori, 8.30 Wednesday)
• Kung Fu Panda (TVNZ 2, 7.00 Friday).