HD Heads-Up: November 30 – December 6

➢➢ With MasterChef Australia over for another year, TVNZ 1 will refresh its evening schedule with a raft of new and returning factual entertainment shows, including Shop Well For Less (7.30 Wednesdays from December 4), George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces Specials (7.30 Thursdays from December 5), and Love Your Home and Garden (8.30 Fridays from December 6). They will be joined by the premieres of Inside Oxford Street (8.45 Tuesdays from December 3), How to Get a Good Night’s Sleep (8.45 Wednesdays from December 5) and Posh Hotels: Upstairs and Down (7.30 Fridays from December 5) …

➢➢ The Guardian thought Good Night’s Sleep “bewildering tosh from end to side” while Posh Hotels teams ex-Coronation Street stars Nigel Havers and Sally Lindsay as guests of Britain’s best hotels, starting at The Berkeley in London where it costs £20,000 a night …

➢➢ Death Row: The New Arrivals With Trevor McDonald (Three, 9.40 Monday) is follow-up to the 2018 documentary set in Indiana State Maximum Security Prison …

➢➢ Return to Downton (Prime, 8.30 Thursday) visits Highclere Castle, the inspiration for the Downton Abbey estate and seat of the Earls of Carnarvon for over 300 years. Lead contributors include Downton stars Jim Carter and Hugh Bonneville, the owners of the castle Lord and Lady Carnarvon, and those involved in the series from the first take …

➢➢ Prime also will screen two music specials in the week starting November 30: Pacific Divas (9.30 Saturday), a concert showcasing Pacific female artists; and  Prime Rocks: Steven Tyler – Out on a Limb (8.30 Wednesday) is billed as an “intimate portrait” …

➢➢ Ending their runs are Griff’s Great Kiwi Road Trip, The Brokenwood Mysteries, Five Bedrooms and Travel Guides …

➢➢ There will be three network movie premieres in the week starting November 30: Pitch Perfect 3 (Three, 8.30 Sunday), Loving Vincent (Maori TV, 8.30 Sunday) and 24 Hours to Live (Three, 8.30 Thursday). Other HD coming attractions will include:

• Hugo (Three, 7.00 Saturday)
• Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (TVNZ 2, 9.05 Saturday)
• Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (Three, 9.25 Saturday)
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 (Duke, 9.35 Saturday)
• Black Hawk Down (TVNZ 2, 11.10 Saturday)
• #Squad Goals (Three, 11.30 Saturday)
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople (TVNZ 2, 8.35 Sunday)
• Final Destination (TVNZ 2, 11.40 Sunday)
• Lockout (Prime, 9.35 Monday)
• You Again (TVNZ 2, 9.40 Monday)
• Se7en (Duke, 8.30 Tuesday)
• Bedazzled (Duke, 8.30 Friday)
• What We Do In the Shadows (Maori TV, 8.30 Friday)
• The Equalizer (TVNZ 2, 9.35 Friday).