HD Heads-Up: November 9-15

➢➢ The Day of The Jackal (Duke, 9.30 Friday) premieres the same day on free-to-air and TVNZ+. Billed as a “contemporary reimagining” of the 1973 classic thriller from Top Boy creator Ronan Bennett, it stars Eddie Redmayne as a lone assassin locked in an international cat-and-mouse duel with a British intelligence officer. Advance reviews have been largely favourable. The Times thought it “a stylish but sprawling Sky remake” and Digital Spy “a compulsive but conventional watch” while The Telegraph called Redmayne “truly compelling” …

➢➢ Leading a new season of Documentary NZ is Trans & Pregnant (TVNZ 1, 7.30 Monday), which explores how a trans man and his partner broke traditional gender norms to have a baby. Watch also for 501’s Inside, Unmasking the Monsters, Ram Raid Mums, Predict My Future and ADHD: Not Just Hyper …

➢➢  Also returning are Moving Houses (TVNZ 1, 7.30 Monday), Paramedics S5 (TVNZ 1, 8.25 Monday) and Hunted UK S7 (TVNZ 2, 9.00 Thursday) …

➢➢ Hotel Custody (TVNZ 1, 9.30 Monday) is a 2022 docuseries about life behind bars in one of the UK’s busiest state-of-the-art custody suites, in Grimsby, “where a night banged up in a prison cell comes with ‘room service’ and inmates are ‘customers’” …

➢➢ Black Gold (TVNZ 2, 4.05am Sunday) is a Paramount+ docuseries from the same year, about “how one of America’s largest oil corporations concealed evidence surrounding climate change” …

➢➢ Belatedly making its linear debut is S1 of Tokyo Vice (TVNZ 2, 1.10am Wednesday), a Max thriller about an American journalist’s immersion into the Tokyo underworld of the 1990s …

➢➢ Appearing on The Graham Norton Show (Three, 7.00 Thursday) are Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Saoirse Ronan and Eddie Redmayne …

➢➢ Ending their runs are Made For Love, I Love That for You, Dream Home, Loaded in Paradise and Camp Be Better …

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

• Northern Tour: Ireland v NZ  (Sky Open, 3.00 Saturday)
• Netball: Fast5 (Sky Open, 6.00 Saturday-Sunday)
• Hungry Jack’s NBL25 Season (Duke 7.30 Saturday)
• A-League Men: Replay – Adelaide United V Western United (Sky Open, 9.30 Saturday)
• English Premier League: Goal Rush (Sky Open, 10am Sunday)
• Rugby League: Pacific Championships – Women’s Cup Final (Sky Open, 3.30 Sunday)
• Pacific Championships Men’s Final (Sky Open, 8.00 Sunday)
• NFL (Duke, 7am Monday) …

➢➢ HD coming attractions include:

• TMNT (Three, 7.00 Saturday)
• Amazonia (Whakaata Māori, 7.00 Saturday)
• Take Home Pay (Whakaata Māori, 8.30 Saturday)
• The Wedding Singer (TVNZ 2, 8.45 Saturday)
• 300 (Three, 8.45 Saturday)
• Kath & Kimderella (TVNZ 2, 11.40 Saturday)
• August: Osage County (TVNZ 2, 12.20am Sunday)
• Dinosaur Train: Adventure Island (TVNZ 2, 3.50 Sunday)
• Edge of Tomorrow (TVNZ 2, 8.30 Sunday)
• The Town (Eden, 8.30 Sunday)
• The Wonders (Whakaata Māori, 8.40 Sunday)
• Focus (Three, 9.05 Sunday)
• Paranormal Activity 3 (TVNZ 2, 11.40 Sunday)
• Ferris Bueller’s Day Off  (Duke, 8.30 Monday)
• Mister Organ (Whakaata Māori, 8.30 Monday)
• Cliffhanger (Duke, 8.30 Tuesday)
• Nowhere Boy (Whakaata Māori, 8.30 Wednesday)
• The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (Three, 8.00 Friday)
• The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (Sky Open, 9.35 Friday).