HD Heads-Up: October 3-9

➢➢ Season two of The Celebrity Traitors UK premieres 7.30 Sunday on Three and continues 7.30 Monday (view trailer). The extra-long debut introduces a strong crop of contestants, from Michael Sheen and Miranda Hart to Julie Hesmondhalgh, Richard E Grant and Ross Kemp. Also venturing forth are Amol Rajan, Bella Ramsey, James Acaster, James Blunt, Jerry Hall, Joanne McNally, Joe Lycett,, King Kenny, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Maya Jama, Myha’la, Professor Hannah Fry, Rob Beckett, Romesh Ranganathan, Sebastian Croft and Sharon Rooney. The BBC hit airs Thursdays and Fridays in the UK, so Three viewers will be only a couple of days behind if they don’t stream it a day earlier on ThreeNow (where The Traitors US also streams). A bonus show called Traitor or Faithful? Claudia Decides, which reveals how Claudia Winkelman chose this season’s intake, may also screen but that’s still to be confirmed …

➢➢ Jack Tame moderates the first of this election’s live network TV debates, 1News Leaders Debate (TVNZ 1, 7.00 Tuesday) — 24 hours ahead of NZ Herald Future of NZ Debate (Three, 7.00 Wednesday), which features business leaders, academics and politicians discussing AI, technology and other key issues …

➢➢ The Summer I Turned Pretty (TVNZ 2, 10.40 Friday) is a young adult love-triangle drama that ran for three seasons on Prime Video. It also was a critical darling: “Well written and distinctly tender in places” (Sydney Morning Herald); “solid coming-of-ager wrapped in a not-so-good romance” (The Hollywood Reporter); “strong female characters and a beautiful setting” (Decider) …

➢➢ Sylvester Stallone, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Andrew Garfield and 50 Cent guest on Friday’s The Graham Norton Show (TVNZ 2, 7.30 Friday), with music from Blossoms …

➢➢ As well as more of Croc Watch and Hippo Watch With Steve Backshall (7.30 Monday), Sky Open premieres Channel 5 traffic cops show Biker Cops (8.30 Tuesday), brutal 1066-and-all-that drama King & Conqueror (11.30 Tuesday), and The World’s Biggest Curry Restaurant (8.30 Wednesday), an observational documentary about the Stockport Pyramid …

➢➢ Ending their runs are:

• One for the Roadie
• Crime Scene Cleaners  
• The Way Out
• George Clarke’s Adventures in Americana 
• The Hundred With Andy Lee
• The Big Fat Quiz Best Bits
• 99 to Beat UK
• Ice Road Truckers …

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

• NPC Rugby: Manawatū v Canterbury (TVNZ 1, 2.00 Saturday)
• NPC Rugby: Waikato v Tasman (TVNZ 1, 7.00 Saturday)
• UFC Fight Night: Prelim Fights for UFC 332 (Duke, midday Sunday)
• NPC Rugby: Taranaki v Wellington (TVNZ 1, 2.00 Sunday)
• NFL (Duke, 6am Monday) …

➢➢ HD coming attractions include the network movie premiere of Saltburn (TVNZ 2, 10.15 Saturday), The Wind & the Reckoning (Whakaata Māori, 8.45 Sunday) and:

• Men in Black: International (TVNZ 2, 7.00 Saturday)
• Scoob! (Three, 7.00 Saturday)
• The Da Vinci Code (Sky Open, 7.30 Saturday)
• My Fairy Troublemaker (Whakaata Māori, 7.30 Saturday)
• The Bounty Hunter (Three, 8.50 Saturday)
• The Matrix Reloaded (Whakaata Māori, 9.00 Saturday)
• Money Monster (Sky Open, 10.15 Saturday)
• Gone in the Night (TVNZ 2, 12.50am Sunday)
• Minions: The Rise of Gru (TVNZ 2, 3.15 Sunday)
• Jumper (Three, 9.00 Sunday)
• Saw 3 (TVNZ 2, 12.50am Monday)
• Bones of Our Past (Whakaata Māori, 8.30 Monday)
• The Dukes of Hazzard (Duke, 9.40 Monday)
• The Dark Tower (Duke, 8.30 Tuesday)
• Swimming With Men (Sky Open, 7.30 Friday)
• Valiant (Whakaata Māori, 7.45 Friday)
• Promising Young Woman (Whakaata Māori, 9.15 Friday).