HD Heads-Up: September 14-20

➢➢ TVNZ 1 continues its primetime makeover with a mix of NZ and UK premieres, including a Kiwi take on house-hunting hit AA Location Location Location (7.30 Sunday) that leads into the latest season of Rebecca Gibney’s vineyard comedy Under the Vines (8.30). They cap a busy weekend of newcomers that range from Mary Berry Makes It Easy (8.05 Saturday), S5 of The Bay (9.40 Saturday) and S2 of Vigil (10.45 Saturday) to neighbours-from-hell thriller The Couple Next Door (9.30 Sunday), fraudster drama The Following Events are Based on a Pack of Lies (10.35 Sunday) and another run of Secrets of the London Underground (11.50 Sunday). Also returning is National Treasures (7.30 Tuesday) …

➢➢ Returning to TVNZ 2 are the original Taskmaster (8.30 Wednesday), which lands here just days after its UK bow, and Hunted Australia: Million Dollar Heist  (7.30 Thursday), in which the fugitive contestants have to steal their prize money from a bank and try to keep it while on the lam …

➢➢ S3 of Forensics: Catching the Killer (Sky Open, 8.30 Sunday) opens with the 2002 investigation into the murders of 10-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman. Also debuting on Sky Open, following its Whakaata Māori run, is lifestyle show parody Ka Pai Living (9.30 Monday) …

➢➢ Tuesday’s Coronation Street broadcast is being pre-empted by a repeat of Travel Guides, due to a UK scheduling issue …

➢➢ New to Whakaata Māori is Galapagos: Edge of the World (8.00 Tuesday), a series that was shot in 4K. The burb promises “a stunning UHD journey around the islands, getting up close and personal with the creatures that call them home, and exploring the shifting relationship between man and nature in this near-Eden” …

➢➢ Ending their runs are The Victim, Coastguard Search & Rescue, High Speed Chase and The Great Home Transformation …

➢➢ Live/delayed free-to-air sports coverage includes:

• America’s Cup (Three, midnight Saturday-Friday)
• Farah Palmer Cup: Bay of Plenty v Auckland (Sky Open, midday Saturday)
• Heartland Championship: Waikato v Horowhenua (Sky Open, 2.30 Saturday)
• NPC: Waikato v Hawke’s Bay (Sky Open, 7.00 Saturday)
• NFL: San Francisco 49ers v Minnesota Vikings (Duke, 5am Monday) …

➢➢ HD coming attractions include:

• How to Train Your Dragon (TVNZ 2, 7.00 Saturday)
• The Railway Children Return (Whakaata Māori, 7.00 Saturday)
• Green Lantern (Three, 8.00 Saturday)
• Punch (Whakaata Māori, 8.40 Saturday)
• Forgetting Sarah Marshall (TVNZ 2, 8.50 Saturday)
• Voyagers (TVNZ 2, 11.00 Saturday)
• French Exit (TVNZ 2, 1.05am Sunday)
• Minions (TVNZ 2, 3.35 Sunday)
• Hot Pursuit (TVNZ 2, 8.20 Sunday)
• Black Mass (Eden, 8.30 Sunday)
• C.H.I.P.S (Three, 8.35 Sunday)
• Sun Children (Whakaata Māori, 8.45 Saturday)
• The Unholy (TVNZ 2, 11.00 Sunday)
• Beverly Hills Cop (Duke, 8.30 Monday)
• Girls Can’t Surf (Whakaata Māori, 8.30 Monday)
• Eddie Murphy Raw (Duke, 10.30 Monday)
• Clear and Present Danger (Duke, 8.30 Tuesday)
• Five Fingers for Marseilles (Whakaata Māori, 8.30 Wednesday).