HD Heads-Up: September 19-25

September 10, 2026 0 Comments

➢➢ Three’s premiere of Lego Masters Australia: Bricktacular (7.30 Sunday) will square off against TVNZ 2’s Taskmaster UK and the premiere of 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown (8.35). TVNZ 2 is dumping its Sunday movie slot to double-bill the British comedy shows and add at 9.35 season six of Royal Melbourne Hospital reality hit Emergency. S27 of Cats first aired in January 2025 on Channel 4 and opens with Sarah Millican and Josh Widdicombe taking on Alan Carr and Thanyia Moore while The Delightful Sausage join Susie Dent in Dictionary Corner …

➢➢ Bricktacular’s premiere marks the 25th anniversary of The Lord of the Rings’ release by having four teams of previous contestants recreate iconic scenes using forced perspective. Subsequent eps focus on DC Heroes, Bluey, and Jurassic World. The four-part series aired two months ago on Channel Nine …

➢➢ Three at last appears to have exhausted its Graham Norton Show library — only to replace the dated gabfests with a re-run of Wheel of Fortune With Graham Norton Australia (9.30 Thursday), which was made two years ago in the UK with Aussie contestants …

➢➢ In another peculiar programming move, Three is re-running S1 of FBI late-night Saturdays and Sundays ahead of new S8 eps on Monday nights. They’re not strictly repeats, as they originally aired on Sky Open, but amount to the same given the two channels are now part of the Sky stable …

➢➢ Betrayal (TVNZ 1, 10.15 Saturday) stars Endeavour’s Shaun Evans as an MI5 agent at odds with his superiors as he tries to thwart a security threat, possibly from within, while trying to save his marriage and job. The Telegraph thought it a “tightly scripted modern-day thriller … The plot is workaday, but the performances lift this out of the ordinary.” But The Guardian dismissed it as “drab and downbeat“. Betrayal has been streaming on TVNZ+ since March …

➢➢ Also new is doomsday doco DNZ: Meet the Preppers (TVNZ 1, 8.30 Monday) while ending their runs are: