HD Heads-Up: September 7-13

➢➢ TVNZ 1 spring cleans with a slew of post-Paralympics premieres across the week. Four Go Flatting (7.30 Monday), a local newcomer about four young men with intellectual disabilities learning to live independently, is double-billed with The Nevermets (8.30 Monday), a UK series about globally far-flung lovebirds who turn their virtual romance into reality when they meet face-to-face for the first time (“less exploitative than deeply odd,” said The Observer) …

➢➢ Turbulence: How Safe Is Your Flight (7.30 Tuesday) is a documentary about the science of turbulence that leads into the S3 premiere of Unbreakable (8.30 Tuesday) while airing overnight is climate change shocker Earth Emergency featuring the usual suspects (12.30am Wednesday) …

➢➢ Dream Home (7.30 Wednesday) is the latest house makeover series, in which six Australian couples compete to have their rundown residences transformed by other couples into the home of their dreams. It leads into For the Love of Dogs With Alison Hammond (9.05 Thursday), a makeover of the late Paul O’Grady series about the Battersea Dogs and Cats Home that The Guardian said “gets all the tails wagging” …

➢➢ Katie Price’s Mucky Mansions (9.30 Friday) is a 2022 supermodel’s home remodelling show that The Telegraph demolished — although another critic argued it’s “a makeover that’s more than skin-deep” …

➢➢ Three refreshes its schedule with the docuseries The Fall: Skydive Murder Plot (8.00 Monday), the S2 premiere of Love Me (10.55 Tuesday) and Dog Detectives (9.00 Wednesday), a series about police dogs that launches opposite TVNZ 1’s For The Love of Dogs With Alison Hammond …

➢➢ Sky Open premieres reboot ACC Does Game of 2 Halves (8.30 Thursday) and re-runs it 9.00 Friday as part of a new-look weekend line-up that includes: Repair Shop challenger Mend It for Money (7.00), in which Britain’s best restorers rejuvenate unused objects (like a vintage rocking horse, a rare post office bicycle and a chair that’s also a toilet); re-runs of Louis Theroux Interviews … (8.00); and HBO comedies Ballers (9.30), The Baby (10.45) and The Righteous Gemstones (11.25) …

➢➢ New to Whakaata Māori are a season of Outlook for Someday short films, starting with Encore (8.30 Sunday) and Harikoa (8.35 Sunday), and Malaysia’s Last Tigers (8.00 Tuesday) …

➢➢ Returning are Celebrity Treasure Island with a new co-host (TVNZ 2, 7.30 Monday-Wednesday), The UnXplained With William Shatner (Duke, 8.30 Wednesday), Transplant S3 (TVNZ 1, 11.35 Wednesday) and SkyMed S2 (TVNZ 1, 12.30am Thursday) while ending their runs are East Harbour Heroes and Gladiators UK …

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

• US Tennis Open (Duke, 6am Saturday/4am Sunday)
• Farah Palmer Cup: Auckland v Counties (Sky Open, midday Saturday)
• Heartland Championship: South Canterbury vs King Country (Sky Open, 2.30 Saturday)
• NPC: Hawke’s Bay v Tasman (Sky Open, 7.00 Saturday)
• NRL Premiership: Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs v North Queensland (Sky Open, 11.30 Saturday)
• Louis Vuitton Cup Round Robins (Three, midnight Saturday-Sunday)
• 2024 NZSS First XV Rugby Championships (Whakaata Māori, 10.30am/12.40 Sunday)
• Rugby Championship: South Africa v NZ (Sky Open, midnight Friday) …

➢➢ HD coming attractions include:

• Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2 (TVNZ 2, 7.00 Saturday)
• Buckleys Chance (Whakaata Māori, 7.00 Saturday)
• The Mask (Three, 8.05 Saturday)
• Pig (Whakaata Māori, 8.40 Saturday)
• The 40 Year Old Virgin (TVNZ 2, 8.50 Saturday)
• Tag (TVNZ 2, 11.00 Saturday)
• Nobody (TVNZ 2, 1am Sunday)
• Despicable Me 3 (TVNZ 2, 3.45 Sunday)
• Vacation (Three, 8.25 Sunday)
• Legally Blonde 2: Red, White and Blonde (TVNZ 2, 8.20 Sunday)
• Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Eden, 8.30 Sunday)
• The Quiet Girl (Whakaata Māori, 8.40 Sunday)
• Blumhouse’s Fantasy Island (TVNZ 2, 11.05 Sunday)
• Fiona Clark: Unafraid (Whakaata Māori, 8.40 Monday)
• Money Train (Duke, 8.40 Monday)
• Double Jeopardy (Duke, 10.40 Monday)
• The Hunt for Red October (Duke, 8.30 Tuesday).