Schedule Watch: May 5

May 5, 2019 0 Comments

The casts of Veep and The Big Bang Theory will make Prime’s The Late Show With Stephen Colbert worth sitting up for over the next two weeks.

Both series are are into their final seasons on SoHo2 and TVNZ 2 respectively.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus & co will take over Colbert’s set on Friday while TBBT crew will appear a week later, a couple of hours after their last episode airs here (TVNZ 2, 7.30).

Here are the full line-ups:

Monday: Craig Fergusson, Ronda Rousey, Bear Grylls.
Tuesday: Common, Rachel Dratch, Maren Morris
Wednesday: Anne Hathaway, Ari Melber
Thursday: Bryan Cranston, RuPaul.
Friday: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Anna Chlumsky, Tony Hale, Reid Scott, Timothy Simons, Matt Walsh, Kevin Dunn, Gary Cole, Sam Richardson, Sarah Sutherland, Clea DuVall.
May 13: Keanu Reeves, Santino Fontana.
May 17: Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons, Kaley Cuoco, Simon Helberg, Kunal Nayyar, Mayim Bialik, Melissa Rauch.

And booked for TVNZ 1’s The Ellen DeGeneres Show are:

Monday: Blake Shelton.
Tuesday: Diane Keaton.
Wednesday: Kenan Thompson.
Thursday: Julie Bowan,
Friday: Jake Gyllenhaal, Henry Winkler.
May 13: Jason Momoa.
May 14: George Clooney, Willa Amai.
May 15: Kris Jenner.

Here are the guests for this week’s Real Time With Bill Maher (SoHo2, 9.30 Sunday):

Maher’s targets this week include Attorney General William Barr, the Washington showdown over the Mueller report and, of course, his bete noire: “Democrats don’t seem to get it. You know, ‘It’s in the rules,’ is not an argument that works on Donald Trump. You’re playing Monopoly with a hyena.”

Prime’s 11th hour decision to strip Game of Thrones’ final season from May 11 will pre-empt 60 Minutes, The Neighborhood, Happy Together, Can’t Pay? We’ll Take It Away and Ross Kemp: Extreme World.

Duke has replaced Monday’s night’s 9.25 double-episode of South Park with a new episode of The Orville.

Monday’s Fair Go (TVNZ 1, 7.30) exposes a hoax involving Breakfast’s Hayley Holt and pursues a “ratbag roofer”.

Tonight’s Sunday (TVNZ 1, 7.30) investigates the unregulated world of DIY sperm donation, tracks down down the country’s biggest donor and interviews the women who’ve had his babies and who want him to stop.

Three is adding an 11.25 repeat of Entertainment Tonight on Wednesday following its dropping of Hawaii Five-O.