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New Zealand’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly free-to-air in 1080i    Saturday  The Hunt (TV3, 5.00, R) Ultimate Fishing With Matt Watson (TV1, 5.00) Ados Addicted to Fishing (Prime, 5.00) Newshub Live at 6pm (TV3, 6.00)  The Simpsons (TV2, 6.05, R) The Middle (TV2, 6.30, 5.1, R) Outback Pilots (TV1, 7.00) Network Movie Premiere: Annie (TV2, 7.00) Network Movie Premiere: How to Train Your Dragon […]

TVNZ will stream season three of iZombie from April 5 even before season two has been scheduled on TVNZ 2. And while the TVNZ OnDemand streams will be “express from the US”, TVNZ 2 doesn’t even have a schedule date for the earlier season. Given it’s repeated S1, this is frustrating for fans of the […]

TVNZ Ondemand will not be fast-tracking Roots here ahead of its TV One premiere in July. The miniseries re-make goes to air today in the US and Asia, where it will air on four consecutive nights on the History Channel, and will screen in most territories in June. But NZ and Australian networks appear to […]

What should have been the week’s best release on Blu-ray, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, has been delayed until November because of censor classification issues. The same problem also has pushed back this month’s cult collectibles The Bird With the Crystal Plumage and Black Sunday to October while logistical snags have held up the release […]

TV1 is yanking HD drama Aquarius from primetime and replacing it with new SD episodes of Autopsy. The rescheduling is effective from August 18, when the last four episodes will air 11pm Tuesday in the Perception slot; the latter will replace The Missing at midnight. The only surprise about the move is why it’s taken so long given the […]

TV1’s Aquarius has been renewed for a second season but it’s not likely to return here in primetime. The first season is struggling 9.30 Tuesdays, where episode three failed to rate above 2.6% of the channel’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds. It averaged 1.3% – 2.2% of the other commercial demographics off the back of another […]

TV3’s new nightly current affairs show Story will screen in HD — but not at first. When the Campbell Live successor goes to air in six weeks’ time it will be in SD. But MediaWorks is working towards upgrading all of its news and current affairs output to HD later this year. It’a a pity the infrastructure […]

TV1’s new flower power crime drama Aquarius rated well with baby boomers but otherwise was beaten by TV2’s Grey’s Anatomy and TV3’s NCIS: Los Angeles. Aquarius won the 9.30 hour on Tuesday with 40-64 year-olds (6.5%) and averaged 2.2% – 4.8% of the core commercial demographics. It also was the most watched hour among TV1’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, […]

TV Preview: Aquarius | TV1, 9.30 Tuesday Ah, 1967 – hippies, flower power, love and incense in the air, and tie-dye T-shirts everywhere else. Aquarius is set in those heady (chuckle) times when everyone is tuning in, turning on and dropping out, apart from Charlie Manson, who’s plotting world domination. And fair enough because the […]

TV1 will use the final season of The Mentalist to launch a new David Duchovny drama that’s just gone to air in the US. Aquarius will air 9.30 Tuesdays from June 16, only two-and-a-half weeks after the US and off the back of season seven of The Mentalist, which TVNZ’s already screened on-demand. It stars Duchovny as […]