ScreenScribe

It’s a big country, sport, and Saturday’s free-to-air HD premiere of Australia proved to be an even bigger movie for TV3. It helped the network to win its first night of the new season after a week of big-gun disappointments, with such HD newcomers as Hawaii Five-O and An Idiot Abroad failing to fire. But […]

Coasters (TV One, 7.00) Al Brown’s in Doubtful Sound, where he catches a cray or two, searches for bottlenose dolphins and visits Fordland’s crested penguins on his journey from the Tasman Sea to Deep Cove. Movie: Australia (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) In this story set in northern Australia before WWII, an English aristocrat inherits a sprawling […]

Australia: TV3, 8.30pm Saturday. Crikey! You’ll want to go walkabout long before this three-hour frontier folly ends – unless you’ve a bent for melodramatic drivel that’s more farcical than fabulous. Nicole Kidman plays a headstrong aristocrat who, to stave off financial ruin and stop an Aboriginal boy from becoming one of the “stolen generation”, tries […]

In the second official week of the new TV season, starting February 12, the 1080i content gap between TV2 and TV3 again will widen after TVNZ started the year with a big hike in HD hours. Next week, fewer than two hours will separate the rivals but in the following week TV3 will pull well […]