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TV3 will screen the new Rebecca Gibney hit Wanted within weeks of its Australian premiere. The darkly funny, action-crammed drama will air 8.30 Mondays from March 21, by when Wanted will have just completed its six-week run on the Seven Network. Gibney, who also co-created and co-executive produced the series, plays one of two strangers who […]

Holy HD superheroes! TV2 will launch its latest HD fantasy drama, Arrow, the same week it repeats in HD two Batman movies and a futuristic gaming thriller. Batman Forever will air midday Sunday and The Dark Knight as The Sunday Premiere Movie, ahead of Gamer at 11.40. Arrow will go to air 9.15 Monday before […]

HD isn’t the only new normal on TV3 — it’s also the name of its latest gay parenting sitcom. Not surprisingly, the network is teaming it with Friday night re-runs of Modern Family from March 22. From Glee creator Ryan Murphy, The New Normal stars The Hangover’s Justin Bartha and Girls’ Andrew Rannells as a gay […]

Batman: Sky Movies Greats, 8.30pm Saturday. Michael Keaton’s “winged freak terroriser” was a muddle of motivation — neither Dirty Harry with a cape nor a nocturnal Indiana Jones but an unsatisfactory, unconvincing compromise that betrayed Dark Knight revisionism for Hollywood expediency. Tim Burton’s Gothic spin on the Gotham hero sometimes soars but what should have […]

Martin Scorsese fans can look forward to seeing two of the maestro’s movies in HD next month for the first time on Sky TV. Shutter Island will screen on Sky Movies on February 20 and Casino on Sky Movies Greats a week earlier. Sky Movies will be putting the frighteners on in February with the […]

Holy Hollywood Hype! Claims that Avatar notched up record-breaking Blu-ray sales in its first four days of release in North America have been KAPOWED! by a rival studio. Warner Bros has disputed 20th Century Fox’s assertion that its Batman hit, The Dark Knight, sold only 2.5 million copies on Blu-ray, compared to Avatar’s 2.7 million. […]