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Line of Duty | SoHo, 8.30 Sundays ☆☆☆☆ “Jed Mercurio knows a thing or two about what television viewers in Britain like. His series Bodyguard was the highest rated show there (outside of the World Cup) in 2018. And now the fifth season of his Line of Duty is the highest rated British drama of […]

White Dragon (aka Strangers) | SoHo2, 8.30 Wednesday ☆☆☆☆ “So many questions by the end of Strangers, chief among them being, am I really going to watch another seven episodes of this? It’s not that the premise is terrible or the cast bad — John Simm did a heroic job with dialogue that was sometimes […]

Bodyguard | Netflix, from Wednesday ➢➢ “The thriller stars Game of Thrones alumnus Richard Madden as a security officer and military veteran who enters the series with no small amount of trauma and only builds up more scar tissue as it goes. Both juicy in its delving into character psychology and rippingly ready to tear […]

Informer | TVNZ OnDemand, from Wednesday ➢➢ “Paddy Considine stars in a tale of a family caught up in the war on terror. The script is from the newcomers Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvani, and it’s the first TV role for Nabhaan Rizwan, who takes the lead role as a young second-generation Pakistani from east […]

TVNZ isn’t revealing how many streams of Doctor Who there have been since the 11th season launch on-demand on Monday. Its linear broadcast begins tonight (TVNZ 2, 7.30), four days after the first female Time Lord’s debut topped the ratings in the UK. Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor unleashed 8.2 million viewers and a 40.1% share for […]

MeatEater: Season 7 (2/10/2018) Steven Rinella returns for more hunting and cooking expeditions in rugged locales with friends that include the likes of comedian Joe Rogan. Big Mouth: Season 2 (5/10/2018) Carnal urges and teen angst abound as Nick, Andrew and friends pursue new crushes, tangle with the Shame Wizard and sample pot for the […]

As forecast here last week, top-rating BBC thriller Bodyguard will premiere in NZ on Netflix. Deadline reports it will stream the Jed (Line of Duty) Mercurio hit in territories outside the UK and Ireland from October 24 while The Guardian reported overnight that Netflix picked up the rights to Bodyguard before it was filmed but […]

The sensational BBC hit that’s been beating up Vanity Fair in the British ratings will premiere here on Netflix. Netflix hasn’t announced a date for the Jed (Bodies, Line of Duty) Mercurio thriller starring Spooks’ Keeley Hawes but presumably it will be an October highlight, as it will have completed its BBC run by then. […]