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Next month Lightbox will debut the US sitcom Single Parents, which stars Taran Killam (How I Met Your Mother), Leighton Meester (Gossip Girl) and Kimrie Lewis (The Mindy Project) as a group of single parents who lean on each other to help raise their young kids and maintain some kind of personal lives outside of parenthood. It […]

The Good Cop | Netflix, from Friday ➢➢ “Josh Groban and Tony Danza make an immediately endearing odd couple in this new series from the quirky mind of Monk creator Andy Breckman. Groban plays nerdy NYPD detective Tony Caruso Jr., a conscientious overachiever who doesn’t drink or swear and endeavours to do everything by the book. Danza […]

NZ’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly on the networks in 1080i Saturday Rheem Outdoors With Geoff (TV3, 5.00) Hyundai Country Calendar (TV1, 7.00) Movie: Zoom (TV2, 7.00, R) MasterChef NZ (TV3, 7.00, R) Motive (TV3, 8.30, 5.1, F) Network Movie Premiere: Here Comes the Boom (TV2, 8.45) Mr Selfridge (TV1, 9.30) SVU (TV3, 9.35, 5.1) Hannibal (TV3, 10.20, 5.1, R) Word Up (TV1, 10.30, R) […]

TV2’s rescuing of its Wednesday comedy block can’t come quick enough after last night’s line-up was thrashed in all the commercial demographics by TV1 and TV3’s. Marry Me averaged only 3.5% – 4.4%, Two and a Half Men 0.7% – 3.5%, Mom 2.2% – 3.7% and Brooklyn Nine-Nine 2.2% – 3.7%. Even before its disastrous […]

TV2 will try to rebuild its Wednesday comedy block with the return of The Big Bang Theory and 2 Broke Girls. They will resume their traditional 8.30 and 9.00 slots from April 8. TV2 has been deploying them as an 8.30 Sunday double-bill to try to bolster lead-out Gotham but that hasn’t worked, with both […]

Brooklyn Nine-Nine: TV2, 9.00 Wednesday Brooklyn Nine Nine is a cop show. It’s set in New York because that’s where you’d set a cop show, especially if you were a producer who’d never had an original idea. (Although, to be fair, that is sort of the industry definition of a producer.) Where BNN differs from […]

New Zealand’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly on the networks in 1080i Saturday Rheem Outdoors With Geoff (TV3, 5.00) The Amazing Race (TV2, 5.30) Special: Neighbours 30th: The Stars Reunite (TV2, 6.30) Along for the Ride (TV1, 7.00) Storage Hunters (TV3, 7.00, 5.1) Ice Road Truckers (TV3, 7.30, 5.1) Movie: Wild Hogs (TV2, 8.05, 5.1, R) CSI (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) Chicago PD (TV3, 9.25, 5.1) […]

Benched is still benched but TV2 isn’t jilting Marry Me. The network’s overhauling its underwhelming Wednesday comedy block by replacing Benched with season two of another comedy that struggled on the same night last year, Brooklyn Nine-Nine. TV2 had been re-running S1 double-eps of the cop comedy 10.30 Wednesday until it demoted Agent Carter to the […]

TV2’s premiere of Resurrection on Wednesday left the competition for dead. Debuting on the back of My Kitchen Rules, the new drama averaged an astonishing 12.8% – 18.4% of the major demographics, and was most popular among household shoppers with kids. But barely a point separated it from MKR (14.8% – 19.0%) in all the […]

New Zealand’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly on the networks in 1080i Saturday Rheem Outdoors With Geoff (TV3, 5.00) ITM Fishing Show (TV One, 5.25) Modern Family (TV3, 5.30, 5.1, R) The Amazing Race (TV2, 6.00) Hyundai Country Calendar (TV One, 7.00) Movie: Hoodwinked (TV2, 7.00, 5.1, R) The Secret Lives of Dancers (TV3, 7.00) Undercover Boss USA (TV One, 8.35) Saturday Murder […]