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Signalling Sky’s new-found ambitions for Prime, the free-to-air channel will strip the final season of Game of Thrones in primetime from May 12. The first five episodes will air 9.30 nightly, culminating in the sixth and final episode on May 20 — the same day it screens globally. This is an unprecedented move for Sky/Prime, […]

Bull (Prime, 8.30 Thursdays) “Bull is based (rather loosely) on the early career of Phil McGraw, better known as ‘Dr. Phil,’ who became acquainted with Oprah Winfrey while working as a trial consultant. In the CBS drama, Michael Weatherly plays Dr. Jason Bull, a psychologist who works with lawyers by profiling jurors and tweaking trials to his clients’ […]

New Zealand’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly free-to-air in 1080i    Saturday  Series Premiere: Expedition Tiger (TV3, 4.55) Cats Make You Laugh Out Loud 2 (TV2, 5.00, R)  The Simpsons (TV2, 6.00, R) Newshub Live at 6pm (TV3, 6.00)  University Challenge (Prime, 6.00)  The Middle (TV2, 6.30, 5.1, R) The Wonderful World of Gordon Watson (Prime, 6.30, R) Posh Pawn (TV1, 7.00, R)  Movie: The Time Traveler’s […]

  Prime will roll out some of its new-season shows in mid-January, with a busy slate of premieres that includes MacGyver, a Doctor Who spin-off and the first series of The Great British Bake Off to screen here in HD. The MacGyver reboot will air 7.30 Thursdays from January 19, ahead of the series premiere of […]

Prime’s output deal with CBS Studios International looks like landing it with a bumper slate of new series next year. CBS Television Studios is one of the biggest winners of the new TV season in the US, with the networks commissioning nine of its pilots as series. The only production house to win more orders was […]