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➢➢ TVNZ 1 continues to lead the new season charge over summer with the addition of two new UK dramas to its schedule: Trust Me (9.30 Saturdays from January 11) and Deep Water (8.30 Mondays from January 13). Both series can be streamed OnDemand. TVNZ 1 also will use live coverage of the T20 Black Clash on January 17 […]

Deep Water | TVNZ OnDemand, from Thursday ☆☆☆☆ “Adapted from the novels of Paula Daly by Mrs Wilson’s Ann Symons, Deep Water’s observations on class insecurity and sex are acute and a pivotal dinner party is truly cringe-making, even as implausibilities mount up a little too conveniently … The performances, though, are up to snuff, […]

A new BBC comedy that The Guardian hailed as a “darkly comic gem” will premiere next month on TVNZ OnDemand, along with an Anna Friel thriller about three very different women whose lives connect at the school gate. Back to Life stars Episodes’ Miri Matteson as an ex-con who returns home to a town she […]

Deep Water | TVNZ OnDemand, from Wednesday ➢➢ “Deep Water, a four-part detective drama that is essentially Home and Away meets The Killing. Set in present day Bondi Beach, the events that unfold are inspired by the spate of real-life hate murders that are a stain on Sydney. During the 1970s and 1980s scores of […]

  ➢➢ Not surprisingly, Three is demoting Humans to late-night after weeks of low ratings. The Channel 4 sci-fi series will air after the network’s Sunday movies starting this weekend. Replacing it 9.30 on Mondays will be repeats of Killer Women with Piers Morgan. Three also is pulling its Speed season. The 1994 original was meant […]