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The cancellation of the NZ vs Italy Rugby World Cup game means Saturday’s 1 News at 6pm will screen as normal while airing from 7.00-8.30 on TVNZ 1 will be RWC 2019: The Story So Far, a look back at the best of the tournament. The network also will add an episode of Dinner Date […]

TVNZ 2 is replacing season four of Naked Attraction, which was to have premiered on October 11, with The Sex Clinic, which TVNZ OnDemand has streamed. Reads the blurb: “In this series, a team of sexual health experts aim to cut through the taboos about young people’s sexual health – offering a full sexual exam to […]

TVNZ 2 is pulling the new season of The Undateables from its October 10 slot. It will be replaced by The Best of Travel Guides Australia. No word on when season nine of The Undateables, which aired this time last year in the UK, will resurface. Kiwi Rose Matafeo will appear in the October 10 broadcast […]

There’s a new billing for Wednesday’s Grand Designs NZ (Three, 7.30): Musicians Justine and Marc swap their Auckland home for the mountains of Central Otago, where they risk all by adapting an American design they found online for the Southern Hemisphere. On this weekend’s Sunday (TVNZ 1, 7.30): New Zealand is in the middle of a measles […]

Sky has announced scheduling changes for next month’s movies. Ghostland has been removed from Sky Movies Premiere and will screen on Sky Movies Extra as Incident in a Ghostland. And replacing Cleaning’ Up the Town: Remembering Ghostbusters (SME, October 8) will be Maria by Callas. Sky Sport will introduce to its test rugby coverage the […]

  On this weekend’s Sunday (TVNZ 1, 7.30), ahead of Three’s Jonah premiere, John Campbell goes inside the Manu Samoa camp, as they prepare for the Rugby World Cup, to explore the increasingly popular choice of Pasifika players leaving their home nations for European contracts. Three isn’t holding back on its hyperbole in hailing Jonah (8.30 Sunday […]

Returning Sunday is 60 Minutes (Prime, 10.30): Scott Pelley speaks with Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell about the US economy and Jon Wertheim reports on the Golden State Warriors, who are trying for their third straight NBA Championship. Unfortunately, both items are two months out of date. The Pelley interview aired June 2 on CBS and the […]

TVNZ 2 will premiere Celebrity Treasure Island on August 18 (7.00 Sundays). Olympic champions Barbara Kendall and Eric Murray are the final celebrities to join fellow competitors Athena Angelou, Barbara Kendall, Eric Murray, Gary Freeman, Jodie Rimmer, Karl Burnett, Ladi6, Lana Van Hout, Lily McManus, Matty McLean, Moses Mackay, Rosanna Arkle, Sam Wallace, Shane Cameron, Shannon Ryan […]

Prime will screen live overnight coverage of the showdown between the Silver Ferns and Australia, in the final of the Vitality Netball World Cup 2019 in Liverpool, from 3.15am tomorrow. Replays of both the Bronze Medal Match and the final will screen 7am and 9am tomorrow respectively. On tonight’s 60 Minutes (Prime, 10.00), Bill Whitaker interviews […]

The Queen’s granddaughter Zara Tindall and husband Mike go head-to-head in a royal showdown on Sunday’s Top Gear when they compete to go fastest in a red Toyota GT86 coupé (Duke, 8.30). Also, the team sets out to turn an old hearse into the ultimate family car and test the lightweight Dallara Stradale. Cars UK reports the latest series […]