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Saturday Babe (TVNZ 2, 7.00) Ozzy (Maori TV, 7.00) Born Racer (Three, 8.25) Body Snatchers (Duke, 8.30) Jerry Maguire (TVNZ 2, 8.40) The Kid with a Bike (Maori TV, 8.40) Deadly Love Letter (Three, 10.30) Phone Booth (TVNZ 2, 11.10)   Sunday Secrets in Their Eyes (TVNZ 2, 12.40am) Fantastic Beasts – The Crimes of Grindelwald (TVNZ 2, […]

TVNZ 1’s Tokyo Olympics coverage continues to top the ratings, leaving TVNZ 2 and Three to battle it out for second place. On Wednesday, the two were neck-and-neck in the 25-54 year-old stakes, with Three’s The Block NZ and TVNZ 2’s MasterChef Australia each averaging 4.2% of this core commercial demographic. At 8.30, TVNZ 2’s […]

A race-against-time thriller about a dying assassin who has only 24 hours left in which to wreak vengeance will stream on Netflix from September 10. Kate stars Mary Elizabeth Winstead (The Huntress in Birds of Prey) as the titular heroine, a finely tuned assassin, and Woody Harrelson as her handler, under the direction of Cedric […]

➢➢ TVNZ 1 will exit the Tokyo Olympics with what it hopes will be a winning weekend of NZ and UK drama. On Saturday nights, from August 14, it will double-bill Anne Boleyn and It’s a Sin and on Sundays, from August 15, season two of One Lane Bridge and newcomer The Panthers. It’s a […]

TVNZ Duke will screen the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games 13 hours a day from August 24-September 5. The coverage will upend the channel’s daily schedule from midday to around 1am while TVNZ 1 will screen highlights. Here’s the media release: TVNZ Brings New Zealanders Extensive Coverage of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games Coverage on TVNZ […]

Season two of Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Short Circuit Experimental Films started streaming today on Disney+ while three new hand-drawn Goofy cartoons will debut next Wednesday. The new selection of short films by filmmakers  from various departments throughout Disney Animation explores five unique visual and storytelling styles: Dinosaur Barbarian Directed by Kim Hazel Battling evil is […]

Disney+ will premiere its Doogie Howser M.D. spin-off Doogie Kamealoha, M.D. on September 8, with new episodes streaming weekly. The coming-of-age dramedy set in Hawaii was inspired by the Neil Patrick Harris ’80s hit  and is named after Lahela “Doogie” Kamealoha, a 16-year-old prodigy juggling a budding medical career and her life as a teenager. Reads […]

The return of The Undateables didn’t make TVNZ 2 unbeatable on Monday as TVNZ 1’s top-rating Tokyo Games run continued. But it did top Three’s 9-1-1 in the core commercial demographics, averaging 4.1% of 25-54 year-olds and 3.6% of 18-49s — which was up sharply on the previous week’s Wife Swap (2.8% / 2.4%). Week-on-week the season […]

Overnight Amazon Prime Video revealed it would stream season one episodes of its Lord of the Rings prequel weekly from 2 September 2022 and released its first still from the NZ-based production. Filming wrapped yesterday of the “epic drama” that’s been shooting here since February 2020, subject to COVID-19 interruptions. It’s set in the Second […]

While speculation mounts on who will be in the next season of Dancing With the Stars, TVNZ has revealed the last batch of contestants bound for Celebrity Treasure Island includes former Bachelor star Art Green. Here’s the media release: FINAL CELEBRITY TREASURE ISLAND CASTAWAYS REVEALED! The final five castaways joining TVNZ 2’s Celebrity Treasure Island have […]