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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Late Show With Stephen Colbert appearance will screen here on Thursday (Prime, 10.35). She will be on the same show as Murphy Brown’s Candice Bergen and will follow Flight of the Conchords’ appearance two nights earlier and an interview with Hillary Rodham Clinton on Monday (pictured above with the PM). Here’s […]

Next month SoHo will premiere the Flight of the Conchords’ first HBO gig since their series ended in 2009. It will screen within hours of its US debut, at 7.30 on October 7. Flight of the Conchords: Live in London was recorded at Eventim Apollo on July 1 and has the pair performing classics and […]

Curb Your Enthusiasm fans have double-reason to celebrate: HBO has just announced season nine will premiere in October while Sky Box Sets will screen the first four seasons in HD. Season nine of the Larry David hit will debut October 1 in the US and hopefully will slot into SoHo’s Thursday night comedy block the […]

C4 today is being relaunched as Four so it and sister channel TV3 can compete more strategically against TVNZ’s networks. Owner MediaWorks TV is revamping the niche youth music channel into a mainstream entertainment network for 18-49 year-olds – the audience TV3 targeted for 21 years before setting its sights on 25-54 year-olds. But whereas […]

In the first head-to-head HD contest of the new year, last night’s TV One’s season-six premiere of Criminal Minds arrested more 25-54 year-old viewers than TV3’s X2. After 21 years of targeting 18-49 year-olds, TV3 has switched its focus to the older demographic, leaving its traditionally younger audience to the new-look C4, which will relaunch […]

D’oh! Season 13 of The Simpsons has had its NZ Blu-ray and DVD release delayed until possibly December. It was due next month, only a few weeks after its August 24 release in the US (where the next season starts on September 26). Although the 13th season wasn’t telecast in HD, it apparently marked the […]