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TV One has reinstated Justified to its Thursday night line-up after this week’s episode drew its biggest audience yet. Having endured three weeks of low ratings, the network was going to ditch it for Motorway Cops from next week. But it’s deemed the modern western starring Deadwood’s Timothy Olyphant worthy of a longer run after […]

Friends (TV2, 6.30, R) When a fire damages their apartment, Rachel and Phoebe must choose between living temporarily with Joey or Monica; Ross gets into trouble by dating a student. Shortland Street (TV2, 7.00) Lana pushes ahead with her plot; Evan makes a startling discovery; Hunter resorts to ever more desperate measures. Chuck (TV2, 8.30) […]

Eagle vs Shark: TV3, 9.30pm Saturday. This geeky, goofy comedy stars Loren Horsley and Jemaine Clement as looney, lonelyheart losers for whom true love takes a twisted and, for the viewer, increasingly tortuous path. The charm of the leads and Taika Waititi’s (Boy) enterprising direction keep Eagle vs Shark from imploding with idiosyncratic navel-gazing. But […]

TV2 at last will unearth in HD the lively zombie drama, The Walking Dead. In a curious scheduling move, the US cable-TV hit will screen on the back of TV2’s two-hour comedy block, at 9.30pm Wednesdays from July 27. TVNZ made a fuss of just having bought the six-part series at its 2011 new-season launch […]