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TV2 will be rolling out an HD heavyweight to battle TV3’s The X-Factor USA in its first week on air. Simon Cowell’s anticipated talent quest hit will screen in two-hour instalments 7.30pm Thursdays and Fridays from September 22. TV3 doesn’t yet know if X or its Thursday stablemate, Rove LA, will air in HD, as it’s […]

The Hoax: Sky Movies, 8.30pm Saturday. One of Richard Gere’s better movies also is one of his most obscure – despite being directed by Lasse Hallstrom (My Life as a Dog, Cider House Rules, Chocolat). He plays a charming scribe who convinces everyone he’s Howard Hughes’ authorised biographer. As Entertainment Weekly observed: “Gere is terrific […]