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Monday’s network HD premiere of Avatar helped TV3 to win the night but didn’t demolish the competition. It averaged 10.1% of TV3’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, versus 9.3% for TV One’s Criminal Minds and 7.3% for TV2’s SD movie, Sweet Home Alabama. With TV2’s core viewership, 18-39 year-olds, the race was much tighter: Avatar averaged […]

 Sky Movies Premiere: Megamind (Sky 20, 4.35, 5.1) What would happen if Lois Lane fell for Lex Luthor after Clark Kent hung up his cape? That’s largely the premise of this rollicking, fate-versus-free will superhero ‘toon, which explores an arch villain’s dilemma of being the world’s only super power. What would be the fun in that? Plenty, […]

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 […]