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Grand Hotel | TVNZ OnDemand, from Monday ☆☆☆☆ “The first episode of ABC’s Grand Hotel is startlingly good. It’s glamorous, sexy and mysterious. In the first few minutes, a terrible storm hits Miami, sending the staff and guests at the fabulous Riviera Hotel scurrying for cover; it’s also the perfect cover for a crime when […]

Antony Starr fans can binge on Banshee next month on Sky Box Sets, which also will premiere season four of Jane the Virgin and apocalyptic grindhouse romp Blood Drive. About a cross-country death race with a car that runs on human blood, IndieWire reckons Blood Drive is more than a “Death Race 2000 riff”: There’s a […]

Next month Sky Box Sets will premiere an acclaimed Canadian drama series about drug-trafficking Mennonites and season three of Jane the Virgin. The six-episode Pure, which will screen October 26, was inspired by a true story about a Mennonite pastor who discovers hell hath no fury like a Mexican cartel that’s using his North American […]

New Zealand’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly free-to-air in 1080i Saturday The ITM Fishing Show (TV1, 5.00)  Wonderful World of Disney: Mulan (TV2, 5.20, R) Newshub Live at 6pm (TV3, 6.00) Rio 2016 Kiwi Highlights (Prime, 6.00)  Hyundai Country Calendar (TV1, 7.00) Movie: Green Lantern (TV2, 7.00, R) Movie: Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (TV3, 7.00, R) Tonight at the London Palladium (TV1, 7.30)  […]

Full steam ahead for The Big Yin … D’oh! Mythbusters to expose Simpsons stunts … Country Calendar goes film noir … Jane the Virgin fit for late-night? Billy Connolly’s Tracks Across America, in which The Big Yin explores the US via the American Rail Network, will screen 8.30 Saturdays on TV One from August 20. Quipped The […]