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   Here are the US series that won’t be coming back to an HD network or streaming service near you. Of course, some seasons have yet to play here but below are the shows that have been axed by their domestic broadcasters. TVNZ 1 The Brave Lucifer Graves TVNZ 2 Quantico The Exorcist Kevin Can […]

TVNZ 2 programmers will be hoping this weekend’s off-peak repeats of The Resident will have improved its sampling for Tuesday’s episode. The network launched the hospital drama with back-to-back episodes on Monday and Tuesday after the top-rating My Kitchen Rules in a bid to bed it in quickly for its permanent post-MKR Tuesday slot. But […]

For the last few years TVNZ 1 has been trying to find a top-rating successor for its ageing Criminal Minds. But none has rated as well, and season 13 is proving as formidable as its predecessors. Last week’s season premiere didn’t win its slot but did out-rate the first hour of Three’s movie 21 Jump […]

New Zealand’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly free-to-air in 1080i    Saturday  Premiere: Dolphins: Spy in the Pod (TV3, 4.55) Extreme Road Rescue (TV1, 5.00) Ados Addicted to Fishing (Prime, 5.00) Movie: Planes (TVNZ 2, 5.15, R) 1 News at 6pm (TV1, 6.00) Newshub Live at 6pm (TV3, 6.00) Flog It! (Prime, 6.00) Britain’s Got Talent (TV1, 7.00) Movie: Bee Movie (TV2, 7.00, […]

➢ After weeks of Sunday Premiere Movie re-runs, TVNZ 2 at last will offer a “premiere” deserving of the name — Get Hard (June 19, 8.35) — while Three will launch a James Bond season with GoldenEye (June 22, 7.30). Other HD coming attractions that week will include: Planes (TVNZ 2, 5.15 Saturday) Bee Movie (TVNZ 2, 7.00 Saturday) Despicable Me 2 (Three, 7.00 Saturday) Ocean’s […]

Homer meets Leno … Hotel swell in HD … Lucifer hot … Summer dead … TVNZ 2 will resume first-run episodes of The Simpsons from November 20 (8.00 Sundays). The season will open with episode 20 of season 27, which guest stars vintage car buff Jay Leno. S28 started September 25 in the US, which means TVNZ 2 […]

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NZ’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly free-to-air in 1080i Saturday Wonderful World of Disney: Ratatouille (TV2, 4.50, R) The ITM Fishing Show (TV One, 5.00) Trade Zone Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.00) Ados Addicted to Fishing (Prime, 5.00)  The Goldbergs (TV3, 5.30, 5.1, R) Hyundai Country Calendar (TV1, 7.00) Movie: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (TV2, 7.00, R)  Movie: Meet the Fockers (TV3, 7.00, 5.1, R) Britain’s […]

TV One’s run of soulless US dramas will continue with Lucifer’s premiere on June 20.  Starring Rush’s Tom Ellis, it will succeed Castle in the 9.30 Monday slot and is another lighthearted, odd-couple crime procedural with an absurd premise: the Devil shifts to LA and helps a female detective to solve murders. “A light dusting of Milton notwithstanding, […]