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Network Movie Premiere: Knight and Day (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) How’s this for mission impossible: a silly secret agent romp that entertains despite being top-heavy with star power and a screenplay rewritten so often that the difference between it and the original is like night and day. Yes, the title’s dire but, as a classic odd couple caught […]

Scrubs soaps Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice had the ratings sewn up on Monday, when their season premieres won their slots. Grey’s averaged 12.8% – 16.6% of the key demographics, and Practice 8.0% – 12.9%. However, the latter’s viewership slipped sharply over the 9.30 hour, allowing TV3’s HD premiere of Predators, which averaged 5.4% – […]

TV One’s premiere of Missing on Monday held most of its audience over the two hours but was out-rated by TV2’s Desperate Housewives/Revenge combo and TV3’s re-run of Transformers. Missing, which stars Kiwi Cliff Curtis, averaged 5.1%-7.1% of the key demographics compared to Transformers’ 9.0%-9.4%, Housewives’ 11.1%-11.7% and Revenge’s 8.4%-10.3%. But the hour-long episode of Shortland Street […]

Series Premiere: Missing (TV One, 8.30, 5.1) Ashley Judd, Sean Bean and Cliff Curtis star in a new, action packed thriller following an ex-CIA agent’s search for her missing son. “Think The French Connection meets Alias with a big helping of Taylor Lautner’s Abduction,” enthused the New York Post. “This bifurcated character–Mother of the Year meets Jack […]

New Zealand’s definitive free-to-air guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i: Saturday Series premiere: The Bionic Vet (TV One, 5.25) TradeZone Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.30) Hyundai Country Calendar (TV One, 7.00) ITM Fishing Show (TV3, 7.00) Judy Bailey’s Australia (TV One, 8.30) Ice Road Truckers (TV3, 7.30, 5.1) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) Movie: No Country for Old Men […]

Cliff Curtis’ second consecutive TV drama flop, Missing, will debut in HD in the first week of July, along with the NZ version of The Block, Aussie reality newcomer Kings Cross ER and the latest UK whodunit series, Vera. Missing stars Ashley Judd as a former spy who uses her CIA skills to search for […]

Friends (TV2, 6.30, R) Monica experiences the ‘ick’ factor when dating a much younger guy; Phoebe fills in for Chandler’s secretary and discovers that nobody likes him. Missing (TV3, 8.00) A woman wants to know the truth about the father she’s never met — was he a drug runner? Go Girls (TV2, 8.30) Britta fears […]