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SMILF | SoHo, 9.30 Thursdays ➢ “SMILF certainly has no shortage of ideas. The new comedy delves into a whole host of topics: the ways in which women are objectified, what it’s like to struggle with issues relating to food, how challenging the life of a single mom can be, how demoralising it can be to […]

New Zealand’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly free-to-air in 1080i    Saturday  Grand Designs NZ (TV3, 4.55, R) Chasing Monsters (TV1, 5.00) Series Premiere: Cupcake Wars (TV2, 5.00) Black-ish (TV2, 6.00, 5.1, R) Newshub Live at 6pm (TV3, 6.00)  University Challenge (Prime, 6.00)  MasterChef USA (Prime, 6.30) Hyundai Country Calendar (TV1, 7.00) Wonderful World of Disney: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (TV2, […]

Humans joins Blacklist … Rocky reviews … New night shift for Nurse Jackie … TV3 will screen season two of Humans the same week as the UK. It will premiere on October 31 at 8.35, on a double-bill with season four of The Blacklist. The TV3 broadcast will will air within 24 hours of Channel 4’s, […]

Lightbox is celebrating Christmas with a slew of initiatives, including a new programming deal with CBS Studios International. The premium library titles range from Deadwood, Dexter and Nurse Jackie to fare that has never aired here in HD, including House of Lies, which MediaWorks wasted on Four, and the terrific high stakes Boston crime drama […]

Good news for Nurse Jackie fans frustrated by the latest season airing in SD on Four: you’ll soon be able to view it in HD on Quickflix. The streaming service has done a deal with Lionsgate Television International that adds not only the hospital comedy to its inventory but also Mad Men, Weeds, Nashville and Orange […]

The next season of Dexter, which SoHo will debut in July, will be the last. It goes to air June 30 in the US, several months earlier than normal, and will be preceded by season seven’s release on Blu-ray. But whereas fans probably will see season eight within days of the US, there will be […]

It looks like “Good night, nurse’” for Jackie after Monday’s final episode sunk to a season (if not series) low. The double-episode send-off averaged a sickly 1.0% – 3.6% of the major demographics, and rated only 1.6% of TV3’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds. This was off the back of 3.9% – 7.8% — and 25-54 […]

NZ’s definitive free-to-air guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i on the networks:   Saturday NZ’s Got Talent (TV One, 4.55, R, F) Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.30) Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook: Simple Pleasures (TV One, 7.00) On the Grill (TV3, 7.00, F) The Voice (TV2, 7.30) New season: Ice Road Truckers (TV3, 7.30, 5.1) CSI: New York (TV3, 8.30, […]

Is Homeland, which continues tonight (TV3, 8.35), on the verge of blowing itself up? That’s the question The Hollywood Reporter posed after last week’s episode. “Homeland Red Flags: Will It Crash and Burn or Soar to Greatness?” was the headline for critic Tim Goodman’s review. He went on to argue “several plot developments threaten to […]

New Zealand’s definitive free-to-air guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i: Saturday NZ’s Got Talent (TV One, 4.55, R) Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.30) Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook: Simple Pleasures (TV One, 7.00) On the Grill (TV3, 7.00) CSI: New York (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) CSI: Miami (TV3 9.30, 5.1) Homeland (TV3, 10.30, 5.1, R) Sunday The Fresh Prince of Bel Air (TV2, […]