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Spectacular ratings for the NZ’s Got Talent finale barely breathed new life into the dead-on-arrival whodunit, Vera. TV One premiered Vera to dismal Friday night ratings mid-year and clearly hoped a bonanza audience for Talent would help to relaunch the Brenda Blethyn mystery series. But whereas Talent averaged 13.3% – 21.4% of the major demographics, […]

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) Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.30) Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook: Simple Pleasures (TV One, 7.00) On the Grill (TV3, 7.00) The Voice (TV2, 7.30) CSI: New York (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) CSI: Miami (TV3 9.30, 5.1) New series: Pan Am (TV One, […]

From Come Dine With Me to come fly with me …  The day after its 2013 new-season launch, TV One at last has announced an ETA for what the network thought would be one of 2012’s high flyers, Pan Am. But the ’60s drama, which will screen 9.35pm Saturdays from November 24 (after Come Dine […]

One of TV One’s HD high-flyers for 2012, Pan Am, heralds an influx of US drama on the network. Others include Alcatraz, which stars Sam Neill in a new Lost-like mystery from JJ Abrams, Unforgettable (ex-detective with “the memory of an elephant” goes back on the beat) and Person of Interest (ex-FBI agent becomes a […]