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NZ’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly free-to-air in 1080i Saturday Trade Zone Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.00) Ados Addicted to Fishing (Prime, 5.00) Wonderful World of Disney: Home on the Range (TV2, 5.30, R) The Goldbergs (TV3, 5.30, 5.1, R) The Middle (TV2, 6.30, 5.1, R) Hyundai Country Calendar (TV1, 7.00) Movie: Captain America: The First Avenger (TV2, 7.00, R) Network Movie Premiere: […]

Prime will screen the new-look Top Gear in HD a week after it premieres in the UK. The revamped series, which Chris Evans and Matt LeBlanc will steer, will air 7.30 Sundays on Prime from June 5. It will precede the HD special, Cameraman to the Queen, and go to air the same week as […]

TV Preview: Keeping Up With the Kaimanawas | TV1, 8.00 Tuesday With a name like Keeping Up With The Kaimanawas, it’s looking likely that this is another reality series. This time though, there’s less botox and more boot hooks as three young women from Northland head to Waiouru for to rescue a whole bunch of wild horses.  […]

TV3’s Monday night premiere of Hamish & Andy’s Gap Year Asia proved a competitive alternative to TV One’s reality half-hours and TV2’s sitcoms. It averaged 6.1% – 7.2% of the major demographics – adults 18-39, 18-49, 25-54, household shoppers with kids – and while it largely finished third, viewership grew over the hour. Among adults […]

TV One’s Monday night HD reality hits Piha Rescue and Rapid Response last night took a tumble in the ratings. Each averaged 7.6% of the network’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, compared to 10.6% for Piha’s premiere two weeks ago and 12.2% for Rapid’s. TV One’s HD crime drama, Criminal Minds, also has slipped, from 11.9% […]

Series premiere: Person of Interest (TV One, 9.30) This police procedural from producer JJ Abrams (Lost) and Dark Knight screenwriter Jonathan Nolan stars The Passion of the Christ’s Jim Caviezel as an ex-CIA agent who teams with an enigmatic millionaire (Lost’sMichael Emerson) to stop crime before it happens using hi-tech tools. Newsday dubbed it “a gritty, almost plausible winner, and distant reflection of Steven Spielberg’s Minority […]