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Prime is abruptly changing its Thursday night line-up to screen live National Basketball League games. The changeover occurs tomorrow at 7.30, when the Jets will square off against The Rangers. The new weekly NBL slot is being sponsored by Sal’s pizza chain and is the first sign of new Sky chief executive Martin Stewart’s influence […]

   ➢ Good Friday highlights on the free-to-air networks will include two Peter Jackson blockbusters going head-to-head: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies on Three (7.30) and King Kong on Prime (8.00). Both will be pitted against against TVNZ 1’s SD repeat of Calendar Girls (7.00) and TVNZ 2’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory […]

The networks have lined up a raft of free-to-air movie premieres for the week starting February 25 but the most recent is being buried late-night. TVNZ 2 will screen Johnny Depp’s 2015 bomb, Mortdecai, at 11.45 on February 25. The same weekend it will premiere the obscure Melissa McCarthy-Susan Sarandon vehicle, Tammy (8.45 Sunday), and the horror, Annabelle […]