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Prime has rescheduled its documentary about the 1981 transTasman underarm bowling incident from February 3 to February 4 and will repeat it 24 hours later. Underarm: The Ball That Changed Cricket will premiere 7.30 on February 4, pre-empting American Pickers, and play again 8.30 on February 5 instead of 1968: The Year That Changed America. […]

➢➢ ‘Tis the season to be weary of free-to-air TV, with a rapidly rising tide of Yuletide specials and movies (mostly re-runs). Kicking off the Christmas countdown will be Coca-Cola Christmas in the Park (Three, 7.00 Saturday), The Undateables at Christmas (TVNZ 2, 9.10 Monday) and Elton John: I’m Still Standing – A Grammy Salute (TVNZ 1, 7.30 Wednesday). The only […]

Valor | Three, 9.25 Tuesday ➢➢ “I’m sure they must have mentioned a single character’s name sometime in Valor, the new CW show about a group of elite military helicopter pilots. But I watched the pilot twice, and then the first part of it again, and all I can come up with is Pretty Square […]

SEAL Team | Prime, 8.30 Friday ➢ “Given that a broadcast show is rarely if ever going to approach the complexity of a show like Homeland, SEAL Team makes a strong effort to bring the human element of the fight against amorphous terrorists to the broadcast audience. And to the show’s credit, the emphasis of the show […]

Prime’s SEAL Team is the first of the US military dramas you can expect to see in primetime this year. It will screen 8.30 Fridays from February 9, ahead of TVNZ 1’s The Brave and Three’s Valor. “SEAL Team makes a strong effort to bring the human element of the fight against amorphous terrorists to the broadcast […]