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TV One is radically overhauling its mid-week line-up after making some baffling programming moves. Gone from primetime Tuesdays and Wednesdays are game show The Chase Australia and the Hollywood re-make of Aussie drama Secrets & Lies. Next week the former will wind up and be replaced by Outback Truckers (7.30 Tuesdays) while the latter will shift to 11pm Wednesdays, to make way […]

TV2’s new hot-off-the-satellite drama Containment (9.30 tonight) has received a cool critical reception in the US. Trade papers were especially tough on the Atlanta-set thriller about a deadly epidemic: “thoroughly uninspired” (Variety); “harrowing, but also tests one’s tolerance of the Conspicuous Non-Coincidental Cough trope” (The Hollywood Reporter); “lacks the thrills and tension that fuel similar end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it shows […]