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Sunday’s sensational true-crime dramatisation, Siege, deservedly won its slot, averaging 8.7%-13.3% of the major demographics. Why TV One didn’t launch its NZ Sunday Theatre season with this compelling account of gunman Jan Molenaar’s three-day siege in Napier three years ago is puzzling given it was far superior to last week’s Safe House. Siege was from […]

Series Premiere: Planet Dinosaur (TV One, 7.00) “This six-part series, narrated by John Hurt, is the most expensive and ambitious monsterfest since Walking with Dinosaurs, and it showcases these newly discovered beasts in all their snarling, thumping, flesh-tearing CGI glory,” said The Times. “Before the latest bone fragments were found, the biggest beast on the block was Tyrannosaurus rex, […]

TV One at last is getting with the HD programme and will roll out six new series in 1080i starting the week of June 16. The same week it will screen another movie-length NZ drama in HD and resume thrice-weekly screenings of Coronation Street, albeit still in SD. The pick of the new shows is […]