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Under the Grill (TV3, 4.00, R) ✫✫ Sean test potential head chefs and on-going construction delays bringing the project to breaking point. Coasters (TV One, 4.55, R) ✫✫✫✫ Al Brown’s in Doubtful Sound, where he catches crayfish, searches for bottlenose dolphins and sees Fiordland crested penguins on his journey from the Tasman Sea to Deep Cove. Best […]

TV3’s Outrageous Fortune replacement, the HD conspiracy thriller, The Event, last night won its slot with the audience the network is targeting in 2011: 25-54 year-olds. It averaged 10.7% of this demo over the course of its hour-long premiere, opening with 10.6% and closing with an unusually consistent 10.5%, peaking at 10.9% in-between. But in […]

The next couple of weeks will see a slew of local shows debut in HD as well as an epic conspiracy serial that’s likely to be summer’s most compulsive drama. TV3 is replacing Outrageous Fortune, from November 16, with The Event, a riveting thriller that’s like 24 meets FlashForward, only more coherent than the latter […]

At least two of the dramas scheduled for the new season of Sunday Theatre will screen in HD. TV One resumes its premium drama slot from 8.30pm Sunday with the re-make of Bouquet of Barbed Wire. It premiered last week in the UK — in HD and as a three-part, hour-long drama. Unfortunately, we’re getting […]