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60 Minutes fans can enjoy two hours of their favourite newsmag this weekend when Prime airs two editions on Sunday night at 9.40 and 11.40. Both programmes aired in October on CBS but Prime isn’t trying to catch up to the US — it’s simply compensating for 60 Minutes not airing last Sunday. In the first broadcast, […]

On this weekend’s Sunday (TVNZ 1, 7.30): Matt Chisholm (above) reports on the close-knit Māori community on Matakana Island that last year had their way of life torn apart, leaving the 200 residents reeling. New episodes of Family Guy (Duke, 8.30 Mondays) will be replaced by season nine re-runs over the next two weeks. Nick Rado, […]

With Monday’s launch of Champions Cup Revue, Spark Sport promises rugby fans access to the very best of European rugby. The new anaylsis show, hosted by Spark Sport commentator Scotty Stevenson and four-time Champions Cup winner, Isa Nacewa, will pull together the best action from every round of the Champions Cup as well as exclusive insights from […]

TVNZ 2 has blinked first and pulled Sunday’s network movie premiere of Kingsman: The Golden Circle because it would have clashed with Three’s repeat of Kingsman: The Secret Service. The sequel will now air next weekend; screening instead will be a repeat of Bad Moms. But the pre-emption interrupts a run of Sunday movie premieres […]

The cancellation of the NZ vs Italy Rugby World Cup game means Saturday’s 1 News at 6pm will screen as normal while airing from 7.00-8.30 on TVNZ 1 will be RWC 2019: The Story So Far, a look back at the best of the tournament. The network also will add an episode of Dinner Date […]

TVNZ 2 is replacing season four of Naked Attraction, which was to have premiered on October 11, with The Sex Clinic, which TVNZ OnDemand has streamed. Reads the blurb: “In this series, a team of sexual health experts aim to cut through the taboos about young people’s sexual health – offering a full sexual exam to […]

TVNZ 2 is pulling the new season of The Undateables from its October 10 slot. It will be replaced by The Best of Travel Guides Australia. No word on when season nine of The Undateables, which aired this time last year in the UK, will resurface. Kiwi Rose Matafeo will appear in the October 10 broadcast […]

TVNZ 1’s Sunday Theatre premiere of By the Balls dominated play in its first hour among 25-54 year-olds but then was outclassed by Three’s network movie premiere of Transformers: The Last Knight. Balls averaged 4.3% of 25-54s, thanks to an unbeatable lead-in from Hyundai Country Calendar (8.5%) and Sunday (7.2%). Despite Stuff arguing the documentary […]

On this weekend’s Sunday (TVNZ 1, 7.30): All Blacks captain Richie McCaw hit rock bottom in 2007 after losing the Rugby World Cup. Facing self-doubt, vulnerabilities and learning how to perform under pressure, Richie credits Dr Ceri Evans with teaching him the tools he needed to change his mindset. Ceri shows us all how we can […]

SoHo has amended its scheduling of two 9/11 documentaries, In the Shadow of The Towers: Stuyvesant High on 9/11 and What Happened on September 11. They were due to air here on September 11 but now will screen September 12 — effectively the same commemorative day they bow on HBO. Attention train spotters: TVNZ 1 is switching […]