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TVNZ OnDemand will premiere the latest attempt to adapt Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 to the screen on May 18. Mike Nichols’ 1970 movie was a flop and Richard Dreyfus failed to spawn a series from a 1973 pilot commissioned off the back of M*A*S*H’s success. The six-hour series, which George Clooney produced, directed and stars in, […]

Netflix has picked up the international rights for a big-budget fantasy series being made in Auckland that will screen here first on TVNZ. The Legend of Monkey is a live-action show that will premiere globally next year. Inspired by the 16th Century Chinese fable Journey to the West, the 10-part half hour series follows a teenage girl and a trio […]

TV2 will launch a Sunday night family movie season with the network movie premiere of Maleficent on July 10 at 7.00. Oddly, it’s being double-billed with a 13-year-old re-run, View From the Top, which will start at 8.50, with both movies overlapping TV3’s top-rating Westside. Other coming attractions in HD for the week starting July 9 include: Meet the […]

TV2 is radically rescheduling the latest seasons of Once Upon a Time and The Vampire Diaries. The former will air Saturday afternoons from July 2 and the latter will be stripped post-11pm Monday-Thursday from July 4. It’s not surprising to see the fairy tale fantasy follow other low-rating series to TV2’s dead zone for primetime […]

Disney included a 7.1 encode for the Region B release of Guardians of the Galaxy but not Planes 2: Fire & Rescue — although the omission may not be worth getting in a flap over, according to some sources. “The 7.1 DTS-HD track surprisingly lacks a strong surround mix, dynamic range, or much of a surround presence,” DVD […]

Talk about blockbusters unbound — the network HD premieres of The Avengers and Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol will go head-to-head on July 27. The former will air as TV2’s 8.30 Sunday Premiere Movie in the slot that for most of the year was occupied by series spin-off Agents of SHIELD. It will go up against TV3’s top […]