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The Enemy Within | Lightbox, from Monday ☆☆☆☆ “The new drama The Enemy Within marks NBC’s latest fairly unsuccessful attempt to copy whatever NBC executives interpret to be the template that turned The Blacklist into a hit. It isn’t the worst in the network’s line of dramas featuring generic intelligence operatives forced to team up with […]

➢➢ After one of the dreariest Christmas schedules ever across all of the free-to-air channels, TVNZ 1 is the first to spring forth in to the new year with a fresh look. It will premiere as a curtain raiser to the January 20 premiere of Dynasties the two-part series, Big Cats, on January 6 (7.00 […]

   Saturday The X Factor UK (TV1, 7.00, F) Movie: Sister Act (TV2, 7.00, R) Movie: Agent Cody Banks: Destination London (TV3, 7.00, R) MasterChef Junior USA (Prime, 7.30) Agatha Raisin (Prime, 8.30) The Toy Box (TV1, 8.40) Movie: Jewel of the Nile (TV3, 8.50, R) Movie: Shanghai Noon (TV2, 8.55, R) Father Brown (Prime, 9.30) Coronation Street (TV1, 9.35) Movie: One Chance (TV1, […]

  TVNZ 1 is banking on its new Monday night crime drama APB to boost Blindspot’s viewership. The former hit tonight relocates from 8.30 Thursday, where it’s bombed, to follow APB at 9.30. The move won’t resurrect the show’s original popularity but it can scarcely rate worse in the later slot than it did on Thursdays. The most […]

New Zealand’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly free-to-air in 1080i    Saturday  The Wonder of Animals (TV3, 4.55)  Ultimate Fishing With Matt Watson (TV1, 5.00) Prime Horse Racing: New Zealand Derby (Prime, 5.00) Newshub Live at 6pm (TV3, 6.00)  The Simpsons (TV2, 6.05, R) The Middle (TV2, 6.30, 5.1, R) Outback Pilots (TV1, 7.00) Movie: Monsters vs Aliens (TV2, 7.00, R) Movie: Garfield: A Tail […]

TVNZ 1 will replace the 8.30 Friday broadcast of Coronation Street with season four of A Place to Call Home from March 10, pushing back the soap to 9.30 (where it will screen Thursday-Saturday). It will cap a week of HD premieres on the network that includes the observational documentary series Heathrow (8.35 Saturday), Abandoned Engineering, which […]

If you missed Monday’s season premiere of Humans, and can’t bear to catch up with it on MediaWorks’ SD streaming service, 3Now, TV3 will repeat it on Sunday night. The re-run will pre-empt Best of Graham Norton at 9.30, after Grand Designs NZ, and spearheads a same-week repeat strategy that TV3 hopes will boost audience […]

New Zealand’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly free-to-air in 1080i    Saturday  Grand Designs NZ (TV3, 4.55, R) Chasing Monsters (TV1, 5.00) Series Premiere: Cupcake Wars (TV2, 5.00) Black-ish (TV2, 6.00, 5.1, R) Newshub Live at 6pm (TV3, 6.00)  University Challenge (Prime, 6.00)  MasterChef USA (Prime, 6.30) Hyundai Country Calendar (TV1, 7.00) Wonderful World of Disney: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (TV2, […]

Humans joins Blacklist … Rocky reviews … New night shift for Nurse Jackie … TV3 will screen season two of Humans the same week as the UK. It will premiere on October 31 at 8.35, on a double-bill with season four of The Blacklist. The TV3 broadcast will will air within 24 hours of Channel 4’s, […]

   Black-ish Emmy-ish? … Sex&Drugs rolled … Prime scores netball tests … Next Monday’s Emmy Awards ceremony, which will air live in SD on Sky’s Vibe channel, traditionally kick-starts the fall season on US TV. Variety’s critics reckons Black-ish has the edge but point out Veep’s prospects couldn’t be timelier to win best comedy. They’re torn between […]