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TV2’s Home Free has become the first ratings casualty of 2016. After only two nights on air, the network has pulled the series and will burn it off on TVNZ OnDemand. A repeat of Dynamo: Magician Impossible will replace it on Monday and re-runs of Renters and Motorway Patrol on Tuesday. This week’s Home Free premiere […]

NZ’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly free-to-air in 1080i Saturday Trade Zone Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.00) The Simpsons (TV3, 5.30, 5.1, R) MasterChef Australia (TV1, 7.00) Movie: Saving Santa (TV2, 7.00, R) Movie: Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (TV3, 7.00, R) Movie: Bringing Down the House (TV2, 8.35, R) Doc Martin (TV1, 8.40) Special: Ed Sheeran — Live at Wembley Stadium (TV3, 9.35) Vera (TV1, 9.45, R) […]

It will be a not-so-Merry Christmas — or Happy New Year — for Coronation Street fans. TV1 will pre-empt the world’s longest-running primetime soap so much for seasonal specials that only one original hour of it will air from December 19-January 1. An extra-long MasterChef Australia will oust Coro on December 19 while that week’s  two-hour Friday […]