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➢➢ Who will blink first? TVNZ 2 and Three have scheduled two movies in the same franchise against each other on March 23: the former will air How To Train Your Dragon at 7.00 opposite Three’s How to Train Your Dragon 2. Apart from being a disservice to viewers, the clash won’t impress the distributor […]

TVNZ has announced it will make its own version of cooking show hit The Great British Bake Off. But it’s not yet clear if Prime will continue to screen the original series and spin-off The Great Australian Bake Off. A question mark remains over whether TVNZ will acquire the rights to both series, as part […]

➢ TVNZ 1 will replace Liar, which ends 8.30 Sunday, with the three-part thriller Trauma, from the writer of Doctor Foster. It stars John Simm as a factory worker who blames a surgeon (Adrian Lester) for his son’s death. “Doctor Foster writer Mike Bartlett restrained himself from killing a child during series two of the […]

➢ Just as Tamati Coffey moves into Parliament, the ex-weather presenter-cum-MP will be moving out to the country in a series he made before his election. TVNZ 1 will screen Moving Out With Tamati 7.00 Saturdays from October 7. In the series, he follows city slickers in search of a better life in the provinces […]

Prime will refresh its schedule in the first week of October with an impressive slate of newcomers but two of the best won’t be in HD. At least fans of Poldark will be able to see the costume drama here in HD for the first time, when it succeeds Jericho as the 8.30 lead-in to Game […]