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The Halcyon (Prime, 8.30 Thursday) ➢ “They should have had the balls to call it Downton Hotel. C’mon, we’re all grown-ups here! But ITV has been coy and called their replacement for the late, lamented (especially by all the monkeys who typed the scripts) Downton Abbey The Halcyon instead. It is set – sensibly, given the […]

New Zealand’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly free-to-air in 1080i    Saturday  River Monsters With Jeremy Wade  (TV1, 4.55) The Block NZ (TV3, 5.00, R) Ados Addicted to Fishing (Prime, 5.00) Movie: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (TV2, 5.25, R) 1 News at 6pm (TV1, 6.00) Newshub Live at 6pm (TV3, 6.00) Flog It! (Prime, 6.00) Britain’s Got Talent (TV1, 7.00, F) […]

The Halcyon, a drama about the staff and guests of a five-star London hotel during World War II, checks into Prime on July 27. “The presence of the war permeates through everyone’s lives, from the dazzling guests to its loyal, hard-working staff, as traditions, people and relationships are broken,” reads the blurb for the eight-part […]

At its new season launch today in Auckland, Prime unveiled some of its top picks for next year, including a new vehicle for Kiwi Antony Starr (above), British dramas The Halcyon, Dark Angel and The White Princess, two Louis Theroux documentaries, and David Attenborough’s Zoo Quest in Colour. Curiously, there was no mention of Attenborough’s […]