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TV3 isn’t shortchanging fans of The Night Manager, despite each episode running up to 15 minutes shorter than the BBC’s version. Over the weekend reader thx1138 pointed out TV3’s premiere of the Sunday night spy drama had a running time of 42 minutes compared to 57 minutes on iTunes and the BBC iPlayer. Similarly, lead-in The Hunt […]

NZ’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly free-to-air in 1080i Saturday Robson Green’s Ultimate Catch (TV1, 5.00) Rheem Outdoors With Geoff (TV3, 5.00) The Simpsons (TV3, 5.30, 5.1, R, F) Hyundai Country Calendar (TV1, 7.00) Movie: The Game Plan (TV2, 7.00, R) Movie: Kung Fu Panda 2 (TV3, 7.00, 5.1, R) Posh Pawn (TV1, 7.30) Father Brown (Prime, 7.30) Partners in Crime (Prime, 8.35) Movie: Mission: Impossible II (TV3, […]

❏ Fear the Walking Dead, the first season of which goes on sale today on Blu-ray, will return for its second season on SoHo next month. It will air 9.30 Mondays from April 11 and will be available to stream on Neon the same night. Sky’s also confirmed Bates Motel, which resumes this week in the […]

TV3’s series premiere of The Night Manager narrowly won the 8.30 hour on Sunday in the network’s target demographic, 25-54 year-olds. The premium BBC drama, which once would have been the Sunday night preserve of TV One, averaged a 4.9 rating/19 channel share. It also out-rated TV One’s Blindspot in the 18-49 demo with a 4.0 rating/18 share […]

THE NIGHT MANAGER | TV3, 8.30 Sunday Discretion is probably the most desirable trait of a hotel night manager. So when the mistress of one of Cairo’s nastiest mobsters asked our night manager to look after some secret documents that might implicate her boyfriend and an English philanthropist in arms dealing, she – and we viewers […]

❏ Sunday night viewers could be mistaken for thinking TV3 was the new TV One, with a line-up that includes a landmark David Attenborough series as the lead-in to the top BBC spy drama The Night Manager. The latter starts this weekend and The Hunt will screen 7.30 Sundays from March 6. The Telegraph called […]

NZ’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly free-to-air in 1080i Saturday Rheem Outdoors With Geoff (TV3, 5.00) The Simpsons (TV3, 5.30, 5.1, R) MasterChef Australia (TV1, 7.00) Movie: Confessions of a Shopaholic (TV2, 7.00, R) Movie: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (TV3, 7.00, 5.1, R) Series Premiere: Partners in Crime (Prime, 8.35) Movie: The Guardian (TV2, 9.05, R) Movie: Lord of War (TV3, 9.30, 5.1, R) Prime […]

❏ Premium drama fans who have abandoned TV One on Sunday nights now that it’s the home of Blindspot have a new saviour: TV3 will premiere the highly anticipated BBC spy thriller, The Night Manager, on February 28, barely a week after its UK premiere. An adaptation of the John Le Carre novel, it will screen 8.30 […]

TV3’s new-season schedule is still under wraps but the network has confirmed that re-runs of The Simpsons will continue. It’s about to repeat season 25 again in HD in the 5.30 Saturday slot while SD re-runs will remain a mainstay on TV4, where the ‘toon is stripped 7.00 weeknights (s25 ends this week and s23 […]