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NZ’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i on the networks: Saturday Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.00) The ITM Fishing Show (TV3, 5.30) NZ Story (TV One, 7.00) Duck Dynasty (TV2, 7.00) This Town (TV One, 7.30) Survivor (TV3, 7.30, 5.1) Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (TV One, 8.30) Blue Bloods (TV3, 9.30, 5.1) Outrageous Fortune (TV3, 10.25, R) Network Movie Premiere: The Fighter (TV2, 10.45, 5.1) […]

TV3 will use heightened interest in its two-hour season finale of The Block NZ to launch the latest Underbelly series. The network’s faith in the once great franchise is surprising given how poorly more recent instalments have rated. The news isn’t good for Underbelly: Squizzy, either, an eight-hour dramatisation of a Melbourne gangster’s exploits that […]

The Slap (TV3, 9.35, F) The series finale sees the burden of Connie’s secret taking its toll on Richie. He’s worried about her, and disgusted with himself for obsessing about Hector. Change the Channel hailed the conclusion as “a crackerjack hour of television” while The Guardian said “redemption of a kind came in the final instalment … I […]

Sky Movies Premiere: Hanna (Sky 20, 8.30, 5.1) Parentage-with-a-twist is at the heart of this hyper, hypnotic but hollow spy thriller that combines art house flair with edge-of-your-seat excitement. The Lovely Bones’ Saoirse Ronan plays an adolescent assassin raised in the wilderness by her rogue-spook father whose first assignment put her in the agency’s sights. Joe Wright […]

Wednesday’s premiere of Charlie Sheen’s new HD sitcom, Anger Management, didn’t make as big a bang in the ratings as predecessor Two and a Half Men. It won its 8.30 slot with TV2’s target audience, 18-39 year-olds (12.1%), but drew with TV3’s Grand Designs Revisited among 18-49 year-olds (11.0%) and lost in the 25-54 (9.9%) […]

New Zealand’s definitive free-to-air guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i: Saturday What Would You Do? (TV One, 4.25, R) Judy Bailey’s Australia (TV One, 4.55, R) TradeZone Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.00, R) Hyundai Country Calendar (TV One, 7.00) ITM Fishing Show (TV3, 7.00) CSI: New York (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) CSI: Miami (TV3 9.30, 5.1) Sunday Series premiere: Operation Hero (TV2, 4.00) […]

Season Premiere: Anger Management (TV2, 8.30, 5.1) Charlie Sheen plays a baseball player with anger issues-turned-anger management therapist who decides to return to therapy after a bad run-in with his ex-wife’s new boyfriend. “The accomplishment here is that tight writing and editing, a solid cast with good timing and Mr Sheen’s chops as the ne plus ultra of […]

New Zealand’s definitive free-to-air guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i: Saturday What Would You Do? (TV One, 4.25, R) Judy Bailey’s Australia (TV One, 4.55, R) TradeZone Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.00, R) Hyundai Country Calendar (TV One, 7.00) ITM Fishing Show (TV3, 7.00) CSI: New York (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) Movie: The Other Man (TV2, 9.30, 5.1) CSI: Miami (TV3 9.30, […]

Season Highlight: The Slap (TV3, 9.35) “After four weeks of mounting tension, with each episode concentrating on a different character, tonight delivers something of a payoff as Rosie, who refused Harry’s apology, finally gets to haul him – and everybody else – into court,” said The Age. “Circumstances are examined with forensic detail, throwing even the […]

Replacing The Slap with Grand Designs Revisited on the back of the surging popularity of The Block NZ helped TV3 to win the night on Wednesday. The Block averaged a staggering 12.6% – 16.5% of key demographics and was almost as popular with 25-54-year-olds and household shoppers as Wednesday’s episode of Shortland Street. It hammered […]