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The Americans returns for its fifth season tonight (SoHo, 9.30). It scored a 94 aggregate  on Metacritc, with the likes of The Hollywood Reporter declaring it “continues along the same ground it always has: It’s extremely well-constructed, with slow-burning storylines that are paying off in superb dramatic depth; it boasts consistently top-tier acting from stars Keri […]

Three launches The Project tonight in a gambit that means neither it nor TVNZ 1 now offers a semi-meaningful current affairs slot after their flagship news bulletins. Three hopes to maximise sampling of The Project by following Prime’s lead with The Crowd Goes Wild and repeating each day’s broadcast late-night. Its light entertainment ambitions for the panel […]

Dead drama walking? … Westworld goes west … Breakers back on Sky … Fear the Walking Dead will end its second season with a double-episode on October 3 (SoHo, 9.30). The spin-off zombie saga was meant to conclude the following week. This week it was reported the show has suffered a ratings slump that it can’t seem to recover from. […]

AHS ‘mystery’ solved … Blindspot eyes new slot … Brief re-encounter … American Horror Story resumes tonight on FX in the US, five days ahead of its season premiere on SoHo. Reveals Variety about the unusually secretive storyline: “The theme of Season 6 is ‘My Roanoke Nightmare,’ and will likely reference the Mystery of Roanoke aka the […]

TV3’s The Block NZ returns on May 29, when it will square off against TV2’s My Kitchen Rules Australia not only on Sundays but also on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 7.30. TV3 says the twist with season five, Girls vs Boys, will be replacing couples with teams of best mates — two of women and two of men […]

The season two premiere of Fear the Walking Dead (SoHo, 9.30 tonight) walks “a fine line between ‘calming’ and ‘soporific’ but … mostly manages to stay on the right side of it, judging by the first three episodes,” Newsday reckons. The Hollywood Reporter isn’t so sure: “The visual presentation of season two paints an intriguing contrast […]

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is finalising a NZ Blu-ray release date for House of Cards’ third season. It’s been delayed by nearly a year because of a Netflix stuff-up over posting the series on its NZ site. Despite it being known for months that a NZ broadcaster didn’t own the rights to the White House drama, […]