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The Zone will celebrate the 50th anniversary of cult sensation The Prisoner by screening it in HD. The baffling but brilliant series, which ran for only 17 episodes, starred Patrick McGoohan as a secret agent who’s abducted and held prisoner in a seemingly idyllic English village. The Zone will air it 5.35 Saturdays from March 11. […]

Glum about Grimm … Bare bones Zone … Harrowing Darryl hour …  Grim news for Grimm fans: the sixth, shortest and final season won’t premiere on Sky’s The Zone channel until March. The first of the last 13 episodes goes to air in the US on January but The Zone will delay its debut  for […]

Next month The Zone will premiere horror anthology Channel Zero. The Wall Street Journal dubbed it a “creepy new series” from some of the minds behind Twin Peaks, Hannibal and Child’s Play, and predicts it “will plunge viewers into an odd world of murder, obsession and mass hallucination. “The six-episode first season is based on […]

Syfy’s newest series Aftermath will screen 8.30 Tuesdays from October 25 on The Zone. It premieres September 27 in the US and stars James Tupper and Anne Heche as the parents of three children struggling to survive when civilisation comes to an apocalyptic end. Turns out the end of the world is “just the beginning“. Ahead lie massive storms, […]

The Zone will go behind the world of costume play in Heroes of Cosplay, which will screen 8.30 Wednesdays from September 7. “Each episode tracks an array of cosplayers as they prep for and travel to costume contests on the geek-convention circuit, capturing the creativity and drama of constructing their new outfits, not to mention everything […]

The Zone has picked up the Swedish sci-fi drama series that spawned Channel 4’s Humans. Set in a parallel version of our world, in which society has been forever changed by a new generation of robots, known as hubots, Real Humans will screen 10.30 Wednesdays from October 19. It follows the leaders of a rogue group of […]

BrainDead (The Zone, 8.30 Tuesday) “In BrainDead, it’s not one-per-centers but space aliens who are rigging the system: a mysterious meteorite has crashed to Earth, releasing ants from another planet, which tiptoe into politicians’ ears and literally eat their brains. Sometimes, those ants also fart inside the brain—and then the brain explodes. Perhaps this premise sounds […]

Homer’s earlier odysseys in HD  … Monkeys go missing … Si & Gary Now That’s Not Funny! … Achy-Breaky Johnny Cash doco … Cinema Z enz … Wahoo! The Simpsons is returning to Sunday nights on TV2. After pulling the latest season off-air two weeks prematurely, the network will test the appeal of much older episodes in primetime, starting […]

Mainstream critics in the US ignored this week’s return of Zoo but online scribes were quick to devour its pleasures. “The two-hour premiere consisting of Zoo Season 2 Episode 1 and Zoo Season 2 Episode 2 played quickly, with the pacing of a movie,” TV Fanatic said. “It was non-stop madness and a lot of fun.” It dubbed the […]

Doctor Who fans can rejoice in the prospect of at last being able to see a NZ broadcast of the series in HD. Sky’s The Zone is picking up the first seven seasons of the Russell T Davies’ reboot, covering the appearances of the ninth (Christopher Eccleston), tenth (David Tennant) and eleventh (Matt Smith) doctors but […]