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TVNZ 1’s latest British thriller Trauma ends on Sunday — and the network will be glad it was only a three-parter after last weekend’s distressing ratings. Episode two averaged only 1.9% of the network’s core 25-54 viewership while lead-out Ride Upon the Storm limped home with 0.4% — which probably means any other high-minded Europeans […]

Trauma | TVNZ 1, 8.30 Sunday ➢ “Trauma is a twisty tale of two men whose lives become dangerously intertwined by bleak chance. Even the credits hint that the pair are doubles, one representing the light side, one the shadow. That the doctor (Adrian Lester) is black and the grieving father (John Simm) white is […]

➢ TVNZ 1 will replace Liar, which ends 8.30 Sunday, with the three-part thriller Trauma, from the writer of Doctor Foster. It stars John Simm as a factory worker who blames a surgeon (Adrian Lester) for his son’s death. “Doctor Foster writer Mike Bartlett restrained himself from killing a child during series two of the […]