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TV One will screen live HD coverage of English Premier League matches from August 17. The games will air early on Sunday mornings and replace the delayed match of the week that used to air midday Sundays. The first match will be between London rivals Tottenham and West Ham, and feature All Whites star player Winston […]

Prime TV at last is to start broadcasting in HD — but it may be only for the duration of the 2010 Commonwealth Games. The free-to-air network is one of five channels that its owner, Sky TV, will use to screen more than 1400 hours of live coverage. Sky subscribers won’t have to pay extra […]

If you missed Monday’s premiere of The Pacific, you can catch it again at 10.20pm on Sunday. As it did with Band of Brothers, TV One is screening same-week repeats of the World War II drama in HD. Having paid a premium price for the HBO miniseries, the network would have been buoyed by the […]

A dramatisation of Katherine Mansfield’s early years as a writer will air in HD on TV One. NZ On Air has commissioned Bliss from writer/director Fiona Samuel and producer Michele Fantl, who made the award-winning adoption drama, Piece of My Heart. The $2.9 million production is the latest to get the green light under NZOA’s […]

TV One’s flagship HD drama of 2010, The Pacific, didn’t draw the big-gun ratings HBO would have hoped for when it premiered on US TV at the weekend. It was watched by 3.1 million viewers, which was surprisingly modest given the publicity surrounding the launch of the World War II miniseries — and only a […]