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New Zealand’s definitive free-to-air guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i: Saturday TradeZone Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.30) Hyundai Country Calendar (TV One, 7.00) ITM Fishing Show (TV3, 7.00) Ice Road Truckers (TV3, 7.30, 5.1) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) Sunday Pretty Little Liars (TV2, 5.30, 5.1) The War at Home (TV2, 6.30, R) Premiere: Surviving Teen Driving With Nigel Latta  (TV […]

The networks’ HD cup will runneth over on June 10, when TV3’s network HD premiere of Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones airs opposite TV2’s re-run of Twilight and TV One’s launch of another Audi NZ Sunday Theatre season. Jackson’s dramatisation of the Alice Sebold novel about a murdered 14-year-old who watches over her family stars Hanna’s […]

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: TV3, 8.30pm Saturday. The whip-cracking bone-kicker’s back – older, crankier and with a whippersnapper who wants to try on his Fedora for size. Indy IV amusingly completes the family circle but can’t keep up with the other Joneses in the 30-year-old francise, largely because of a […]

It’s a big country, sport, and Saturday’s free-to-air HD premiere of Australia proved to be an even bigger movie for TV3. It helped the network to win its first night of the new season after a week of big-gun disappointments, with such HD newcomers as Hawaii Five-O and An Idiot Abroad failing to fire. But […]

Hank (TV2, 5.00) Hank finds a friend in River Bend, but quickly discovers the relationship is not worth it. Pretty Little Liars (TV2, 5.30) Season premiere.The perfect little town of Rosewood holds more than its fair share of secrets, and for four estranged friends, their darkest ones are about to unravel. Joey (TV2, 6.30, R) […]

Australia: TV3, 8.30pm Saturday. Crikey! You’ll want to go walkabout long before this three-hour frontier folly ends – unless you’ve a bent for melodramatic drivel that’s more farcical than fabulous. Nicole Kidman plays a headstrong aristocrat who, to stave off financial ruin and stop an Aboriginal boy from becoming one of the “stolen generation”, tries […]

In the second official week of the new TV season, starting February 12, the 1080i content gap between TV2 and TV3 again will widen after TVNZ started the year with a big hike in HD hours. Next week, fewer than two hours will separate the rivals but in the following week TV3 will pull well […]

TVNZ has quietly started slipping more HD series into its schedules. This week saw Friends and the new comedy, Better With You, screen in HD unadvertised on TV2 while tonight on TV One Coasters starts in 1080i and on Sunday the network screens the NZ drama, Nights in the Garden of Spain, in HD. TV2’s […]

New chapters in the Twilight, Ice Age and Harry Potter franchises will premiere in HD next month on Sky Movies. Twilight Saga: New Moon will screen on September 19, and Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince a week later. An earlier Potter adventure, The Prisoner of Azkaban, also will […]

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment is discounting Blu-rays of Twilight and The Waterhorse for the next school holidays. From July 5-31, The Waterhorse will sell for $20, along with Daddy Day Camp, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Open Season I & 2, RV, Monster House, CJ7 and Surf’s Up. Over the same period, Twilight will be available […]