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Tuesday’s network movie premiere of Two Little Boys was thrashed by a re-run of Grown Ups. TV3’s Kiwi black comedy averaged only 1.9% – 2.2% of the major demographics compared to 6.2% – 8.7% for TV2’s Adam Sandler comedy. The latter started half-an-hour earlier on the back of Home and Away averaging 6.2% – 10.3% […]

The free-to-air Christmas schedules predictably are more ho-hum that ho-ho-ho but at least most of the stocking filler programming is in HD. The networks are over-stuffed with movies for Christmas week, mostly repeats, amid an exodus of favourites (Radar Across the Pacific, The Night Shift, Hawaii Five-O, Criminal Minds, The Mentalist and, in a 90-minute […]

Kiwi comedy Two Little Boys is the latest NZ movie to debut simultaneously on Blu-ray and DVD. Most local productions are DVD-only because Blu-ray’s higher mastering and packaging costs are hard to justify in a market as small as NZ’s. The handful of exceptions include Billy T: Te Movie, Sione’s 2: Unfinished Business and Love […]