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➢➢ Network movie premieres will abound in the week starting December 11, as the networks surrender their schedules to phone-in programming: The House (TVNZ 2, 8.30 Sunday), McLaren (Prime, 8.30 Sunday), No (Maori TV, 8.30 Sunday), Collateral Beauty (Three, 8.40 Tuesday), The Layover (Three, 8.40 Wednesday) and CHiPs (TVNZ 2, 9.00 Thursday). Other HD coming attractions […]

TVNZ 2 is replacing this week’s Have You Been Paying Attention? (7.30 Wednesday) with Michael McIntyre’s Big Surprises, a best-of compilation. Wellington Paranormal will still air at 8.30 but stablemate Zombody Save Me!  has been pushed back to 10.00; God Friended Me will screen earlier than usual, at 9.05. Replacing Thursday’s HYBPA? repeat will be 8 Out of […]

➢➢ Poldark’s Eleanor Tomlinson, Rafe Spall, Robert Carlyle and Rupert Graves star in the first British television adaptation of The War of the Worlds (TVNZ 1, 8.30 Sunday). TVNZ 1 is billing the three-part space invaders series as a “world premiere” ahead of the the BBC announcing a date for its own telecast. This version […]

➢➢ ‘Tis the season to be weary of free-to-air TV, with a rapidly rising tide of Yuletide specials and movies (mostly re-runs). Kicking off the Christmas countdown will be Coca-Cola Christmas in the Park (Three, 7.00 Saturday), The Undateables at Christmas (TVNZ 2, 9.10 Monday) and Elton John: I’m Still Standing – A Grammy Salute (TVNZ 1, 7.30 Wednesday). The only […]

TVNZ 2 has renewed Wellington Paranormal for a second season that will be twice as long as the first, despite a scary decline in the latter’s ratings over six episodes. NZ On Air is committing nearly $5.1 million to 13 episodes of season two, which will screen next year. “Wellington Paranormal demonstrated that comedy with […]

Wednesday’s The Big Bang Theory is about to be bumped by things that go bump in the Wellington night. From July 11, TVNZ 2 will drop its 8.30 season 10 re-runs of TBBT for Wellington Paranormal, a six-part series spun off the movie, What We Do in the Shadows. Reads the blurb: Things that go bump in […]