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Bruce Willis fans can enjoy a mini-bonanza of his movies in HD next month on Sky Movies Greats. Screening for the first time in 1080i will be his underrated action-thriller, Hostage (January 15), the Whole Nine Yards sequel, The Whole Ten Yards (January 22), and the lurid graphic novel sensation, Sin City (January 29). George [...]

Sky Movies will run a mini-George Clooney festival next month when it premieres three of his foxiest films in HD. The aptly named Fantastic Mr Fox will air on January 2 for the first time, the covert intelligence satire, The Men Who Stare at Goats, on January 15, and the exquisitely funny Oscar-nominee, Up in [...]

Monster smash The Walking Dead may not hit the road here in HD until later next year. Even if it does premiere earlier, NZ still will be one of the last territories in the world to broadcast what top US critics have been drooling over. TVNZ proudly trumpeted its acquisition of the zombie sensation at [...]

One of the new HD dramas that TV One will screen next year, Body of Proof, has just had its US premiere date announced. The police procedural starring Dana Delany (Desperate Housewives, China Beach) and Jeri Ryan (Star Trek: Voyager) will debut on ABC on March 29. It may sound like a Quincy ME update [...]

FreeviewHD receivers are outselling Freeview satellite receivers by about 3:1. The free-to-air digital TV platform today said 58,417 HD and satellite units had sold in the three months ending September 30, up from 54,456 in the previous quarter. And year on year there’s been a 66% jump, with 3Q 2009 sales reaching only 35,166. This [...]

Good news and bad for My Sky HDi subscribers – there’s more HD coming but it will cost extra. Sky has just announced it will introduce Sky On Demand HD next month, a service that will let subscribers download blockbusters in HD for $7.99 a title. That’s $1 more than what it costs for SD [...]

TVNZ has snapped up the monster smash, The Walking Dead. The zombie sensation that premiered to record ratings on the AMC cable network last week is among a slew of new dramas that TV2 should air next year in HD. The Hallowe’en premiere was universally acclaimed: “dark gem of a show about a zombie apocalypse [...]

Christmas comes early to Sky’s Movie Greats channel, with Will Ferrell’s North Pole romp, Elf, making its HD bow on December 8. Other comedies may also provide seasonal cheer, ranging from School of Rock to 13 Going on 30 to Team America: World Police. And Anthony Hopkins and Dennis Quaid fans will be seeing double in [...]

Michael Jackson’s This Is It, Up and Avatar top Sky Movies’ HD premieres in December. James Cameron’s ET phenomenon will first screen on December 19, This Is It on Christmas Eve and the Oscar-winning Pixar ‘toon on Christmas night. The pick of December’s comedies isn’t complicated – it’s It’s Complicated, on December 5 – while the [...]

Season 18 of The Amazing Race will be shot in HD. The 17th is on-air in the US and this week The Hollywood Reporter revealed the next Race will be the first in HD. The announcement comes two years after wilderness rival Survivor made the switch and two months after the long-running show’s Kiwi host, [...]