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Sky TV will re-run all 12 episodes of the HBO gangster sensation, Boardwalk Empire, back-to-back in HD on Saturday. They will air from 12.15pm on Sky Movies Greats on the eve of Sky’s free-to-air channel, Prime, picking up the series for 9.35pm Tuesday instalments from January 11. The 12-hour marathon also precedes Sky’s live coverage [...]

Among the Christmas curtain-raisers the networks will unwrap in HD are a swag of DreamWorks movie spin-offs, the first Ice Age and the partly-animated biography of the farmyard critters sweetheart, Beatrix Potter. TV3′s Ice Age and TV One’s Miss Potter will screen at 7pm and 8.30pm respectively on December 19, the same night TV2 launches [...]

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 [...]

Sony at last is coming out to play with its PlayStation 3 PVR in NZ. PlayTV will go on sale here for $200 from November 25 – two years after its launch in Europe and a year after its Australian release. The nondescript HD module connects via USB to the PS3 and has twin digital [...]

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 [...]