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Cast: Jack Coleman, Hayden Panettiere, Milo Ventimiglia, Masi Oka, Adrian Pasdar, Zachary Quinto, Greg Grunberg, Ali Larter. Creator: Tim Kring. Score: Lisa Coleman, Wendy Melvoin. Cinematography: Nathaniel Goodman, Charles Lieberman, John B Aronson. Season three of the sci-fi phenomenon about freaks across America who just might be able to save the world at last is [...]

TV One will maintain its military Monday strand with an Iraq War miniseries from The Wire’s David Simon but, unlike The Pacific, Generation Kill won’t screen in HD. The decision is as daft as TV One repeating Band of Brothers in SD and is a double-blow for fans of premium drama: the network’s decision to pick up [...]

Cast: Jack Coleman, Hayden Panettiere, Milo Ventimiglia, Masi Oka, Adrian Pasdar, Zachary Quinto, Greg Grunberg, Ali Larter, Robert Forster. Creator: Tim Kring. Score: Lisa Coleman, Wendy Melvoin. Cinematography: Nathaniel Goodman, Charles Lieberman, John B Aronson. The cheerleader who was meant to save the world turns into a cold stone killer in the opening minutes of [...]

Cast: Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Natalie Dormer, Jeremy Northam, Sarah Bolger, Nick Dunning, James Frain, Sam Neill, Peter O’Toole. Creator: Michael Hirst. Score: Trevor Morris. Cinematography: Ousama Rawi. This was England 600 years ago, when a young Henry VIII had ascended the throne – or at least how Michael Hirst, the writer of the two Elizabeth [...]

Cast: Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, Sam Trammell , Ryan Kwanten, Rutina Wesley, Michelle Forbes. Directors: Daniel Minahan, Michael Lehmann, Scott Winant, John Dahl, Michael Ruscio, Adam Davidson, Michael Cuesta. Creator: Alan Ball. Score: Nathan Barr. True Blood creator Alan Ball spiked his V juice with too much gay abandon in the vampire hit’s second season. [...]

Expect The Pacific, which has only two episodes to run on TV One (8.30pm Monday), to bow on Blu-ray in November. Warner Bros NZ will only say it’s due in the fourth quarter but HBO in the US has just announced a November 2 release and one Australian website is taking pre-orders for the day [...]

Cast: Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff, Jamie Bamber, James Callis. Creators: Glen A Larson, Ronald D Moore. Score: Bear McCreary. Cinematography: Stephen McNutt. As commendable as this $399, 20-disc collection is, it’s not definitive. Universal Pictures Video has since released in the US the same set with the bonus of the post-series finale [...]

The first — and best — of the Underbelly series will be released on Blu-ray in August. The award-winning dramatisation of Melbourne’s ’90s gangland wars was one of the first shows TV3 aired in HD (but, ironically, was repeated in SD). The latest series, The Golden Mile (TV3, 8.30pm Wednesdays), bridges the first and second, [...]

Cast: Kevin McKidd, Ray Stevenson, Polly Walker, James Purefoy, Kerry Condon. Directors: Michael Apted, Allen Coulter, Alan Poul, Steve Shill, Timothy Van Patten, Alan Taylor, John Maybury. Creators: Bruno Heller, William J MacDonald, John Milius. Rome fell after its second season. HBO hoped this sumptuous, tumultuous Sopranos-with-togas saga would expand the reach of its empire [...]

So much for saving the cheerleader, saving the world – what about saving face, TV3? Universal Pictures NZ has announced that the season-three Blu-ray and DVD release of Heroes again has been postponed, making this territory probably the only one in the world where you can’t buy either locally. Why? Because Heroes has still to [...]