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SoHo Highlight: Treme (Sky 10, 9.30, 5.1) Second-season premiere: Antoine contemplates a move while LaDonna resists one; Colson contends with the return of crime to New Orleans; Annie returns from a national tour; in New York, Delmond debuts his new album. As Newsday pleaded: “Please watch this show. Really. It’s excellent on far too many levels to enumerate here, but [...]

TV3’s Stardust won last night’s HD movie contest with TV2’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth. It averaged 7.6% of TV3’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds (versus Earth’s 5.3%), and 7.3% of TV2’s core demographic, 18-39 year-olds (Earth: 6%). However, Stardust had the advantage of starting an hour ahead of Earth, when it was trounced [...]

SoHo Highlight: Treme (Sky 10, 9.30, 5.1) Season finale: Toni’s concerns about Creighton turn to anger; a funeral procession offers its mourners a chance to reflect on the events of the last year in New Orleans. Said Time: “Treme finished its first season with a finale that very much mirrored its pilot: sprawling, wide-ranging, deliberately paced, and — at about [...]

SoHo Highlight: The Killing (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) The cops regroup while Richmond goes up in the polls; Stan faces consequences for his ill-thought out actions, leaving Mitch alone to keep the family afloat. ”This week’s episode, which after the absurd twists and turns of Stonewalled and Undertow, felt like a modest step in the right direction,” The AV Club [...]

SoHo Highlight: Dexter (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) Dexter finds help from an unexpected avenue while on the hunt for the Doomsday Killers and trying to stay one step ahead of the Homicide Division; Debra discovers something new about herself. The title of this episode is Get Gellar but it was get Dexter’s writers that was uppermost in most critics’ [...]

SoHo Highlight: Five Days (Sky 10, 5.1, 8.30) In part one of five, the police launch a desperate search to find a mother and her two children who go missing in different circumstances. This 2007 HBO-BBC co-production originally aired on TV3 but its SoHo presentation is the first time it’s screened here in HD. As The Independent [...]

TV2’s big-budget summer mini-series, Falling Skies, suffered a ratings fall between last week’s launch and last night’s instalment. It retained most of the viewership that matters most to the network — 18-39 year-olds — but drew significantly fewer household shoppers with kids, and 25-54 and 18-49 year-olds. The two-hour premiere was watched by 6.2% of [...]

New Zealand’s definitive free-to-air guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i    Saturday Trade Zone Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.30) Keeping Up With the Joneses (TV One, 7.00) Sunday North (TV One, 7.00, R) Movie: Aliens in the Attic (TV3, 7.00, 5.1) Movie: Die Hard: With a Vengeance (TV3, 8.45, 5.1, R) Monday Friends (TV2, 6.30, R) Modern Family (TV3, 7.00, 5.1, R) Drug [...]

SoHo Highlight: Treme (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) Davis concocts a remedy for the post-Mardi Gras blues; Annie makes a decision that Sonny takes personally; Colson warns Albert to avoid trouble on St Joseph’s night. The AV Club dubbed Wish Someone Would Care, in which a key character dies, “a hell of an episode“. It was written by George [...]

SoHo Highlight: The Killing (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) The police make a shocking realisation; Richmond contemplates dropping out of the race; the Larsons are fed up with the police. Most US critics were echoing Alan Sepinwall by episode nine: “We’re at the point in the season where I’m just repeating the same complaints over and over again.” Namely, as [...]