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The next season of Dexter, which SoHo will debut in July, will be the last. It goes to air June 30 in the US, several months earlier than normal, and will be preceded by season seven’s release on Blu-ray. But whereas fans probably will see season eight within days of the US, there will be [...]

It looks like “Good night, nurse’” for Jackie after Monday’s final episode sunk to a season (if not series) low. The double-episode send-off averaged a sickly 1.0% – 3.6% of the major demographics, and rated only 1.6% of TV3’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds. This was off the back of 3.9% – 7.8% — and 25-54 [...]

NZ’s definitive free-to-air guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i on the networks:   Saturday NZ’s Got Talent (TV One, 4.55, R, F) Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.30) Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook: Simple Pleasures (TV One, 7.00) On the Grill (TV3, 7.00, F) The Voice (TV2, 7.30) New season: Ice Road Truckers (TV3, 7.30, 5.1) CSI: New York (TV3, 8.30, [...]

Is Homeland, which continues tonight (TV3, 8.35), on the verge of blowing itself up? That’s the question The Hollywood Reporter posed after last week’s episode. “Homeland Red Flags: Will It Crash and Burn or Soar to Greatness?” was the headline for critic Tim Goodman’s review. He went on to argue “several plot developments threaten to [...]

New Zealand’s definitive free-to-air guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i: Saturday NZ’s Got Talent (TV One, 4.55, R) Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.30) Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook: Simple Pleasures (TV One, 7.00) On the Grill (TV3, 7.00) CSI: New York (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) CSI: Miami (TV3 9.30, 5.1) Homeland (TV3, 10.30, 5.1, R) Sunday The Fresh Prince of Bel Air (TV2, [...]

Nurse Jackie at last is returning to TV3’s night shift. The network that aired the original season within six weeks of its US broadcast has sat on the fourth for six months. Indeed, originally it had another HD comedy/drama slotted for post-Homeland on Mondays, House of Lies, which TV Guide dubbed “a pitiless, biting satire [...]

It’s fitting that TV3′s new 9.30pm Monday award-winner, Homeland, should have premiered only an hour after SoHo’s HBO horse racing drama, Luck. The race between HBO and the cable channel that commissioned Homeland, Showtime, has never been tighter. For years HBO has dominated US TV drama production with its stable of iconic award-winners, ranging from The [...]

Sky Movies Premiere: Faster (Sky 20, 8.30, 5.1) Vengeful ex-con Dwayne Johnson hits the road in his 40-year-old bad-ass Chev to pay back his brother’s killers, with junkie cop Billy Bob Thornton in hot pursuit. Faster is an edge-of-the-front seat thriller with fantastic stunts, premium production values, and writing of a higher calibre than you’d expect for [...]

Just when Justified fans thought TV One’s treatment of the modern western couldn’t get any worse, the network has jumped the gun on the running order of episodes. Last Wednesday it aired episode 12 instead of 11, which was a dreadful error given the series is building to an electrifying climax. TVNZ blames the out-of-sync [...]

Two of TV3’s Monday night HD drawcards ended their runs last night with mixed ratings. CSI drew two-thirds the 25-54 viewership of TV2’s Desperate Housewives and only narrowly beat a repeat of TV One’s Criminal Minds. But its 9.30pm stablemate, Nurse Jackie, lost both to TV2’s Brothers & Sisters and TV One’s Castle, mustering only [...]