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Global Radar (TV One, 7.00, F) ✫✫✫✫ Te Radar wonders what the future will bring, and visits Rwanda to see how the country has changed its culture to preserve the mountain gorillas. Raising Hope (TV3, 7.00, 5.1) ✫✫✫✫ Instead of sleeping in and ordering pizza, per his normal Thanksgiving custom, Jimmy invites Hope’s other grandparents, Dale and [...]

Global Radar (TV One, 7.00) ✫✫✫ Te Radar discovers water is like gold falling from the sky, but in Australia sees how it takes billions of dollars to make the water drinkable. Raising Hope (TV3, 7.00, 5.1) ✫✫✫✫ When Hope starts imitating the dogs at her day care, Jimmy decides to enroll her in an expensive, high-end [...]

Joey (TV2, 6.30, R) ✫✫ Joey is asked to go on the television show, Celebrity Poker. In a match hosted by Dave Foley and poker expert Phil Gordon, he plays against celebrities Alan Thicke, Coolio and Cindy Margolis. Global Radar (TV One, 7.00) ✫✫✫ Global Radar is looking for ways we can get juice to keep modern [...]

TV2’s security guard comedy, Observe and Report, last night blitzed the HD competition, despite starting half-an-hour later. Its 9pm premiere dominated all-but one of the key demographics, narrowly losing to Tom Scott’s 1981 Springbok tour dramatisation, Rage, in the 25-54 ranking. Otherwise, it roughly drew double the viewership of Rage and TV3’s The Boat That [...]

Cafe Secrets (TV3, 5.00, F) ✫✫✫ Julie Le Clerc learns how to make Okere Falls Store’s famous baked potatoes and shares a recipe for wagyu steak sandwich with onion jam. World Kitchen (TV3, 5.30, F) ✫✫✫ After an Indian inspired breakfast of Roti Canai, Nici Wickes visits a Chinese clan jetty for a cooking lesson by the [...]

Cafe Secrets (TV3, 5.00) ✫✫✫ When Julie Le Clerc visits Biscotto and Caffetteria Allpress, she gets a behind-the-scenes look at hot air roasting and learns the secret to making delicious Italian biscuits called ricciarelli. World Kitchen (TV3, 5.30) ✫✫✫ In Sichuan, Nici Wickes experiences the unusual effects of hot and numb Sichuan peppers, cooks red-hot Kung Pao [...]

Billy T James had the last “tee-hee” last night when an HD dramatisation of his life demolished the competition. Billy drew at least triple the viewership of TV3’s HD movie, The Happening, with 18% of 25-54 year-olds, 15.2% of 18-49 year-olds, 13.5% of 18-39 year-olds and 19.6% of household shoppers with kids. In total, 730,000 [...]

Cafe Secrets (TV3, 5.00) ✫✫✫ Colenso Café’s Ruth shows Julie Le Clerc how to make a fabulous pavlova stack filled with fresh cream and boysenberries. World Kitchen (TV3, 5.30) ✫✫✫ Nici Wickes searches out the key to longevity in Greek’s ancient isle of Crete, then makes souvlaki-style chicken with hand-made pita pockets and a sweet cheese pie. [...]

New Zealand’s definitive free-to-air guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i Saturday Under the Grill (TV3, 4.00, R) Best of Carters’ Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.00, R) Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook (TV One, 5.25, R) Rheem Outdoors With Geoff (TV3, 5.30) Hyundai Country Calendar (TV One, 7.00) ITM Fishing Show (TV3, 7.00) The Voice (TV2, 7.30) Sunday Cafe Secrets (TV3, 5.00) World [...]

The first in the Audi NZ Season of Sunday Theatre, Tangiwai, last night steamed ahead of the competition. The HD premiere was watched by 14.5% of TV One’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, compared to the movies Hancock, on TV2 (11.1%), and Charlie Wilson’s War, on TV3 (3.6%). The 18-49 ratings were 11.9% for Tangiwai, 11.8% [...]