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TV3′s Graham Norton Show bounced back on Friday to win its slot for the first time in weeks but the network’s HD weekend crime shows and movie were out-rated by TV2′s line-up. Richard Gere, John Malkovich, Saoirse Ronan and Taylor Swift helped to give Norton more star power than normal. The chat show averaged 8.0% – [...]

NZ’s definitive free-to-air guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i on the networks: Saturday Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.30, R) The Food Truck (TV One, 7.00, R) Ice Road Truckers (TV3, 7.30, 5.1) CSI: New York (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) CSI: Miami (TV3 9.30, 5.1) Pan Am (TV One, 9.35, 5.1) Sunday ITM Fishing Show (TV3, 5.30, R) I Hate My Teenage Daughter (TV2, [...]

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) Series premiere: 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) Movie: Invictus (TV One, 10.35, 5.1, [...]

Sky Movies Greats: Unforgiven (Sky 22, 8.30, 5.1) Clint Eastwood’s multi-Oscar-winning western shoots accepted conventions full of holes and takes no prisoners when it comes to telling the truth. Rarely has a western redressed the inaccuracies and exaggerations of fiction and film with such steadfast and sometimes amusing authenticity. Yet underlying Unforgiven’s stark revisionism is the genre’s [...]

SoHo Highlight: The Promise (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) Reading about the dramatic events in her grandfather’s diary, Erin is determined to resolve the mystery surrounding the fate of his charwallah friend Mohammed. This is part three of a four-part epic The New Statesman hailed as “a reflective and excruciatingly well-researched series that throws light on a [...]

Series Premiere: Vera (TV One, 8.30) When a young boy is found murdered in his bath, surrounded by flowers, DCI Vera Stanhope is called in to investigate and soon is on the trail of a serial killer. “Brenda Blethyn played a shambolic middle-aged woman with a perpetually puzzled expression. She also happened to be a Chief Inspector [...]

Season Premiere: Supernatural (TV2, 10.35, 5.1) Assuming his new role as God, Castiel sets out to right some of the wrongs in the world; Dean decides to bind Death in order to stop him. According to website 28 Days Later, ”Supernatural’s season seven premiere is looking promising as long as the series’ writers know where to focus the tale. [...]

Series Premiere: Hounds (TV3, 10.00) A shiftless lawyer inherits a half-sister, half a house, and an alcoholic dog trainer after his father dies suddenly at the dog track. TV3 could be on to a winner with this Kiwi comedy if advance reviews are any guide to its form. “This isn’t the laugh-out-loud, neon-lit, canned-laughter comedy we [...]

Season Finale: Sherlock (TV One, 8.30, F) James Moriaty has planned the crime of the century: The Tower of London, the Bank of England and Pentonville Prison – all sprung open on the same day, as if by magic! But Moriarty’s plans don’t stop there. “With warped mind games, jabs at the British news media and a [...]

Season Highlight: Sherlock (TV One, 8.30) It’s Sherlock’s most famous case, but is a monster really stalking Dartmoor? What seems like fantasy in Baker Street is a very different prospect in the ultra-secret army base that looms over the moor. “The Hounds of Baskerville took the most famous of all Sherlock Holmes stories, gave the original title [...]