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New Zealand’s definitive free-to-air guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i: Saturday Hyundai Country Calendar (TV One, 7.00) Terra Nova (TV3, 7.30, 5.1) Movie: The Wolfman (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) Movie: The Kingdom  (TV3, 10.35, 5.1, R) Sunday Pretty Little Liars (TV2, 5.30) The War at Home (TV2, 6.30, R) The Food Truck (TV One, 7.00) The Big Bang Theory (TV2, 7.00, R) Mike [...]

 Season Highlight: Sons of Anarchy (TV3, 9.30, 5.1) Jax and Tara glimpse life without SAMCRO, but discover that their reality is hard to escape. “This week, Sons of Anarchy addressed some of the aspects of the motorcycle-gang life that have most frequently prevented me from completely buying into this very good series,” Entertainment Weekly’s Ken Tucker said. “No coincidence: [...]

The Wolfman will have its network HD premiere on April 21, when TV3 broadcasts the horror re-make in 5.1; Benjamin Bratt (Law & Order, The Cleaner) guest stars as Manny’s father in the April 23 episode of Modern Family, which revolves around a near-death experience for Phil; Nature’s Great Events ends it re-run on April [...]

Season Premiere: Castle (TV One, 8.30) Detective Beckett fights for her life as Castle, plagued by guilt over his role in the events, struggles to uncover who’s behind Beckett’s brutal shooting. According to US critic Alan Sepinwall, “The normally breezy crime dramedy picks up in a dark place in the aftermath of last spring’s fairly shocking finale. Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s [...]

Series Highlight: Sons of Anarchy (TV3, 9.30, 5.1) An important club vote gets side tracked when SAMCRO is forced to deal with dangerous external threats against the club. “This is where the fun starts,” the AV Club siad. “Oh sure, there’s little fun awaiting our heroes in Family Recipe, which has a number of chickens coming home to a number [...]

New Zealand’s definitive free-to-air guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i: Saturday The Secret Lives of Dancers (TV3, 4.30, R) TradeZone Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.00) Rheem Outdoors With Geoff (TV3, 5.30, R) Hyundai Country Calendar (TV One, 7.00) Terra Nova (TV3, 7.30, 5.1) Movie: Public Enemies (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) Winners & Losers (TV One, 10.30, R) Touch (TV3, 11.10, 5.1, R) Movie: [...]

The Walking Dead is proving to be an unhappy ending to TV2′s otherwise stellar Wednesday night line-up. Whereas most of the network’s HD comedies last night rated in the mid-teens, except for Happy Endings, which dipped below 10%, The Walking Dead averaged only 4.3%-5.9%. Having reached the mid-season point, TV2 will be hoping viewership builds [...]

Series Highlight: Sons of Anarchy (TV3, 9.30, 5.1) SAMCRO enlists a former foe to help stop the advancement of Charming Heights while the Sheriff presses Juice for more information. Ex-Baywatch beefcake David Hasselhoff (above, with Charlie Hunnam) guest stars as a Boogie Nights-ish filmmaker. “After a suffering from a lull last week with a weaker episode, the fourth season [...]

Series Highlight: The Walking Dead (TV2, 9.30) Concerned for their safety, the group makes a plan that Hershel disagrees with adamantly — he makes it clear the group is fine to stay for now, but not indefinitely. Michael Rooker (above), who was riveting as Merle in season one’s most suspenseful episode, Guts, returns. One of the best appraisals [...]

SoHo Highlight: Boss (Sky 10, 9.45, 5.1) “After four weeks of severely uncomfortable sex scenes, political jostling and secretly dealing with diseases, Boss took an interesting turn in this week’s episode, Remembered,” the Better With Popcorn blog said. “For most of the episode’s 52 minute runtime, we were led to believe that what was going on in the episode was an [...]