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New Zealand’s definitive free-to-air guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i  Saturday TradeZone Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.00, R) Rheem Outdoors With Geoff (TV3, 5.30) Keeping Up With the Joneses (TV One, 7.00) Movie: Deception (TV3, 10.30, 5.1, R) Winners & Losers (TV One, 10.40, R) Sunday Hellcats (TV2, 5.30) The War at Home (TV2, 6.30, R) North (TV One, 7.00, [...]

Monsters vs Aliens and Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian will have their free-to-air HD premieres on TV3 in the last week of January. It’s also the week in which TV3 and TV2 will clear the decks for a raft of new-season programmes. Expect TV3’s February highlights to include Homeland, Terra Nova, Bones, [...]

Underbelly NZ: Land of the Long Green Cloud last night sunk to its lowest ratings yet. The fourth of six episodes was watched by only 5.5% of 25-54 year-olds, which was almost half of the 9.9% that tuned into its premiere three weeks earlier. The trend was similar in other demographics but viewership across all [...]

How Underbelly NZ fares 9.30pm Wednesdays could be determined by tonight’s season-three finale of Sons of Anarchy. After months of dominating this slot, Anarchy last week took a big hit from episode two of TV2’s new HD rival, The Walking Dead. With males aged 18-39, The Walking Dead rated 10% versus Anarchy’s 5.8% and with all [...]

ScreenScribe.tv’s definitive free-to-air guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i: Saturday Hyundai Country Calendar (TV One, 7.00) ITM Fishing Show (TV3, 7.00) Sunday Bigger Better Faster Stronger (TV3, 5.00, R) Pretty Little Liars (TV2, 5.30) Joey (TV2, 6.30, R) Modern Family (TV3, 7.00, 5.1) The Middle (TV2, 7.30) CSI: Miami (TV3, 9.30, 5.1) The Good [...]

Hawaii Five-O fans frustrated by time slot changes and pre-emptions will be heartened to hear TV3 hasn’t yet washed its hands of the splashy crime show. TV3 is taking it off-air after next week and replacing it with the Underbelly Files movie, Tell Them Lucifier Was Here. Although Underbelly is one of the network’s most [...]

TV3 is betting on more HD crime dramas to succeed where others have failed. It’s reviving CSI: Miami to improve its 9.30pm Sunday ratings and will replace the ebbing Hawaii Five-0 with Underbelly movies. The first of these, Underbelly: Tell Them Lucifer Was Here, will screen 8.30pm on May 11, instead of Five-0 and its [...]

The latest in the sci-fi franchise, Predators, has had stellar reviews from US Blu-ray critics. Hi-Def Digest rated it 5/5 for both its HD video and audio: “Very literally perfect from a technical stand point … The reason why the 1080p AVC MPEG-4 transfer (aspect ratio: 2.35:1) is so great is that it appears to [...]

TV3′s primetime gamble on its new high-octane HD drama, Sons of Anarchy, paid off last night when the premiere blitzed the competition. This “Easy Rider meets The Sopranos“ drew 9% of the network’s core audience, 18-49 year-olds, although it did slip from a peak of 10.5% to a low of 7.6% during the hour. TV2′s [...]

The Pacific leads November’s wave of TV-on-Blu-ray releases. The 10-part Band of Brothers stablemate goes on sale on November 3, along with season two of the Aussie hit, Packed to the Rafters, the Complete Specials box set of Doctor Who and the second Sex & the City movie. Extras on the six-disc The Pacific will [...]