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Here - New Zealand Listener
SATURDAY DECEMBER 22
TV1
TV2
FREEVIEW 1 SKY 001
6.00 Te Karere (R, C) 6445
6.30 Hyundai Country Calendar
(G, R, HD, C) 4464
7.00 60 Minute Makeover
(G, R) 81464
8.00 Here to Stay (G, R, C) 85280
9.00 A Taste of Home
(G, R, C) 9551
9.30 Come Dine with Me
(G, R) 5475280
Noon Marco’s Kitchen Burnout
(PGR, C) 52938
1.00 Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals
(G, C) 53984
1.35 MasterChef: The
Professionals (G, C) 3219990
2.20 The Chase (G, C) 5798648
3.20 Situation Critical
(PGR, R, HD, C) 688071
3.55 Children’s Hospital
(G, C) 4460613
4.25 Find My Family (G, R, C)
6.00 Tiki Tour (G, HD, C) 34700
6.25 Buzzy Bee and Friends
(G, C) 7760483
6.35 Handy Manny (G, C) 1300939
6.55 The Adventures of Chuck
and Friends (G, R, C) 1570532
7.15 Stitch! – Christmas Special
(G, R, C) 1455551
7.40 Phineas and Ferb
(G, R, C) 1472218
8.10 Green Lantern: The
Animated Series (C) 5712261
8.35 Batman: The Brave and the
Bold (G, R, C) 1675303
9.05 A.N.T. Farm (G) 4900303
9.30 ■ Cool Kids Cooking
(G, R, C) 1313311
9.35 Just the Job (G, R, C) 1655236
10.00 ■ I AM TV 70358
11.00 I’m a Celebrity Get Me out
of Here (PGR) 763342
12.30 Hope and Faith (G, R, C)
8913984
5396
■ Jamie’s Best Ever
Christmas (G, R, C) 2210025
6.00 ONE News (C) 94990
7.00 ■ The Food Truck
(G, R, HD, C) Chef Michael
Van de Elzen presents
his version of classic Kiwi
takeaways. Tonight: Pies. 975
7.30 Doc Martin (G, R, C, AD)
Cats & Sharks: Bert is being
chased by loan sharks. 2629
8.30 Come Dine with Me UK
(PGR, C) Christmas Special:
Celebrities Goldie, Tony
Christie, Janet Ellis and Susie
Amy battle it out for charity.
4.55
7747261
9.35
TV3
FREEVIEW 2 SKY 002
Pan Am (HD, C, AD) One
Coin in a Fountain: Maggie
manages to keep her career
alive by claiming she is the
only Portuguese-speaking
stewardess at Pan Am.
2040919
10.30 ■ Brideshead Revisited
(2008, C) During WWII,
an English military officer
becomes entangled with an
upper-class family. Matthew
Goode, Emma Thompson,
Ben Whishaw, Michael
Gambon. Films, page 68
28981735
1.20am BBC World – BBC World
News 2010491
1.30 Equestrian World 3259728
2.00 BBC World News 2934762
2.15 Sport Today 6163120
2.30 Fast Track 1259548
3.00 BBC World News 7532197
3.30 Dateline London 7659584
4.00 BBC World News 2020965
4.10 Faster, Higher, Stronger
1979217
5.00 BBC World News 3766526
5.30 – 6.00 Our World 3736385
1.00
The Amazing Race
(PGR, R, HD, C) 56700
2.00 ■ Are We There Yet? (2005,
PGR, R, C) A salesman
offers to drive his girlfriend’s
obnoxious kids across the
US. Ice Cube, Nia Long.
639236
4.00 The Nowies (HD) What
Now’s Gem Knight and
singer Timomatic host an
awards show for kids. 12396
5.00 One Direction: A Year in the
Making (G, C) English boyband One Direction share
the experiences during their
first year as a group. 98716
6.00 America’s Funniest Home
Videos (G, C) 4071
6.30 Wipeout (G, C) 93261
7.30 ■ The Voice (PGR, HD,
C) Tonight: The final four
compete to be named
winner. (Includes Lotto at
8.00pm.) 79700
9.30 ■ Bring It On (2000,
PGR, R, C) A high school
cheerleading squad discover
that their previous captain
stole their routines, and they
have to come up with new
ones before the champs.
Kirsten Dunst, Eliza Dushku,
Jesse Bradford, Gabrielle
Union. 46844
11.30 Derren Brown: Enigma
(AO, R, C) 2853919
1.05am ■ The Prestige (2006,
AO, R, C) Hugh Jackman,
Christian Bale. 70262033
3.20 ■ Blonde Ambition (2007,
PGR, R, C) Jessica Simpson,
Luke Wilson. 5081656
4.55 Cougar Town (PGR, C)
43232694
5.30 – 6.00 It Is Written 3767255
■ NEW ■ RETURN ■ FINAL ■ FILM
FREEVIEW 3 SKY 003
6.00 Charles Stanley 8613
6.30 Outdoors with Geoff
(G, R) 9532
7.00 Trade Zone Gone Fishin’
(G, R, HD) 1731
7.30 The Little Couple (G, R) 6808
8.30 Infomercials
9.30 Flowers Uncut with Jeff
Leatham (PGR) 4006
10.00 The Great Food Escape
(G, R, C) 5735
10.30 Media3 3754
11.00 Project Runway
(PGR, R, C) 36990
Noon ■ The X Factor USA
(G, R, HD) 947342
4.00 The Office (G) 4803
4.30 The Real Hustle NZ
(G, R, C) 2280
5.00 Rheem Outdoors with Geoff
(G, R) 5939
5.30 Trade Zone Gone Fishin’
(G, HD) 3396
6.00 3 News 96358
7.00 Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals
(G, C) Tonight: golden
chicken with braised greens
and potato gratin. 193
7.30 Ice Road Truckers
(PGR, HD, C) 1975
8.30 CSI: New York (AO, HD, C)
To What End?: A man in
a clown costume shoots a
bakery owner. 51938
9.25 CSI: Miami (AO, HD, C) Last
Straw: Miami sorority sisters
are murdered one-by-one.
7143629
10.25 Homeland (AO, R, HD, C)
1910396
11.55 ■ The Constant Gardener
(2005, AO, R) Ralph Fiennes,
Rachel Weisz. 9460938
2.25am Infomercials
5.00 Brian Houston @ Hillsong
(G) 3751694
5.30 – 6.00 Charles Stanley 3754781
FOUR
FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012
6.00 Children’s Programmes 4.35
Kenan & Kel (G, R) 5.05 Sabrina:
The Teenage Witch (G) 5.30
Clueless (G, R) 6.00 Life’s Funniest
Moments (G, R) 6.30 ■ Curious
George (2006, G, R) Voices of
Frank Welker, Will Ferrell, Eugene
Levy. 8.20 The Real Housewives
of Orange County (PGR) Tonight:
Previously unseen footage. 9.20
Face Off (PGR) Tonight: The
artists must modify an ordinary
occupation into a character worthy
of a Tim Burton movie. 10.20
Sons of Tucson (PGR) Sally Teel:
Robby enters a ballroom-dancing
competition. 10.50 Excused (AO)
11.40 – 6.00am Infomercials
TV1: Brideshead Revisited,
10.30pm
PRIME
FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004
6.00 Home Shopping
11.30 Harry’s Practice (G, R) 424716
Noon Best of the Crowd Goes Wild
Omnibus (G, R) 28097087
3.35 MasterChef USA (G, R)
9916396
4.30 Get Growing with New
Zealand Gardener 322984
4.55 Fishing NZ (G) 671193
5.30 Prime News 240716
6.00 Getaway (G) 241445
6.30 The Enforcers (G, R) 259464
7.00 Nigella’s Christmas Kitchen
(G, R) 815919
7.30 Antiques Roadshow
(G) 2905087
8.40 Weekend Murders:
Midsomer Murders (AO, R)
Blood on the Saddle: An
estate manager who was the
lover of an unpopular farmer
is murdered. 474087
10.40 Running Wilde (PGR)
Tonight: Steve’s spending
habits have been spiralling
out of control. 802464
11.05 Paul Merton in Europe
(AO, R) Tonight: Ireland.
4678464
12.05am – 6.00 Home Shopping
MAORI
FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019
10.00am Toku Reo (G, R)
2.00 Riiki ARL (R)
4.00 Head Start (G, R)
4.30 The Native Diet (G)
5.00 Kai Ora (G, R)
5.30 News: Te Kaea
6.00 Mister Ed (G)
6.30 Whatukura Mareikura (G)
Hohepa Harawira hosts a
panel discussion with Manu
Neho, Tame Iti, Whirimako
Black and Eraia Keil.
7.00 Ka TV (G) Healthy lifestyle
show.
7.30 Te Kaea (R)
8.00 ■ The Last Emperor (1987,
PGR) The history of Pu Yi,
the last Emperor of China.
John Lone, Joan Chen, Peter
O’Toole. Films, page 68
11.00 – 12.30am Poitukohu NBA
Tonight: Oklahoma City v
Minnesota.
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SATURDAY DECEMBER 22
SKY MOVIES SKY 020
MOVIES GREATS SKY 022 MGM SKY 023
RIALTO SKY 025
6.00 Diary of a Wimpy Kid:
Rodrick Rules (2011, PG)
7.40 Tanner Hall (2009, M)
Rooney Mara, Georgia King.
9.15 The Decoy Bride (2011, PG)
Kelly Macdonald.
10.45 Biography: Sarah Jessica
Parker (2008, PG)
11.35 The Double (2011, M)
Richard Gere, Topher Grace.
1.15
The Night Before the Night
Before Christmas (2010, PG)
Jennifer Beals.
2.45 The Rite (2011, M) Anthony
Hopkins, Colin O’Donoghue.
4.40 Cars 2 (2011, PG) Voices of
Owen Wilson, Michael Caine.
6.25 We Bought a Zoo
(2011, PG) Matt Damon.
8.30 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
(2011, M) During the Cold
War, an espionage veteran is
forced from semi-retirement
to uncover a Soviet agent.
Gary Oldman, Colin Firth.
10.40 Life as We Know It (2010, M)
Katherine Heigl.
12.35am It Waits (2005, 16) 2.00
Slayer (2006, 16) 3.25 The Night
Before the Night Before Christmas
(2010, PG) 4.55 We Bought a Zoo
(2011, PG)
6.45 10 Things I Hate About You
(1999, PG) Heath Ledger.
8.20 Deuce Bigalow: European
Gigolo (2005, 16)
9.45 Eraser (1996, 16) Arnold
Schwarzenegger.
11.40 Rain Man (1988, M) Dustin
Hoffman, Tom Cruise.
1.50 10 Things I Hate About You
(1999, PG) Heath Ledger.
3.25 Reign of Fire (2002, M)
Christian Bale.
5.05 Layer Cake (2005, 16) Daniel
Craig, Sienna Miller.
6.50 Role Models (2008, 16) After
trashing their company truck,
two friends are sentenced
to 150 hours mentoring kids.
Seann William Scott.
8.30 Doom (2005, 16) A team of
marines journey to Mars to
uncover what went wrong
at a research station and
are confronted with a hellish
situation. Karl Urban.
10.20 Mamma Mia! (2008, PG)
Amanda Seyfried.
12.10am Making of: Safe House
(2012, M) 12.35 Layer Cake (2005,
16) 2.20 Reign of Fire (2002, M) 4.00
Doom (2005, 16) 5.45 Mamma Mia!
(2008, PG)
7.55
6.00 Escape From Absolom
(1994, M) Ray Liotta.
7.55 Anything Else (2003, M)
Woody Allen, Jason Biggs.
9.45 Kickboxer (1989, 16) JeanClaude Van Damme.
11.20 Topkapi (1964, G) Melina
Mercouri, Peter Ustinov.
1.20 And Now for Something
Completely Different (1971,
PG) John Cleese, Eric Idle.
2.50 The Boxer (1997, M)
Emily Watson.
4.40 Housesitter (1992, PG) Steve
Martin, Goldie Hawn.
6.20 The Great Raid (2005, M)
During WWII, a mission is
launched to save 500 POWs
in a Japanese prison camp.
Benjamin Bratt.
8.30 New York, New York
(1977, PG) A cocky
saxophone player and an
independent singer embark
on a rocky relationship. Liza
Minnelli, Robert De Niro.
11.10 Chasing Amy (1997, 16) Ben
Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams.
1.00am The Thing (1982, 16) 2.50
Troll (1986, PG) 4.15 MGM Making of:
The Culture of Hip Hop (PG) 4.35
Housesitter (1992, PG)
GENERAL
Slings and Arrows (PG) 1.40 The Vinyl Frontier (PG)
3.05 Other Voices 4.00 The 360 Sessions 4.30 ■
Impromptu (1991, M)
Choice TV FREEVIEW 12 SKY 078
6.30 Better Homes & Gardens 7.20 Gardeners’ World
8.30 Love It or List It 9.00 Food Factory 9.30 My
Kitchen 10.00 If It’s Broke Fix It 11.00 Cash & Cari
11.30 Manly Surf Noon Yard Crashers 12.30 You
Deserve This House 1.30 Better Homes & Gardens
2.20 Gardeners’ World 3.30 Million Dollar Contractor
4.00 The Stagers 4.30 Love Your Garden 5.00
Ainsley’s Barbecue Bible 5.30 Why Not? With Shania
Twain 6.30 Bucket Wish 8.00 Web Therapy (PGR)
8.30 50 Documentaries to See Before You Die (PGR)
Morgan Spurlock counts down the the modern
documentary era’s most powerful, provocative and
moving films. 9.30 End of the Road (2010, G) UK
documentary in which stand-up comics Alexis Dubus
and Sy Thomas travel across seven countries in a
£100 car. 10.30 Million Dollar Contractor 11.00 The
Stagers 11.30 Love Your Garden 12.00am Ainsley’s
Barbecue Bible 12.30 Web Therapy (PGR) 1.00 Hairy
Bikers Christmas Party 2.00 Bucket Wish 2.30 What’s
Really in Our Food? 3.00 50 Documentaries to See
Before You Die (PGR) 4.00 End of the Road 5.00
The Kitchen Job
UKTV SKY 006
6.45 Strictly Come Dancing (PG) 8.50 One Foot
in the Grave (PG) 10.40 EastEnders (PG) 12.40
Holby City (PG) 1.40 Sherlock (M) 3.10 Heartbeat
(PG) 4.00 The Choir (PG) 5.00 The Bill (M) 5.50
Midsomer Murders (M) 7.30 Doctor Who (PG) 8.20
Sherlock (M) The Great Game: Jom Moriarty sets
Holmes deadlines to solve apparently unrelated
crimes. 10.00 Shameless (16) Karen is convinced
Jamie is cheating on her and confides in Gloria.
10.55 Torchwood: Children of Earth (16) Day 5:
Torchwood is defenceless and Gwen stands alone as
the final sanction begins. 11.55 Ten Minute Tales (PG)
12.05am Midsomer Murders (M) 1.45 Strictly Come
Dancing (PG) 3.50 The Bill Classics (M) 4.20 Doctor
Who (PG) 5.10 The Bill (M)
Living SKY 008
6.00 The Outdoor Room 6.30 Breathing Space
Yoga 7.00 Costa’s Arnhem Land Odyssey 8.00
Grow Your Own Drugs 8.30 Ask This Old House
9.00 Period Property 9.30 Colour Confidential 10.00
74
In the Dark Half (2011, M)
Jessica Barden.
9.20 Gainsbourg (2010, M) Eric
Elmosnino, Lucy Gordon.
11.20 Bringing Up Bobby (2011, M)
Milla Jovovich, Spencer List.
1.00 Phasma Ex Machina (2010,
M) Sasha Andreev.
2.30 British Theatre: This is
England 88: Part 1 (2011, 16)
Vicky McClure.
3.35 The Age of Reason (2010,
PG) Sophie Marceau.
5.05 The Special Relationship
(2010, M) Michael Sheen.
6.40 Love and Other Impossible
Pursuits (2009, M) Natalie
Portman, Scott Cohen.
8.20 Short Film: Brains? (2012, M)
8.30 Rialto Official Selection:
Arrietty (2010, G) A family
of tiny people live in a large
family’s house and survive
by “borrowing”. Voices of
Siaorse Ronan, Mark Strong.
10.10 Don’t Look Now (1973,
M) Julie Christie, Donald
Sutherland.
12.00am Jar City (2006, 16) 1.35
Phasma Ex Machina (2010, M) 3.05
Don’t Look Now (1973, M) 4.55 The
Age of Reason (2010, PG)
SoHo SKY 010
Sky Movies: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, 8.30pm
Sarah 101 10.30 Make My Home Bigger 11.00 Ask
This Old House 11.30 Period Property Noon Cash
in the Attic 1.00 The Garden Pantry 1.30 Summer
Home 2.00 Sarah 101 2.30 Make My Home Bigger
3.00 Costa’s Arnhem Land Odyssey 4.00 HGTV
Top 10 4.30 Eat Yourself Sexy Australia 5.30 Colour
Confidential 6.00 Inside the Box 6.30 Property
Developing Abroad 7.30 Final Chance to Save (M)
8.30 Brick by Brick 9.30 Heir Hunters 10.30 How Not
to Decorate 11.30 Edwardian Farm (PG) 12.30am
Inside the Box 1.00 Period Property 1.30 Ask This Old
House 2.00 Inside the Box 2.30 Edwardian Farm (PG)
3.30 Property Developing Abroad 4.30 Heir Hunters
5.30 Edwardian Farm (PG)
The Arts Channel SKY 079
6.15 ELO: Live at Wembley 7.20 Lemonade 8.00
Not for Ourselves Alone 9.30 James Rhodes:
Piano Man 10.00 My Father, My Brother, and Me
11.00 Behind the Camera 11.30 In Search of Haydn
Noon Obsession Magnifique 12.30 The Dust Bowl
1.30 Fish Town 2.15 ELO: Live at Wembley 3.20
Lemonade 4.00 Slings and Arrows (PG) 4.50 Slings
and Arrows (PG) 5.40 The Vinyl Frontier (PG)
7.05 Other Voices 8.00 The 360 Sessions. 8.30
■ Impromptu (1991, M) Based on the story of the
romance between the introverted composer Chopin
and the free-spirited novelist George Sand. Judy
Davis, Hugh Grant. 10.20 The Secret to a Happy
Ending 12.00am Slings and Arrows (PG) 12.50
6.05 Six Feet Under (16) 7.05 SoHo on Set (M) 7.50
Nip/Tuck (16) Noon Box Set Weekend: Boss (18)
5.00 Inside the Actor’s Studio (M) 5.50 ■ Einstein
and Eddington (2008, M) David Tennant, Richard
McCabe, Patrick Kennedy. 7.30 Line of Duty (16)
8.30 Luck (18) Episode Seven: While Ace tours a
prison outreach horse retirement farm with Claire,
Israel tries to convince Smythe that his boss is on
the level. 9.30 Dexter (16) 10.30 Californication (18)
The Devil’s Threesome: Charlie desperately wants
to get laid, and enlists the help of a very reluctant
Hank. 11.00 Hung (18) 11.30 Rescue Me (16) 12.15am
Luck (18) 1.15 Nip/Tuck (16) 2.05 Nip/Tuck (16) 2.55
Nip/Tuck (16) 3.45 Nip/Tuck (16) 4.35 Nip/Tuck (16)
5.25 Rescue Me (16)
BBC World News SKY 093
6.00 The Hub with Nik Gowing 6.30 BBC Focus
on Africa 7.00 BBC World News 7.30 Middle East
Business Report 8.00 World News Today with 8.30
World News Today with 8.40 Weekend World 9.00
BBC World News 9.30 Our World 10.00 Business
Edition with 10.30 Football Focus 11.00 BBC World
News America Noon BBC World News 12.30
Newsnight 1.00 BBC World News 1.10 Weekend
World 1.30 A Year of Compelling Stories 2.00 BBC
World News 2.10 Faster, Higher, Stronger 3.00 BBC
World News 3.30 A Year of Compelling Stories
4.00 BBC World News 4.30 The Culture Show 5.00
BBC World News 5.30 Fast Track 6.00 BBC World
News 6.30 Middle East Business Report 7.00 BBC
World News 7.30 Click 8.00 BBC World News 8.10
Weekend World 8.30 A Year of Compelling Stories
9.00 BBC World News 9.10 Football Focus 9.30 A
Year of Compelling Stories 10.00 BBC World News
10.10 Why Poverty? 11.00 BBC World News 11.10
World Features 11.30 Newsnight 12.00am BBC
World News 12.10 Weekend World 12.30 Our World
1.00 BBC World News 1.30 Equestrian World 2.00
BBC World News 2.15 Sport Today 2.30 Fast Track
3.00 BBC World News 3.30 Dateline London 4.00
BBC World News 4.10 Faster, Higher, Stronger 5.00
BBC World News 5.30 Our World
LISTENER DECEMBER 22 2012
SATURDAY DECEMBER 22
SPORT
RADIO
Sky Sport 1 SKY 030
Radio New Zealand National
6.00 Kiwi Magic. 7.00 US PGA Tour Year in
Review. 8.00 Darts, World Championships, Day
Eight, Session Two, live. Noon Premier League
Preview. 12.30 First London 2012 Official Film.
2.30 Kiwi Magic. 3.30 Premier League Preview.
4.00 Basketball, NBL, All Star Game, live. 6.00
Darts, World Championships, Day Eight, Session
One, replay. 9.00 Rugby, Sevens Qualifiers.
Central Regional, from the Massey Institute of
Sport, Manawatu, highlights. 10.30 Darts, World
Championships, Day Eight, Session Two, replay.
1.30am Darts, World Championships, Day Nine,
Session One, live. 5.30 Export Gold Match Fishing
League.
Sky Sport 2 SKY 031
8.30 The Crowd Goes Wild. 9.00 Cricket, HRV Cup,
Auckland Aces v Canterbury Wizards, from Eden
Park, Auckland, replay. 12.30 The Cricket Show. 1.00
Golf, US Womens Amateur Championship, Lydia
Ko v Jaye Marie Green. 3.00 Golf, LPGA Canadian
Womens Open, highlights. 4.30 Cricket, HRV Cup,
Auckland Aces v Canterbury Wizards, from Eden
Park, Auckland, replay. 8.00 The Cricket Show.
8.30 Cricket, KFC T20 Big Bash League, Melbourne
Renegades v Brisbane Heat, live. 12.30am ICC
Cricket 360. 1.00 Premier League Preview.
1.30 Soccer, English Premier League, Wigan v
Arsenal, live. 3.45 Soccer, English Premier League,
Manchester City v Reading, live.
Sky Sport 1: World Championship Darts,
1.30am
v Melbourne Victory, live. 12.00am Soccer,
A-League, Wellington Phoenix v Central Coast
Mariners, replay. 2.00 The Cricket Show. 2.30
Cricket, First Twenty20, South Africa v New
Zealand, from Kingsmead, Durban, replay.
ESPN SKY 034
6.00 Fox Sports News. 8.00 Fox Sports News. 8.30
Fox Sports News. 9.00 Fox Sports News. 9.30 Fox
Sports News. 10.00 Cricket, KFC T20 Big Bash
League, Melbourne Stars v Sydney Sixers, replay.
1.30 Cricket, First Twenty20, South Africa v New
Zealand, from Kingsmead, Durban, replay. 5.00
Soccer, A-League, Wellington Phoenix v Central
Coast Mariners, live. 7.00 Premier League Preview.
7.30 Soccer, A-League, Newcastle Jets v Sydney FC,
live. 9.45 Soccer, A-League, Melbourne Heart
6.00 Billiards, WPBA Tour Championship, second
semi Final, 7.00 Billiards, WPBA Tour Championship,
Final, 8.00 Powerboating, P1 Superstock Series,
Round Two, highlights. 8.30 Powerboating, P1
Superstock Series, Round Three, highlights. 9.00
Outside the Lines. 9.30 NCAA Football Show. 10.00
NFL Show Live. 11.00 SportsCenter. Noon NFL32.
1.00 NBA Action. 1.30 Basketball, NBA, New York
Knicks v Chicago Bulls, live. 4.00 SportsCenter.
5.00 Poker, World Series, Day Three, replay. 6.00
Poker, World Series, Day Three, replay. 7.00 Poker,
World Series, Day Three, replay. 8.00 Around
the Horn. 8.30 Pardon the Interruption. 9.00
SportsCenter. 10.00 ESPNFC Press Pass. 10.30
NBA Tonight. 11.00 SportsNation. 12.00am Crossfit
Games. 1.00 SportsCenter. 2.00 SportsCenter. 3.00
ESPNFC Press Pass. 3.30 NBA Tonight. 4.00 NFL
Films Presents. 4.30 NFL Films Presents. 5.00 NFL
Show.
DOCUMENTARIES
History SKY 073
Sky Sport 3 SKY 032
6.30 Connect (PG) 7.00 Connect (PG) 7.30
MythBusters (PG) 8.30 MythBusters (PG) 9.30 ET
Fishing Escapes (PG) 10.30 Volcano Time Bomb
(PG) 11.30 Mighty Planes (PG) 12.30 You Have
Been Warned (PG) 1.30 American Guns (M) 2.30
MythBusters (PG) 3.30 How We Invented the World
(PG) 4.30 Inside the Catch: Deckhands (PG) 5.30
After the Catch (PG) 6.30 Ragin’ Cajuns (PG) 7.30
Abalone Wars (PG) 8.30 Auction Kings (PG) Harley
Bike/Lincoln Document: The crew auction off a Civil
War document signed by Abraham Lincoln. 9.00
Auction Hunters (PG) 9.30 Sons of Guns (M) 10.30
Mighty Planes (PG) 11.30 I Shouldn’t Be Alive (PG)
12.30am Call 911 (PG) 1.00 Destroyed in Seconds
(PG) 1.30 Man vs Wild Marathon (PG)
7.30 Jurassic Fight Club (M) 8.30 Great Castles of
Europe (PG) 9.00 Royal Upstairs Downstairs (G)
9.30 Time Team (G) 10.30 Heir Hunters (PG) 11.30
Civilization Lost (PG) 1.30 Life After People (G) 3.30
Stephen Fry in America (PG) 4.30 The Explorers
(G) 5.00 Building Wonders (G) 5.30 At Home with
the Georgians (PG) 6.30 From Jesus to Christ
(PG) 8.30 She Wolves: England’s Early Queens
(PG) Jane, Mary and Elizabeth: Historian Helen
Castor explores seven queens who challenged male
power, and the fierce reactions they provoked. 9.30
Britain’s Lost Routes (PG) 10.40 Secrets of the
Arabian Nights (PG) 11.45 Tony Robinson’s Gods
& Monsters (M) 12.35am UFO Hunters (PG) 1.25
Brad Meltzer’s Decoded (PG) 2.15 In Search of Holy
Treasure (G) 3.10 From Jesus to Christ (PG) 5.10
Britain’s Lost Routes (PG)
National Geographic SKY 072
BBC Knowledge SKY 074
Discovery SKY 070
6.30 Air Crash Investigation (PG) 7.30 Seconds
From Disaster (M) 8.30 Big, Bigger, Biggest (G) 9.30
Supercars (G) 10.30 Supercars (G) 11.30 American
Gypsies (M) 12.30 The Croc Catchers NT (PG) 1.00
The Croc Catchers NT (PG) 1.30 The Croc Catchers
NT (PG) 2.00 The Croc Catchers NT (PG) 3.30 The
Croc Catchers NT (PG) 4.00 The Croc Catchers NT
(PG) 4.30 Supercars (G) 5.30 Lion Ranger (PG)
6.30 America the Wild (G) 7.30 Access 360 World
Heritage (G) 8.30 Lost Faces of the Bible (PG)
Ancient Warrior: Six thousand years after an ancient
man’s death, a team of experts try to determine what
he looked like in his final hours. 9.30 Gospel of Judas
(PG) 10.30 American Gypsies (M) 11.30 Taboo (M)
12.30am Breakout (M) 1.30 America’s Hardest Prisons
(M) 2.30 Drugs Inc. (M) 3.30 Hard Time (M) 4.30
Megabreakdown (PG) 5.30 Air Crash Investigation
(PG)
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6.05 Dragons’ Den (PG) 7.05 Who Do You Think
You Are? (M) 8.05 Ancient Worlds (PG) 9.00
Walking with Beasts (PG) 9.30 Walking with Beasts
(PG) 10.00 Child of Our Time (PG) 11.00 Tribal
Wives (M) 12.05 Richard Hammond’s Crash Course
(PG) 12.55 Dragons’ Den (PG) 2.00 Invisible Worlds
(PG) 3.05 Who Do You Think You Are? (M) 4.10 Top
Gear (M) 5.15 Top Gear (PG) 6.45 Pole to Pole (PG)
7.40 An Idiot Abroad (16) 8.30 Tribal Wives (M)
Gabon: Linda Plover from Liverpool goes to live as
a “tribal wife” with the Babongo in southern Gabon.
9.35 Helicopter Heroes (PG) 10.30 True Stories
(M) 11.25 Dragons’ Den (PG) 12.30am Richard
Hammond’s Crash Course (PG) 1.20 Top Gear (PG)
2.40 Child of Our Time (PG) 3.40 Wonderland (M)
4.25 Alone Among Grizzlies (PG) 5.15 Pole to Pole
(PG)
6.08 Storytime (RNZ)
7.08 Country Life (RNZ)
8.10 Saturday Morning with Kim Hill
([email protected])
12.10 This Way Up with Simon Morton
([email protected])
2.04 Music 101 with Emma Smith Including:
4.10 Music 101’s Best of 2012: Emma Smith, Trevor
Reekie, Nick Atkinson and Kirsten Johnstone
discuss their favourite music from the past year
(RNZ)
([email protected])
5.12 Focus on Politics (RNZ)
5.30 Tagata o te Moana (RNZ)
6.06 Great Encounters (RNZ)
7.04 Saturday Night with Peter Fry
([email protected])
11.04 Wayne’s Music (RNZ)
12.04am All Night Programme Including: 12.05
Music after Midnight; 12.30 History Repeated
(RNZ); 1.05 Our Changing World (RNZ); 2.06
Spiritual Outlook (BBC); 2.35 Hymns (RNZ); 3.05
Grey Tiger, by Karen Goa (RNZ); 3.30 NZ Books
(RNZ); 4.30 Science in Action (BBC); 5.45
Auckland Stories (RNZ)
Details available at www.radionz.co.nz
Radio New Zealand Concert
News and Weather 6.00, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00am,
noon, 3.00, 6.00, 11.00pm
6.00 Classic Morning Includes News and Weather
9.00 Best of Upbeat (RNZ)
10.00 Your Choice (Box 123, Wellington or
[email protected])
Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart
1.00 Jazz Profiles With Nancy Wilson. Miles Davis:
An exploration of the jazz trumpeter’s greatest
and most successful album, Kind of Bluey (2 of
10) (NPR)
2.00 Global Sounds Bosnian singer Amira: A
traditional lyric song from the Balkans, an urban
folk music sometimes likened to Portuguese fado
3.00 Saturday Concert Martin Riseley (vln),
NZ School of Music Orch/Kenneth Young:
Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy Overture;
Britten: Passacaglia and Four Sea Interludes, from
Peter Grimes; Shostakovich: Violin Concerto No 1
in A minor Op 77 (RNZ)
4.25 The Fantastic Imagination Hugues: Sonata
fantastica Op 100, Jean-Louis Beaumadier
(piccolo), Laetitia Bougnol (pno); Caplet: Conte
fantastique, Marie-Pierre Langlamet (harp), Leipzig
String Quartet; Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique,
Lyon National Orch/Leonard Slatkin
6.00 Made in New Zealand NZ performers and
composers: Farquhar: Serenade for Strings, NZSO
CO; Gershwin: An American in Paris, New Zealand
SO/James Judd; Granados: Moresque; Canción
Arabe, from Spanish Dances, Richard Mapp (pno)
7.00 Vocalied Scandinavian Composers
8.00 Music Alive A Festival of Nine Lessons and
Carols: A service led by the Very Reverend Frank
Nelson, with readings from the staff, clergy and
choir members, Choir of Wellington Cathedral of
St Paul/Michael Fulcher (dir), Richard Apperley
(org) (RNZ)
9.40 Bach on Guitar Bach arr Yang: Violin
Concerto in E BWV1042, Xuefei Yang (gtr), Elias
String Quartet
10.00 Day’s End Ravel; Pelécis; Schubert; Haydn;
Mozart
12.00am Music Through the Night
Details available at www.radionz.co.nz
Newstalk ZB
6.00 Nigel Yalden 9.00 Kerre Woodham 12.00 Tony
Veitch 6.00 Jim Sutton 12.00am Tim Roxborogh
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TV2
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6.00 60 Minute Makeover
(G, R) 7711014
6.50 ■ The School of Home
Truths (PGR, R, C) 2881101
7.40 Tagata Pasifika (R) 8921548
8.10 Praise Be (G) 6124453
8.40 Attitude (G, R, C) 9574174
9.10 Westfield Style Pasifika
2009 (G, R) 1733491
10.00 Marae Investigates Summer
Series (G) 6323
10.30 Waka Huia (G, C) 1014
11.00 Neighbourhood (G, HD, C)
Today: Photographer Karen
Ishiguro shows off Stanmore
Bay. 2743
11.30 What Lies Beneath
(G, R, C) 5830
Noon ■ Weird Creatures with Nick
Baker (G, R, C) 71236
1.00 ■ Location, Location,
Location (G, R, C) 2965
1.30 ■ SCU: Serious Crash Unit
(PGR, R, C) 5052
2.00 Hotel Inspector
(PGR, R, C) 8818912
2.55 Undercover Boss USA
(G, R, C) 8296025
3.55 ■ Grow Your Own Drugs
(G, C) 4386781
5.00 Our World: ■ March of the
Dinosaurs (G, R, C) Tonight:
Scar’s migration from the
Arctic continues. 24304
6.00 ONE News (C) 28120
7.00 ■ Animal House (G, R,
C) Behind the scenes of
Auckland’s SPCA. Tonight:
An obese cat is brought in,
and an aggressive dog is
found living in a car. 946
7.30 Joanna Lumley’s Greek
Odyssey (G, C, AD) The
Islands: Joanna visits Crete,
Cos and Nisyros. 9439
8.30 Sunday Murder Mystery:
Vera – Silent Voice (C, AD)
Tonight: A respected social
worker is murdered, and
the investigation uncovers
systemic failures that led to
the death of a vulnerable
child. 34878
10.30 Packed to the Rafters (R, C)
Between the Covers: Nathan
invites Coby for a night out,
and Carbo makes big plans
for his proposal to Retta.
76743
11.30 Meet the Natives USA (G,
C) Tonight: The tribesman
travel to the mid-west of the
United States. 69205
12.30am Call 911 (PGR) 5659304
1.00 BBC World – BBC World
News 4209863
1.30 A Year of Compelling
Stories 1059340
2.00 BBC World News 2901434
2.15 Sport Today 6130892
2.30 Click 9059160
3.00 BBC World News 4104219
3.30 A Year of Compelling
Stories 1954796
4.00 BBC World News 2097637
4.10 Why Poverty? 1946989
5.00 BBC World News 3733298
5.30 – 6.00 The Believer’s Voice of
Victory (G, R) 3703057
6.00 Tiki Tour (G, HD, C) 40588
6.25 Jungle Junction (G, C)
7215946
6.50 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse
(G, R, C) 4915965
7.15 Adventure Time with Finn
and Jake (G, R, C) 5409548
7.35 ■ The Penguins of
Madagascar (G, R, C) 2188656
9.10 A.N.T. Farm (G, R, C) 4609156
9.35 Jonas (G, R, C) 9154323
10.20 Sonny with a Chance –
Christmas Special (G, R, C)
7961762
10.45 Jonas: Jonas Brothers:
The Concert Experience
(G, R) Footage from the
Jonas Brothers’ Burning Up
concert tour, including guest
performances from Demi
Lovato and Taylor Swift.
2085120
Noon ■ Christmas Cupid (2010,
PGR, R, C) Chad Michael
Murray, Ashley Benson,
Christina Milian. 5202472
1.40 ■ Are We Done Yet? (2007,
PGR, R, C) Ice Cube, Nia
Long, John C McGinley,
Aleisha Allen, Philip Daniel
Bolden. 9325120
3.30 America’s Funniest Home
Videos (G, R, C) 3830
4.00 ■ The Polar Express (2004,
G, R, C) On Christmas Eve,
a doubting boy boards a
magical train to the North
Pole. Voices of Tom Hanks,
Nona Gaye. 482217
6.00 Wipeout: Deck the Balls
Christmas Special (G, C)
Tonight: Contestants show
their holiday spirit as they
battle a new course. 26762
7.00 ■ A Christmas Carol (2009,
PGR, HD, C) Ebenezer
Scrooge is visited by the
ghosts of Christmas. Voices
of Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman,
Colin Firth, Bob Hoskins.
9618507
■ Bad Santa (2003, AO, R,
C, AD) Two con men pose
as Santa and his little helper
to rob department stores
on Christmas Eve, but their
plans go awry after they
meet an eight-year-old boy.
Billy Bob Thornton, Tony
Cox, Bernie Mac. Films, page
68 3818255
10.45 ■ Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
(2005, PGR, R, C) A nervous
groom is shocked to find
himself married to the living
corpse of a young woman.
Voices of Johnny Depp,
Helena Bonham Carter.
Films, page 68 4325410
12.20am Distraction (AO, R, C)
FREEVIEW 3 SKY 003
6.00 Bayless Conley (G) 8323
6.30 Brian Houston @ Hillsong
(G) 3014
7.00 Charles Stanley (G) 28168
8.00 Open Door (G, R) 73878
8.25 What’s Really in Our Food?
(G, R, C) 5624052
8.50 Hitched (PGR, R, C) 5759052
9.15 Fly Girls (PGR, R) 4787746
9.35 ■ Fly Girls (PGR, R) 7615474
10.00 ■ Living out Loud (2009,
PGR, R) Gail O’Grady,
Michael Shanks. 866255
11.30 Everybody Loves Raymond
(G, R, C) 5220878
11.55 Entertainment Tonight
Weekend (G) 73158217
1.00 Survivor: South Pacific
(G, R, HD) 75052
2.00 James May’s Man Lab
(G, R) 86168
3.00 King of Dirt (G) 7897
3.30 Everybody Loves Raymond
(G, R) 7656
4.00 Doco: Our Far South (G) Te
Radar travels to Antarctica.
33052
5.00 Million Dollar Catch
(PGR, R) 7491
5.30 ITM Fishing Show
(G, HD) 7878
6.00 3 News 20588
7.00 ■ Alvin and the Chipmunks:
The Squeakquel (2009,
G) Justin Long, Jesse
McCartney. Films, page 68
2764217
8.50 ■ You, Me and Dupree
(2006, AO, R) A newlywed
couple allow their slacker
friend to live with them.
Owen Wilson, Kate Hudson,
Matt Dillon. Films, page 68
86892217
11.00 The Good Wife (AO, R, HD)
93410
12.00am Media3 59057
12.35 Infomercials
5.00 Joyce Meyer 3728366
5.30 – 6.00 Brian Houston @
Hillsong TV (G) 3721453
8.55
7070095
2.15
Cougar Town (PGR, C)
3268540
2.40
3.10
4.15
4.40
Infomercials
20/20 (R, C) 7759279
It Is Written (R) 3190298
Emmerdale (PGR, R, C)
9273434
5.30 – 6.00 Infomercials
■ NEW ■ RETURN ■ FINAL ■ FILM
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FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012
6.00 Children’s Programmes
9.55 ■ Care Bears: Oopsy Does
It (2007, G, R) Ashleigh Ball, Ian
James Corlett, Scott McNeil. 11.10
Children’s Programmes 4.35 Kenan
& Kel (G, R) 5.05 Sabrina: The
Teenage Witch (G) 5.30 Clueless
(G, R) 6.00 Life’s Funniest Moments
(G, R) 6.30 ■ Survivor: Philippines
(G) Tonight: The jury interviews
the final castaways before voting
for the winner. 9.00 American Dad
(PGR, R) Old Stan in the Mountain:
A hex is placed on Stan that turns
him into a frail, old man. 9.30 South
Park (AO, R) Elementary School
Musical: The boys’ popularity wanes
when they don’t get into the latest
fad. 10.00 The Ricky Gervais Show
(G, R) Tonight: Excerpts from Karl’s
diary. 10.30 I Just Want My Pants
Back (AO, R) 11.00 Entertainment
Tonight Weekend (G) 11.50 –
6.00am Infomercials
Prime: Jamie’s American Road Trip,
7.30pm
PRIME
FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004
6.00 Religious Programming
(G) 55149762
10.30 Sport Box (G) 7537089
12.30 World’s Strictest Parents UK
(PGR, R) 2671781
1.40 Top Gear USA (PGR, R)
407101
2.35 Psych (G, R) 3251472
3.30 Must Be the Music
(G) 407946
4.30 Three Hungry Boys
(G, R) 618965
5.00 Export Gold Match Fishing
League (G) 619694
5.30 Prime News 612781
6.00 Millionaire: Hot Seat
(G) 613410
6.30 Genius (G, R) 421526
7.30 ■ Jamie’s American Road
Trip (G) Jamie Oliver seeks
out interesting and unusual
cuisine in the US. 2891830
8.35 ■ America’s Got Talent
(G) Tonight: The winner
is announced, plus
performances from Stevie
Wonder, One Republic,
Def Leppard and more.
835120
10.30 Leverage (AO) The Three
Strikes Job: The team try to
take down a corrupt local
mayor, but run into an old
nemesis. 899859
11.25 Boardwalk Empire
(AO, R) 9520781
12.30am – 6.00 Home Shopping
MAORI
FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019
10.00am Korero Mai (G, R)
2.00 Bring Your Boots Oz (G, R)
2.30 Kiwi Maara (G, R)
3.00 Te Irikura (G)
3.30 Pacific Games (R)
5.30 News: Te Kaea (G)
6.00 Waka Huia
7.00 Kai Time on the Road (G)
Tonight: Pete Peeti is in the
Bay of Plenty for the first of
the season’s scallops.
7.30 News: Te Kaea (R)
8.00 Whare Maori (G, R) Tonight:
The whare wananga.
8.30 Earth Whisperers Papatuanuku (G, R)
Documentary about New
Zealanders working to heal
the environment.
10.00 Iti Pounamu (AO, R) New
Zealand short films, news
and interviews.
10.30 Tagata Pasifika
11.00 – 11.30 News: Te Kaea (R)
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SUNDAY DECEMBER 23
SKY MOVIES SKY 020
MOVIES GREATS SKY 022 MGM SKY 023
RIALTO SKY 025
6.55
7.35
6.25
Cars 2 (2011, PG) Owen
Wilson, Michael Caine.
8.40 Life As We Know It (2010,
M) Katherine Heigl.
10.35 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
(2011, M) Gary Oldman.
12.40 Biography: Charlie Sheen
(2009, PG)
1.25 Alpha and Omega (2010,
PG) Justin Long.
2.55 X-Men: First Class (2011,
M) James McAvoy, Michael
Fassbender.
5.05 Spy Kids 4 (2011, PG)
Jessica Alba, Joel McHale.
6.35 Just Go with It (2011, M)
Adam Sandler, Jennifer
Aniston.
8.30 Safe House (2012, M) When
a CIA safe house is attacked,
a young agent goes on
the run with his dangerous
charge. Denzel Washington,
Ryan Reynolds, Vera
Farmiga, Brendan Gleeson.
10.30 Shark Night (2011, 16) Sara
Paxton, Dustin Milligan.
12.00am Trespass (2011, 16) 1.30
Biography: Charlie Sheen (2009,
PG) 2.15 Shark Night (2011, 16) 3.45
Trespass (2011, 16) 5.15 Alpha and
Omega (2010, PG)
Role Models (2008, 16)
Seann William Scott.
9.15 Layer Cake (2005, 16)
Daniel Craig, Sienna Miller.
11.00 Doom (2005, 16) Karl Urban.
12.45 Mamma Mia! (2008, PG)
Amanda Seyfried.
2.35 Making of: Safe House
(2012, M)
3.00 S.W.A.T (2003, M)
Samuel L Jackson.
4.55 Big (1988, PG) Tom Hanks,
Elizabeth Perkins.
6.40 Species (1995, 16) Scientists
chase a half-alien who has
escaped from a laboratory
with the intention breeding.
Natasha Henstridge, Michael
Madsen.
8.30 Talladega Nights (2006, M)
A cocky NASCAR champion
faces competition for his
crown when a French
Formula One driver joins the
racing circuit. Will Ferrell,
John C Reilly.
10.20 Mad Max (1979, 18) Mel
Gibson, Joanne Samuel.
11.55 We Own the Night (2007,
16) Mark Wahlberg.
1.50am S.W.A.T (2003, M) 3.45 Big
(1988, PG) 5.30 Species (1995, 16)
6.15
The Great Raid (2005, M)
Benjamin Bratt.
8.25 New York, New York
(1977, PG) Liza Minnelli.
11.05 Cuba (1979, PG) Sean
Connery, Brooke Adams.
1.05 The Last Waltz (1978, PG)
Robbie Robertson.
3.00 The Chamber (1996, M)
Chris O’Donnell.
4.50 Three Amigos! (1986, PG)
Steve Martin, Chevy Chase.
6.30 The Pope of Greenwich
Village (1984, PG) The story
of two small-time thieves
after a score in New York’s
Little Italy. Mickey Rourke,
Eric Roberts.
8.30 Beverly Hills Cop II (1987, M)
Axel Foley returns to Beverly
Hills to help two colleagues
solve a series of new crimes.
Eddie Murphy, Judge
Reinhold.
10.10 The Watcher (2000, 16)
An FBI agent finds that he
cannot escape the taunting
of a serial killer. Keanu Reeves.
11.45 Bug (2006, 16) Ashley Judd.
1.30am Troll 2 (1991, M) 3.05 The
Watcher (2000, 16) 4.40 Cuba
(1979, PG)
GENERAL
360 Sessions 2.05 Plug and Play 3.40 Guitar Center
Sessions 4.30 Gorillaz: Bananaz
Choice TV FREEVIEW 12 SKY 078
6.00 Love the Place You’re In 7.00 Million Dollar
Contractor 7.30 The Stagers 8.00 Why Not? With
Shania Twain 9.00 Love Your Garden 9.30 Ainsley’s
Barbecue Bible 10.00 Tales From the National Park
11.00 End of the Road Noon Bucket Wish 12.30
50 Documentaries to See Before You Die (PGR)
1.30 Web Therapy (PGR) 2.00 Why Not? With
Shania Twain 3.00 What’s Really in Our Food?
3.30 Timothy Spall: Back at Sea 4.00 Classical
Destinations 4.30 Coast 5.30 Penn & Teller: Fool Us!
6.30 N2K (PGR) With Tim Roxborogh. 7.00 Great
Animal Escapes 7.30 The Jonathan Ross Show:
Christmas Special (PGR) With with guests Michael
McIntyre, Sienna Miller, Jamie Oliver, Sheridan Smith,
Ellie Simmonds, Jonnie Peacock and Charlotte
Church. 8.30 A Moody Christmas (PGR) Australian
comedy featuring the dysfunctional Moody family.
10.30 Coast 11.30 Great Animal Escapes 12.00am
Dream Jobs (AO) 12.30 N2K (PGR) 1.00 The Nutters
Club (AO) 1.30 The Kitchen Job (PGR) 2.30 A
Moody Christmas (PGR) 4.30 Great Animal Escapes
5.00 Love the Place Your In
UKTV SKY 006
6.00 New Tricks (M) 6.55 Any Human Heart (16)
7.50 Waiting for God (PG) 9.20 Come Fly with Me
(M) 9.50 Come Fly with Me (M) 10.20 Shameless
(16) 11.15 Inspector Lynley Mysteries (16) 12.30
Casualty (PG) 1.20 Heartbeat (PG) 2.10 Ten Minute
Tales (PG) 2.20 Midsomer Murders (M) 4.00 Any
Human Heart (16) 4.55 Doctor Who (PG) 6.00
Upstairs Downstairs (PG) 7.00 Bleak Old Shop
of Stuff (PG) 7.30 Casualty (PG) 8.30 Midsomer
Murders (M) The Silent Land: On a dark night,
Barnaby’s wife Joyce swerves her car to narrowly
miss a shadowy figure in the road. 10.10 Jonathan
Creek (M) The Problem at Gallows Gate: Jonathan
and Maddy face an impossible murder mystery
when Adam Klaus’s sister witnesses a young
woman being strangled. 11.10 Doctor Who (PG)
The Runaway Bride: After the Doctor says goodbye
to Rose, a bride appears in the Tardis. 12.15am
Shameless (16) 1.10 Bleak Old Shop of Stuff (PG)
1.40 Midsomer Murders (M) 3.15 The Bill (M) 4.05
Midsomer Murders (M) 5.40 The Bill (M)
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The Special Relationship
(2010, M) Michael Sheen.
8.00 Arrietty (2010, G) Voices of
Siaorse Ronan, Mark Strong.
9.40 This is England 88: Part 1
(2011, 16) Vicky McClure.
10.45 Love and Other Impossible
Pursuits (2009, M) Natalie
Portman, Scott Cohen.
12.30 The Method (2005, M)
Eduardo Noriega.
2.25 The Vicious Kind (2009, 16)
Adam Scott, Brittany Snow.
4.00 Shut Up Little Man! An
Audio Misadventure (2011,
16) Australian documentary.
5.35 Later with Jools Holland (M)
6.45 The Human Resources
Manager (2010, M) Mark
Ivanir, Gila Almagor.
8.30 Directors’ Showcase: Rainer
Werner Fassbinder’s Mother
Kusters Goes to Heaven
(1975, M) Brigitte Mira,
Ingrid Caven.
10.35 World Cinema: Ajami (2009,
16) Scandar Copti, Shahir
Kabaha, Ibrahim Frege.
12.45am Bad Timing (1980, 18) 2.50
The Human Resources Manager
(2010, M) 4.35 The Vicious Kind
(2009, 16)
SoHo SKY 010
Movies Greats: Talladgea Nights, 8.30pm
Living SKY 008
6.30 Breathing Space Yoga 7.00 Final Chance to
Save (M) 8.00 Brick by Brick 9.00 Eat Yourself Sexy
Australia 10.00 How Not to Decorate 11.00 Property
Developing Abroad Noon Brick by Brick 1.00 Heir
Hunters 2.00 Final Chance to Save (M) 3.00 How
Not to Decorate 4.00 Antiques Roadshow USA
5.00 Who’s Been Sleeping 5.30 Landscape Man
6.30 Trash to Treasure 7.30 Escape to the Country
8.30 Holiday Madness 9.30 The Secret Millionaire
(M) 10.30 Britain’s Greatest Ships 11.30 By Royal
Appointment 12.00am Holiday Madness 1.00 The
Secret Millionaire (M) 2.00 Escape to the Country
3.00 Antiques Roadshow USA 4.00 Britain’s
Greatest Ships 5.00 By Royal Appointment 5.30
The Secret Millionaire (M)
The Arts Channel SKY 079
6.20 The Secret to a Happy Ending 8.00 Slings
and Arrows (PG) 8.50 Slings and Arrows (PG) 9.40
The 360 Sessions 10.10 Verdi: Rigoletto 12.30 ■
Impromptu (1991, M) Biography of the 19th century
romance between the introverted composer Chopin
and the free-spirited novelist George Sand. Judy
Davis, Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson. 2.20 The
Secret to a Happy Ending 4.00 Slings and Arrows
(PG) 4.50 Slings and Arrows (PG) 5.40 The 360
Sessions 6.05 Plug and Play 7.40 Guitar Center
Sessions 8.30 Gorillaz: Bananaz 10.00 Rockabilly
514 10.50 Inside the Artist’s Den 12.00am Slings and
Arrows (PG) 12.50 Slings and Arrows (PG) 1.40 The
6.10 Inside the Actor’s Studio (M) 7.00 Dexter
(16) 8.00 Line of Duty (16) 9.00 Luck (18) 10.00
Californication (18) 10.30 Hung (18) 11.00 SoHo
on Set (M) 11.15 Rescue Me (16) Noon Box Set
Weekend: Boss (18) 5.00 ■ The Gathering Storm
(2002, M) Albert Finney, Vanessa Redgrave. 6.35
The Sopranos (16) 7.30 World Without End (16)
8.30 World Without End (16) Checkmate: The true
identity of Thomas is revealed, and Caris decides
to give up the priory to be with Merthin. 9.30
Boardwalk Empire (18) The Milkmaid’s Lot: Nucky
tries to form a coalition with Gyp, and a bootlegger’s
arrest turns up the heat on Daugherty. 10.30 Line of
Duty (16) 11.30 Dexter (16) 12.30am The Sopranos
(16) 1.30 World Without End (16) 2.30 World
Without End (16) 3.30 Boardwalk Empire (18) 4.30
Line of Duty (16) 5.30 SoHo on Set (M)
BBC World News SKY 093
6.00 BBC World News 6.30 Final Score 7.00 BBC
World News 7.30 Fast Track 8.00 BBC World News
8.15 Sport Today 8.30 Click 9.00 BBC World News
9.10 Why Poverty? 10.00 BBC World News 10.30
Dateline London 11.00 BBC World News 11.30 The
Culture Show Noon BBC World News 12.10 World
Features 12.30 Middle East Business Report 1.00
BBC World News 1.10 World Features 1.30 Equestrian
World 2.00 BBC World News 2.30 Dateline London
3.00 BBC World News 3.10 Why Poverty? 4.00 BBC
World News 4.30 Newsnight 5.00 BBC World News
5.30 Click 6.00 BBC World News 6.30 India Business
Report 7.00 BBC World News 7.30 Fast Track
8.00 BBC World News 8.10 World Features 8.30
Equestrian World 9.00 BBC World News 9.10 World
Features 9.30 Dateline London 10.00 BBC World
News 10.10 Faster, Higher, Stronger 11.00 BBC World
News 11.10 World Features 11.30 The Culture Show
12.00am BBC World News 12.10 World Features
12.30 Newsnight 1.00 BBC World News 1.30 A Year
of Compelling Stories 2.00 BBC World News 2.15
Sport Today 2.30 Click 3.00 BBC World News 3.30
A Year of Compelling Stories 4.00 BBC World News
4.10 Why Poverty? 5.00 BBC World News 5.30 India
Business Report
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SPORT
RADIO
Sky Sport 1 SKY 030
Radio New Zealand National
6.00 The Weight of a Nation. 8.00 Darts, World
Championships, Day Nine, Session Two, live. Noon
Rugby Zone. 12.30 Bowls, New Zealand Open,
Men’s Triples. 2.00 Touch Rugby, Tag Football
World Cup, U21 Men’s. 2.30 Touch Rugby, Tag
Football World Cup, Mixed Grade. 3.00 Touch
Rugby, Tag Football World Cup, Open Women’s.
3.30 The Cricket Show. 4.00 Athletics, Kelloggs
Nutrigrain Ironman & Ironwoman, Round One, live.
7.00 Basketball, NBL, All Star Game, replay. 9.00
ICC Cricket 360. 9.30 Soccer, English Premier
League, Wigan v Arsenal, replay. 11.30 Soccer,
English Premier League, Manchester City v Reading,
replay. 1.30am Darts, World Championships, Day
Ten, Session One, live. 5.30 The Dirt.
Sky Sport 2 SKY 031
6.00 Soccer, English Premier League, Liverpool v
Fulham, live. 8.30 Soccer, English Premier League,
Newcastle v Queens Park Rangers, delayed. 10.30
Soccer, English Premier League, Tottenham v
Stoke, delayed. 12.30 Soccer, English Premier
League, West Ham v Everton, delayed. 2.30 US
PGA Tour Year in Review. 3.30 Soccer, A-League,
Wellington Phoenix v Central Coast Mariners, replay.
5.30 Sky Sport What’s On. 6.00 Cricket, KFC T20
Big Bash League, Hobart Hurricanes v Sydney
Thunder, live. 9.30 Cricket, KFC T20 Big Bash
League, Adelaide Strikers v Sydney Sixers, live.
1.00am The Cricket Show. 1.30 Athletics, Kelloggs
Nutrigrain Ironman and Ironwoman, Round One,
replay. 4.30 Cricket, Second Twenty20, South Africa
v New Zealand, from Buffalo Park, East London,
live.
Sky Sport 3 SKY 032
6.00 Fox Sports News. 8.00 Fox Sports News. 8.30
Fox Sports News. 9.00 Fox Sports News. 9.30 Fox
Sports News. 10.00 Cricket, KFC T20 Big Bash
League, Melbourne Renegades v Brisbane Heat,
replay. 1.30 Soccer, A-League, Melbourne Heart v
DOCUMENTARIES
Discovery SKY 070
6.30 Building the Future (PG) 7.30 MythBusters
(PG) 8.30 MythBusters (PG) 9.30 ET Fishing
Escapes (PG) 10.30 Ragin’ Cajuns (PG) 11.30
Auction Kings (PG) Noon Auction Hunters (PG)
12.30 Volcano Time Bomb (PG) 1.30 Abalone Wars
(PG) 2.30 Auction Kings (PG) 5.00 Auction Hunters
(PG) 7.30 X-Ray: Yellowstone (PG) 8.30 After the
Catch (PG) The captains explore their own legacies
as they swap stories of the legends of the Bering
Sea. 9.30 Inside the Catch: Deckhands (PG) 10.30
First Time Filmmakers: Korea (PG) 11.00 First Time
Filmmakers: Korea (PG) 11.30 Evil, I (M) 12.00am
Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry? (M) 12.30 I (Almost)
Got Away with It (M) 1.30 Swamp Loggers (PG)
2.30 MythBusters (PG) 3.30 Apocalypse 2012
Revelations (M) 4.30 I Shouldn’t Be Alive (PG) 5.30
Dirty Jobs (PG)
National Geographic SKY 072
6.30 America the Wild (G) 7.30 Lion Ranger (PG)
8.30 Hidden Worlds (G) 9.00 Living With Big Cats
(G) 10.00 Salmon Wars (G) 11.00 Wicked Tuna (M)
Noon The Croc Catchers NT (PG) 12.30 Access
360 World Heritage (G) 1.30 American Gypsies (M)
2.30 Doomsday Preppers (M) 3.30 Wicked Tuna
(M) 4.30 Supercars (G) 5.30 Wild Amazon (PG)
6.30 Croc Labyrinth (G) 7.30 Virgin Galactic (G)
8.30 Doomsday Preppers (M) I Hope I Am Crazy:
A foodie is pioneering gourmet food in preparation
for the apocalypse. 9.30 Chasing UFOs (M) 10.30
Test Your Brain (G) 11.30 Seconds From Disaster (M)
12.30am Croc Labyrinth (G) 1.30 Virgin Galactic (G)
2.30 Doomsday Preppers (M) 3.30 Hard Time (M)
4.30 Megafactories (G) 5.30 Air Crash Investigation
(PG)
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ESPN: NFL Gridiron, 2.30pm
Melbourne Victory, replay. 3.30 The Dirt. 4.00 Darts,
World Championships, Day Nine, Session Two,
replay. 7.00 The ITM Fishing Show. 7.30 Kiwi Magic.
8.30 Export Gold Match Fishing League. 9.00 Sky
Sport What’s On. 9.30 Basketball, NBL, All Star
Game, replay. 11.30 Cage Fighting Championship.
1.30am Premier League World. 2.15 Soccer, English
Premier League, Swansea v Manchester United,
live. 4.53 Soccer, English Premier League, Chelsea v
Aston Villa, live.
ESPN SKY 034
6.00 Gridiron, NCAA, R+L Carriers New Orleans
Bowl, live. 9.30 Gridiron, NCAA, Football Macco
Bowl, live. 1.00 Monday Night Countdown. 2.30
Gridiron, NFL, Detroit Lions v Atlanta Falcons, live.
5.30 SportsCenter. 7.00 Poker, World Series, Day
Four, replay. 8.00 Poker, World Series, Day Four,
replay. 9.00 SportsCenter. 10.00 Planet Speed.
10.30 NBA Tonight. 11.00 Aussies Abroad. 11.30
Aussies Abroad. 12.00am ESPN Documentaries.
1.00 SportsCenter. 2.00 SportsCenter. 3.00
NBA Tonight. 3.30 NFL Matchup. 4.00 NFL
Countdown.
History SKY 073
6.20 She Wolves: England’s Early (PG) 7.30 Seven
Wonders of. (PG) 8.30 Time Team (G) 9.25 Time
Team (G) 10.20 Time Team (G) 11.15 At Home With
the Georgians (PG) 12.15 She Wolves: England’s
Early (PG) 1.25 Britain’s Lost Routes (PG) 2.35
Great Scientists (PG) 3.05 Terry Jones’ Great Map.
(PG) 3.35 Line of Fire (PG) 4.30 Trevor McDonald’s
Queen & (PG) 5.30 Crown & Country (G) 6.00 Our
Century (PG) 6.30 Greatest Cities of the World
(G) 7.30 The Epic History of Everyday Things (PG)
Looks at how everyday items such as shoes and
string came to be invented or discovered. 9.30 The
Bombing of Darwin (PG) 10.30 Apollo 17 (PG) 11.30
America’s Book of Secrets (PG) 12.30am Ancient
Aliens (PG) 1.30 Ancient Aliens (PG) 2.30 History’s
Raiders (PG) 3.30 The Epic History of. (PG) 5.30
The Bombing of Darwin (PG)
BBC Knowledge SKY 074
6.05 Tribal Wives (M) 7.05 Helicopter Heroes (PG)
7.50 Top Gear (M) 8.50 Invisible Worlds (PG) 9.50
True Stories (M) 10.45 Who Do You Think You Are?
(M) 11.50 Built From Disaster (M) 12.40 Dragons’
Den (PG) 1.45 Top Gear (PG) 3.05 Helicopter Heroes
(PG) 3.50 Our War (16) 4.50 Crash Course (PG)
5.40 An Idiot Abroad (16) 6.35 Private Life of Plants
(PG) 7.30 Natural World (PG) Butterflies: The UK’s
butterflies are under threat, with three-quarters of
species currently in decline. 8.25 Horizon (PG) Back
from the Dead: New research into the effect of low
body temperatures on brain cells is changing the
face of emergency medicine. 9.25 History Cold Case
(PG) 10.30 Abused: Breaking the Silence (16) 11.30
Dragons’ Den (PG) 12.35am Wonderland (M) 1.20
Built From Disaster (M) 2.10 Top Gear (PG) 3.30
Helicopter Heroes (PG) 4.15 Richard Hammond’s
Crash Course (PG) 5.05 Ray Mears’ Bushcraft (M)
6.08 Storytime (RNZ)
7.08 Hymns for Sunday Morning (RNZ)
7.35 Weekend Worldwatch (RNZ)
8.10 Sunday Morning with Chris Laidlaw Including:
8.12 Insight; 9.06 Mediawatch; 10.06 Ideas; 10.55
Today’s Track; 11.05 Down the List; 11.12 Feature
Interview; 11.40 Wayne Brittenden’s Counterpoint;
11.55 Feedback ([email protected])
12.15 Spectrum (RNZ) ([email protected])
12.40 The Arts on Sunday with Lynn Freeman
Including: The Sunday Drama: Bread of Heaven,
by Vincent O’Sullivan (RNZ) (artsonsunday@
radionz.co.nz)
4.06 4 ‘til 8 with Katrina Batten Including: 4.07
The Sunday Feature: The Michael King Memorial
Lecture 2012 (RNZ); 5.10 Spiritual Outlook (RNZ);
5.36 Blue Smoke (RNZ); 6.06 Te Ahi Kaa (RNZ);
7.06 One in Five (RNZ); 7.30 The Strand (BBC)
8.06 Sounds Historical with Jim Sullivan
([email protected])
10.12 Mediawatch (RNZ)
10.45 Wayne’s Music (RNZ)
12.04am All Night Programme Including: 12.06
Music after Midnight; 12.30 At the Movies (RNZ);
1.05 Te Ahi Kaa (RNZ); 2.30 Musical Chairs (RNZ);
3.05 Peas, by Suzanne Gee (RNZ); 3.30 Health
Check (BBC); 5.10 Down the List (RNZ)
Details available at www.radionz.co.nz
Radio New Zealand Concert
News and Weather: 6.00, 8.00, 9.00, noon, 3.00,
6.00, 11.00pm
6.00 Sanctuary
8.00 Grace Notes
9.00 Christmastide See page 72
10.00 Music@Menlo The Unfolding of Music: Five
programmes from the 2008 three-week California
summer music festival (1 of 5)
11.25 The Works Walton arr Mathieson: Richard III,
A Shakespeare Suite, Philharmonia/William
Walton; Bridge: The Sea, BBC National Orch of
Wales/Richard Hickox
Noon A Critic’s Chair Highlight Dianne James
presents two programmes looking at the Chailly
recording of the complete Beethoven symphonies
(1 of 2) (RNZ)
1.00 Vintage Years
2.00 The Sunday Feature Kathleen Ferrier (19121953): Roger Flury and Des Wilson mark the
British contralto’s centenary (RNZ)
3.00 Opera on Sunday 2012 BBC Music Magazine
Opera Award: Alexandrina Pendatchanska, Bejun
Mehta, Berlin Akademie für Alte Musik/René
Jacobs: Handel’s Agrippina
6.40 Made in New Zealand Hill’s Symphony No 10
in C, Short, Queensland SO/Wilfred Lehmann
7.00 New Horizons A Christmas edition with
William Dart
8.00 Young Australia Tasmanian SO ANAM 2011
Concerto Competiton, with the Tasmanian SO/
Kenneth Young – Weber: Clarinet Concerto No 1
in F minor Op 73, Alexander Morris (cl); Bottesini:
Double Bass Concerto No 1 in F# minor, Phoebe
Russell (dbass); Strauss: Oboe Concerto in D,
Thomas Hutchinson (ob) (ABC)
9.30 Variants Schumann: Abegg Variations
Op 1; Beethoven: Variations on Se vuol ballare
from Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro; Hanson:
Rhythmic Variations on two Ancient Hymns
10.00 Day’s End Music to wind down to
12.00am Music Through the Night
Details available at www.radionz.co.nz
Newstalk ZB
6.00 Best of Hosking & Smith 7.00 Ruud Kleinpaste
8.00 Tony Veitch 9.00 Andrew Dickens Noon Murray
Deaker 6.00 Jim Sutton 9.00 Cameron Slater
12.00am – 6.00 Gary Denvir
LISTENER DECEMBER 22 2012
CHRISTMAS EVE
TV1
TV2
FREEVIEW 1 SKY 001
6.00 60 Minute Makeover
(G, R) 38786
7.00 Going Going Gone
(G, R) 5705
7.30 Remembering Ed
(G, R, C) 9128415
9.00 Infomercials
9.30 ■ Trinny & Susannah’s
Downunder Makeover
Mission (PGR, R, C) 11095
10.30 ■ A Mad Business
(PGR, R, C) 15811
11.30 Infomercials
Noon Mucking In (G, R, C) 6279
12.30 Emmerdale (PGR, C)
Today: Amy has a midwife
appointment. 9537366
1.25 Celebrity Coach Trip
(G, R, C) 2828144
2.00 World’s Strictest Parents US
(PGR, C) 2113124
2.55 60 Minute Makeover
(G, R) 2591237
3.55 Te Karere (C) 4404057
4.25 Ellen (G) 198618
5.25 Millionaire Hot Seat
(G, C) 721250
6.00 ONE News (C) 34908
7.00 Border Security (G, R, C)
Tonight: A woman shocks
officers; an Indian family
struggle to get their stories
straight; and an old Persian
rug hides a dirty secret. 845
7.30 Piha Rescue (PGR, R, C)
Tonight: The guards struggle
to find a safe swimming spot
for beach visitors, and an
elderly woman is brought in
after she has a stroke. 366
8.00 High Country Rescue (G, C)
Tonight: An early morning
emergency in Wanaka; a
wounded tramper needs
rescuing; and a rescue team
works in the dark to find an
injured climber. 279
8.30 ■ Nights in Rodanthe (2008,
C) While travelling to see
his son, a man meets an
unhappily married woman at
a Carolina inn and sparks up
a relationship. Richard Gere,
Diane Lane. Films, page 68
33144
10.30 ■ Home by Christmas (2010,
R, C) A young Kiwi joins the
army to fight in WWII, but is
taken prisoner in Italy. Tony
Barry, Martin Henderson,
Chelsie Preston-Crayford.
5229163
12.20am ■ How About You (2007,
R, C) Joss Ackland and
Hayley Atwell. 4190380
1.55 Te Karere (R, C) 8093670
2.20 BBC World – Impact with
Mishal Husain 4451293
3.30 World Business Report
9372106
3.45
4.00
4.30
5.00
Sport Today 3534564
BBC World News 4809467
HARDtalk 3792941
The Hub with Nik Gowing
(G) 5184699
5.05 The Believer’s Voice of
Victory (R) 6031496
5.35 – 6.00 Te Karere (R, C)
7250019
6.00 Creflo Dollar 7927
6.30 ■ Mr Men (G, R) 1121989
6.35 Buzzy Bee and Friends
(G, R, C) 77744569
6.40 ■ Dinosaur Train (G, R, C)
2035786
6.55
Grizzly Tales – Christmas
Special – The Crystal Eye
(G, R, C) 1441076
7.15 ■ What Now? Christmas
Special 5589453
9.30 Infomercials
11.00 Sonny with a Chance
(G, R, C) 3705
11.30 Operation Hero (G, R, HD, C)
6892
Noon ■ 12 Dates of Christmas
(2011, PGR, C) Amy Smart,
Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Jayne
Eastwood. 5273960
1.50 The Nowies (R, HD) 545786
2.45 This Is Justin Bieber
(G, C) 7548502
3.40 ■ SpongeBob SquarePants
(G, R, C) 8181160
4.05 Zeke and Luther (G, C)
8968434
4.35 Pair of Kings (G, C) 2453453
5.00 Horace in Slow Motion
(G, R) 94499
5.01 America’s Funniest Home
Videos (G, R, C) 100009163
5.30 ■ Hope and Faith
(G, R, C) 2250
6.00 Spin City (G, R, C) 6809
6.30 Missing Christmas (C) Local
animation about a young
Kiwi lad who vows to get
Santa Claus’s attention and
bring Christmas to his tiny
corner of the world. Voices
of Temuera Morrison, Rhys
Darby, Teuila Blakely, John
Rhys-Davies. 8298
7.00 ■ Fred Claus (2007, PGR,
R, C) Estranged brothers
Fred and Santa Claus must
reconcile their differences
when an efficiency expert
threatens to shut Santa
down. Vince Vaughn,
Paul Giamatti, Miranda
Richardson. 7364705
9.20 ■ Four Holidays (2008,
AO, R, HD, C) A couple
struggle to visit all four
of their divorced parents
on Christmas Day. Vince
Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon.
Films, page 68 4100989
11.10 ■ Caddyshack (1980, R, C)
A class war erupts when an
exclusive golf club opens
its doors to all members
of society. Chevy Chase,
Rodney Dangerfield, Bill
Murray. 8842845
12.55am Comedy Jam (AO, R, C)
21291019
2.30 ■ The Accidental Husband
(AO, R, HD, C) Uma
Thurman, Colin Firth. 1725125
4.00 Dreams Come True (G, R, C)
4356859
4.45 Farmers Santa Parade 75th
Anniversary (G, R) 3045729
5.10 – 6.00 The Koala Brothers:
Outback Christmas (G, R, C)
9230729
■ NEW ■ RETURN ■ FINAL ■ FILM
DECEMBER 22 2012 www.listener.co.nz
TV3
FREEVIEW 2 SKY 002
FREEVIEW 3 SKY 003
6.00 Campbell Live 4453
6.30 Moko - a Dolphin in Danger
(G, R, HD) 7797434
7.25 Hitched (G, R) 4600724
7.55 Everybody Loves Raymond
(G, R, C) 3676291
8.25 Infomercials
10.30 The Dr Oz Show (PGR,
R, HD) Today: The Most
Important Supplements For
Women Over 40. 17279
11.30 Missing Pieces
(PGR, R, HD, C) 7778
Noon ■ McHale’s Navy (1997, PGR,
R) 5597908
2.05 ■ Extraordinary Measures
(2010, PGR, HD) Brendan
Fraser, Keri Russell. 9353796
4.00 Everybody Loves Raymond
(G, R) 4415
5.00 Michael Bublé: Home for
the Holidays (R, HD) Michael
Bublé and guests Rod
Stewart, Blake Shelton and
Carly Rae Jepsen celebrate
Christmas. 18960
6.00 3 News 29076
7.00 ■ Nanny McPhee (2005,
PGR, R) A magical nanny
helps a family with seven
terrible children. Emma
Thompson, Colin Firth. Films,
page 68 7372724
9.05 The Graham Norton Show
(AO, R) Tonight: A Christmas
special with guests Russell
Kane, Matt Smith, and the
Military Wives Choir. 538521
10.25 Outrageous Fortune:
Wherein Our Saviour’s
Birth is Celebrated (AO, R)
A West family Christmas
special. 1212362
12.20am ■ The Good Shepherd
(2006, AO, R) Matt Damon,
Angelina Jolie. 82089477
3.05 Foo Fighters: Back and
Forth (AO, R) 3525632
4.50 Michael Bublé’s Christmas
2011 (G, R, HD) 7958632
5.35 – 6.00 Everybody Loves
Raymond (G, R) 7245187
FOUR
FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012
6.00 Children’s Programmes 3.30
Power Rangers: Samurai (G, R)
4.00 Sabrina: The Teenage Witch
(G, R) 4.25 ■ Care Bears: Share
Bear Shines (2010, G) Voice of
Anna Cummer. 5.30 Rules of
Engagement (G, R) 6.00 That
70s Show (G, R) 6.30 Futurama
(G, R) 7.00 The Simpsons (PGR,
R) 7.30 ■ Beethoven’s Christmas
Adventure (2011) John Cleese,
Munro Chambers, Kim Rhodes.
9.30 ■ Airplane! (1980, PGR, R)
An ex-fighter pilot is forced to take
over the controls of an airliner.
Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Leslie
Nielsen. 11.20 2012 Vodafone New
Zealand Music Awards (AO, R)
1.10am Entertainment Tonight (AO,
R) 1.35 The Edge on Four 5.00
Elmo’s World: The Street We Live
On (G, R) 5.50 – 6.00 Thomas &
Friends (G, R)
TV3: The Good Shepherd,
12.20am
PRIME
FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004
6.00 Home Shopping
6.30 Best of the Crowd Goes
Wild (G, R) 960182
7.00 Millionaire: Hot Seat
(G, R) 961811
7.30 Home Shopping
Noon Great Outdoors (G, R) 578250
1.00 Live to Dance (G, R) 594298
2.00 Getaway (G, R) 565786
3.00 Legend of the Seeker
(PGR, R) 943540
4.00 The Late Show with David
Letterman (G, R) 921328
5.00 Deal or No Deal (G, R) 154569
5.30 Prime News 124328
6.00 Deal or No Deal (G, R) 125057
6.30 Millionaire: Hot Seat 133076
7.00 Best of Qi (PGR) 708279
7.30 The Supersizers Go...
(PGR, R) Tonight: Victorian.
958347
8.30 ■ MasterChef USA (G)
Tonight: The winner of the
MasterChef USA title is
revealed. 774502
10.20 Allo Allo (G) UK comedy.
6535989
11.00 The Late Show with David
Letterman (G) 547569
11.55 Religious Programming
(G) 3675231
12.25am 64th Primetime Emmy
Awards (AO, R) 5856187
2.45 Best of London 2012 (G, R)
3589816
4.20 Great Outdoors (R) 6736854
5.10 – 6.00 Getaway (G, R) 1390651
MAORI
FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019
10.00am Korero Mai (G, R)
11.00 Toku Reo (G, R)
Noon Korero Mai (G, R)
1.00 Toku Reo (G, R)
2.00 Korero Mai (G, R)
3.00 Kai Time on the Road (G, R)
3.30 Pippi Longstocking (G, R)
4.00 Children: Pukoro (G, R)
4.30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te
Motu (G, R)
5.00 Toi Whakaari (G)
5.30 News: Te Kaea
6.00 Pukana (G)
6.30 Haa (G)
7.00 Korero Mai (G)
7.30 News: Te Kaea (R)
8.00 Whakatauki (G)
8.30 Homai Te Pakipaki (G)
Tonight: A Christmas Eve
paki special at the beach.
9.30 Billy T James: The Legend,
the Man, the Cuz (G)
10.30 Indigenous Insight (R)
11.00 – 11.30 News: Te Kaea (R)
C Captions AD Audio Description HD High Definition
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CHRISTMAS EVE
SKY MOVIES SKY 020
MOVIES GREATS SKY 022 MGM SKY 023
RIALTO SKY 025
6.45 Spy Kids 4 (2011, PG) Jessica
Alba, Joel McHale.
8.15 X-Men: First Class (2011, M)
James McAvoy.
10.25 Safe House (2012, M) Denzel
Washington, Ryan Reynolds.
12.20 Just Go with It (2011, M)
Adam Sandler.
2.15 It’s Christmas, Carol! (2012,
PG) Emmanuelle Vaugier.
3.45 True Confessions of a
Hollywood Starlet (2008,
PG) Joanna “Jojo” Levesque.
5.15 Gulliver’s Travels (2010, PG)
Jack Black, Emily Blunt.
6.40 Morning Glory (2010, M)
Rachel McAdams.
8.30 I Am Number Four (2011,
M) An alien hiding on Earth
tries to conceal his identity
from his friends as bounty
hunters search for him and
eight others. Alex Pettyfer,
Timothy Olyphant.
10.25 I Don’t Know How She Does
It (2011, M) Greg Kinnear.
11.55 Drive (2011, 18) Ryan Gosling.
1.35am For Colored Girls (2010, 16)
3.45 Making of: We Bought a Zoo
(2011, PG) 4.00 True Confessions
of a Hollywood Starlet (2008, PG)
5.25 Gulliver’s Travels (2010, PG)
7.15
6.10
Talladega Nights (2006, M)
Will Ferrell, John C Reilly.
9.00 Mad Max (1979, 18) Mel
Gibson, Joanne Samuel.
10.35 We Own the Night (2007,
16) Mark Wahlberg.
12.35 S.W.A.T (2003, M)
Samuel L Jackson.
2.35 The Man in the Iron Mask
(1998, M) Leonardo DiCaprio.
4.45 Home Alone (1990, PG)
Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci.
6.30 Home Alone 2: Lost in
New York (1992, PG) After
becoming stranded and
separated from his family
in New York City, a boy
battles two thieves.
Macaulay Caulkin.
8.30 Wall Street (1987, PG) An
ambitious young stockbroker
is taken under the wing of an
amoral and ruthless business
executive. Charlie Sheen,
Michael Douglas.
10.40 Wanted (2008, 16) An
apathetic slacker learns that
his late father was a master
assassin. James McAvoy.
12.30am Home Alone (1990, PG)
2.10 Circle of Friends (1995, M) 3.50
The Man in the Iron Mask (1998, M)
6.40 Three Amigos! (1986, PG)
Steve Martin, Chevy Chase.
8.20 The Pope of Greenwich
Village (1984, PG) Mickey
Rourke, Eric Roberts.
10.20 Beverly Hills Cop II (1987, M)
Eddie Murphy.
Noon The White Buffalo (1977, M)
Charles Bronson.
1.35 Broadway Danny Rose
(1984, M) Woody Allen.
3.00 Lone Wolf McQuade (1983,
16) Chuck Norris.
4.45 The Odessa File (1974, M)
Jon Voight.
6.50 Uncle Buck (1989, PG) John
Candy, Macaulay Culkin.
8.30 The Princess Bride (1987,
PG) A grandfather reads his
sick grandson a fantasy story
revolving around a princess,
a heroic swordsman and an
evil prince. Robin Wright,
Cary Elwes.
10.10 Beverly Hills Cop (1984,
M) Bette Midler, Richard
Dreyfus, Nick Nolte.
11.55 Stay Hungry (1976, 16) Jeff
Bridges, Sally Field.
1.35am Original Sin (2001, 16) 3.30
Broadway Danny Rose (1984, M)
4.55 The White Buffalo (1977, M)
GENERAL
SoHo SKY 010
Choice TV FREEVIEW 12 SKY 078
6.00 Benny Hinn 6.30 Cash & Cari 7.00 Coast
8.00 Timothy Spall: Back at Sea 8.30 Classical
Destinations 9.00 Penn & Teller G 10.00 N2K (PG)
10.30 What’s Really in Our Food? 11.00 Cash & Cari
11.30 The Kitchen Job 12.30 Timothy Spall: Back at
Sea 1.00 Classical Destinations 1.30 Better Homes &
Gardens: A Backyard Christmas 2.30 Penn & Teller:
Fool Us! 3.30 Love It or List It 4.00 Hairy Bikers
Mum Knows Best 5.00 Love the Place You’re In 6.00
Sandmasters 6.30 House Crashers 7.00 Baggage
Battles 7.30 World’s Greatest Cities (G) Griff Rhys
Jones gets under the skin of six of the greatest cities
on Earth. 8.30 The World of Stonehenge 9.30 Our
Food 10.30 Mongrels (AO) UK comedy series with
puppets. 11.00 Baggage Battles 11.30 Sandmasters
12.00am Love It or List It 12.30 Benny Hinn 1.00 The
Nutters Club (AO) 1.30 More Flatmates (AO) 2.00
Hairy Bikers Mum Knows Best 3.00 Love the Place
You’re In 4.00 Sandmasters 4.30 House Crashers
5.00 World’s Greatest Cities
UKTV SKY 006
6.30 The Bill Classics (M) 7.25 Heartbeat (PG) 8.15
One Foot in the Grave (PG) 9.20 Eggheads (PG)
9.50 The Weakest Link (PG) 10.35 The Graham
Norton Show (M) 11.40 The Bill (M) 12.30 Ten Minute
Tales (PG) 12.40 My Family (PG) 1.10 Inspector
Lynley Mysteries (16) 2.25 My Family (PG) 2.55
The Bill Classics (M) 3.50 Eggheads (PG) 4.20 The
Weakest Link (PG) 5.05 Heartbeat (PG) 5.55 One
Foot in the Grave (PG) 7.00 EastEnders (PG) 7.30
Gavin & Stacey (M) 8.30 Going for Gold: The 48
Olympics (PG) The story of how two men from very
different backgrounds triumphed against the odds
to win gold at the 1948 London games. Matt Smith,
Sam Hoare. 10.15 Sport Relief (M) Spoofs: Highlights
of the best spoof sketches in Sport Relief history.
10.45 The Graham Norton Show (M) Christmas 2011:
With guests Matt Smith, Gillian Anderson, Harry
Judd, Dougie Poynter, Hilary Devey, Russel Kane,
and the Military Wives Choir. 11.45 Doctor Who
Confidential (PG) 12.00am The Bill Classics (M)
12.55 Eggheads (PG) 1.25 Gavin & Stacey (M) 2.25
Going for Gold: The 48 Olympics (PG) 4.05 The Bill
(M) 4.55 Eggheads (PG) 5.25 Casualty (PG)
80
Ajami (2009, 16) Scandar
Copti, Shahir Kabaha.
8.20 Shut Up Little Man! An
Audio Misadventure (2011,
16) Australian documentary.
9.55 The Human Resources
Manager (2010, M) Mark
Ivanir, Gila Almagor.
11.40 Mr Untouchable (2007, M)
US documentary.
1.15
Europa (1991, M) Jean-Marc
Barr, Barbara Sukowa.
3.10 Wallander: The
Photographer (2007, M)
Krister Henriksson.
4.45 Burning Man (2011, 16)
Matthew Goode.
6.40 The Whistleblower (2010,
16) Rachel Weisz.
8.30 British Theatre: This is
England 88: Part 2 (2011, 16)
Lol becomes increasingly
isolated following her
betrayal. Vicky McClure.
9.35 The Army of Crime (2009,
16) Simon Abkarian.
11.50 The Carter (2009, 16)
Lil’ Wayne, Reginae Carter.
1.10am Le Mepris (1963, M) 2.50
Wallander: The Photographer
(2007, M) 4.25 Burning Man (2011,
16)
SoHo: Nip/Tuck, 6.40pm
Living SKY 008
6.30 Yoga TV 7.00 Escape to the Country 8.00
Antiques Roadshow USA 9.00 The Martha Stewart
Show 10.00 Scrapbook Memories 10.30 Scrapbook
Memories 11.00 Landscape Man Noon Who’s Been
Sleeping 12.30 Trash to Treasure 1.30 Holiday
Madness 2.30 Who’s Been Sleeping 3.00 Landscape
Man 4.00 Bargain Hunt 5.00 Trash to Treasure 6.00
Fantasy Homes by the Sea 7.00 Antiques Roadshow
8.00 Relocation, Relocation 9.00 Grand Designs
10.00 Best of New Zealand Home 10.30 This Old
House 11.00 Fantasy Homes by the Sea 12.00am
Antiques Roadshow 1.00 All the Queen’s Horses 2.00
Cash in the Attic 3.00 Bargain Hunt 4.00 Fantasy
Homes by the Sea 5.00 Neat 5.30 Grand Designs
The Arts Channel SKY 079
6.00 Rockabilly 514 6.50 Inside the Artist’s Den
8.00 Slings and Arrows (PG) 8.50 Slings and
Arrows (PG) 9.40 The 360 Sessions 10.05 Plug and
Play 11.40 Guitar Center Sessions 12.30 Gorillaz:
Bananaz 2.00 Rockabilly 514 2.50 Inside the Artist’s
Den 4.00 Looking for a Miracle 5.00 Tim Marlow
Meets 5.30 The 360 Sessions 6.00 The Nude 6.30
Kete Aronui 7.00 Behind the Camera 7.30 Forger’s
Masterclass 8.00 Kete Aronui 8.30 Alice’s Adventures
in Wonderland 10.35 The Way of Tai Chi 12.00am
Looking for a Miracle 1.00 Tim Marlow Meets 1.30 The
360 Sessions 2.00 The Nude 2.30 Kete Aronui 3.00
Behind the Camera 3.30 Forger’s Masterclass 4.00
Kete Aronui 4.30 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
6.05 The Sopranos (16) 7.05 Nip/Tuck (16) 7.50
Dexter (16) 8.50 World Without End (16) 9.50 World
Without End (16) 10.50 Boardwalk Empire (18) 11.50
Line of Duty (16) 12.50 Nip/Tuck (16) 1.40 Six Feet
Under (16) 2.40 The Sopranos (16) 3.40 Boardwalk
Empire (18) 4.40 Line of Duty (16) 5.40 World
Without End (16) 6.40 Nip/Tuck (16) 7.30 Boardwalk
Empire (18) 8.30 Boardwalk Empire (18) A Man, a
Plan: Nucky looks to silence foes in Washington and
New York, and Chalky sees opportunity in the ashes
of a boardwalk institution. 9.30 The Sopranos (16) In
Camelot: Tony learns more about his father when he
encounters his mistress at a funeral, and Chris learns
that friends’ habits can be hazardous to your health.
10.30 Nip/Tuck (16) 11.20 Treme (M) 12.20am Dexter
(16) 1.20 Boardwalk Empire (18) 2.20 Boardwalk
Empire (18) 3.20 The Sopranos (16) 4.20 Nip/Tuck
(16) 5.05 Treme (M)
BBC World News SKY 093
6.00 BBC World News 6.30 The Culture Show
7.00 BBC World News 7.30 A Year of Compelling
Stories 8.00 BBC World News 8.15 Sport Today 8.30
Equestrian World 9.00 BBC World News 9.10 Faster,
Higher, Stronger 10.00 BBC World News 10.30 A
Year of Compelling Stories 11.00 BBC World News
11.30 Our World Noon Newsday 12.30 Asia Business
Report 12.45 Sport Today 1.00 Newsday 1.30 India
Business Report 2.00 Newsday 2.30 Asia Business
Report 2.45 Sport Today 3.00 BBC World News
3.30 Asia Business Report 3.45 Sport Today 4.00
BBC World News 4.30 Asia Business Report 4.45
Sport Today 5.00 BBC World News 5.30 HARDtalk
6.00 BBC World News 6.30 World Business Report
6.45 BBC World News 7.00 BBC World News 7.30
World Business Report 7.45 BBC World News 8.00
BBC World News 8.30 World Business Report 8.45
BBC World News 9.00 BBC World News 9.30 World
Business Report 9.45 BBC World News 10.00 BBC
World News 10.30 HARDtalk 11.00 BBC World
News 11.30 World Business Report 11.45 BBC World
News 12.00am BBC World News 12.30 BBC World
News 1.00 GMT with George Alagiah 1.30 GMT with
George Alagiah 2.00 Impact with Mishal Husain
3.30 World Business Report 3.45 Sport Today 4.00
BBC World News 4.30 HARDtalk 5.00 The Hub with
Nik Gowing 5.30 The Hub with Nik Gowing
LISTENER DECEMBER 22 2012
CHRISTMAS EVE
SPORT
RADIO
Sky Sport 1 SKY 030
Radio New Zealand National
6.00 Basketball, NBL, All Star Game, replay. 8.00
Darts, World Championships, Day Ten, Session Two,
live. Noon Soccer, English Premier League, Swansea
v Manchester United, replay. 2.00 Soccer, English
Premier League, Chelsea v Aston Villa, replay.
4.00 Darts, World Championships, Day Ten,
Session One, replay. 7.00 Sky ARENA Access.
7.30 Sky Sport What’s On. 8.00 The Cricket Show.
8.30 Cricket, Second Twenty20, South Africa v New
Zealand, from Buffalo Park, East London, replay.
12.00am Soccer, English Premier League, Liverpool
v Fulham, replay. 2.00 Soccer, English Premier
League, Newcastle v Queens Park Rangers, replay.
4.00 Soccer, English Premier League, Tottenham v
Stoke, replay.
Sky Sport 2 SKY 031
8.30 The ITM Fishing Show. 9.00 Athletics, Kelloggs
Nutrigrain Ironman & Ironwoman, Round One,
replay. Noon Sky Sport What’s On. 12.30 Cricket,
KFC T20 Big Bash League, Hobart Hurricanes v
Sydney Thunder, replay. 4.00 Cricket, KFC T20
Big Bash League, Adelaide Strikers v Sydney
Sixers, replay. 7.30 Davis Cup Best of 2012. 8.30
Golf, LPGA Canadian Womens Open, highlights.
10.00 Athletics, Kelloggs Nutrigrain Ironman and
Ironwoman, Round One, replay. 1.00am Kiwi Magic.
2.00 Basketball, NBL, All Star Game, replay. 4.00
The Weight of a Nation.
Sky Sport 3 SKY 032
7.00 Fox Sports News. 8.00 Fox Sports News. 8.30
Fox Sports News. 9.00 Cricket, Second Twenty20,
South Africa v New Zealand, from Buffalo Park,
East London, replay. 12.30 The Open Championship
Official Film. 1.30 PGA Championship Official Film.
2.30 Ryder Cup Official Film. 3.30 Being Liverpool.
4.30 Being Liverpool. 5.30 Being Liverpool. 6.30
Being Liverpool. 7.30 Being Liverpool. 8.30 Being
Liverpool. 9.30 Premier League Review. 10.30
A-League Highlights Show. 11.00 Football League
DOCUMENTARIES
Discovery SKY 070
6.30 Swamp Loggers (PG) 7.30 Man Vs. Wild (PG)
8.30 MythBusters (PG) 9.30 Nightmare Next Door
(M) 10.30 I Shouldn’t Be Alive (PG) 11.30 On the
Case with Paula Zahn (M) 12.30 Stalked: Someone’s
Watching (M) 1.00 Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry?
(M) 1.30 Disappeared (M) 2.30 Apocalypse 2012
Revelations (M) 3.30 Swamp Loggers (PG) 4.30 Man
Vs. Wild (PG) 5.30 MythBusters (PG) 6.30 Ragin’
Cajuns (PG) 7.30 You Have Been Warned (PG) 8.30
How We Invented the World (PG) Phones: Examines
defining inventions of the 21st century and celebrates
the visionaries and journeys that made them possible.
9.30 MythBusters (PG) 10.30 I Was Murdered (M)
11.00 I Married a Mobster (M) 11.30 Scorned: Love
Kills (M) 12.30am On the Case with Paula Zahn (M)
1.30 Swamp Loggers (PG) 2.30 American Guns (M)
3.30 You Have Been Warned (PG) 4.30 First Time
Filmmakers: Korea (PG) 5.00 First Time Filmmakers:
Korea (PG) 5.30 Dirty Jobs (PG)
National Geographic SKY 072
6.30 Air Crash Investigation (PG) 7.30 Crime Lab
(PG) 8.30 Megafactories (G) 9.30 Megafactories
(G) 10.30 Lost Faces of the Bible (PG) 11.30 Secrets
of the Cross (PG) 12.30 Megafactories (PG) 5.30
Making Christmas (G) 6.30 Inside: Ice Vegas (G)
7.30 Megafactories (G) 8.30 Wicked Tuna (M)
Mutiny at Sea: Proving that good help is hard to
find, Captain Dave of Tuna.Com struggles with
his temperamental first mate. 9.30 Wicked Tuna
(M) 10.30 Seconds From Disaster (M) 11.30 Inside.
Cocaine Submarines (M) 12.30am Megastructures
(G) 1.30 Megafactories (G) 2.30 Hubble’s Final
Frontier (G) 3.30 Hard Time (M) 4.30 Megafactories
(G) 5.30 Air Crash Investigation (PG)
DECEMBER 22 2012 www.listener.co.nz
Discovery: You Have Been Warned, 7.30pm
Show. 11.30 Darts, World Championships, Day Ten,
Session Two, replay. 2.30am Sky ARENA Access.
3.00 The Players Championship Official Film 2012.
4.00 Ryder Cup Official Film. 5.00 US PGA Tour
Year in Review.
ESPN SKY 034
7.00 World’s Strongest Man. 7.30 World’s Strongest
Man. 8.00 World’s Strongest Man. 8.30 World’s
Strongest Man. 9.00 World’s Strongest Man. 10.00
PGA Tour Classic Films. 11.00 SportsCenter. Noon
SportsCenter. 1.30 SportsCenter. 2.15 Gridiron, NFL
Football, New York Jets v San Diego Chargers, live.
5.30 SportsCenter. 6.30 Off Road Racing. 7.00
Off Road Racing. 7.30 Tenpin Bowling, PBA Viper
Championship. 9.00 SportsCenter. 10.00 ESPNFC
Press Pass. 11.00 Aussies Abroad. 11.30 Aussies
Abroad. 12.00am ESPN Documentaries. 1.00
SportsCenter. 2.00 SportsCenter. 3.00 ESPNFC
Press Pass. 4.00 Gridiron, NFL Football, New York
Jets v San Diego Chargers, replay.
History SKY 073
6.30 Apollo 17 (PG) 7.30 America’s Book of Secrets
(PG) 8.30 Trevor McDonald’s Queen & (PG) 9.30
Crown & Country (G) 10.00 Our Century (PG)
10.30 Greatest Cities of the World (G) 11.30 The
Epic History (PG) 1.30 The Bombing of Darwin
(PG) 2.30 Secrets of War (M) 3.30 Tanks (G) 4.30
Cash in the Attic (PG) 5.30 Time Team (G) 6.30
Time Team (G) 7.30 Tony Robinson’s Time Walks
(M) 8.00 10 Things You Don’t Know About the Rat
Pack (PG) 8.30 Britain’s Lost Routes (PG) 9.40
Trevor McDonald’s Queen (PG) 10.30 The World
From Above (PG) 11.00 Great Mysteries & Myths
(PG) 11.30 The World From Above (PG) 2.00am
The World From Above (PG) 2.30 The World From
Above (PG) 3.00 The World From Above (PG) 3.30
London: The Greatest City (PG) 5.30 Secrets of the
Arabian Nights (PG)
BBC Knowledge SKY 074
6.05 Bang Goes the Theory (PG) 6.35 Genius (PG)
7.30 Museum Secrets (M) 8.15 Private Life of Plants
(PG) 9.05 Natural World (PG) 10.00 Horizon (PG)
10.55 Dragons’ Den (PG) Noon Top Gear (PG) 1.00
Helicopter Heroes (PG) 1.45 Wonderland (M) 2.40
Louis Theroux (M) 3.40 Seven Ages of Marriage (16)
4.40 Wonderland (M) 5.25 Ade in Britain (M) 6.25
Top Gear (PG) 7.30 Top Gear (PG) 8.30 Helicopter
Heroes (PG) When a trench collapses, emergency
services fight to free a young builder trapped up to
his waist, and a teenage girl falls down a ravine. 9.25
Richard Hammond’s Crash Course (PG) 10.20 Top
Gear (PG) 11.20 Dragons’ Den (PG) 12.25am Ade
in Britain (M) 1.15 Top Gear (PG) 2.05 Helicopter
Heroes (PG) 2.50 Richard Hammond’s Crash Course
(PG) 3.40 The Life of Mammals (PG) 4.35 Ray
Mears’ Bushcraft (M) 5.40 Climbing Great Buildings
(PG)
6.00 Breakfast with Stuart Keith
7.00 Morning Report
9.06 Nine to Noon with Kathryn Ryan
([email protected])
Noon Midday Report Including: 12.16 Business
News; 12.26 Sport; 12.34 Rural News; 12.43
Worldwatch
1.06 Afternoons with Jim Mora
([email protected])
5.00 Checkpoint ([email protected])
7.06 Nights with Bryan Crump Including:
7.30 Insight (RNZ); 8.15 You, Me...Now! (RNZ)
([email protected])
10.00 News and Late Edition
11.06 Wayne’s Christmas Music (RNZ)
12.04am All Night Programme Including: 12.06
Wayne’s Christmas Music (RNZ); 1.30 From the
World (RNZ); 2.05 Spectrum (RNZ); 3.05 Red
Christmas, by Paula Morris (RNZ); 3.35 An
Author’s View (RNZ); 5.10 Witness (BBC)
Details available at www.radionz.co.nz
Radio New Zealand Concert
Christmas Eve News and Weather: 6.00, 7.00,
8.00, 9.00, noon, 3.00, 5.00, 11.00pm
6.00 Classic Morning
9.00 Christmastide From Heaven Above See
page 72
10.00 The Works Sibelius: Symphony No 3
in C Op 52; Respighi rev di Vittorio: Suite for
strings; Haydn: Keyboard Sonata No 29 in E flat
HobXVI/45; Khachaturian: Violin Concerto in D
minor
Noon Upbeat Music news and current affairs (RNZ)
1.30 Lighten Up Music from film, the stage and
international classical charts. A Great American
Minstrel – Irving Berlin: Alexander’s Ragtime Band,
Boston Pops Orch/Arthur Fiedler; arr Riddle: Blue
skies, Kiri Te Kanawa (sop), Nelson Riddle & his
Orch; Cheek to cheek; Top hat, Yehudi Menuhin
(vln), Stéphane Grappelli (vln), Alan Clare Trio; It’s
a lovely day today, from Call Me Madam, Coffee
Club Orch/Rob Fisher; There’s no business like
show business, from Annie Get Your Gun, Boston
Pops Orch/John Williams; arr Hazell: White
Christmas, Bryn Terfel, Bing Crosby (bars), Welsh
National Opera Orch/Tecwyn Evans
2.00 Afternoon Requests (Box 123, Wellington or
[email protected])
3.00 CD Masters Mendelssohn: Capriccio in
E minor Op 81/3; Theme with Variations in E
Op 81/1; Scherzo in A minor Op 81/2, Emerson
String Quartet (rec 2003); Beethoven: Piano
Concerto No 4 in G Op 58, Murray Perahia (pno),
Concertgebouw Orch/Bernard Haitink (rec 1985)
4.00 Made in New Zealand Farr: Taheke, Bridget
Douglas (fl), Carolyn Mills (harp); Schumann:
Papillons Op 2, Diedre Irons (pno); Vivaldi: Four
Seasons, Winter, Alan Loveday (vln), ASMF/Neville
Marriner; Baldwin: O magnum mysterium; Lullay
my liking, Choir of Wellington Cathedral of St
Paul/Michael Fulcher; Pann: Soirée Macabre with
demons on the dance floor; Rhodes: Appalachian
Breakdown, Nicola Melville (pno)
5.00 Cadenza Shorter popular classics
7.00 Christmastide Christmas Eve See page 72
8.00 Music Alive Anna Leese (sop), Kate Spence
(mezzo), David Hamilton (ten), Jared Holt (bar),
Tudor Consort, Wellington Orch/Michael Stewart:
Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (RNZ)
10.20 Day’s End Music to wind down to
12.00am Music Through the Night
Details available at www.radionz.co.nz
Newstalk ZB
6.00 Tim Dower 9.00 Andrew Dickens 1.00 Bruce
Russell 6.00 Tim Sisarich & Joy Reid 9.00 John
Cowan 12.00am – 6.00 Gary Denvir
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CHRISTMAS DAY
TV1
TV2
FREEVIEW 1 SKY 001
6.00 ■ Mucking In (G, R, C) 31274
6.25 Tagata Pasifika (R) 7251748
6.50 Carols in the Caves (G, R)
6022767
7.50 Praise Be (G) 2026552
8.20 ■ Mary Poppins (1964, G, R,
HD, C, AD) Julie Andrews,
Dick Van Dyke, David
Tomlinson. 62545748
10.40 ■ Willy Wonka and the
Chocolate Factory (1971,
G, R, C) Gene Wilder, Jack
Albertson. 9978309
12.20 ■ Young @ Heart (2007,
G, R, C) Joe Benoit, Helen
Boston. 6111293
2.15 ■ Seabiscuit (2003, G, R,
C, AD) In Depression-era
America, an undersized
horse becomes a champion
of the racetrack, lifting the
spirits of a nation. Tobey
Maguire, Jeff Bridges.
8244370
4.30 Te Karere (C) 95800
4.55 Rod Stewart – Merry
Christmas, Baby (G, R, C)
Rock star Rod Stewart sings
Christmas favourites, with
guests Mary J Blige and Cee
Lo Green. 2141941
6.00 ONE News (C) 13496
6.50 HM the Queen’s Christmas
Message 2012 (C) 9772632
7.00 ■ Miranda (PGR, R, C)
Tonight: Miranda wants to
celebrate Christmas her own
way. 816
7.30 Royal Variety Performance
2012 (C) David Walliams
hosts the Royal Variety
Performance, which
celebrates its 100th year
with a show from the Royal
Albert Hall in London. 76274
9.30 ■ Mrs Brown’s Boys (R, C)
Mammy’s Ass: Mrs Brown
tries to get the whole family
together to celebrate the
season. 651
10.00 ■ My Best Friend’s Wedding
(1997, AO, R, C) When a
woman’s friend announces
his engagement, she realises
she loves him and sets out
to prevent the wedding.
Julia Roberts, Cameron Diaz,
Dermot Mulroney. 802125
11.50 ■ Once (2006, AO, R, C) A
busker and an immigrant in
Dublin write, rehearse and
record songs that tell their
love story. Glen Hansard,
Markéta Irglová. 7499564
1.20am Te Karere (R, C) 6309404
1.45 BBC World – GMT with
George Alagiah (G) 6011713
2.00 Impact with Mishal Husain
6.00 ■ Disney Jungle Junction
(G, R, C) 39816
6.25 Mickey’s Adventures in
Wonderland (G, R, C) 7785274
7.15 ■ Stitch! (G, R, C) 7504372
7.35 Hoops & Yoyo Ruin
Christmas (G, C) 4415309
7.55 Phineas and Ferb
(C) 2895632
8.20 ■ Adventure Time
(G, C) 4419125
8.40 ■ Back at the Barnyard
(G, R, C) 5777458
9.05 ■ The Penguins of
Madagascar (G, R, C)
1859039
9.30 ■ Santa Baby 2: Christmas
Maybe (2009, G, R, C) Jenny
McCarthy, Dean McDermott,
Paul Sorvino. 1957458
10.55 ■ Jack Frost (1998, G, R,
C) Michael Keaton, Kelly
Preston, Mark Addy, Joseph
Cross. 34553038
12.40 ■ Akeelah and the Bee
(2006, G, R, C) Laurence
Fishburne, Angela Bassett,
Keke Palmer. 2048458
2.30 One Direction: A Year in the
Making (G, R, C) 8313962
3.20 ■ Wipeout (G, R, C) 4785075
4.05 The Smurfs: A Christmas
Carol (2011, R, C) 611485
4.30 Shrek the Halls
(2007, G, R) 81651
4.50 America’s Funniest Home
Videos (G, R, C) 6367748
5.14 Horace in Slow Motion
(G) 408765038
5.15 ■ The Santa Clause 2 (2002,
G, R, C) Tim Allen, Elizabeth
Mitchell, Judge Reinhold,
Wendy Crewson. 7740651
7.00 ■ Fool’s Gold (2008,
PGR, R, C) A clue to
the whereabouts of lost
treasure rekindles a couple’s
estranged relationship.
Matthew McConaughey, Kate
Hudson. 2704835
8.50 ■ Six Days, Seven Nights
(1998, AO, R, C) A cargo
pilot and a magazine editor
crash-land on an uncharted
desert island. Harrison
Ford, Anne Heche, David
Schwimmer, Temuera
Morrison. 493922
10.35 The Year That Was (AO,
R, HD, C) Simon McKinney
hosts a retrospective of
2003. 6282496
11.25 ■ I Spy (2002, PGR, R, C)
A professional athlete helps
a government agent recover
a missing jet. Eddie Murphy,
Owen Wilson, Famke
Janssen, Malcolm McDowell.
8058632
7539404
3.30 World Business Report
9276978
3.45
4.00
4.30
5.00
Sport Today 3438336
BBC World News 3158779
HARDtalk 3696713
The Hub with Nik Gowing
(G) 5071171
5.05 The Believer’s Voice of
Victory (R) 6935268
5.35 – 6.00 Te Karere (R, C) 7147591
1.00am ■ Michael McIntyre’s
Comedy Roadshow
(AO, R, C) Comedian Michael
McIntyre unearths comedy’s
brightest talent. 82918713
4.15 Emmerdale (PGR, R, C)
1823084
5.05 The Erin Simpson Show
(G, R) 7155510
5.30 – 6.00 Infomercials
■ NEW ■ RETURN ■ FINAL ■ FILM
82
TV3
FREEVIEW 2 SKY 002
FREEVIEW 3 SKY 003
6.00 Knight Rider (G, R) 7772125
6.45 Coca-Cola Christmas in the
Park 2012 (G, R) 1969458
7.55 Everybody Loves Raymond
(G, R) 4422699
8.15 ■ Finding John Christmas
(2004, G, R, HD) Peter Falk,
Valerie Bertinelli. 4057361
9.45 ■ 12 Men of Christmas
(2009, PGR, HD) Kristin
Chenoweth. 1500361
11.10 The Office (G) 1881632
11.55 ■ King Ralph (1991, PGR,
R) John Goodman, Peter
O’Toole, John Hurt. 67763699
1.30 ■ Pride and Prejudice
(2005, G, R) Matthew
Macfadyen, Keira Knightley.
5722293
3.35
5.10
■ Christmas With the
Kranks (2004, G, R) 9574816
Modern Family (G, R, HD)
2404187
5.35
Last Man Standing
(G, R, HD) 52403
6.00 3 News 35854
7.00 Ice Age: A Mammoth
Christmas (G, R) 85212
7.20 ■ Nanny McPhee Returns
(2010, HD) Emma
Thompson. Films, page 68
4000552
9.05 ■ New in Town (2009,
AO, R, HD) An ambitious
executive is offered a
temporary assignment in the
middle of nowhere. Renee
Zellweger, Harry Connick Jr.
Films, page 68 1100816
10.45 ■ Adam (2009, AO, R, HD)
A man with Asperger’s
strikes up a relationship
with a school teacher. Hugh
Dancy, Rose Byrne. 4356380
12.20am Infomercials
5.00 Joyce Meyer 3682510
5.30 – 6.00 Infomercials
FOUR
FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012
6.00 Children’s Programmes 10.55
■ Strawberry Shortcake: Sky’s the
Limit (2009, G, R) Voices of Anna
Cummer, Andrea Libman, Ashleigh
Ball. (2009) Noon Teen Choice
Awards 2012 (G, R) 1.30 Children’s
Programmes 2.40 Big Time Rush
(G, R) 3.05 Kenan & Kel (G, R) 3.30
Sabrina the Teenage Witch (G) 3.50
Clueless (G, R) 4.15 ■ Care Bears
Movies (2010, G) Voice of Ashleigh
Ball, Kathleen Barr. 5.20 Everybody
Hates Chris (G, R) 5.40 That 70s
Show (G, R) 6.05 Futurama (G,
R) 6.25 The Simpsons (G, R)
6.50 The Simpsons (G, R) 7.15 ■
Jingle All the Way (1996, PGR, R)
Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad,
Rita Wilson. 8.45 ■ Airplane II the
Sequel (1982, AO, R) A former pilot
must save a Lunar shuttle and its
passengers when the onboard
computer kills the crew. Lloyd
Bridges, Robert Hays, Julie Hagerty.
10.10 Glee (PGR, R) 10.55 The Real
Housewives of New York City (G,
R) 11.40 Entertainment Tonight (G)
12.15am – 6.00 Infomercials
TV2: Fool’s Gold, 7.00pm
PRIME
FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004
6.00 Religious Programming
(G) 273545
7.00 London 2012 Opening
Ceremony (G, R) 13573729
11.15 Outnumbered Marathon
(PGR, R) 96773090
3.20 All the Queen’s Horses
(G, R) 4183309
5.05 Deal or No Deal
(G, R) 8778748
5.30 Prime News 650545
6.00 Deal or No Deal (G, R) 640748
6.25 Millionaire: Hot Seat
(G) 4272496
6.50 Christmas at River Cottage
(G) 451496
7.20 Jonathan Creek: The Judas
Tree (AO, R) Jonathan
investigates a series of
spooky events at a house
called Green Lanterns.
3725922
9.00 Grumpy Guide to Christmas
(PGR, R) British celebrities
share their tales of seasonal
humbug. 4392767
10.05 Elizabeth II: A Diamond
Jubilee Celebration (G, R)
UK documentary about
Her Majesty the Queen’s
60 years as Head of the
Commonwealth. 3654106
10.55 Allo Allo (G) Classic UK
comedy series. 2105651
11.30 The Late Show with David
Letterman (G) 299564
12.20am Home Shopping
1.50 Best of the Crowd Goes
Wild (G, R) 2408268
2.20 – 6.00 Home Shopping
MAORI
FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019
10.00am Korero Mai (G, R)
11.00 Toku Reo (G, R)
Noon Korero Mai (G, R)
1.00 Toku Reo (G, R)
2.00 Korero Mai (G, R)
3.00 It’s in the Bag (G, R)
3.30 Pippi Longstocking (G, R)
4.00 Children: Pukoro (G, R)
4.30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te
Motu (G)
5.00 Toi Whakaari (G)
5.30 News: Te Kaea
6.00 Pukana (G)
6.30 Haa (G)
7.00 Korero Mai (G, R)
7.30 News: Te Kaea (R)
8.00 Tatai Hono (G, R)
8.30 – 12.30am ■ Boy (2010, AO,
R) An 11-year-old living in a
small community receives a
reality check when his father
arrives home. Taika Waititi,
James Rolleston.
C Captions AD Audio Description HD High Definition
LISTENER DECEMBER 22 2012
CHRISTMAS DAY
SKY MOVIES SKY 020
MOVIES GREATS SKY 022 MGM SKY 023
RIALTO SKY 025
6.50 Biography: Meryl Streep
(2008, PG)
7.35 I Don’t Know How She Does
It (2011, M) Greg Kinnear.
9.05 It’s Christmas, Carol! (2012,
PG) Emmanuelle Vaugier.
10.35 Making of: We Bought a
Zoo (2011, PG)
10.50 Morning Glory (2010, M)
Rachel McAdams.
12.35 I Am Number Four (2011, M)
Alex Pettyfer.
2.25 Gnomeo & Juliet (2011, PG)
James McAvoy, Emily Blunt.
3.50 War Horse (2011, M) Jeremy
Irvine, Emily Watson.
6.15 Sky Special: The Hobbit
World Premiere with
Dominic Bowden (2012, PG)
6.45 The Adventures of Tintin
(2011, PG) Voices of Jamie
Bell, Andy Serkis.
8.30 The Muppets (2012, G) The
Muppets must reunite to
save their old theatre. Jason
Segel, Amy Adams.
10.10 Warrior (2011, M) Tom Hardy.
12.30am Flypaper (2011, 16) 2.00
Madso’s War (2010, 16) 3.25 War
Horse (2011, M) 5.50 Sky Special:
The Hobbit World Premiere With
Dominic Bowden (2012, PG)
6.00 Wanted (2008, 16) James
McAvoy, Angelina Jolie.
7.50 Wall Street (1987, PG)
Charlie Sheen.
9.55 Home Alone (1990, PG)
Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci.
11.40 Home Alone 2: Lost in
New York (1992, PG)
Macaulay Caulkin.
1.40 Mrs Doubtfire (1993, PG)
Robin Williams, Sally Field.
3.45 The Chronicles of Narnia:
The Lion, the Witch and
the Wardrobe (2005, PG)
Tilda Swinton.
6.00 Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man’s Chest (2006, M)
Johnny Depp.
8.30 Pirates of the Caribbean:
At World’s End (2007, M) A
pirate captain and his friends
form an alliance with the
world’s pirate lords in order
to defeat a villain. Johnny
Depp, Keira Knightley.
11.15 Gladiator (2000, M) Russell
Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix.
1.50am Biography: Heath Ledger
(2009, PG) 2.45 Mrs: Doubtfire
(1993, PG) 4.50 The Chronicles of
Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the
Wardrobe (2005, PG)
6.20 The Army of Crime
(2009, 16) Simon Abkarian.
8.35 This is England 88: Part 2
(2011, 16) Vicky McClure.
9.40 The Whistleblower (2010,
16) Rachel Weisz.
11.30 Buck (2011, PG)
1.00 The Reluctant Infidel (2010,
16) Omid Djalili.
2.45 Topsy-Turvy (1990, M) Jim
Broadbent, Allan Corduner.
5.20 Happy Ever Afters (2009,
M) Sally Hawkins.
7.00 The Future (2011, M) The lives
of a couple change after they
adopt a stray cat. Miranda
July, Hamish Linklater.
8.30 World Cinema: Happy,
Happy (2010, 16) A
housewife maintains
unyielding optimism in spite
of desperate loneliness and
a husband who refuses to
have sex with her. Agnes
Kittelsen, Henrik Rafaelsen.
10.00 Ondine (2009, M) Colin
Farrell, Alicja Bachleda.
11.45 Moving on: Bully (2008, M)
Gloria Strawhan.
12.30am The Thorn in the Heart
(2009, PG) 1.55 Topsy-Turvy (1990,
M) 4.35 Buck (2011, PG)
6.30 Uncle Buck (1989, PG) John
Candy, Macaulay Culkin.
8.10 Beverly Hills Cop (1984, M)
Eddie Murphy.
9.55 The Princess Bride (1987,
PG) Robin Wright.
11.35 The Magnificent Seven
(1960, PG) Yul Brynner.
1.40 The Pink Panther (2006, PG)
Steve Martin.
3.10 Man in the Moon (1991, PG)
Reese Witherspoon.
4.50 Mermaids (1990, PG)
Cher, Winona Ryder.
6.40 Beautiful Girls (1996, M) A
piano player at a crossroads
in his life returns to his home
town, and to his friends and
their problems. Matt Dillon,
Timothy Hutton.
8.30 Scrooged (1988, PG) A
narcissistic and arrogant TV
executive is haunted by three
ghosts during Christmas Eve.
Bill Murray, Karen Allen.
10.10 Frequency (2000, M)
Dennis Quaid.
12.05am Heist (2001, 16) 1.55
Breathless (1983, 16) 3.35 MGM
Making of: Some Like It Hot (PG)
3.50 Mermaids (1990, PG) 5.40
Beautiful Girls (1996, M)
GENERAL
Kete Aronui 3.00 Behind the Camera 3.30 Forger’s
Masterclass 4.00 Kete Aronui 4.30 First Tuesday
Book Club 5.30 Show Me the Monet
Choice TV FREEVIEW 12 SKY 078
6.00 Benny Hinn 6.30 The World of Stonehenge
7.30 Hairy Bikers Mum Knows Best 8.30 Love the
Place You’re In 9.30 Love It or List It 10.00 Carter Can
Home for the Holiday 10.30 Hairy Bikers’ Christmas
Party 11.30 Travelling Birds 1.30 Travel Unravelled
2.00 Baggage Battles 2.30 The Jonathan Ross
Show: Christmas Special 4.00 Penn & Teller: Fool Us
Special (PGR) 5.30 World’s Greatest Cities 6.30 Web
Therapy (PGR) 7.00 Auction Hunters 7.30 Relocation,
Relocation 8.30 ■ Bright Young Things (2003, AO)
The lives of a young novelist, his would-be lover, and
a host of young people in 1930s London. Stephen
Campbell Moore, Emily Mortimer. 10.30 Lowdown
(AO) 11.00 Auction Hunters 11.30 Invasion of the
Giant Pythons 12.30am Benny Hinn 1.00 The Nutters
Club (AO) 1.30 More Flatmate (AO) 2.00 Bright
Young Things AO 4.00 Lowdown (AO) 4.30 Travel
Unravelled (PGR) 5.00 Relocation, Relocation
UKTV SKY 006
6.15 The Bill Classics (M) 7.10 The Only Way is
Essex (M) 10.35 Doctor Who (PG) 4.15 The Graham
Norton Show (M) 5.15 Doctor Who (PG) 6.20
The Gruffalo (2009, PG) Voices of James Corden,
Robbie Coltrane. 6.50 The Gruffalo’s Child (2011,
PG) Voices of James Corden, Robbie Coltrane,
Helena Bonham Carter. 7.20 The Queen’s Christmas
Message (PG) 7.30 ■ The Borrowers (1997, PG)
A family of tiny people live under the floorboards
in a human home, surviving on borrowed bits
and pieces. John Goodman, Jim Broadbent, Mark
Williams. 9.15 Doctor Who Confidential (PG) 9.30
Catherine Tate Show (M) Nan’s Christmas Carol:
Nan’s insults catch up with her when the ghosts of
Christmas past pay a visit. 10.30 The Graham Norton
Show (M) Christmas 2011: With guests Matt Smith,
Gillian Anderson, Harry Judd, Dougie Poynter, Hilary
Devey, Russel Kane, and the Military Wives Choir.
11.30 The Only Way is Essex (M) 1.20am Doctor
Who (PG) 2.25 Catherine Tate Show (M) 3.25 The
Borrowers (PG) 5.10 The Bill (M)
Living SKY 008
6.30 Yoga TV 7.00 Kate and William. One Year On
8.00 Antiques Roadshow 9.00 Elizabeth. Queen,
DECEMBER 22 2012 www.listener.co.nz
SoHo SKY 010
Rialto: Happy, Happy, 8.30pm
Wife, Mother 10.00 All the Queen’s Horses 10.30
All the Queen’s Men 11.30 Best of New Zealand
Home Noon Elizabeth: Queen, Wife, Mother 1.00
Kate and William One Year on 1.30 A Lion Called
Christian 2.30 Best of New Zealand Home 3.00 The
Hotel Christmas Special (M) 4.00 All the Queen’s
Horses 4.30 All the Queen’s Men 5.00 Relocation,
Relocation 6.00 Fantasy Homes by the Sea 7.00
Kate and William One Year on 8.00 Elizabeth:
Queen, Wife, Mother 9.00 A Lion Called Christian
10.00 The Hotel Christmas Special (M) 11.00 Chelsea
Flower Show 2012 12.00am Homes Under the
Hammer 1.00 The Hotel Christmas Special (M) 2.00
Martha Stewart 3.00 Bargain Hunt 4.00 Cash in the
Attic 5.00 Neat 5.30 Celebrity Fantasy Homes
The Arts Channel SKY 079
6.35 The Way of Tai Chi 8.00 Looking for a Miracle
9.00 Tim Marlow Meets 9.30 The 360 Sessions
10.00 The Nude 10.30 Kete Aronui 11.00 Behind
the Camera 11.30 Forger’s Masterclass Noon Kete
Aronui 12.30 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
2.35 The Way of Tai Chi 4.00 Paris: The Luminous
Years 5.00 Tim Marlow Meets 5.30 Tim Marlow at
the Courtauld 6.00 The Nude 6.30 Kete Aronui
7.00 Behind the Camera 7.30 Forger’s Masterclass
8.00 Kete Aronui 8.30 First Tuesday Book Club
9.30 Show Me the Monet 10.15 Inside the Medieval
Mind 11.15 Discovering Hamlet 12.00am Paris:
The Luminous Years 1.00 Tim Marlow Meets 1.30
Tim Marlow at the Courtauld 2.00 The Nude 2.30
6.05 Dexter (16) 7.05 Nip/Tuck (16) 7.50 Boardwalk
Empire (18) 9.50 The Sopranos (16) 10.50 Treme
(M) 11.50 Dexter (16) 12.50 Nip/Tuck (16) 1.40
Boardwalk Empire (18) 3.40 Treme (M) 4.40 The
Sopranos (16) 5.40 Dexter (16) 6.40 Nip/Tuck (16)
7.30 Luck (18) 8.30 ■ Lackawanna Blues (2005, M)
In the 1960s, a young African-American boy finds
his life influenced by his love of R&B music as well
as the disparate group of people he lives with in a
New Orleans boarding house. S Epatha Merkerson,
Marcus Carl Franklin, Mos Def. 10.10 SoHo on Set
(M) 10.30 Nip/Tuck (16) 11.20 Six Feet Under (16)
12.20am Boardwalk Empire (18) 1.20 Luck (18) 2.20
■ Lackawanna Blues (M) 4.05 SoHo on Set (M) 4.20
Nip/Tuck (16) 5.05 Six Feet Under (16)
BBC World News SKY 093
6.00 The Hub with Nik Gowing 6.30 BBC Focus on
Africa 7.00 BBC World News 7.30 World Business
Report 7.45 Sport Today 8.00 World News Today
with 8.30 World News Today with 9.00 BBC World
News 9.30 World Business Report 9.45 Sport Today
10.00 Business Edition with 10.30 HARDtalk 11.00
BBC World News America 11.30 BBC World News
America Noon Newsday 12.30 Asia Business Report
12.45 Sport Today 1.00 Newsday 1.30 Asia Business
Report 1.45 Sport Today 2.00 Newsday 2.30
Asia Business Report 2.45 Sport Today 3.00 BBC
World News 3.30 Asia Business Report 3.45 Sport
Today 4.00 BBC World News 4.30 Asia Business
Report 4.45 Sport Today 5.00 BBC World News
5.30 HARDtalk 6.00 BBC World News 6.30 World
Business Report 6.45 BBC World News 7.00 BBC
World News 7.30 World Business Report 7.45 BBC
World News 8.30 World Business Report 8.45 BBC
World News 9.00 BBC World News 9.30 World
Business Report 9.45 BBC World News 10.00 BBC
World News 10.30 HARDtalk 11.00 BBC World News
11.30 World Business Report 11.45 BBC World News
1.00am GMT with George Alagiah 2.00 Impact with
Mishal Husain 3.30 World Business Report 3.45
Sport Today 4.00 BBC World News 4.30 HARDtalk
5.00 The Hub with Nik Gowing
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CHRISTMAS DAY
SPORT
RADIO
Sky Sport 1 SKY 030
6.00 Bowls, New Zealand Open, Women’s Pairs.
7.30 Bowls, Trans Tasman Trophy, Women’s Pairs.
9.30 Bowls, New Zealand Open, Men’s Pairs. 11.00
Bowls, Trans Tasman Trophy, Men’s Pairs. 1.00
Bowls, New Zealand Open, Women’s Singles. 2.30
Bowls, Trans Tasman Trophy, Women’s Singles. 4.30
Bowls, New Zealand Open, Men’s Singles. 6.00
Bowls, Trans Tasman Trophy, Men’s Singles. 8.00
The ITM Fishing Show. 8.30 The ITM Fishing Show.
9.00 The ITM Fishing Show. 9.30 The ITM Fishing
Show. 10.00 The ITM Fishing Show. 10.30 The ITM
Fishing Show. 11.00 Bowls, New Zealand Open,
Men’s Triples. 12.30am Bowls, Trans Tasman Trophy,
Men’s Triples. 2.30 Bowls, New Zealand Open,
Women’s Triples. 4.00 Bowls, Trans Tasman Trophy,
Woman’s Triples Final,
Sky Sport 2 SKY 031
6.00 Golf, The Masters, round Four, highlights. 7.00
PGA Championship Official Film. 8.00 Ryder Cup
Official Film. 9.00 Golf, LPGA Canadian Womens
Open, highlights. 10.25 NRL Footy Show. 12.30
Dumbest Stuff on Wheels. 1.00 Dumbest Stuff on
Wheels. 1.30 Tennis, Australian Open. Mens Final,
Novak Djokovic v Rafael Nadal, highlights. 2.30
Tennis, French Open, Mens Final, Rafael Nadal
v Novak Djokovic, highlights. 3.30 Tennis, US
Open, Men’s Final, Andy Murray v Novak Djokovic,
highlights. 4.30 Netball, ANZ Championship
Grand Final, Vixens v Magic, replay. 6.30 Rugby,
Super Rugby, Final, Chiefs v Sharks, from Waikato
Stadium, Hamilton, replay. 9.00 Kiwi Magic. 10.00
Rugby League, State of Origin Three. Queensland
v New South Wales, replay. 12.00am The Weight
of a Nation. 2.00 Motorsport, FIA Formula One
Championship. Brazilian Grand Prix, highlights. 3.30
Motorsport, Red Bull X Fighters Sydney, replay. 5.00
Mitch Evans Special.
Sky Sport 3 SKY 032
Radio New Zealand National
BBC Knowledge: Junior Doctors Your Life in
Their Hands, 8.35pm
9.00 Darts, World Championships, Day Two,
Session One, replay. Noon Darts, World
Championships, Day Two, Session Two, replay.
3.00 Darts, World Championships, Day Three,
replay. 6.00 Darts, World Championships, Day
Four, replay. 9.00 Darts, World Championships,
Day Five, replay. 12.00am Darts, World
Championships, Day Six, replay. 3.00 Darts, World
Championships, Day Seven, replay.
ESPN SKY 034
6.30 World’s Strongest Man. 7.00 World’s Strongest
Man. 7.30 World’s Strongest Man. 8.00 World’s
Strongest Man. 9.00 Gridiron, NFL Football, New
York Jets v San Diego Chargers, replay. Noon
SportsCenter. 1.30 NCAA Football Show. 2.00
Gridiron, NCAA, Sheraton Hawai’i Bowl, live. 5.30
SportsCenter. 6.30 NFL Primetime. 7.30 World’s
Strongest Man. 8.00 Wider World of Sports. 9.00
SportsCenter. 10.00 ESPNFC Press Pass. 10.30
Sport Science. 11.00 Aussies Abroad. 12.00am NFL
Primetime. 1.00 SportsCenter. 2.00 SportsCenter.
3.00 ESPNFC Press Pass. 3.30 Gridiron, NCAA,
Sheraton Hawai’i Bowl, replay.
6.00 Darts, World Championships, Day One, replay.
DOCUMENTARIES
Discovery SKY 070
6.30 Swamp Loggers (PG) 7.30 Man Vs. Wild (PG)
8.30 MythBusters (PG) 9.30 MythBusters (PG) 10.30
How We Invented the World (PG) 11.30 Extreme
Forensics (M) 12.30 Scorned: Love Kills (M) 1.30 I
Was Murdered (M) 2.00 I Married a Mobster (M) 2.30
You Have Been Warned (PG) 3.30 Swamp Loggers
(PG) 4.30 Man Vs. Wild (PG) 5.30 MythBusters
(PG) 6.30 Sons of Guns (M) 7.30 River Monsters:
Most Bizarre (PG) Angler Jeremy Wade re-lives his
encounters with some of the world’s most bizarre
and gruesome freshwater monsters. 8.30 Mighty
Planes (PG) Skibirds: The Hercules on skis goes to
Greenland to pick up scientists and their equipment
before the winter. 9.30 I Shouldn’t Be Alive (PG)
10.30 Evil, I (M) 11.00 Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry?
(M) 11.30 First Week In (M) 12.30am Extreme
Forensics (M) 1.30 Swamp Loggers (PG) 2.30 Blood
Relatives (M) 3.30 River Monsters: Most Bizarre (PG)
4.30 Mighty Planes (PG) 5.30 Dirty Jobs (PG)
National Geographic SKY 072
6.30 Air Crash Investigation (PG) 7.30 Crime Lab
(PG) 8.30 Megafactories (G) 9.30 Megafactories
(G) 10.30 Sex in the Stone Age (M) 11.30 Roman
Homicide (PG) 12.30 The Egyptian Job (G) 2.30
Sunken Treasures of the Nile (G) 3.30 Ancient
Megastructures (G) 4.30 Test Your Brain (G) 5.30
Test Your Brain (G) 6.30 Test Your Brain (G) 7.30
Megafactories (G) 8.30 Supercars (G) Audi: The
Audi R8 is grabbing the attention of sports car
fanatics around the world. 9.30 Supercars (G) 10.30
Megastructures (G) 11.30 Big, Bigger, Biggest (G)
12.30am Megastructures (G) 1.30 Megafactories
(G) 2.30 Supercars (G) 3.30 Hard Time (M) 4.30
Megafactories (G) 5.30 Air Crash Investigation (PG)
84
History SKY 073
6.30 The Epic History of Everyday Things (PG) 8.30
Great Castles of Europe (PG) 9.00 Royal Upstairs
Downstairs (G) 9.30 Jefferson’s Secret Bible (PG)
10.30 Secret Access. The Vatican (PG) 12.30
Mysteries of the Bible (PG) 1.30 Trevor McDonald’s
Queen (PG) 2.30 The People Speak (M) 4.30
London: The Greatest City (PG) 6.30 St Patrick
(PG) 7.30 A Tale of Two Cities (PG) 8.45 Days That
Shook the World (PG) The Christmas Truce: 1914: A
rare moment occurred in WWI when enemies put
down their guns, shook hands and discovered they
had more in common with each other than their
leaders on Christmas day. 9.45 Tony Robinson’s
Time Walks (PG) 10.15 Tony Robinson’s Time Walks
(PG) 2.45am Britain From Above (G) 4.00 Britain
From Above (G)
BBC Knowledge SKY 074
6.15 Genius (PG) 7.10 Helicopter Heroes (PG) 7.55
Wonderland (M) 8.50 Louis Theroux (M) 9.55
Seven Ages of Marriage (16) 10.55 Dragons’ Den
(PG) Noon Top Gear (PG) 1.00 Ade in Britain (M)
1.50 Top Gear (PG) 2.40 Helicopter Heroes (PG)
3.25 Richard Hammond’s Crash Course (PG) 4.15
Invisible Worlds (PG) 5.20 Who Do You Think
You Are? (PG) 6.25 Top Gear (PG) 7.30 Dragons’
Den (PG) The final set of hopeful entrepreneurs
ready themselves to face the five investors. 8.35
Junior Doctors Your Life in Their Hands (M) The
junior doctors are coming to the end of their first
attachment, so it is time to prove they can stand on
their own two feet. 9.35 Louis Theroux (M) 10.40
Top Gear (PG) 11.40 Dragons’ Den (PG) 12.45am
Who Do You Think You Are? (PG) 1.45 Dragons’
Den (PG) 2.45 Junior Doctors (M) 3.35 Louis
Theroux (M) 4.35 Ray Mears’ Bushcraft (M) 5.35 A
Bach Somewhere (PG) 5.50 Genius (PG)
6.08 Sugar and Spice’s Christmas Morning
Katrina Batten and Catriona McLeod present a
morning of festive fare
Noon The World at Noon
12.30 Bethlehem John Laurenson meets the
dwindling Christian community in Bethlehem
(BBC)
2.05 He Touched Me: Elvis’ Gospel Music A look
at Elvis’s love for gospel music, his roots in the
church, and the stories behind his greatest gospel
recordings and performances (Joyride Media)
3.04 Tuning In Historian Dominic Sandbrook tells
how radio broadcasting began in Britain (BBC)
5.00 The World at Five
6.06 The Queen’s Message Her Majesty the
Queen’s annual message to the Commonwealth
(BBC)
6.30 Spectrum The Nelson Ark: Deborah Nation
visits a scheme that brings together young people
and animals as a way to teach empathy,
compassion and tolerance (RNZ)
7.04 Christmas Night Entertainment and
information, Including: 7.06 Bread of Heaven, by
Vincent O’Sullivan (RNZ); 8.15 Windows on the
World: A Tale of Two Cities at Christmas; 9.06 The
Tuesday Feature: The Michael King Memorial
Lecture 2012 (RNZ)
10.00 The World at Ten
10.12 What’s the Word America’s literary
discussion, hosted by Sally Placksin (MLA)
11.06 Christmas Church Service From the Waikato
Cathedral Church of St Peter in Hamilton (RNZ)
12.04am All Night Programme Including: 12.06 The
Queen’s Message (BBC); 12.30 Insight (RNZ); 1.15
Primary People (RNZ); 2.05 The Forum (BBC); 3.05
Ben and William get Knotted, By Steve Danby
(RNZ); 3.30 Diversions (RNZ); 5.10 Witness (BBC)
Details available at www.radionz.co.nz
Radio New Zealand Concert
News and Weather: 6.00, 8.00, 9.00, noon,
3.00, 6.00, 11.00
6.00 Classic Morning Includes News and Weather
9.00 Christmastide See page 72
10.00 Gifts From Under the Christmas Tree A
selection of listener Christmas requests
Noon A Christmas Spectacular Kay Hall,
Catherine Blomfield (sops), Penny Watson
(contralto), John Wells, Nicholas Forbes (org),
Musica Sacra, Auckland Philharmonia Brass and
Percussion/Indra Hughes (RNZ)
1.35 Back Under the Christmas Tree A continuing
selection of listener Christmas requests (RNZ)
3.00 Panto en Pointe Tchaikovsky: Sleeping
Beauty, a ballet in three acts, James Ehnes (vln),
Robert deMaine (cello), Johannes Wik (harp),
Bergen Phil/Neeme Järvi
5.45 Let Beauty Awake Ravel trans Ronchini:
Pavane of Sleeping Beauty, from Mother Goose,
Sharon Robinson (cello), Joseph Kalichstein (pno);
Vaughan Williams: Let beauty awake, from Songs
of Travel, Janet Baker (mezzo), Geoffrey Parsons
(pno); Suppé: The Beautiful Galatea, Overture,
Czech Phil/Václav Neumann
6.00 Back Under the Christmas Tree A selection
of listener Christmas requests
7.00 The Chart Toppers CDs sold this year that
have risen to No 1 on the Concert Classical Chart
8.00 Back Under the Christmas Tree A selection
of listener Christmas requests
12.00am Music Through the Night
Details available at www.radionz.co.nz
Newstalk ZB
6.00 Frank Ritchie & Julia Bloore 9.00 Ian Grant
11.00 Sam Bloore & Dayna Vawdrey 1.00 Petra
Bagust 2.00 Frank Ritchie & Rob Harley 3.00 John
Cooney 6.00 Jim Sutton 12.00am – 6.00 Gary Denvir
LISTENER DECEMBER 22 2012
BOXING DAY
TV1
TV2
FREEVIEW 1 SKY 001
6.00 60 Minute Makeover
(G, R) 70152
7.00 Going Going Gone
(G, R) 3355
7.30 The Rich List (G, R, C) 33607
8.30 Infomercials
9.00 Dancing on Ice
(G, R, C) 5216539
11.30 Infomercials
Noon Mucking In (G, R, C) 9591
12.30 Emmerdale (PGR, C) Today:
Charity comes clean about
her previous marriage. 95423
1.30 Celebrity Coach Trip
(G, R, C) 8084
2.00 World’s Strictest Parents US
(PGR, C) 5767648
2.55 60 Minute Makeover (G, R)
9640161
3.55
4.25
Te Karere (C) 4368201
Ellen (G) Today: Scarlett
Johansson and Robert
Downey Jr. 552648
5.25 Millionaire Hot Seat
(G, C) 605862
6.00 ONE News (C) 50336
7.00 Border Security (PGR, R,
C) Tonght: A passenger
claims his bags have been
tampered with. 715
7.30 Unsung Heroes (G, C)
Tonight: The SPCA finds a
dog in a dangerously hot
situation. 336
8.00 Recruits Paramedics (PGR,
C) Tonight: Jordan believes
John is ready to take the role
of primary treating officer,
and Carleigh sets out on a
mission. 249
8.30 Alcatraz (AO, HD, C, AD) Cal
Sweeny: When a notorious
bank robber returns from the
past, Rebecca has to break
him out of the hostage-filled
bank before people can find
out who he is. 11423
9.30 Criminal Minds (AO, R, HD,
C) Parasite: A con artist’s
schemes have become so
complicated he begins to
eliminate the people involved
in them. 17607
10.30 Kath and Kim (G, R, C)
Sex: Kath is enjoying life as
an empty nester until Kim
moves back in. 864
11.00 Prime Suspect (AO, C)
Shame: Jane and Duffy are
on the case of a middleaged man found robbed and
dead in a hotel. 90930
12.00am 24 Hours in A&E
(PGR, R, C) 27640
1.00 Te Karere (R, C) 9006805
1.25 BBC World – GMT with
George Alagiah (G) 29232263
2.00 Impact with Mishal Husain
7506176
3.30 World Business Report
9236350
3.45
4.00
4.30
5.00
Sport Today 3405008
BBC World News 1958391
HARDtalk 3663485
The Hub with Nik Gowing
(G) 5048843
5.05 The Believer’s Voice of
Victory (R) 6995640
5.35 – 6.00 Te Karere (R, C) 7114263
6.00
6.30
7.00
7.25
Creflo Dollar 2249
Hi-5 (G, R, C) 4828
Grizzly Tales (G, R, C) 46355
Scooby-Doo! Mystery
Incorporated (G, R, C)
8.15
28775
Ben 10: Ultimate Alien
(G, R, C) 2790133
■ Tinker Bell (2008, G, R,
C) Voices of Mae Whitman,
Raven-Symoné, Lucy Liu.
3444268
9.30 Infomercials
11.00 Sonny with a Chance
(G, R, C) 3317
11.30 Operation Hero (G, R, HD, C)
6404
Noon ■ Cops and Robbersons
(1994, PGR, R, C) A mildmannered accountant finds
excitement when the police
use his neighbour’s property
to stake out a criminal.
Chevy Chase, Dianne Wiest,
Jack Palance. 458626
2.00 Make It or Break It
(G, R) 1062030
2.55 Pocoyo (G, R, C) 9402423
3.10 Disney Special Agent Oso
(G, R, C) 4080751
3.35 SpongeBob SquarePants
(G, R, C) 6289263
4.00 Zeke and Luther (R, C) 7591
4.30 Pair of Kings (G, C) 5978
5.00 Horace in Slow Motion
(G, R) 17249
5.01 ■ The Princess and the
Frog (2009, G, HD, C, AD)
In 1920s New Orleans, a
waitress dreams of owning
her own restaurant. Voices
of Anika Noni Rose, Bruno
Campos, Oprah Winfrey,
John Goodman. 100889572
7.00 ■ 2 Broke Girls (PGR, R,
HD, C) Two waitresses in
the same colourful Brooklyn
diner strike up an unlikely
friendship. 607
7.30 ■ 2012 (2009, PGR, R, HD,
C) An academic researcher
leads a group of people
in a fight to survive the
apocalyptic events that were
predicted by the ancient
Mayan calendar. John
Cusack, Chiwetel Ejiofor,
Amanda Peet, Thandie
Newton. Films, page 68
10424794
10.45 ■ The Walking Dead (AO,
HD, C) Made to Suffer: Rick’s
band of survivors break into
Woodbury, but they don’t do
it unnoticed. 9957442
11.40 Gary Unmarried (PGR, R, C)
Tonight: Allison gets upset
when her new friend Sophie
prefers spending time with
Gary. 2803423
12.10am Sensing Murder
(AO, R, C) 7817263
1.35 Infomercials
2.40 Greek (PGR, R) 6602089
4.15 Emmerdale (PGR, R, C)
1890756
5.05 The Erin Simpson Show
(G, R) 7122282
5.30 – 6.00 Infomercials
FREEVIEW 3 SKY 003
6.00 Open Door (G, R) 9775
6.30 Extreme Makeover: Weight
Loss Edition (G, R) 73249
7.30 Chelsea New Zealand’s
Hottest Home Baker (G, R)
1286423
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TV3
FREEVIEW 2 SKY 002
8.30 Infomercials
10.30 The Dr Oz Show (PGR, R,
HD) Today: Why Thyroid
Cancer Diagnoses Are on the
Rise. 42355
11.30 Everybody Loves Raymond
(G, R, C) 3930
Noon Terra Nova (PGR, HD) 89862
1.00 Royal Pains (PGR) 98510
2.00 White Collar (PGR, HD) 91846
3.00 The Real Housewives of
New York City (PGR) 54152
4.00 Queer Eye for the Straight
Guy (G) 65268
5.00 Entertainment Tonight
(G, R) 3133
5.30 Last Man Standing (G, R, HD,
C) 6220
6.00 3 News 45404
7.00 Road Cops (PGR, R, HD)
Tonight: A boy racer turns
his headlights off in an effort
to outrun the law. 133
7.30 The Block Australia (PGR,
HD) Tonight: An insulation
inspection causes drama and
many more hours of work.
7569846
■ Top Gun (1986, PGR, R)
Students at an elite US flying
school for advanced fighter
pilots compete against
each other to be the best in
the class. Tom Cruise, Kelly
McGillis, Val Kilmer, Anthony
Edwards. 7370355
11.10 Numb3rs (AO, HD
Where Credit’s Due: Don
investigates a series of
murders that bear an eerie
similarity to scenes from an
upcoming movie. 1938046
12.10am Infomercials
5.00 Joyce Meyer 3659282
5.30 – 6.00 Bayless Conley (G)
8.55
3669669
FOUR
FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012
6.00 Children’s Programmes 4.35
Kenan & Kel (G, R) 5.05 Sabrina: The
Teenage Witch (G, R) 5.30 Clueless
(G, R) 6.00 That 70s Show (G, R)
6.30 Futurama (G, R) 7.00 The
Simpsons (G, R) Pranks and Greens:
Skinner tells Bart about a former
student who was the best prankster
ever. 7.30 Glee (PGR, R) The
Substitute: A substitute teacher fills
in for the ailing Mr Schuester. 8.30 ■
Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998,
PGR, R) A feisty orphan living under
the yoke of her wicked stepmother
puts the prince of the realm to
shame. Drew Barrymore, Dougray
Scott. 10.55 Life Unexpected (AO,
R) Family Therapised: Lux, Cate and
Baze are on their best behaviour
for a social worker re-evaluating
Lux’s custody situation. 11.50
Entertainment Tonight (G) 11.25 –
6.00am Infomercials
Maori: Apocolypto, 9.30pm
PRIME
FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004
6.00 Home Shopping
6.30 Best of the Crowd Goes
Wild (G, R) 844794
7.00 Millionaire: Hot Seat
(G, R) 845423
7.30 Home Shopping
4.00 The Late Show with David
Letterman (G, R) 838268
5.00 Deal or No Deal (G, R) 455341
5.30 Prime News 500030
6.00 Deal or No Deal (G, R) 655189
6.30 Millionaire: Hot Seat 700238
7.00 Top Gear (PGR, R) Tonight:
Middle East Road Trip. 659713
8.30 Doctor Who Christmas
Special (PGR) The
Snowmen: It’s Christmas Eve
1892, and a chilling menace
threatens humankind, but
the Doctor is not interested.
5000336
9.50 Derren Brown Investigates
(AO, R) The Ghosthunter:
Derren Brown investigates
the world of Lou Gentile, a
top American ghost hunter.
5705666
10.50 Allo Allo (G) 1222862
11.00 Allo Allo Marathon (G) 814133
11.25 The Late Show with David
Letterman (G) 4490688
12.25am Home Shopping
1.55 Best of the Crowd Goes
Wild (G, R) 2465553
2.25 – 6.00 Home Shopping
MAORI
FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019
10.00am Korero Mai (G, R)
11.00 Toku Reo (G, R)
Noon Korero Mai (G, R)
1.00 Toku Reo (G, R)
2.00 Korero Mai (G, R)
3.00 It’s in the Bag (G, R)
3.30 Pippi Longstocking (G, R)
4.00 Children: Pukoro (G, R)
4.30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te
Motu (G, R)
5.00 Toi Whakaari (G)
5.30 News: Te Kaea
6.00 Pukana (G)
6.30 Haa (G)
7.00 Korero Mai (G, R)
7.30 News: Te Kaea (R)
8.00 He Iwi Whakapono (G, R)
8.30 Homai Te Pakipaki (G)
9.30 – 12.00am ■ Apocalypto
(2006, AO, R) A hunter
taken prisoner by Mayan
warriors and bound for the
sacrificial altar tries to escape
and return home to his wife
and son. Rudy Youngblood,
Dalia Hernández, Jonathan
Brewer. Films, page 68
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BOXING DAY
SKY MOVIES SKY 020
MOVIES GREATS SKY 022 MGM SKY 023
RIALTO SKY 025
6.20 The Adventures of Tintin
(2011, PG) Jamie Bell.
8.10 Warrior (2011, M) Tom Hardy.
10.30 The Muppets (2012, G)
Jason Segel, Amy Adams.
12.15 Cars 2 (2011, PG) Owen
Wilson, Michael Caine.
2.00 Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hallows Part 1
(2010, M) Daniel Radcliffe.
4.25 Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hallows Part 2 (2011,
M) Daniel Radcliffe.
6.35 Life as We Know It (2010,
M) Two friends become
caregivers to an orphaned
girl when their mutual best
friends die. Katherine Heigl.
8.30 Final Destination 5 (2011, 16)
Survivors of a suspensionbridge collapse are hunted
by an invisible force that is
coming to kill them. Nicholas
D’Agosto, Emma Bell.
10.05 Friends with Benefits (2011,
16) Justin Timberlake.
11.55 13 (2010, 16) Jason Statham.
1.25am Biography: Sarah Jessica
Parker (2008, PG) 2.15 Final
Destination 5 (2011, 16) 3.45 Friends
With Benefits (2011, 16) 5.35 Life As
We Know It (2010, M)
7.05
6.05 Ondine (2009, M) Colin
Farrell, Alicja Bachleda.
7.45 The Future (2011, M) Miranda
July, Hamish Linklater.
9.15 Happy, Happy (2010, 16)
Agnes Kittelsen.
10.45 The Extra Man (2010, M)
Kevin Kline, Paul Dano.
12.30 Godfathers of Ganja:
Square Grouper (2011, M)
US documentary.
2.15 Uncle Boonmee Who Can
Recall His Past Lives (2010,
M) Thanapat Saisaymar.
4.05 Womb (2010, M) Eva Green.
5.55 Breaking the Waves (1996,
16) Emily Watson.
8.30 World Cinema: Troll Hunter
(2010, M) While out tracking
a bear hunter, a group of
friends discover that trolls do
exist. Otto Jespersen, Glenn
Erland Tosterud.
10.15 Short Film: Blue (2011, M)
10.35 Arrietty (2010, G) Voices of
Siaorse Ronan, Mark Strong.
12.15am Le Refuge (2009, M) 1.45
Moving on: Drowning Not Waving
(2008, M) 2.35 Uncle Boonmee
Who Can Recall His Past Lives
(2010, M) 4.30 Breaking the Waves
(1996, 16)
Pirates of the Caribbean:
Dead Man’s Chest (2006, M)
Johnny Depp.
9.35 Pirates of the Caribbean:
At World’s End (2007, M)
Johnny Depp.
12.20 Gladiator (2000, M) Russell
Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix.
2.50 Making of: Safe House
(2012, M)
3.15 Fun with Dick and Jane
(2005, M) Jim Carrey.
4.45 Lethal Weapon (1987, M)
Danny Glover, Mel Gibson.
6.35 Lethal Weapon 2 (1989, M)
Two cops hunt down drug
smugglers protected by
diplomatic immunity. Danny
Glover, Mel Gibson.
8.30 Lethal Weapon 3 (1992, M)
Two mismatched cops try
to catch a crooked former
policeman who is running
an arms racket. Mel Gibson,
Danny Glover.
10.30 Braveheart (1995, 16)
Mel Gibson, Catherine
McCormack.
1.25am Fun with Dick and Jane
(2005, M) 2.55 Lethal Weapon
(1987, M) 4.45 Lethal Weapon 2
(1989, M)
7.30
Frequency (2000, M)
Dennis Quaid.
9.25 Scrooged (1988, PG) Bill
Murray, Karen Allen.
11.05 Breakheart Pass (1976, PG)
Charles Bronson.
12.40 Man of LA Mancha (1972,
PG) Peter O’Toole.
2.45 Anything Else (2003, M)
Woody Allen, Jason Biggs.
4.35 Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
(1974, 16) Clint Eastwood.
6.30 Some Like It Hot (1959, PG)
Two male musicians flee
Chicago for Miami disguised
as women after witnessing a
mob hit. Jack Lemmon.
8.30 Platoon (1986, M) In the
1960s, a young soldier
encounters the horrors of
war on his duty in Vietnam.
Charlie Sheen, Willem Dafoe.
10.30 Sky Special: The Hobbit
World Premiere with
Dominic Bowden (PG)
11.00 Bandits (2001, M) Billy Bob
Thornton, Bruce Willis.
1.00am Escape From Absolom
(1994, M) 2.55 The Amityville Horror
(1979, 16) 4.50 MGM Making of: Get
Shorty - Going Again (PG) 5.00
Some Like It Hot (1959, PG)
GENERAL
SoHo SKY 010
Choice TV FREEVIEW 12 SKY 078
6.00 Benny Hinn 6.30 What’s Really in Our Food
7.00 Carter Can: Home for the Holidays 7.30 Travel
Unravelled 8.00 Mark Berg’s Fishing Addiction: NZ
Special 9.00 Invasion of the Giant Pythons: Florida
with Nigel Marven 10.00 Ty’s Homes for the Brave
11.00 The Wedding Proposal Noon Jessica Watson:
True Spirit 2.00 Auction Hunters 2.30 Relocation,
Relocation 3.30 Love It or List It 4.00 Destination
Flavour 4.30 The Cook & the Chef 5.00 Candice Tells
All 5.30 Home by Novogratz 6.00 Sandmasters 6.30
Room Crashers 7.00 The Picker Sisters 7.30 Extreme
Fishing with Robson Green 8.30 ■ 12 in a Box (2007,
AO) A group of people are offered £1 million each if
they can stay on a remote country mansion for 96
hours. Ed Bennett, David Burrows-Sutcliffe, Robert
Cargill. 10.30 The Persuasionists (AO) 11.00 The Picker
Sisters 11.30 The Cook & the Chef 12.00am Love It or
List It 12.30 Benny Hinn 1.00 The Nutters Club (AO)
1.30 More Flatmates (AO) 2.00 12 in a Box (AO) 4.00
The Persuasionists (AO) 4.30 Room Crashers 5.00
The Wedding Proposal
UKTV SKY 006
6.00 The Only Way is Essex (M) 9.45 The Only
Way Is Essex (M) 10.35 Doctor Who (PG) 3.30 The
Borrowers (PG) 5.15 The Gruffalo (PG) 5.45 The
Gruffalo’s Child (PG) 6.15 Ten Minute Tales (PG)
6.25 The Royle Family (PG) 7.25 BBC Proms (PG)
9.25 Holby City (PG) Home Truths: Linden avoids
his daughter when she turns up at Olivia’s grave.
10.25 Jubilee Tribute to the Queen by the Prince
of Wales (PG) His Royal Highness the Prince of
Wales presents a personal tribute to Her Majesty the
Queen, featuring previously unseen photographs
and cine films. 11.30 The Thick of It (16) 12.00am The
Only Way Is Essex (M) 12.50 Holby City (PG) 1.50
Jubilee Tribute to the Queen (PG) 2.55 The Thick of
It (16) 3.25 The Royle Family (PG) 4.25 The Bill (M)
5.15 The Borrowers (PG)
Living SKY 008
6.30 Yoga TV 7.00 Bargain Hunt 8.00 Homes Under
the Hammer 9.00 The Martha Stewart Show 10.00
Better Homes & Gardens 11.00 The Really Big Flip
11.30 The Garden Pantry Noon Cash in the Attic
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UKTV: Holby City, 9.25pm
1.00 Elizabeth. Queen, Wife, Mother 2.00 Fantasy
Homes by the Sea 3.00 The Really Big Flip 3.30
The Garden Pantry 4.00 Bargain Hunt 5.00 Chelsea
Flower Show 2012 6.00 Fantasy Homes by the Sea
7.00 Antiques Roadshow 8.00 Homes Under the
Hammer 9.00 Homes From Hell (M) 10.00 Best of
Holmes on Homes 11.00 Fantasy Homes by the Sea
12.00am Antiques Roadshow 1.00 Cash in the Attic
2.00 Concrete Canvas 2.30 Concrete Canvas 3.00
Bargain Hunt 4.00 Cash in the Attic 5.00 Neat 5.30
Celebrity Fantasy Homes
The Arts Channel SKY 079
6.15 Inside the Medieval Mind 7.15 Discovering
Hamlet 8.00 Paris: The Luminous Years 9.00 Tim
Marlow Meets 9.30 Tim Marlow at the Courtauld
10.00 The Nude 10.30 Kete Aronui 11.00 Behind
the Camera 11.30 Forger’s Masterclass Noon Kete
Aronui 12.30 First Tuesday Book Club 1.30 Show
Me the Monet 2.15 Inside the Medieval Mind 3.15
Discovering Hamlet 4.00 Gala From Berlin 2010
5.30 Tim Marlow at the Courtauld 6.00 The Nude
7.00 Joaquin Achucarro: Nights in the Gardens of
Spain 7.30 Verbier: Khatia Buniatishvili 8.30 Itzhak
Perlman: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra 10.00
WA Mozart: Concerto for Two Pianos 10.45 The
Man in the Hat 12.00am Gala From Berlin 2010
1.30 Tim Marlow at the Courtauld 2.00 The Nude
3.00 Joaquin Achucarro: Nights in the Gardens of
Spain 3.30 Verbier: Khatia Buniatishvili 4.30 Itzhak
Perlman: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
6.05 Boardwalk Empire (18) 7.05 Nip/Tuck (16) 7.50
Luck (18) 8.50 SoHo on Set (M) 9.10 ■ Lackawanna
Blues (2005, M) S Epatha Merkerson, Marcus Carl
Franklin, Mos Def. 10.50 Six Feet Under (16) 11.50
Boardwalk Empire (18) 12.50 Nip/Tuck (16) 1.40
Luck (18) 2.40 SoHo on Set (M) 3.00 ■ Lackawanna
Blues (2005, M) S Epatha Merkerson, Marcus Carl
Franklin. 4.40 Boardwalk Empire (18) 5.40 Six Feet
Under (16) 6.40 Nip/Tuck (16) 7.30 World Without
End (16) 8.30 Dexter (16) Do You See What I See?:
Dexter finds out what LaGuerta knows, and Deb
vows to take Hannah down. 9.30 Treme (M) On Your
Way Down: Sofia channels her father’s YouTube
rants, and Toni takes the Abreu case. 10.30 Nip/Tuck
(16) Giselle Blaylock & Legend Chandler: Christian
searches for immortality. 11.20 Rescue Me (16)
12.05am SoHo on Set (M) 12.20 True Blood (18) 1.20
World Without End (16) 2.20 Dexter (16) 3.20 Treme
(M) 4.20 Nip/Tuck (16) 5.05 Rescue Me (16) 5.50
SoHo on Set (M)
BBC World News SKY 093
6.00 The Hub with Nik Gowing 6.30 BBC Focus on
Africa 7.00 BBC World News 7.30 World Business
Report 7.45 Sport Today 8.00 World News Today
with 8.30 World News Today with 9.00 BBC World
News 9.30 World Business Report 9.45 Sport
Today 10.00 Business Edition with 10.30 HARDtalk
11.00 BBC World News America 11.30 BBC World
News America Noon Newsday 12.30 Asia Business
Report 12.45 Sport Today 1.00 Newsday 1.30 Asia
Business Report 1.45 Sport Today 2.00 Newsday
2.30 Asia Business Report 2.45 Sport Today 3.00
BBC World News 3.30 Asia Business Report 3.45
Sport Today 4.00 BBC World News 4.30 Asia
Business Report 4.45 Sport Today 5.00 BBC World
News 5.30 HARDtalk 6.00 BBC World News 6.30
World Business Report 6.45 BBC World News
7.30 World Business Report 7.45 BBC World News
8.30 World Business Report 8.45 BBC World News
9.30 World Business Report 9.45 BBC World News
10.30 HARDtalk 11.00 BBC World News 11.30 World
Business Report 11.45 BBC World News 1.00am
GMT with George Alagiah 2.00 Impact with Mishal
Husain 3.30 World Business Report 3.45 Sport
Today 4.00 BBC World News 4.30 HARDtalk 5.00
The Hub with Nik Gowing
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BOXING DAY
SPORT
RADIO
Sky Sport 1 SKY 030
Radio New Zealand National
6.00 Bowls, NZ Open, Men’s Triples. 7.30 Premier
League World. 8.00 Premier League Review. 9.00
Davis Cup Best of 2012. 10.00 Basketball, NBL,
All Star Game, replay. Noon Soccer, A-League,
Wellington Phoenix v Central Coast Mariners, replay.
2.00 First London 2012 Official Film. 4.00 Kiwi
Magic. 5.00 Dumbest Stuff on Wheels. 5.30 The
Dirt. 6.00 Sky Sport What’s On. 6.30 First London
2012 Official Film. 8.30 Davis Cup Best of 2012. 9.30
Cricket, HRV Cup, Auckland Aces v Canterbury
Wizards, replay. 1.00am Cricket, Third Twenty20,
South Africa v New Zealand, from St George’s Park,
Port Elizabeth, live. 5.00 Kiwi Magic.
Sky Sport 2 SKY 031
6.00 Surfing, ASP Mens World Championship Tour,
Quiksilver Pro, Gold Coast. 6.25 Surfing, ASP Mens
World C’ship Tour, Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach. 6.50
Surfing, ASP Mens World C’ship Tour, Billabong Rio
Pro, Rio De Janeiro. 7.15 Surfing, ASP Mens World
C’ship Tour, Volcom Fiji Pro, Tavarua. 8.00 Surfing,
ASP Mens World Championship Tour, Billabong Pro,
Jeffreys Bay. 8.50 Surfing, ASP Mens World C’ship
Tour, Billabong Pro Teahupoo. 9.15 Surfing, ASP Mens
World C’ship Tour, Hurley Pro Trestles. 9.40 Surfing,
ASP Mens World C’ship Tour, Quiksilver Pro France.
10.05 Surfing, ASP Mens World C’ship Tour, Rip Curl
Pro Peniche. 10.30 Dumbest Stuff on Wheels. 11.00
Dumbest Stuff on Wheels. 11.30 A-League Highlights
Show. Noon Cricket, Australia v Sri Lanka, Second
Test, Day One, Morning Session, live. 2.35 Dumbest
Stuff on Wheels. 3.05 Cricket, Australia v Sri Lanka
Second Test, Day One, Afternoon Session, live. 8.00
Dumbest Stuff on Wheels. 8.30 Cricket, KFC T20 Big
Bash League, Sydney Sixers v Hobart Hurricanes, live.
12.45am Soccer, EPL, West Ham v Everton, replay.
2.45 Premier League Review. 3.53 Soccer, EPL,
Arsenal v West Ham, live.
Discovery: Inside the Catch: Best Brawls,
8.30pm
Championships, Day Eight, Session Two,
replay. Noon Darts, World Championships, Day
Nine, Session One, replay. 3.00 Darts, World
Championships, Day Nine, Session Two, replay. 6.00
Darts, World C’ships, Day Ten, Session One, replay.
9.00 Premier League World. 9.30 Soccer, A-League,
Adelaide United v Brisbane Roar, live. 11.30 Darts,
World Championships, Day Ten, Session Two, replay.
2.30am The Dirt. 3.00 Sky Sport What’s On. 3.53
Soccer, EPL, Manchester United v Newcastle, live.
ESPN SKY 034
6.00 Darts, World Championships, Day
Eight, Session One, replay. 9.00 Darts, World
6.00 World’s Strongest Man. 8.00 World’s
Strongest Man. 9.00 NFL Primetime. 10.00 NFL
Show Live. 11.00 SportsCenter. Noon ESPN
Documentaries. 1.30 Basketball, NCAA, Diamond
Head Classic, live. 3.30 SportsCenter. 4.00
Basketball, NCAA, Diamond Head Classic, live. 6.00
Classic’s Boxing Match. 7.00 Classic’s Boxing Match.
7.30 Classic’s Boxing Match. 9.00 SportsCenter.
10.00 ESPNFC Press Pass. 10.30 NBA Tonight.
11.00 Aussies Abroad. 12.00am SportsNation. 1.00
SportsCenter. 2.00 SportsCenter. 3.00 ESPNFC
Press Pass. 3.30 NBA Tonight. 4.00 Tenpin Bowling,
PBA Viper Championship. 5.30 World’s Strongest
Man.
DOCUMENTARIES
History SKY 073
Sky Sport 3 SKY 032
Discovery SKY 070
6.30 Swamp Loggers (PG) 7.30 Man Vs. Wild (PG)
8.30 MythBusters (PG) 9.30 I Shouldn’t Be Alive
(PG) 10.30 Mighty Planes (PG) 11.30 The Shift (M)
12.30 First Week In (M) 1.30 Evil, I (M) 2.00 Who
the (Bleep) Did I Marry? (M) 2.30 River Monsters:
Most Bizarre (PG) 3.30 Swamp Loggers (PG) 4.30
Man Vs. Wild (PG) 5.30 MythBusters (PG) 6.30
Auction Kings (PG) 7.00 Auction Hunters (PG) 7.30
After the Catch (PG) 8.30 Inside the Catch: Best
Brawls (PG) A blow-by-blow look into the fisticuffs,
feuds, and short fuses that make up the best
Deadliest Catch conflicts. 9.30 Ragin’ Cajuns (PG)
10.30 I (Almost) Got Away with It (M) 11.30 Most
Evil (M) 12.30am The Shift (M) 1.30 Swamp Loggers
(PG) 2.30 I Shouldn’t Be Alive (PG) 3.30 After the
Catch (PG) 4.30 Inside the Catch: Best Brawls (PG)
5.30 Dirty Jobs (PG)
National Geographic SKY 072
6.30 Air Crash Investigation (PG) 7.30 Crime Lab
(PG) 8.30 Megafactories (G) 9.30 Megafactories
(G) 10.30 The Lost Ships of Rome (PG) 11.30
Bob Ballard Special (PG) 12.30 Titanic: James
Cameron (PG) 2.30 Titanic: Case Closed (PG) 4.30
Megastructures (G) 5.30 Megastructures (PG) 6.30
Super Solar Yachts (G) 7.30 Bob Ballard: Save the
Titanic (PG) 8.30 Doomsday Preppers (M) Into
the Spider Hole: If nuclear war or the next great
depression occurred, would you be prepared to
retreat underground? 9.30 Doomsday Preppers
(M) 10.30 Wicked Tuna (M) 11.30 Wicked Tuna (M)
12.30am Megastructures (G) 1.30 Bob Ballard: Save
the Titanic (PG) 2.30 Surviving Armageddon (M)
3.30 Hard Time (M) 4.30 Megafactories (G) 5.30 Air
Crash Investigation (PG)
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6.20 St Patrick (PG) 7.20 A Tale of Two Cities
(PG) 8.30 Great Castles of Europe (PG) 9.00
Royal Upstairs Downstairs (G) 9.30 Time Team (G)
10.30 Heir Hunters (PG) 11.20 A Tale of Two Cities
(PG) 12.35 St Patrick (PG) 1.35 Days That Shook
the World (PG) 2.30 Secrets of War (M) 3.30
Tanks (G) 4.30 Cash in the Attic (PG) 5.30 Time
Team (G) 6.30 Time Team (G) 7.30 Tsunami 2004
Waves of Death (M) 8.30 Civilization Lost (PG)
In recent years, scientists have found evidence of
an ancient and once thriving culture thousands of
years older than any believed possible. But what
happened to them? 10.30 The First World War (PG)
11.30 MacArthur (PG) 12.30am News Stories that
Shocked the (PG) 1.00 Great Mysteries & Myths
(PG) 1.30 Ancient Aliens (PG) 2.30 History’s Raiders
(PG) 3.30 Tsunami 2004 Waves of Death (M) 4.30
Civilization Lost (PG)
BBC Knowledge SKY 074
6.45 Ade in Britain (M) 7.35 Top Gear (PG) 8.25
Helicopter Heroes (PG) 9.10 Richard Hammond’s
Crash Course (PG) 10.00 Top Gear (PG) 11.00
Top Gear (PG) Noon Top Gear (PG) 12.50 Top
Gear (PG) 1.45 Top Gear (PG) 2.35 Top Gear (PG)
3.35 Top Gear (PG) 4.30 Top Gear (PG) 5.30 Top
Gear (PG) 6.35 Top Gear (PG) 7.45 Top Gear (PG)
8.45 Top Gear (M) Jeremy Clarkson, James May
and Richard Hammond take the new BMW M3,
Mercedes C63 AMG and Audi RS4 down to Spain
for a thorough test of performance and handling.
9.45 Top Gear (M) 10.45 Top Gear (PG) 12.00am
Helicopter Heroes (PG) 12.45 Nic Hamilton’s Racing
Dream (M) 1.35 Wonderland (M) 2.25 True Stories
(M) 3.15 Walking With Dinosaurs (PG) 3.45 Walking
With Dinosaurs (PG) 4.15 How to Build a Dinosaur
(M) 5.10 Ray Mears’ Bushcraft (M)
6.08 Summer Mornings with Stuart Keith
7.00 Summer Report Caitlin Cherry and Tim
Graham present summer news and information
9.06 Summer Noelle Music, interviews and stories
with Noelle McCarthy
Noon Midday Report Including: 12.16 Business
News; 12.26 Sport; 12.34 Rural News; 12.43
Worldwatch
12.35 Matinee Idle Summer music and
entertainment with Phil O’Brien and Simon Morris
5.00 The World at Five Radio New Zealand news,
followed by Worldwatch
5.32 Outspoken (RNZ) Current affairs presented
by some of Radio New Zealand’s most
experienced presenters and correspondents
6.06 Crossing Boundaries (BBC)
7.06 Summer Nights with Katrina Batten
Including: 7.30 Spectrum (RNZ); 8.15 Windows on
the World; 9.06 The Wednesday Drama:
Wuwlfsyarn, by Phillip Mann (Pt 7 of 10, RNZ)
10.00 News and Late Edition
10.35 Through Younger Eyes (RNZ)
11.06 The New Jazz Archive Explores jazz’s place
in the story of America (PRX/NJA)
12.04am All Night Programme Including: 12.05
Music after Midnight; 12.30 One in Five (RNZ); 1.05
Discovery (BBC); 2.05 Playing Favourites (RNZ);
3.05 Predicting the Weather, by Christine ChanHyams (RNZ); 3.30 The Strand (BBC); 5.10
Witness (BBC)
Details available at www.radionz.co.nz
Radio New Zealand Concert
News and Weather 6.00, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00am,
noon, 3.00, 5.00, 11.00pm
6.00 Classic Morning Includes News and Weather
9.00 Christmastide Feast of St Stephen
See page 72
10.00 The Works
Noon Summer Sonic An RTE Irish Public Radio
Series. Agatha Christie’s Final Mystery: John
Curran’s passion for Christie’s stories led him
uncover a missing Hercule Poirot mystery (1 of 3)
12.45 Holding the Mystique Hovhaness; K Fuchs;
G Gabrieli; Biber; Gigout; Josef Strauss
2.00 Afternoon Requests (Box 123, Wellington or
[email protected])
3.00 CD Masters Classic performances from the
back catalogue: Bach; Graun; Vivaldi; Purcell
4.00 Made in New Zealand NZ performers and
composers
5.00 Cadenza Shorter popular classics
7.00 Appointment Jon Tolansky talks with John
Lunn, the composer of the award-winning theme
music for Downton Abbey (WFMT)
8.00 Music Alive A Gala Concert marking Sir
Georg Solti’s 100th birthday: Angela Gheorghiu
(sop), René Pape (bass), Tereza Gevorgyan (sop),
Matilda Paulsson (mezzo), Roberto Gomez- Ortiz
(ten), Ross Ramgobin (bar), World Orchestra
for Peace/Valery Gergiev - Mozart: The Marriage
of Figaro, Overture; Strauss: Don Juan Op 20;
Mozart: In diesen heil’gen Hallen, from The Magic
Flute; Verdi: Addio del passato, from La Traviata;
Mozart: La ci darem la mano, from Don Giovanni;
Verdi: Bella figlia dell’amore, from Rigoletto;
Mahler: Fourth movement, Adagietto, from
Symphony No 5 in C# minor; Bartók: Concerto for
Orchestra (WFMT)
10.20 Day’s End Music to wind down to
12.00am Music Through the Night
Details available at www.radionz.co.nz
Newstalk ZB
6.00 Tim Dower 9.00 Andrew Dickens 1.00 Bruce
Russell 6.00 Tim Roxborogh 9.00 Tim Roxborogh &
Pam Corkery 12.00am – 6.00 Sam Bloore
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TV1
TV2
FREEVIEW 1 SKY 001
6.00 60 Minute Makeover
(G, R) 72176
7.00 Going Going Gone
(G, R) 5027
7.30 The Rich List (G, R, C) 39447
8.30 Infomercials
9.00 Dancing on Ice (G, R, C)
5276911
11.30 Infomercials
Noon Mucking In (G, R, C) 6973
12.30 Emmerdale (PGR, C) Today:
Debbie is at the end of her
tether; Gennie wonders
if she’s made the right
decision; and Andy wonders
how to break the news to
Alicia. 95089
1.30 Celebrity Coach Trip
(G, R, C) 8176
2.00 World’s Strictest Parents US
(PGR, C) 3567260
2.55 60 Minute Makeover
(G, R) 3945373
3.55 Te Karere (C) 4335973
4.25 Ellen (G) Today: Kate
Beckinsale and Taylor Kitsch.
383244
5.25
Millionaire Hot Seat
(G, C) 140737
6.00 ONE News (C) 72114
7.00 Border Security (G, R,
C) Tonight: A bulge on a
passenger’s body raises
suspicions. 114
7.30 Coronation Street (PGR, C,
AD) Tonight: Tracy plots over
Steve and Becky’s trip; John
begs Fiz to support him; and
Graeme and Xin are grilled
by the inspector. 5263
8.30 The Boy Who Was Born a
Girl (G, C) UK documentary
about 16-year-old Jon, who
was born a girl. 7549621
9.35 Threesome (AO, C) Tonight:
Alice, Mitch and Richie
attend their first antenatal
class. 712992
10.05 A Night at the Classic (AO,
HD, C) Tonight: Things
go horribly wrong when
Brendhan Lovegrove tries to
one-up magician comedian
Jarred Fell. 377843
10.35 Kath and Kim (G, R, C)
Gay: Brett’s relationship
with a rottweiler has Kim’s
nose out of joint. 3128114
11.10 Tagata Pasifika 7603027
11.40 Beauty and the Beast
(C) 1922485
12.40am Te Karere (R, C) 6357041
1.05 BBC World – GMT with
George Alagiah (G) 8938799
1.30 GMT with George Alagiah
(G) 2203288
2.00 Impact with Mishal Husain
7573848
3.30 World Business Report
9203022
3.45
4.00
4.30
5.00
6.00
6.30
7.00
7.25
Creflo Dollar 7621
Hi-5 (G, R, C) 5640
Grizzly Tales (G, R, C) 29805
Scooby-Doo! Mystery
Incorporated (G, R, C) 1253195
7.50 Ben 10: Ultimate Alien
(G, R, C) 7470058
8.20 Tiki Tour (G, R, HD, C)
5510805
8.45
The Magic Roundabout
(G, R, C) 5464718
8.55 Fireman Sam (G, C) 5488398
9.05 Chuggington (G, R, C)
4785008
9.15
9.25
9.30
11.00
Pajanimals (G, C) 4769060
Mr Men (G) 5298282
Infomercials
Sonny with a Chance
(G, R, C) 3027
11.30 Operation Hero
(G, R, HD, C) 6114
Noon ■ The Last Mimzy (2007,
G, R, C) Joely Richardson,
Rainn Wilson, Timothy
Hutton. 772114
2.00 Make It or Break It
(G, R) 5367242
2.55 Pocoyo (G, R, C) 9479195
3.10 Disney Special Agent Oso
(G, R, C) 8385963
3.35 SpongeBob SquarePants
(G, R, C) 4680355
4.00 Zeke and Luther
(G, R, C) 5981
4.30 Pair of Kings (G, C) 5060
5.00 Horace in Slow Motion
(G, R) 23027
5.01 America’s Funniest Home
Videos (G, R, C) 100003089
5.30 My Wife and Kids
(G, R, C) 6176
6.00 America’s Funniest Home
Videos (G, R, C) 7805
6.30 Spin City (G, R, C) 5824
7.00 2 Broke Girls (PGR, R,
HD, C) 756
7.30 RBT (G, C) 517
8.00 Air Ways (PGR, C) 640
8.30 ■ Sweet Home Alabama
(2002, PGR, R, C) A New
York socialite returns to
Alabama to divorce the
man she married so she
can marry again. Reese
Witherspoon, Josh Lucas,
Candice Bergen. 5394756
10.40 Chuck (AO, HD, C) Chuck
Versus Sarah: After a
harrowing mission, Sarah
returns to Chuck with a huge
secret. 1389027
11.40 Motorway Patrol (PGR, R,
C) Tonight: An emergency
situation arises following a
hideous truck-versus-car on
State Highway One. 2870195
12.10am Memphis Beat
(AO, C) 1126995
1.05 Lost Tapes (AO, R, C)
29210041
Sport Today 3465480
BBC World News 5253503
HARDtalk 3630157
The Hub with Nik Gowing
(G) 5015515
5.05 The Believer’s Voice of
Victory (R) 6962312
5.35 – 6.00 Te Karere (R, C)
7181935
1.40 Infomercials
2.40 Ugly Betty (G, R, C) 8727206
3.35 Army Wives (AO, R, C)
9733751
4.20 Emmerdale (PGR, R, C)
7811157
5.05 The Erin Simpson Show
(G, R) 7199954
5.30 – 6.00 Infomercials
■ NEW ■ RETURN ■ FINAL ■ FILM
88
TV3
FREEVIEW 2 SKY 002
FREEVIEW 3 SKY 003
6.00 Infomercials
6.30 Extreme Makeover: Weight
Loss Edition (G, R) 68973
7.30 Chelsea New Zealand’s
Hottest Home Baker
(G, R) 57843
8.30 Infomercials
10.30 The Dr Oz Show (PGR, R,
HD) Today: Dr Oz Answers
Audience Health Questions.
48195
11.30 Everybody Loves Raymond
(G, R, C) 3640
Noon Terra Nova (HD) 12756
1.00 Royal Pains (PGR) 98176
2.00 White Collar (PGR, HD)
92992
3.00 The Real Housewives of
New York City (PGR) 43602
4.00 Queer Eye for the Straight
Guy (G) 54718
5.00 Entertainment Tonight
(G, R) 3843
5.30 Last Man Standing (G, R, HD,
C) 3602
6.00 3 News 67282
7.00 Road Cops (PGR, R, HD) 282
7.30 The Block Australia (PGR,
HD) Tonight: Each couple
reflects on the ups and
downs so far. 9701
8.30 ■ Marley & Me (2008, PGR,
R, HD) A family learns life
lessons from their adorable,
but naughty and neurotic,
labrador puppy. Owen
Wilson, Jennifer Aniston.
Films, page 68 5377089
10.55 Rove LA (AO, HD) Tonight:
Rove’s guests are Nicole
Richie, Zach Braff, and
the voice of SpongeBob
SquarePants, Tom Kenny.
8910621
12.00am Defying Gravity (AO, HD)
Bacon: The team unites after
an accident puts a crew
member’s life in danger.
43765
12.55 Infomercials
5.00 Joyce Meyer 3626954
5.30 – 6.00 Infomercials
FOUR
FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012
6.00 Children’s Programmes 4.35
Kenan & Kel (G, R) 5.05 Sabrina:
The Teenage Witch (G, R) 5.30
Clueless (G, R) 6.00 That ‘70s
Show (G, R) 6.30 Futurama (G,
R) 7.00 The Simpsons (PGR, R)
7.30 Family Guy (PGR, R) 8.00
The Cleveland Show (PGR, R) 8.30
American Dad (PGR, R) Gorillas in
the Mist: Stan decides to be a friend
to Steve rather than a father. 9.00
■ Neighbors From Hell (PGR, R)
Fantastic 15: Balthazor encounters
a man who also hopes to demolish
the drill. 9.30 South Park (AO, R)
The China Problem: With Butters’
help, Cartman takes on the Chinese.
10.00 Cops (AO, R) 10.30 Friday
Night Lights (PGR) Texas Whatever:
Eric receives an enticing offer, and
Tim thinks about his future. 11.25
Entertainment Tonight (G) 11.50 –
6.00am Infomercials
TV3: Marley & Me, 8.30pm
PRIME
FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004
6.00 Home Shopping
6.30 Best of the Crowd Goes
Wild (G, R) 415602
7.00 Millionaire: Hot Seat
(G, R) 416331
7.30 Home Shopping
Noon Great Outdoors (G, R) 132992
1.00 Live to Dance (G, R) 141640
2.00 Getaway (G, R) 9553486
3.10 Extraordinary Kiwis
(G, R) 1581089
4.00 The Late Show with David
Letterman (G, R) 512114
5.00 Deal or No Deal (G, R) 616379
5.30 Prime News 619466
6.00 Deal or No Deal (G, R) 610195
6.30 Millionaire: Hot Seat 628114
7.00 Best of QI (PGR) 191485
7.30 Top Gear Australia
(PGR, R) Tonight: Shane and
Ewen brave a forest off-road
in a VW Amarok, while Steve
drives around it in his Audi
R8 V10. 436195
8.30 Superstorm: Hell & High
Water US documentary
which looks at how cities
can protect themselves from
future disasters. 772355
9.30 Wife Swap USA (PGR)
McLeish/O’Dell: A prim and
proper family swap with
a family whose tomboy
daughters love to get dirty.
372319
10.30 Allo Allo (G) 750114
11.10 The Late Show with David
Letterman (G) 2231337
12.05am Home Shopping
1.35 Best of the Crowd Goes
Wild (G, R) 2412461
2.05 – 6.00 Home Shopping
MAORI
FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019
10.00am Korero Mai (G, R)
11.00 Toku Reo (G, R)
Noon Korero Mai (G, R)
1.00 Toku Reo (G, R)
2.00 Korero Mai (G, R)
3.00 It’s in the Bag (G, R)
3.30 Pippi Longstocking (G, R)
4.00 Children: Pukoro (G, R)
4.30 ■ Nga Pari Karangaranga O
Te Motu (G)
5.00 ■ Toi Whakaari (G)
5.30 News: Te Kaea
6.00 Pukana Ka Pao (G, R)
6.30 Haa (G)
7.00 Korero Mai (G, R)
7.30 News: Te Kaea (R)
8.00 Tangaroa with Pio (G)
8.30 Poitukohu NBA Tonight:
Oklahoma City v Miami.
10.30 Hunting Aotearoa (AO, R)
11.00 – 11.30 News: Te Kaea (R)
C Captions AD Audio Description HD High Definition
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THURSDAY DECEMBER 27
SKY MOVIES SKY 020
MOVIES GREATS SKY 022 MGM SKY 023
RIALTO SKY 025vv
7.30
9.15
6.40 Lethal Weapon 3 (1992, M)
Mel Gibson, Danny Glover.
8.35 Braveheart (1995, 16) Mel
Gibson, Sophie Marceau.
11.30 Fun with Dick and Jane
(2005, M) Jim Carrey.
1.00 Lethal Weapon (1987, M)
Danny Glover, Mel Gibson.
2.50 Uptown Girls (2003, M)
Brittany Murphy.
4.20 Eraser (1996, 16) Arnold
Schwarzenegger.
6.15 Rain Man (1988, M) After
his estranged father dies, a
man learns that he has an
autistic older brother, who
he kidnaps in an attempt
to gain the full rights to his
father’s inheritance. Dustin
Hoffman, Tom Cruise.
8.30 Species III (2004, 16) The
offspring of a deadly alien
tries to mate with humans
while being pursued by the
military. Robin Dunne, Robert
Knepper.
10.25 Mamma Mia! (2008, PG)
Amanda Seyfried.
12.20am Uptown Girls (2003, M)
1.50 Species III (2004, 16) 3.40
Mamma Mia! (2008, PG) 5.30
Eraser (1996, 16)
7.05
8.55
Cars 2 (2011, PG)
Making of: Johnny English
Reborn (2011, PG)
9.30 Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hallows Part 1
(2010, M) Daniel Radcliffe.
11.55 Harry Potter and the
Deathly Hallows Part 2
(2011, M) Daniel Radcliffe.
2.05 Diary of a Wimpy Kid:
Rodrick Rules (2011, PG)
Zachary Gordon.
3.45 Tanner Hall (2009, M)
Rooney Mara, Georgia King.
5.20 The Double (2011, M)
Richard Gere, Topher Grace.
7.00 Shark Night (2011, 16) Sara
Paxton, Dustin Milligan.
8.30 Safe House (2012, M) When
a CIA safe house is attacked,
a young agent goes on
the run with his dangerous
charge. Denzel Washington,
Ryan Reynolds, Vera
Farmiga, Brendan Gleeson.
10.30 The Adjustment Bureau
(2010, M) Matt Damon.
12.15am The Garden (2006, 16) 1.45
Making of: We Bought a Zoo (2011,
PG) 2.05 Shark Night (2011, 16) 3.35
The Garden (2006, 16) 5.05 The
Double (2011, M)
7.00
Platoon (1986, M) Charlie
Sheen, Willem Dafoe.
9.00 Bandits (2001, M) Billy Bob
Thornton, Bruce Willis.
11.00 Cuba (1979, PG) Sean
Connery, Brooke Adams.
1.00 The Trigger Effect (1996, M)
Elisabeth Shue.
2.35 Three Amigos! (1986, PG)
Steve Martin, Chevy Chase.
4.15 Johnny Mnemonic (1995, M)
Keanu Reeves.
5.50 New York, New York
(1977, PG) Liza Minnelli.
8.30 Brewster’s Millions (1985,
PG) An ageing minorleague baseball player must
spend $30 million in order
to collect an inheritance of
$300 million. Richard Pryor,
John Candy.
10.10 I Know What You Did Last
Summer (1997, 16) Jennifer
Love Hewitt.
11.50 Novocaine (2001, 16)
Steve Martin.
1.25am The Chamber (1996, M)
3.15 MGM Making of: The Unknown
Peter Sellers (2004, PG) 4.10 I
Know What You Did Last Summer
(1997, 16) 5.50 Johnny Mnemonic
(1995, M)
GENERAL
SoHo SKY 010
Choice TV FREEVIEW 12 SKY 078
6.00 Benny Hinn 6.30 Extreme Fishing with
Robson Green 7.30 Candice Tells All 8.00 Home
by Novogratz 8.30 Destination Flavour 9.00 Ty’s
Homes for the Brave 10.00 Picker Sisters 10.30
Sandmasters 11.00 Room Crashers 12.30 Love It or
List It 1.00 Candice Tells All 1.30 Home by Novogratz
2.00 Destination Flavour 2.30 Sandmaster 3.00
The Cook & the Chef 3.30 Love It or List It 4.00
Ever Wondered About Food 4.30 Pioneer Woman
5.00 My Dream Home 6.00 Sandmasters 6.30
Bath Crashers 7.00 Attrell’s Antiques 7.30 The Hairy
Bikers’ Bakeation 8.30 James and Thom’s Pizza
Pilgrimage (G) Two brothers take a culinary tour
of Italy. 9.00 Secret Meat Business. 9.30 Cheese
Slices 10.00 My Kitchen 10.30 Web Therapy (PGR)
11.00 Attrell’s Antiques Apprentices 11.30 Extreme
Fishing with Robson Green 11.30 Ever Wondered
About Food 12.30am Benny Hinn 1.00 The Nutters
Club (AO) 1.30 More Flatmates (AO) 2.00 Pioneer
Woman 2.30 Sandmasters 3.00 My Dream Home
4.00 Web Therapy (PGR) 4.30 Bath Crashers 5.00
The Hairy Bikers’ Bakeation
UKTV SKY 006
7.00 Ten Minute Tales (PG) 7.10 Heartbeat (PG) 8.00
EastEnders (PG) 8.30 One Foot in the Grave (PG)
9.35 Eggheads (PG) 10.05 The Weakest Link (PG)
10.50 Holby City (PG) 11.50 Casualty (PG) 12.40
EastEnders (PG) 1.10 Inspector Lynley Mysteries
(16) 2.25 My Family (PG) 2.55 The Bill Classics (M)
3.50 Eggheads (PG) 4.20 The Weakest Link (PG)
5.05 Heartbeat (PG) 6.00 One Foot in the Grave
(PG) 7.00 EastEnders (PG) 7.30 Jubilee Tribute to
the Queen (PG) 8.35 The Only Way Is Essex (M)
The Only Way is EsseXmas 2011: Arg throws a regal
birthday party and asks Lydia to start looking for
a place for them. 9.30 Shameless (16) Shane and
Jackson’s business is booming, and the residents are
shocked by Patty’s sudden generosity. 10.20 Spooks
(16) Vaughn takes his manipulations to a new level.
11.15 Secret Diary of a Call Girl (16) 11.40 The Bill
Classics (M) 12.30am Eggheads (PG) 1.00 The Only
Way Is Essex (M) 1.45 Shameless (16) 2.35 Secret
Diary of a Call Girl (16) 3.00 Spooks (16) 3.55 The
Bill (M) 4.45 Eggheads (PG) 5.15 Holby City (PG)
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Womb (2010, M) Eva Green.
Troll Hunter (2010, M) Otto
Jespersen.
10.40 Arrietty (2010, G) Voices of
Siaorse Ronan, Mark Strong.
12.20 The People vs George Lucas
(2010, M) US documentary.
1.55 Ten Winters (2009, M)
Isabella Ragonese.
3.35 Skateland (2010, M) Shiloh
Fernandez, Ashley Greene.
5.20 La Nostra Vita (2010, M)
Elio Germano, Isabella
Ragonese.
7.00 Perrier’s Bounty (2009, 16)
Cillian Murphy.
8.30 TT: Closer to the Edge
(2011, M) UK documentary
which looks at why modern
day TT racers still risk their
lives to compete to win the
Isle of Man Tourist Trophy
competition, the greatest
motorcycle road race in
the world.
10.20 Cell 211 (2009, 18) Alberto
Ammann, Luis Tosar.
12.10am The Double Hour (2009,
16) 1.45 The People vs George
Lucas (2010, M) 3.15 Short Film:
Darryn Exists (2011, M) 3.35 Cell 211
(2009, 18) 5.25 Skateland (2010, M)
Choice: James and Thom’s Pizza Pilgrimage,
8.30pm
Living SKY 008
6.30 Yoga TV 7.00 Concrete Canvas 8.00 Antiques
Roadshow 9.00 Martha Stewart 10.00 Concrete
Canvas 11.00 Homes Under the Hammer Noon Best
of Holmes on Homes 1.00 Homes From Hell (M) 2.00
Fantasy Homes by the Sea 3.00 Best of Holmes on
Homes 4.00 Bargain Hunt 5.00 Homes From Hell (M)
6.00 Fantasy Homes by the Sea 7.00 Homes Under
the Hammer 8.00 Restoration Roadshow 8.30 Me or
the Dog 9.30 Bank of Dave (M) 10.30 Massive Moves
11.00 Fantasy Homes by the Sea 12.00am Homes
Under the Hammer 1.00 Alan at Highgrove 2.00 Cash
in the Attic 3.00 Bargain Hunt 4.00 Celebrity Fantasy
Homes 5.00 Neat 5.30 Cash in the Attic
The Arts Channel SKY 079
6.00 W.A. Mozart: Concerto for Two Pianos 6.45
The Man in the Hat 8.00 Gala From Berlin 2010
9.30 Tim Marlow at the Courtauld 10.00 The Nude
11.00 Joaquin Achucarro: Nights in the Gardens of
Spain 11.30 Verbier: Khatia Buniatishvili 12.30 Itzhak
Perlman: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra 2.00 W.A.
Mozart: Concerto for Two Pianos 2.45 The Man in
the Hat 4.00 Our Disappeared 5.40 BBC Proms 2011
7.00 Behind the Camera 7.30 The Beauty of Books
8.00 Britain’s First Photo Album 8.30 Scrapheap
Orchestra 10.05 Nebbia 11.05 Mozartballs 12.00am
Our Disappeared 1.40 BBC Proms 2011 3.00 Behind
the Camera 3.30 The Beauty of Books 4.00 Britain’s
First Photo Album 4.30 Scrapheap Orchestra
6.05 True Blood (18) 7.05 Nip/Tuck (16) 7.50 World
Without End (16) 8.50 Dexter (16) 9.50 Treme (M)
10.50 Rescue Me (16) 11.35 SoHo on Set (M) 11.50
True Blood (18) 12.50 Nip/Tuck (16) 1.40 World
Without End (16) 2.40 Rescue Me (16) 3.25 SoHo
on Set (M) 3.40 True Blood (18) 4.40 Treme (M)
5.40 Dexter (16) 6.40 Nip/Tuck (16) 7.30 Inside
the Actors Studio: Denis Leary (M) 8.15 SoHo on
Set (M) 8.30 Californication (18) Turn the Page: Mia
continues to pass off Hank’s book as her own. 9.00
Hung (18) F--- Me, Mr Drecker or Let’s Not Go to Jail:
Ray and Tanya hatch a plan get rid of a troublesome
client. 9.30 True Blood (18) 10.30 Nip/Tuck (18)
11.20 When Strangers Click 12.20am The Sopranos
(16) 1.20 Inside the Actor’s Studio. Denis Leary (M)
2.05 SoHo on Set (M) 2.20 True Blood (18) 3.20
Californication (18) 3.50 Hung (18) 4.20 Nip/Tuck
(18) 5.05 When Strangers Click (M)
BBC World News SKY 093
6.00 The Hub with Nik Gowing 6.30 BBC Focus on
Africa 7.00 BBC World News 7.30 World Business
Report 7.45 Sport Today 8.00 World News Today
with 8.30 World News Today 9.00 BBC World News
9.30 World Business Report 9.45 Sport Today 10.00
Business Edition 10.30 HARDtalk 11.00 BBC World
News America 11.30 BBC World News America
Noon Newsday 12.30 Asia Business Report 12.45
Sport Today 1.00 Newsday 1.30 Asia Business Report
1.45 Sport Today 2.00 Newsday 2.30 Asia Business
Report 2.45 Sport Today 3.00 BBC World News
3.30 Asia Business Report 3.45 Sport Today 4.00
BBC World News 4.30 Asia Business Report 4.45
Sport Today 5.00 BBC World News 5.30 HARDtalk
6.00 BBC World News 6.30 World Business Report
6.45 BBC World News 7.00 BBC World News 7.30
World Business Report 7.45 BBC World News 8.00
BBC World News 8.30 World Business Report 8.45
BBC World News 9.00 BBC World News 9.30 World
Business Report 9.45 BBC World News 10.00 BBC
World News 10.30 HARDtalk 11.00 BBC World News
11.30 World Business Report 11.45 BBC World News
1.00am GMT with George Alagiah 2.00 Impact with
Mishal Husain 3.30 World Business Report 3.45 Sport
Today 4.00 BBC World News 4.30 HARDtalk 5.00
The Hub with Nik Gowing 5.30 The Hub with Nik
Gowing
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THURSDAY DECEMBER 27
SPORT
RADIO
Sky Sport 1 SKY 030
Radio New Zealand National
6.00 Cricket, Third Twenty20, South Africa v New
Zealand, from St George’s Park, Port Elizabeth,
replay. 9.30 Cricket, Australia v Sri Lanka Second
Test, Day One, highlights. 10.00 Cricket, KFC
T20 Big Bash League, Sydney Sixers v Hobart
Hurricanes, replay. 1.30 Cricket, Third Twenty20,
South Africa v New Zealand, from St George’s Park,
Port Elizabeth, replay. 5.00 Sea Master Sailing, 5.30
A-League Highlights Show. 6.00 Football League
Show. 6.30 Surfing, US Open, 7.30 Surfing, ASP
Mens World Championship Tour, O’Neill Coldwater
Classic Santa Cruz. 8.00 Davis Cup Best of 2012.
9.00 Export Gold Match Fishing League. 9.30 UFC
Wired. 10.30 Darts, World Championships, Day Ten,
Session Two, replay. 1.30am Darts, World C’ships,
Day 11, Session One, live. 5.30 ICC Cricket 360.
Sky Sport 2 SKY 031
6.25 Soccer, English Premier League, Aston Villa
v Tottenham, live. 8.40 Soccer, English Premier
League, Stoke v Liverpool, live. 11.00 Dumbest
Stuff on Wheels. Noon Cricket, Australia v Sri Lanka
Second Test, Day Two, Morning Session, live. 2.35
Dumbest Stuff on Wheels. 3.05 Cricket, Australia v
Sri Lanka Second Test, Day Two, Afternoon Session,
live. 8.00 The Cricket Show. 8.30 Cricket, KFC T20
Big Bash League, Adelaide Strikers v Melbourne
Stars, live. 12.30am Dumbest Stuff on Wheels.
1.00 Fight Night on Sky. 3.00 Soccer, A-League,
Wellington Phoenix v Melbourne Heart, replay. 5.00
Ryder Cup Official Film.
Sky Sport 3 SKY 032
6.00 Soccer, English Premier League, Norwich v
Chelsea, delayed. 8.00 Soccer, English Premier
League, Sunderland v Manchester City, delayed.
10.00 Soccer, English Premier League, Everton
v Wigan, delayed. Noon Soccer, English Premier
League, Fulham v Southampton, delayed. 2.00
Soccer, English Premier League, Queens Park
Rangers v West Brom, delayed. 4.00 Soccer, English
Premier League, Reading v Swansea, delayed. 6.00
DOCUMENTARIES
Discovery SKY 070
6.30 Swamp Loggers (PG) 7.30 Man Vs. Wild (PG)
8.30 MythBusters (PG) 9.30 Ragin’ Cajuns (PG)
10.30 Inside the Catch: Best Brawls (PG) 11.30 Cuff
Me If You Can (M) 12.30 Most Evil (M) 1.30 I (Almost)
Got Away with It (M) 2.30 After the Catch (PG) 3.30
Swamp Loggers (PG) 4.30 Man vs Wild (PG) 5.30
MythBusters (PG) 6.30 X-Ray: Yellowstone (PG) 7.30
Auction Kings (PG) 8.00 Auction Hunters (PG) The
Dallas Mavericks: Allen and Ton travel to Dallas and
face-off against Texas’ most elite buyers. 8.30 Sons
of Guns (M) 9.30 American Guns (M) 10.30 Blood
Relatives (M) 11.30 Disappeared (M) 12.30am Cuff
Me If You Can (M) 1.30 Swamp Loggers (PG) 2.30
Abalone Wars (PG) 3.30 Sons of Guns (M) 4.30
First Time Filmmakers: Korea (PG) 5.00 First Time
Filmmakers: Korea (PG) 5.30 Dirty Jobs (PG)
National Geographic SKY 072
6.30 Air Crash Investigation (PG) 7.30 Crime Lab
(PG) 8.30 Megafactories (G) 9.30 Megafactories
(G) 10.30 Lost Symbol. Truth or Fiction (PG) 11.30
Bob Ballard Special (PG) 12.30 The Abominable
Snowman (PG) 1.30 Elizabeth: Virgin Queen (PG)
2.30 Inside. Area 51’s Secrets (PG) 3.30 JFK: The
Lost Bullet (M) 4.30 Taboo (M) 5.30 Taboo (M)
6.30 21st Century Sex Slaves (M) 7.30 Email Order
Brides (M) 8.30 American Gypsies (M) Sex, Lies,
and Audio Tape: After encountering misfortunes,
the Johns men become convinced the blame lies
with their rival Tommy Gigiolo. 9.30 American
Gypsies (M) 10.30 America’s Hardest Prisons (M)
11.30 American Weed (M) 12.30am Megastructures
(M) 1.30 American Gypsies (M) 2.30 Rock Stars (M)
3.30 Hard Time (M) 4.30 Megafactories (G) 5.30 Air
Crash Investigation (PG)
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Sky Sport 2: English Premier League Soccer,
8.40am
Bowls, New Zealand Open, Women’s Triples. 7.30
Soccer, A-League, Wellington Phoenix v Melbourne
Heart, live. 9.30 Soccer, A-League, Sydney FC v
Central Coast Mariners, live. 11.45 Soccer, A-League,
Perth Glory v Western Sydney, live. 2.00am Export
Gold Match Fishing League. 2.30 Surfing, Billabong
World Junior C’ships. 3.00 Surfing, Australian Open.
3.30 Surfing, Drug Aware Pro. 4.00 Surfing, US
Open, 5.00 Surfing, ASP Mens World Championship
Tour, O’Neill Coldwater Classic Santa Cruz.
ESPN SKY 034
6.00 World’s Strongest Man. 7.30 World’s Strongest
Man. 8.00 World’s Strongest Man. 9.00 Outside the
Lines. 9.30 NCAA Football Show. 10.00 NFL Show
Live. 11.00 SportsCenter. Noon NFL32. 1.00 NFL’s
GreaTest, Game. 2.30 NFL Films Presents. 3.00
Basketball, NBA, Denver Nuggets v Los Angeles
Lakers, live. 5.30 SportsCenter. 7.00 The Fab Five.
9.00 SportsCenter. 10.00 ESPNFC Press Pass. 10.30
Football’s Managers. 11.00 Aussies Abroad. 11.30
Aussies Abroad. 12.00am NFL Show Live. 1.00
SportsCenter. 2.00 SportsCenter. 3.00 ESPNFC
Press Pass. 3.30 Basketball, NBA, Denver Nuggets v
Los Angeles Lakers, replay. 5.30 World’s Strongest
Man.
History SKY 073
6.30 The First World War (PG) 7.30 MacArthur
(PG) 8.30 Great Castles of Europe (PG) 9.00 Royal
Upstairs Downstairs (G) 9.30 Time Team (G) 10.30
Heir Hunters (PG) 11.30 Tsunami 2004 Waves of
Death (M) 12.30 Civilization Lost (PG) 2.30 Secrets
of War (M) 3.30 Tanks (G) 4.30 Cash in the Attic
(PG) 5.30 Time Team (G) 6.30 Time Team (G)
7.30 The Epic History of Everyday Things (PG)
How everyday things such as cans and mirrors
came to be invented or discovered. 9.30 Deadliest
Tornadoes (PG) 10.30 Narrow Escapes of WWII
(PG) 11.30 The Civil War by Ken Burns (G) 12.30am
News Stories that Shocked the World (PG) 1.00
Great Mysteries & Myths (PG) 1.30 Ancient Aliens
(PG) 2.30 History’s Raiders (PG) 3.30 The Epic
History of Everyday Things (PG) 5.30 Deadliest
Tornadoes (PG)
BBC Knowledge SKY 074
6.10 Bang Goes the Theory (PG) 6.40 Genius (PG)
7.35 Helicopter Heroes (PG) 8.20 Nic Hamilton’s
Racing Dream (M) 9.15 Wonderland (M) 10.05 True
Stories (M) 10.55 Dragons’ Den (PG) Noon Top Gear
(PG) 1.00 Who Do You Think You Are? (PG) 2.00
Dragons’ Den (PG) 3.00 Junior Doctors (M) 3.50
Louis Theroux (M) 4.50 Bang Goes the Theory (PG)
5.20 Dragons’ Den (PG) 6.25 Top Gear (PG) 7.30
Who Do You Think You Are? (M) Patrick Stewart
8.35 Ancient Worlds (PG) City of Man, City of
God 9.35 Walking with Beasts (PG) 10.10 Walking
with Beasts (PG) A group of Australopithecus sit
transfixed and stunned by the death of one of their
members. 10.40 Top Gear (PG) 11.40 Dragons’ Den
(PG) 1.45am Who Do You Think You Are? (M) 2.45
Ancient Worlds (PG) 3.40 Walking with Beasts (PG)
4.10 Walking with Beasts (PG) 4.40 Ray Mears’
Bushcraft (M) 5.40 Bang Goes the Theory (PG)
6.08 Summer Mornings with Stuart Keith
7.00 Summer Report Caitlin Cherry and Tim
Graham present summer news and information
9.06 Summer Noelle Music, interviews and stories
with Noelle McCarthy
Noon Midday Report Radio New Zealand news
12.35 Matinee Idle Music and entertainment with
Phil O’Brien and Simon Morris
5.00 The World at Five Radio New Zealand news
5.32 Outspoken Current affairs presented by
some of Radio New Zealand’s most experienced
presenters and correspondents (RNZ)
6.06 Crossing Boundaries (BBC)
7.06 Summer Nights with Katrina Batten
Including: 7.30 The Strand on Screen (BBC); 8.15
Windows on the World; 9.06 Our Changing
World (RNZ)
10.00 News and Late Edition
10.35 Through Younger Eyes (RNZ)
11.06 Mix Tape (RNZ)
12.04am All Night Programme Including: 12.05
Music after Midnight; 12.30 Global Business (BBC);
1.05 Ideas (RNZ); 2.05 Science (RNZ); 3.05
Cruisin’ In Sumner, by Ruth Kelly (RNZ); 4.30 The
Why Factor (BBC); 5.10 Witness (BBC)
Details available at www.radionz.co.nz
Radio New Zealand Concert
News and Weather: 6.00, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00, noon,
3.00, 5.00, 11.00pm
6.00 Classic Morning Includes News and Weather
9.00 Christmastide A New Zealand Christmas
See page 72
10.00 The Works Strauss: Le Bourgeois
Gentilhomme Op 60; Rheinberger: Piano Trio No
4 in F Op 191; Dove: Flute Concerto, The Magic
Flute Dances; Mendelssohn: Symphony No 4 in A
Op 90, Italian
Noon Summer Sonic An RTE Irish Public Radio
series. Mad About Ned: 80-year-old Traveller
Ned McDonagh melts age and cultural barriers
whether he goes (2 of 3)
12.45 Hitting the Road D’Indy: Pictures of Travel;
Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel; Schubert:
Fantasy in C D760, Wanderer; Curtis: Open Road
2.00 Afternoon Requests (Box 123, Wellington or
[email protected])
3.00 CD Masters Brahms: Piano Concerto No 1
in D minor Op 15; Intermezzo in E flat minor Op
118/6
4.00 Made in New Zealand New Zealand
musicians and composers
5.00 Cadenza Shorter popular classics
7.00 Appointment In Memoriam: Marking
musicians on CD who have passed on this year.
(1 of 2)
8.00 Music Alive Sergey Malov (vln), Auckland
Philharmonia/Eckart Preu; Adès: ... but all shall be
well; Paganini: Violin Concerto No 2 in B minor
Op 7; Caprice No 5 in A minor, from 24 Caprices
Op 1; Schumann: Symphony No 1 in B flat Op 38,
Spring (RNZ)
9.30 Wellington’s Organs Buxtehude: Prelude in
G Minor BuxWV163, Richard Apperley (organ of
St Paul’s Lutheran Church, Newtown, Wellington);
Zwart: Een Vaste Burg is Onze God, Paul
Rosoman (organ of St Peter’s Church, Wellington)
(org); Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre, Douglas Mews
(organ of Wellington Town Hall)
10.00 Day’s End Music to wind down to
12.00am Music Through the Night
Details available at www.radionz.co.nz
Newstalk ZB
6.00 Tim Dower 9.00 Andrew Dickens 1.00 Bruce
Russell 6.00 Tim Roxborogh 9.00 Tim Roxborogh &
Pam Corkery 12.00am – 6.00 Sam Bloore
LISTENER DECEMBER 22 2012
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TV1
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6.00 60 Minute Makeover
(G, R) 50732
7.00 Going Going Gone
(G, R) 1157
7.30 The Rich List (G, R, C) 39225
8.30 Infomercials
11.00 Dancing on Ice (G, R, C) 1515
11.30 Infomercials
Noon Mucking In (G, R, C) 2003
12.30 Emmerdale (PGR, C)
Today: Gennie is confused,
and everyone discusses
Marlon’s mystery woman
which proves too much for
Ashley. 7732
1.00 ■ Celebrity Coach Trip
(G, R, C) 78190
2.00 World’s Strictest Parents US
(PGR, C) 7862472
2.55 60 Minute Makeover
(G, R) 7240585
3.55 Te Karere (C) 4302645
4.25 Ellen (G) Today: Robert
Pattinson and Taylor Lautner.
130080
5.25
Millionaire Hot Seat
(G, C) 669664
6.00 ONE News (C) 49664
7.00 Border Security (PGR,
R, C) Tonight: A dawn
raid on a farm uncovers
a highly-organised illegal
worker scam, and a purple
passenger casts a spell on an
officer. 935
7.30 Coronation Street (PGR, C,
AD) Tonight: Tracy plots over
Steve and Becky’s trip; John
begs Fiz to support him; and
Graeme and Xin are grilled
by the inspector. 1393
8.30 ■ Dallas (PGR, HD, C) US
drama series that continues
the story of the Ewing family.
Changing of the Guard: At
Southfork Ranch, the family
gathers for the wedding of
Christopher Ewing, and a
past rivalry between Bobby
and JR crosses to the next
generation of Ewing men.
5363886
10.40 Kath and Kim (PGR, R, C)
Australian comedy series.
Sport: Wedding preparations
for Kath and Kel’s big day
are well underway. 3194157
11.15 Alan Carr: Chatty Man (C)
Tonight: Guests include
Sacha Baron Cohen. 1979393
12.15am Spicks and Specks
(PGR, R, C) Adam Hills hosts
an Australian music panel
show. 6143542
12.50 Te Karere (R, C) 6257097
1.15
BBC World – GMT with
George Alagiah (G) 8993813
2.00 Impact 5158959
2.30 Rendezvous With Zeinab
Badawi 3057720
3.00 Impact 8102879
3.30 World Business Report
9107894
3.45 Sport Today 3369252
4.00 World Have Your Say
2602252
5.00 The Hub with Nik Gowing
(G) 8495504
5.40 – 6.00 World Features 1253813
6.00
6.30
7.00
7.25
7.50
8.20
8.45
8.55
9.05
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9.25
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11.00
11.30
Noon
1.50
2.00
2.55
3.10
3.35
4.00
Creflo Dollar 3751
Hi-5 (G, R, C) 1770
Grizzly Tales (G, R, C) 19645
Scooby-Doo! Mystery
Incorporated (G, R, C) 1220867
Ben 10: Ultimate Alien
(G, R, C) 5270670
Tiki Tour (G, R, HD, C) 5587577
■ The Magic Roundabout
(G, R, C) 5424190
Fireman Sam (G, C) 5448770
■ Chuggington
(G, R) 4745480
Pajanimals (G, C) 4736732
Mr Men (G) 5265954
Infomercials
Sonny with a Chance
(G, R, C) 9157
Operation Hero
(G, R, HD, C) 9916
■ Kangaroo Jack (2003,
PGR, R, C) Jerry O’Connell,
Anthony Anderson, Estella
Warren. 5188848
Mad (G, C) 4992225
Make It or Break It
(G, R) 9662454
Pocoyo (G, R, C) 9446867
Disney Special Agent Oso
(G, R, C) 2680175
SpongeBob SquarePants
(G, R, C) 8985567
Zeke and Luther (G, R, C)
3193
4.30 Pair of Kings (G, C) 8480
5.00 Horace in Slow Motion
(G, R) 22515
5.01 America’s Funniest Home
Videos (G, R, C) 100006409
5.30 My Wife and Kids
(G, R, C) 9596
6.00 America’s Funniest Home
Videos (G, R, C) 5175
6.30 Spin City (G, R, C) 5916
7.00 2 Broke Girls (PGR, R, HD,
C) Tonight: Max and Caroline
are suspicious of the new
upstairs neighbour Sophie,
who moved in after the old
tenant died. 577
7.30 ■ Lord of the Rings – The
Fellowship of the Ring
(2001, R, C) A young hobbit
begins an epic journey to
destroy a ring owned by
his eccentric uncle that is in
fact a source of ultimate evil.
Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen,
Sean Astin, Christopher Lee,
Hugo Weaving, Billy Boyd,
Dominic Monaghan, Cate
Blanchett. Films, page 68
90250225
11.05 The Bachelor (PGR, C)
Tonight: Bachelor Ben
and his 13 remaining
bachelorettes visit Park City,
Utah, for some outdoor
adventures. 2021935
1.05am Ghost Whisperer
(AO, R, C) 1337338
2.00 Infomercials
3.00 The Voice Australia
(G, R, C) 7647815
4.20 18 to Life (G) 7888829
5.05 The Erin Simpson Show
(G) 6864726
5.35 – 6.00 Just the Job (G, R, C)
7083349
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TV3
FREEVIEW 2 SKY 002
FREEVIEW 3 SKY 003
6.00 Infomercials
6.30 Extreme Makeover: Weight
Loss Edition (G, R) 86157
7.30 Chelsea New Zealand’s
Hottest Home Baker (G, R)
24393
8.30 Infomercials
10.30 The Dr Oz Show (PGR, R,
HD) Today: How To Take
Charge of Your Cholesterol
Levels. 15645
11.30 Everybody Loves Raymond
(G, R, C) 9770
Noon Terra Nova (PGR, R, HD)
94138
1.00 Royal Pains (PGR) 77206
2.00 White Collar (PGR, HD)
74374
3.00 The Real Housewives of
New York City (PGR) 43480
4.00 Queer Eye for the Straight
Guy (G) 54596
5.00 Entertainment Tonight
(G, R) 3935
5.30 Last Man Standing
(G, R, HD, C) 6022
6.00 3 News 34732
7.00 Road Cops (PGR, R, HD) 913
7.30 The Block Australia
(PGR, HD) 6461
8.30 The Graham Norton Show
(AO, HD) Tonight: Daniel
Radcliffe, Jessica Ennis,
Ricky Gervais, and singer
Bruno Mars. 63549
9.30 ■ WANNA-BEn (AO, R,
HD) Tonight: Ben Boyce
speaks to Henry Winkler and
Playmate Kendra. 66022
10.05 After Hours With Jarred
Christmas (AO, R) Jarred
Christmas performs a standup special. 828225
10.35 The Big Game (PGR) Poker
series. 1344954
11.35 Lie to Me (AO, C) The
Canary’s Song: Cal suspects
foul play in a coalmine
explosion that killed six
miners. 863312
12.30am NCIS (AO, R, HD, C)
3651542
1.20 – 6.00 Infomercials
FOUR
FREEVIEW 4 SKY 012
6.00 Children’s Programmes 4.35
Kenan & Kel (G, R) 5.05 Sabrina:
The Teenage Witch (G, R) 5.30
Clueless (G, R) 6.00 That 70s Show
(G, R) 6.30 Futurama (G, R) 7.00
The Simpsons (PGR, R) 7.30 Family
Guy (PGR, R) 8.00 Raising Hope
(PGR) Henderson, Nevada-Adjacent
Baby!: The gang attend Virginia’s
cousin’s wedding in Las Vegas.
8.30 ■ The Marine 2 (2009, AO,
R) Rebels seize control of a hotel
in which a marine sniper is staying.
Ted DiBiase, Temuera Morrison.
Films, page 68 10.30 Covert Affairs
(AO) Welcome to the Occupation:
Annie and Joan pose as a news
team to extract an operative from
a hostage crisis in Mexico. 11.25
Entertainment Tonight (G) 11.50 –
6.00am Infomercials
Four: The Marine 2, 8.30pm
PRIME
FREEVIEW 10 SKY 004
6.00 Home Shopping
6.30 Best of the Crowd Goes
Wild (G, R) 891206
7.00 Millionaire: Hot Seat
(G, R) 892935
7.30 Home Shopping
Noon Great Outdoors (G, R) 418022
1.00 Live to Dance (G, R) 427770
2.00 Getaway (G, R) 438886
3.00 Whitney Houston Biography
(G, R) 865916
4.00 The Late Show with David
Letterman (G, R) 869732
5.00 Deal or No Deal (G, R) 538193
5.30 Prime News 388670
6.00 Deal or No Deal (G, R) 433729
6.30 Millionaire: Hot Seat
(G) 388490
7.00 Best of QI (PGR) 639393
7.30 Three Men Go to Scotland
(PGR, R) 2766190
8.35 ■ Richard Hammond’s
Journey to the Centre of
Planet Earth (G) Richard
Hammond present a
geology series. 650461
9.40 True Stories: Pre-Teen Proms
(G, R) UK documentary
about the prom preparations
at two primary schools.
8107003
10.55 Allo Allo (G) 7240480
11.35 The Late Show with David
Letterman (G) 4424645
12.35am Home Shopping
1.35 Best of the Crowd Goes
Wild (G, R) 2316233
2.05 – 6.00 Home Shopping
MAORI
FREEVIEW 5 SKY 019
10.00am Korero Mai (G, R)
11.00 Toku Reo (G, R)
Noon Korero Mai (G, R)
1.00 Toku Reo (G, R)
2.00 Korero Mai (G, R)
3.00 It’s in the Bag (G, R)
3.30 Pippi Longstocking (G, R)
4.00 Children: Pukoro (G, R)
4.30 Nga Pari Karangaranga O Te
Motu (G, R)
5.00 ■ Toi Whakaari (G)
5.30 News: Te Kaea
6.00 Pukana Ka Pao (G, R)
6.30 Haa (G)
7.00 Korero Mai (G, R)
7.30 News: Te Kaea (R)
8.00 It’s in the Bag (G, R)
8.30 Kanikani Mai (G, R) An
entertainment show.
9.30 Unsung Heroes of Maori
Music (G, R)
10.00 Phunk Nation (PGR, R)
10.30 Mana Mamau (AO, R)
11.00 – 11.30 News: Te Kaea (R)
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FRIDAY DECEMBER 28
SKY MOVIES SKY 020
MOVIES GREATS SKY 022 MGM SKY 023
RIALTO SKY 025
6.45 Diary of a Wimpy Kid:
Rodrick Rules (2011, PG)
Zachary Gordon.
8.25 Making of: We Bought a
Zoo (2011, PG)
8.45 The Adjustment Bureau
(2010, M) Matt Damon.
10.30 Tanner Hall (2009, M)
Rooney Mara, Georgia King.
12.05 Safe House (2012, M) Denzel
Washington, Ryan Reynolds.
2.00 Spy Kids 4 (2011, PG)
Jessica Alba, Joel McHale.
3.30 Confined (2010, PG)
Emma Caulfield.
5.00 Beautiful Boy (2010, M)
Michael Sheen, Maria Bello.
6.40 Paul (2011, M) Simon Pegg.
8.30 Texas Killing Fields (2011,
16) In the Texas bayous, a
homicide detective and a
cop to investigate a series
of unsolved murders. Sam
Worthington, Jeffrey Dean
Morgan.
10.20 We Bought a Zoo (2011, PG)
Matt Damon.
12.25am Devil’s Den (2006, 16) 1.50
True Confessions of a Hollywood
Starlet (2008, PG) 3.20 Confined
(2010, PG) 4.50 Beautiful Boy
(2010, M)
7.25
7.05
Rain Man (1988, M) Dustin
Hoffman, Tom Cruise.
9.35 Uptown Girls (2003, M)
Brittany Murphy.
11.05 Species III (2004, 16) Robin
Dunne, Robert Knepper.
12.55 Mamma Mia! (2008, PG)
Amanda Seyfried.
2.50 Layer Cake (2005, 16)
Daniel Craig, Sienna Miller.
4.35 Courage Under Fire (1996,
M) Denzel Washington.
6.30 Hellboy II: The Golden Army
(2008, M) A demon battles a
prince who plans to destroy
the world with a mechanical
army. Ron Perlman.
8.30 The Wedding Singer (1998,
M) A wedding singer and
a waitress develop feelings
for each other despite
being engaged to other
people. Adam Sandler, Drew
Barrymore.
10.10 Doom (2005, 16) Karl Urban.
11.55 Biography: Mad Mel: The
Rise & Fall of a Hollywood
Icon (2010, PG)
1.25am Hellboy II: The Golden Army
(2008, M) 3.25 The Wedding Singer
(1998, M) 5.00 Layer Cake (2005,
16)
7.25
New York, New York
(1977, PG) Liza Minnelli.
10.05 Brewster’s Millions
(1985, PG) Richard Pryor.
11.45 Topkapi (1964, G) Melina
Mercouri, Peter Ustinov.
1.45 Bananas (1971, PG) Woody
Allen, Louise Lasser.
3.05 The Great Raid (2005, M)
Benjamin Bratt.
5.15 The Whole Ten Yards
(2004, M) Bruce Willis.
6.55 The Watcher (2000, 16)
An FBI agent finds that he
cannot escape the taunting
of a serial killer. Keanu
Reeves.
8.30 The Craft (1996, 16) A new
girl in town joins forces with
three others who practice
witchcraft at her school.
Neve Campbell, Fairuza Balk.
10.10 Rollerball (1975, 18) An
athlete is forced to compete
in increasingly deadly game
after his cult status makes him
a target of those who want to
end his career. James Caan.
12.15am Chasing Amy (1997, 16)
2.05 Below (2002, M) 3.50 The
Craft (1996, 16) 5.30 Bananas (1971,
PG)
GENERAL
Choice TV FREEVIEW 12 SKY 078
6.00 Benny Hinn 6.30 James and Thom’s Pizza
Pilgrimage 7.00 Secret Meat Business 7.30 Cheese
Slices 8.00 My Kitchen 8.30 Ever Wondered About
Food 9.00 Pioneer Woman 9.30 Love It or List
It 10.00 My Dream Home 11.00 Attrell’s Antiques
Apprentices 11.30 Sandmasters Noon Love It or
List It 12.30 The Hairy Bikers’ Bakeation 1.30 James
and Thom’s Pizza Pilgrimage 2.00 Secret Meat
Business 2.30 Cheese Slices 3.00 My Kitchen 3.30
Love It or List It 4.00 Food Factory 4.30 My Kitchen
5.00 If It’s Broke Fix It 6.00 Sandmasters 6.30
Yard Crashers 7.00 Cash & Cari 7.30 You Deserve
This House 8.30 Better Homes & Gardens (G) 9.20
Gardeners’ World: Summer Special 10.30 School of
Comedy (AO) 11.00 Cash & Cari 11.30 Sandmasters
12.30am Benny Hinn 1.00 The Nutters Club (AO)
2.00 Food Factory 2.30 My Kitchen 3.00 If It’s
Broke Fix It 4.00 School of Comedy (AO) 4.30 Yard
Crashers 5.00 What’s Really in Our Food? 5.30 You
Deserve This House
UKTV SKY 006
6.15 The Bill Classics (M) 7.10 Heartbeat (PG) 8.00
EastEnders (PG) 8.30 One Foot in the Grave (PG)
9.40 Eggheads (PG) 10.10 The Weakest Link (PG)
10.55 Spectacle. Elvis Costello with (M) 11.45 The
Choir (PG) 12.45 EastEnders (PG) 1.15 Inspector
Lynley Mysteries (M) 2.45 The Bill Classics (M) 3.40
Eggheads (PG) 4.10 The Weakest Link (PG) 4.55
Heartbeat (PG) 5.45 One Foot in the Grave (PG)
7.00 The Mighty Boosh (M) 7.30 New Tricks (M)
8.30 Bleak Old Shop of Stuff (PG) Stricken with
grief, Jedrington begins to question the morality of
his business empire. 9.30 The Graham Norton Show
(M) 10.20 BBC Proms: Comedy Prom (PG) 11.50 The
Bill Classics (M) 12.45am Eggheads (PG) 1.15 The
Graham Norton Show (M) 2.05 The Mighty Boosh
(M) 2.35 New Tricks (M) 3.30 Bleak Old Shop of
Stuff (PG) 4.00 Bleak Old Shop of Stuff (PG) 4.30
The Bill (M) 5.20 Eggheads (PG) 5.50 Doctor Who
Confidential (PG)
Living SKY 008
6.30 Yoga TV 7.00 Bargain Hunt 8.00 Homes Under
the Hammer 9.00 Martha Stewart 10.00 Alan at
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UKTV: Bleak Old Shop of Stuff, 8.30pm
Highgrove 11.00 Grow Your Own Drugs 11.30 The
Outdoor Room Noon Bank of Dave (M) 1.00 It’s Me
or the Dog (US) 2.00 Fantasy Homes by the Sea
3.00 Massive Moves 3.30 The Outdoor Room 4.00
Bargain Hunt 5.00 It’s Me or the Dog 6.00 Fantasy
Homes by the Sea 7.00 Antiques Roadshow 8.00 The
Garden Pantry 8.30 Summer Home 9.00 Sarah 101
9.30 Bank of Dave (M) 10.30 Alan at Highgrove 11.30
Grow Your Own Drugs 12.00am The Garden Pantry
12.30 Summer Home 1.00 Antiques Roadshow 2.00
Fantasy Homes by the Sea 3.00 Bargain Hunt 4.00
Cash in the Attic 5.00 Antiques Roadshow
The Arts Channel SKY 079
6.05 Nebbia 7.05 Mozartballs 8.00 Our Disappeared
9.40 BBC Proms 2011: Human Planet 11.00 Behind
the Camera 11.30 The Beauty of Books Noon Britain’s
First Photo Album 12.30 Scrapheap Orchestra 2.05
Nebbia 3.05 Mozartballs 4.00 Not for Ourselves
Alone 5.30 James Rhodes: Piano Man 6.00
Discovering Dali Filmmaker 7.00 Behind the Camera
7.30 In Search of Haydn 8.00 Obsession Magnifique
8.30 The Dust Bowl 9.30 Fish Town 10.15 Ray Charles:
Live in France 11.15 Close Up: Portraits 12.00am Not
for Ourselves Alone 1.30 James Rhodes: Piano Man
2.00 Discovering Dali 3.00 Behind the Camera 3.30
In Search of Haydn 4.00 Obsession Magnifique 4.30
The Dust Bowl 5.30 Fish Town
SoHo SKY 010
6.05 The Sopranos (16) 7.05 Nip/Tuck (18) 7.50
La Nostra Vita (2010, M) Elio
Germano, Isabella Ragonese.
8.45 TT: Closer to the Edge
(2011, M) UK documentary.
10.35 Perrier’s Bounty (2009, 16)
Cillian Murphy.
12.05 Vidal Sassoon: The Movie
(2010, M) US documentary.
1.40 Vincere (2009, M) Giovanna
Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi.
3.45 Bill Cunningham New York
(2010, PG) US documentary.
5.10 Wake Wood (2011, 16) Aidan
Gillen, Eva Birthistle.
6.40 Welcome to the Rileys
(2010, 16) James Gandolfini,
Kristen Stewart.
8.30 Snow Flower and the Secret
Fan (2011, M) In 19th-century
China, two girls use a secret
language as a way out of the
cultural norms imposed on
them by society. Gianna Yun,
Bingbing Li.
10.20 Mother Kusters Goes to
Heaven (1975, M) Brigitte
Mira, Ingrid Caven.
12.25am $5 a Day (2008, M) 2.00
Vidal Sassoon: The Movie (2010,
M) 3.35 Moving on: Butterfly Effect
(2008, M) 4.20 Wake Wood (2011,
16) 5.50 Vincere (2009, M)
Inside the Actor’s Studio. Denis Leary (M) 8.35
SoHo on Set (M) 8.50 True Blood (18) 9.50 When
Strangers Click (M) 10.50 Californication (18) 11.20
Hung (18) 11.50 The Sopranos (16) 12.50 Nip/Tuck
(18) 1.40 Inside the Actor’s Studio. Denis Leary (M)
2.25 SoHo on Set (M) 2.40 True Blood (18) 3.40
Californication (18) 4.10 Hung (18) 4.40 When
Strangers Click (M) 5.40 The Sopranos (16) 6.40
Nip/Tuck (18) 7.30 Six Feet Under (16) 8.30 ■ The
Strange History of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell (2011, M) US
documentary that looks at the law that prevented
America’s gay and lesbian service personnel from
living openly in the military. 9.55 SoHo on Set (M)
10.30 Nip/Tuck (18) Enigma: Sean makes unusual
attempts to battle his insomnia, and Christian and
Kimber begin a joint business venture. 11.20 Luck
(18) 12.20am Treme (M) 1.20 Six Feet Under (16)
2.20 ■ The Strange History of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
(2011, M) 3.45 SoHo on Set (M) 4.20 Nip/Tuck (18)
5.05 Luck (18)
BBC World News SKY 093
6.00 The Hub with Nik Gowing 6.30 BBC Focus on
Africa 7.00 BBC World News 7.30 World Business
Report 7.45 Sport Today 8.00 World News Today
with 8.30 World News Today with 9.00 BBC World
News 9.30 World Business Report 9.45 Sport Today
10.00 Business Edition 10.30 HARDtalk 11.00 BBC
World News America Noon Newsday 12.30 Asia
Business Report 12.45 Sport Today 1.00 Newsday
1.30 Asia Business Report 1.45 Sport Today 2.00
Newsday 2.30 Asia Business Report 2.45 Sport Today
3.00 BBC World News 3.30 Asia Business Report
3.45 Sport Today 4.00 BBC World News 4.30 Asia
Business Report 4.45 Sport Today 5.00 BBC World
News 5.30 Rendezvous With Zeinab Badawi 6.00
BBC World News 6.30 World Business Report 6.45
BBC World News 7.30 World Business Report 7.45
BBC World News 8.30 World Business Report 8.45
BBC World News 9.30 World Business Report 9.45
BBC World News 10.30 Rendezvous With Zeinab
Badawi 11.00 BBC World News 11.30 World Business
Report 11.45 BBC World News 1.00am GMT with
George Alagiah 2.00 Impact 2.30 Rendezvous With
Zeinab Badawi 3.00 Impact 3.30 World Business
Report 3.45 Sport Today 4.00 World Have Your Say
4.30 World Have Your Say 5.00 The Hub with Nik
Gowing
LISTENER DECEMBER 22 2012
FRIDAY DECEMBER 28
SPORT
RADIO
Sky Sport 1 SKY 030
Radio New Zealand National
6.00 Dumbest Stuff on Wheels. 8.00 Darts, World
Championships, Day 11, Session Two, live. Noon
Darts, World Championships, Day 11, Session One,
replay. 3.00 Darts, World Championships, Day 11,
Session Two, replay. 6.00 Surfing, ASP Mens World
Championship Tour, O’Neill Coldwater Classic Santa
Cruz. 6.30 ICC Cricket 360. 7.00 Cricket, HRV Cup,
Auckland Aces v Wellington Firebirds, from Eden
Park, Auckland, live. 10.30 The Cricket Show. 11.00
Soccer, A-League, Melbourne Victory v Newcastle
Jets, delayed. 1.00am Basketball, NBL, Adelaide
36ers v NZ Breakers, replay. 3.00 Fight Night on
SKY. 5.00 Darts, World Championships, Day 11,
Session Two, replay.
Sky Sport 2 SKY 031
6.00 Golf, US PGA Tour, Tyco Golf Skills Challenge.
10.00 Soccer, A-League, Wellington Phoenix v
Melbourne Heart, replay. Noon Cricket, Australia v
Sri Lanka Second Test, Day Three, Morning Session,
live. 2.35 The Cricket Show. 3.05 Cricket, Australia
v Sri Lanka Second Test, Day Three, Afternoon
Session, live. 8.00 Dumbest Stuff on Wheels. 8.30
Cricket, KFC T20 Big Bash League, Sydney Thunder
v Brisbane Heat, live. 12.30am Dumbest Stuff
on Wheels. 1.00 Dumbest Stuff on Wheels. 1.30
Premier League Review. 2.30 Golf, US PGA Tour,
Tyco Golf Skills Challenge, highlights. 3.30 Soccer,
A-League, Melbourne Victory v Newcastle Jets,
replay. 5.30 ICC Cricket 360.
National Geographic: The Croc Catchers NT,
7.30pm
Challenge, highlights. 4.00 Premier League Review.
5.00 Soccer, English Premier League, Manchester
United v Newcastle, highlights. 6.00 First London
2012 Official Film. 8.00 Premier League Review.
9.00 KOTV. 9.30 Surfing, ASP Mens World C’ship
Tour, O’Neill Coldwater Classic Santa Cruz. 10.00
Basketball, NBL, Adelaide 36ers v NZ Breakers,
live. 12.00am Darts, World Championships, Day 11,
Session One, replay. 3.00 Soccer, English Premier
League, Arsenal v West Ham, replay. 5.00 Soccer,
EPL, Manchester United v Newcastle, highlights.
ESPN SKY 034
6.00 Fox Sports News. 8.00 Fox Sports News. 8.30
Fox Sports News. 9.00 Cricket, Australia v Sri Lanka
Second Test, Day Two, highlights. 9.30 Cricket,
KFC T20 Big Bash League, Adelaide Strikers v
Melbourne Stars, replay. 1.00 Touch Rugby, Tag
Football World Cup, U21 Men’s. 1.30 Touch Rugby,
Tag Football World Cup, Mixed Grade. 2.00 Touch
Rugby, Tag Football World Cup, Open Women’s.
2.30 Touch Rugby, Tag Football World Cup, Open
Men’s. 3.00 Golf, US PGA Tour, Tyco Golf Skills
6.00 World’s Strongest Man. 6.30 World’s
Strongest Man. 7.00 World’s Strongest Man. 7.30
World’s Strongest Man. 8.00 World’s Strongest
Man. 9.00 Gridiron, NCAA, Military Bowl, live. 12.30
Gridiron, NCAA, Belk Bowl, live. 3.45 Gridiron,
NCAA, Bridgepoint Education Holiday Bowl, live.
7.15 SportsCenter. 8.00 NFL Show Live. 9.00
SportsCenter. 10.00 ESPNFC Press Pass. 10.30
NBA Action. 11.00 Aussies Abroad. 12.00am
ESPN Documentaries. 1.00 SportsCenter. 2.00
SportsCenter. 3.00 ESPNFC Press Pass. 3.30
Gridiron, NCAA, Bridgepoint Education Holiday
Bowl, replay.
DOCUMENTARIES
History SKY 073
Sky Sport 3 SKY 032
Discovery SKY 070
6.30 Swamp Loggers (PG) 7.30 Man Vs. Wild
(PG) 8.30 MythBusters (PG) 9.30 American Guns
(M) 10.30 Sons of Guns (M) 11.30 I (Almost) Got
Away with It (M) 12.30 Disappeared (M) 1.30 Blood
Relatives (M) 2.30 Auction Kings (PG) 3.00 Auction
Hunters (PG) 3.30 Swamp Loggers (PG) 4.30
Man Vs. Wild (PG) 5.30 MythBusters (PG) 6.30
How We Invented the World (PG) 7.30 Weapons
That Changed the World (PG) 8.30 I Shouldn’t Be
Alive (PG) 9.30 Nightmare Next Door (M) 10.30
Disappeared (M) 11.30 Stalked: Someone’s Watching
(M) 12.00am Who the (Bleep) Did I Marry? (M) 12.30
Call 911 (PG) 1.00 Destroyed in Seconds (PG) 1.30
Swamp Loggers (PG) 2.30 Swamp Loggers (PG)
3.30 Swamp Loggers (PG) 4.30 Swamp Loggers
(PG) 5.30 Swamp Loggers (PG)
National Geographic SKY 072
6.30 Air Crash Investigation (PG) 7.30 Crime Lab
(PG) 8.30 Megafactories (G) 9.30 Megafactories (G)
10.30 China’s Great Wall (PG) 11.30 Mengele’s Twin
Mystery (PG) 12.30 Apocalypse: The Rise of Hitler
(PG) 1.30 Access 360 World Heritage (G) 2.30 Nazi
Underworld (M) 3.30 Hitler’s Attack on America
(PG) 4.30 Britain’s Greatest Machines (G) 5.30
Britain’s Greatest Railways (G) 6.30 Megastructures
(PG) 7.30 The Croc Catchers NT (PG) 8.00 The
Croc Catchers NT (PG) A problem croc sends the
team on an urgent search to prevent a possible
beach attack. 8.30 Air Crash Investigation (PG) 9.30
Seconds From Disaster (M) 10.30 Supercars (G)
11.30 Supercars (G) 12.30am Megastructures (G)
1.30 Alaska State Troopers (M) 2.30 Ice Pilots (M)
3.30 The Known Universe (G) 4.30 Megafactories
(G) 5.30 Air Crash Investigation (PG)
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6.30 Narrow Escapes of WWII (PG) 7.30 The Civil
War by Ken Burns (G) 8.30 Great Castles of Europe
(PG) 9.00 Royal Upstairs Downstairs (G) 9.30 Time
Team (G) 10.30 Heir Hunters (PG) 11.30 The Epic
History (PG) 1.30 Deadliest Tornadoes (PG) 2.30
Secrets of War (M) 3.30 The Fury and the Flames
(PG) 4.30 Cash in the Attic (PG) 5.30 Time Team (G)
6.30 Time Team (G) 7.30 As Close as Brothers (PG)
8.30 America’s Greatest Feud (PG) History of the
Hatfields and McCoys: The inside story of America’s
greatest family feud which lasted from just after
the Civil War to the end of the 19th century. 10.10
Greatest Heroes in History (PG) 10.35 Secrets of the
Parthenon (PG) 11.30 Sex BC (M) 12.30am News
Stories that Shocked the World (M) 1.30 Ancient
Aliens (PG) 2.30 America’s Castles (G) 3.30 As Close
As Brothers (PG) 4.30 America’s Greatest Feud (PG)
BBC Knowledge SKY 074
6.10 Genius (PG) 7.05 Who Do You Think You Are?
(PG) 8.05 Dragons’ Den (PG) 9.05 Junior Doctors
(M) 9.55 Louis Theroux (M) 10.55 Dragons’ Den
(PG) Noon Top Gear (PG) 1.00 Dragons’ Den (PG)
2.00 Who Do You Think You Are? (M) 3.00 Ancient
Worlds (PG) 3.55 Walking with Beasts (PG) 4.25
Walking with Beasts (PG) 4.55 Bang Goes the
Theory (PG) 5.30 Helicopter Heroes (PG) 6.25 Top
Gear (PG) 7.30 Wonderland (M) 8.25 Louis Theroux
(16) Louis and the Nazis: Louis Theroux meets
Tom Metzger, television repairman and frontman
for separatist movement White Aryan Resistance
(WAR) 9.30 Fraud Squad (M) 10.25 Top Gear (PG)
11.25 Dragons’ Den (PG) 12.30am Helicopter Heroes
(PG) 1.15 Wonderland (M) 2.00 Louis Theroux (16)
3.00 Fraud Squad (M) 3.50 Horizon (M) 4.40 Bang
Goes the Theory (PG) 5.10 Dawn Porter. Extreme
Wife (16)
6.08 Summer Mornings with Stuart Keith
7.00 Summer Report Caitlin Cherry and Tim
Graham present summer news and information
9.06 Summer Noelle Music, interviews and stories
Noon Midday Report Radio New Zealand news
follwed by Worldwatch
12.35 Matinee Idle Music and entertainment with
Phil O’Brien and Simon Morris
5.00 The World at Five
5.32 Outspoken Current affairs presented by
some of Radio New Zealand’s most experienced
presenters and correspondents (RNZ)
6.06 Crossing Boundaries (BBC)
7.06 Summer Nights with Katrina Batten
Including: 7.10 Out and About (RNZ); 9.06
Country Life (RNZ)
10.00 News and Late Edition
10.35 Through Younger Eyes (RNZ)
11.06 The Adults with the Christchurch
Symphony Orchestra (RNZ)
12.04am All Night Programme
Details available at www.radionz.co.nz
Radio New Zealand Concert
News and Weather: 6.00, 7.00, 8.00, 9.00, noon,
3.00, 5.00, 11.00pm
6.00 Classic Morning Includes News and Weather
9.00 Christmastide A Five Nations Christmas See
page 72
10.00 The Works
Noon Summer Sonic An RTE Irish Public Radio
series. Sound Matters: A fun, scientific look at how
sound influences us (F) (Raidió Teilifís Éireann)
12.45 Sounding Off Raff: Symphony No 8 in A
Op 205, Spring Sounds; Gubaidulina: Sounds of
the Forest; Poenitz: Klänge aus der Alhambra,
Fantasy Op 68; J Strauss II arr Cohen: Sounds
from Boston, Waltz
2.00 Afternoon Requests Pierpont: Jingle
Bells; Bovet: Totentanz, from Three Préludes
Hambourgeois; Handel: And the glory of the Lord,
from Messiah; Gal: Symphony No 3 in A Op 62
(Box 123, Wellington or [email protected])
3.00 CD Masters
4.00 Made in New Zealand NZ performers and
composers. Vivaldi: Cello Sonata No 6 in B flat
RV46, Martin Rummel (cello), James Tibbles
(hpschd); Saint-Saëns: Romance in D flat Op 37,
Edward Beckett (fl), London Festival Orch/Ross
Pople; Vaughan Williams: In the Fen Country, New
Zealand SO/James Judd; Baden-Powell: Vals sem
nome, Julie Bevan (gtr), Andreas Lepper (perc);
Besser: Mr Darwin’s Dances, excerpts, Jonathan
Besser (pno), Miranda Adams (vln), Nigel Gavin
(gtr), Tatiana Lanchtchikova (accordion), Peter
Scott (dbass), Yair Katz (perc); Cannabich:
Symphony No 51 in D, Nicolaus Esterházy
Sinfonia/Uwe Grodd
5.00 Cadenza Shorter, popular classics
7.00 Appointment In Memoriam: Marking
musicians on CD who have passed on this year
(F)
8.00 Music Alive Michael Endres (pno) –
Schubert: Impromptus D935; Debussy: L’isle
joyeuse; Schumann: Symphonic Studies Op 13
(RNZ)
9.15 Americana Barber: Violin Concerto Op 14,
ttai Shapira (vln), Russian Phil/Thomas Sanderling;
Copland: Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo,
Buffalo Phil/JoAnn Falletta
10.00 Day’s End
12.00am Music Through the Night
Details available at www.radionz.co.nz
Newstalk ZB
6.00 Tim Dower 9.00 Andrew Dickens 1.00 Bruce
Russell 6.00 Tim Roxborogh 9.00 Tim Roxborogh &
Pam Corkery 12.00am – 6.00 Sam Bloore
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