WORTH WATCHING

Eat Well for Less NZ TVNZ 1, 7.30pm Tuesday

The local version of this ageold British standard was an undeniable hit when it came out last year. We’d been down the same healthy eating road a hundred times before, but never quite with the same playful tone struck by Michael van de Elzen and Ganesh Raj as the pair went rummaging through New Zealanders’ shopping trolleys. If you picked up a few tips on how to save money or eat more vegetables along the way that’s great, but mostly wasn’t it just the chance to have a good old rummage through other people’s shopping and judge their eating habits that got us all hooked?

Big Shot Disney Plus

John Stamos doesn’t have the slightest interest in sport. So when you see him pick up a folding chair and throw it at a basketball ref in the opening scenes of Big Shot, just know that’s pure acting. In the latest easy-watching series from prolific TV hitmaker David E. Kelley, the one-time member of the Beach Boys plays an emotionally repressed college basketball coach who gets fired (for the chair-throwing) and ends up having to coach a private school girls’ team, who of course have a valuable life lesson or two to teach him. Stamos, who is by all accounts very nice in real life, got in character for the role by staying in his trailer the whole time and never talking to any of the other actors.

The Nevers Neon

The new series from Joss Whedon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, multiple recent controversies that suggest he’s not a very fun person to work with) is a sci-fi drama set in Victorian England, where a gang of women discover they have special powers. As usual, with great supernatural powers come great enemies, not to mention an important mission to save the world. Somewhere out there, probably in Ōamaru, there’s a Buffy fan from way back who’s now really into steampunk, and this show is all their wildest TV dreams come true.