Television
The Best of the Week
SUNDAY FEBRUARY 24
Country Calendar (TVNZ 1, 7.00pm). Country Calendar returns and all is right with the world. The show’s 53rd year begins with cashmere goat farming. Another returnee follows at 7.30pm: Miriama Kamo and the
Sunday team are back for another year of investigations.
Changing Rooms Australia (TVNZ 2, 7.00pm today and Monday). We have fond memories of the terrible Changing Rooms NZ makeovers in the late 90s and early 2000s; let’s hope there are similarly awful transformations in this new Aussie version, otherwise what’s the point?
Vintage Roads Great & Small (Living, Sky 017, 8.30pm). It’s wonderful how there are all these brilliant pension schemes for UK actors, whether it’s Penelope Keith and her English villages, Julie Walters on trains or Joanna Lumley just about anywhere. In this series, Peter Davison reunites with Christopher Timothy, his former co-star from All Creatures Great and Small, to tool around the British countryside in vintage cars. The roads are “vintage” as well, including the A30, once a coach road in the 18th century.
Fortitude
(SoHo, Sky 010, 9.30pm). It’s a crime procedural crossed with a psychological thriller crossed with a sci-fi horror, although if you aren’t already on board, it’s probably incomprehensible. So, fans, get ready for the final four episodes in which the good residents of the fictional Arctic town of Fortitude are going collectively mad due to some parasitic wasps.
MONDAY FEBRUARY 25
91st Academy Awards (TVNZ 2, 2.00pm). Sky Movies subscribers have been the only ones enjoying the Oscars in recent years, but, apparently, no longer. Whatever dark arts have been employed, thank you TVNZ for screening them live and free-toair. The ceremony is preceded by red-carpet coverage, although