Your guide to the week’s best on Sky and free-to-air TV

MasterChef Australia

(7pm, Sunday, May 12, TVNZ 1)

The returning Andy Allen is joined by three new judges – fellow alumnus Poh Ling Yeow, food critic and journalist Sofia Levin and multi-Michelin-starred chef Jean-Christophe Novelli – as this 16th season heralds a new era for the beloved cooking competition.

More initial contestants – 22 instead of 18 – immediately have the heat turned up on them by the presence of celebrity chef Jamie Oliver, with Curtis Stone, Maggie Beer and Peter Gilmore among the other guest judges scheduled to appear, as the series unfolds.

The competition continues on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights at 7.30pm.

Motherhood Anthology

(7.30pm, Saturday, May 11, TVNZ 2)

Inspired by the Māori, Pasifika, Pan-Asian & LGBTQIA+ communities of Aotearoa, this collection of five short stories might span a range of genres, but they are unified by maternal themes.

Respectively titled Rule of Mum, Amah, Give Me Babies, Ahi & The Stars and Mother Hood, the tales gather together an eclectic range of Kiwi acting talent, including Kura Forrester, Jayden Daniels, Celeste Wong and Miriama Smith.

Simple Minds: Everything is Possible

(8pm, Sunday, May 12, Sky Arts)

Joss Crowley’s (Shania Twain doco Not Just a Girl) 2023 documentary chronicles the Scottish band’s journey from postindustrial Glasgow to global success.

“From their punk origins to their stadium-level success in the Live Aid and Breakfast Club-era, this music doc finds the Glasgow band still sweetly and likeably down to earth,” wrote The Guardian’s Cath Clarke.

Barbie (8.30pm, Sunday, May 12, Sky Movies Premiere)

Linear TV debut for last year’s biggest movie. Margot Robbie plays the eponymous doll, while Ryan Gosling is Ken in Greta Gerwig’s fantasy comedy which sees them go on a journey of selfdiscovery.

“The film is a pile of fun,” wrote Stuff To Watch’s Graeme Tuckett. “But Gerwig and [co-writer Noah] Baumbach have also crammed wit, sublimated rage and political insight into the script. And then found the perfect team and cast to make it all work as well as it does.”

Ticket to Paradise

(8.30pm, Sunday, May 12, TVNZ 2)

Ocean’s trilogy stars George Clooney and Julia Roberts reunite for this 2022 romantic-comedy about a divorced couple who travel to Bali in an attempt to stop their daughter from making the same mistake they think they made 25 years earlier.

Filmed in Queensland, it also features

Kaitlyn Dever and Billie Lourd.

“It’s definitely fun to watch Clooney and Roberts unleash their arsenal of sly grins, uproarious laughter, bad dancing, side-eying and effortless repartee, even when slinging seaweed or playing drunken beer pong,” wrote Seattle Times’ Moira MacDonald.

Delicious (8.40pm, Sunday, May 12, Whakaata Māori)

Billed as 2021’s answer to Chocolat, Big Night or Babette’s Feast, this late 18th century-set dramedy revolves around France’s first restaurant. Fired from the kitchen of a powerful duke for serving an unapproved dish, a talented chef regains his confidence with the help of a mysterious apprentice. ”A mouthwatering foodie drama that is as appetising as the dishes whipped up in it,” wrote San Jose Mercury News’ Randy Myers.

Bafta Television Awards

(8.30pm, Monday, May 13, BBC UKTV)

Romesh Ranganathan and Rob Beckett host this year’s 70th annual celebration of the very best in British and global TV.

Screening just hours after it is broadcast in the United Kingdom, shows like The Crown, Black Mirror, Happy Valley, Slow Horses, Succession and The Last of Us are among the leading nominees at the Royal Festival Hall-based ceremony.