Snapshot of shows on Eden
Newshub Live At 8pm
Former TVNZ reporter Rebecca Wright presents this half-hour weeknight news bulletin. Starts Monday, March 21, 8pm.
Changing Rooms
The popular British home renovation reality series has been rebooted and flamboyant interior designer Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, who was in the original series, is back. Starts Monday, March 21, 8.30pm.
Ellen’s Next Great Designer
Ellen DeGeneres has handpicked the contestants in this reality competition show in which seven up-and-coming furniture designers compete for $100,000 in prize money. Starts Wednesday, March 23, 7.30pm.
Finding Alice
In this contemporary British drama, Keeley Hawes (Bodyguard, The Durrells), plays a wife and mother struggling to make sense of her husband’s secretive past after he is found dead at the bottom of the stairs of their new home. Look out for Joanna Lumley (Absolutely Fabulous) and Nigel Havers (Coronation Street).
The Chase USA
Mark ‘The Beast’ Labbett heads across the Atlantic to lend his expertise to the US version of the hit UK quiz show.
Dancing On Ice
This one is similar to Dancing With The Stars except the celebrities are showing off their moves while skating on an ice floor. Phillip Schofield is one of the hosts. Celebs include Coro actor Jane Danson and Didi Conn, who played Frenchie in Grease. The judging panel features former ice-skating partners Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, who wowed audiences at the Sarajevo 1984 Winter Olympics.
The Bidding Room
Nigel Havers hosts this BBC reality series in which members of the public bring interesting or quirky items of value to a panel of dealers who then bid on them.
Strictly Come Dancing
Actor and comedian Bill Bailey (Patriot Brains, Black Books) and former Jonathan Creek and Men Behaving Badly star Caroline Quentin are part of a line-up of celebrity contestants in this British version of Dancing With The Stars. Craig Revel Horwood, a former judge on New Zealand’s Dancing With The Stars, sits on the judging panel here.
The Newsreader
Starring Anna Torv (Fringe) and Stephen Peacocke
(Home And Away, Five Bedrooms), this drama begins in 1986, in a cut-throat Australian TV newsroom. Starts Thursday, March 24, 8.30pm.