New Zealand Screenings

Doctor Who Christmas Special: The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe

The latest Doctor Who Christmas special makes its New Zealand television debut on Prime!

Thursday 19 January

8:30 - 9:50 PM Doctor Who Christmas Special: The Doctor, The Widow and The Wardrobe
Evacuated to a house in Dorset from war-torn London, Madge Arwell and her two children, Lily and Cyril, are greeted by a madcap caretaker whose mysterious Christmas gift leads them into a magical wintry world.

Doctor Who: Series 6, Christmas repeats on Prime

Saturday 24 December 2011

08:10 PM - 09:30 PM A CHRISTMAS CAROL
It's Christmas Eve, the deepest, darkest part of winter. Can the Doctor save the soul of a lonely old miser in order to rescue thousands, including Amy and Rory trapped on a stricken space liner?

Sunday 25 December 2011

10:55 AM - 11:45 AM THE IMPOSSIBLE ASTRONAUT
The Doctor is back! The new series kicks off with mystery envelopes, the Utah desert and terrible secrets! Join the Doctor for more adventures across time and space!
11:45 AM - 12:30 PM DAY OF THE MOON
An alien force takes over the world through post-hypnotic suggestion and no one can be trusted. Aided by President Nixon and Neil Armstrong's foot, the Doctor must mount a revolution!
12:30 PM - 01:20 PM THE CURSE OF THE BLACK SPOT
On-board a pirate ship whose crew are being attacked by a sea monster, The Doctor must win Captain Avery's trust to stop the Siren. With escape plans thwarted, can the spell be undone?
01:20 PM - 02:10 PM THE DOCTOR'S WIFE
The Doctor is catapulted to a junkyard planet where he meets a bevy of strange characters. What is the insane Idris trying to tell him? Investigations put his friends in the gravest of danger.
02:10 PM - 02:55 PM THE REBEL FLESH
Join the Doctor and his friends for more monsters and jaw-dropping adventures across time and space!
02:55 PM - 03:40 PM THE ALMOST PEOPLE
As the solar storm rages and the factory crumbles, the Doctor must convince terrified factory-workers to work with their doppelgangers to overcome a monster of their own making.
03:40 PM - 04:35 PM A GOOD MAN GOES TO WAR
The Doctor calls in debts from across the cosmos to form an army to face the Battle of Demons Run. As he readies for action, River arrives with something to tell him.

Doctor Who: Series 6, Part 2 on Prime

The wait is finally over... Doctor Who returns to Prime for the second half of this year's season, with more action, adventure and unexpected twists than ever before!

Let's Kill Hitler

Thursday 15 September, 8:30 - 9:35 PM
In the desperate search for Melody Pond, the TARDIS crash lands in 1930's Berlin, bringing the Doctor face to face with the greatest war criminal in the Universe. And Hitler. The Doctor must teach his adversaries that time travel has responsibilities - and in so doing, learns a harsh lesson in the cruellest warfare of all.

Episodes:

8: Let's Kill Hitler15 September 2011
9: Night Terrors22 September 2011
10: The Girl Who Waited29 September 2011
11: The God Complex6 October 2011
12: Closing Time13 October 2011
13: The Wedding of River Song20 October 2011

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Torchwood: Miracle Day on Prime

DEATH IS NOT AN OPTION

Torchwood: Miracle Day is here, and it's bigger and better than ever — with a star-studded, explosive 10-part international thriller filmed in the US and UK.

When convicted child killer Oswald Danes survives his own execution, the footage holds America transfixed. At the same time, people all over the world stop dying. Day after day, the phenomenon continues. And a secret British institution named Torchwood seems to hold the answers...

CIA agents Rex Matheson and Esther Drummond investigate the only two surviving members of the team — Gwen Cooper, who has retreated to a remote Welsh hideaway with her husband and new baby, and the mysterious, brilliant Captain Jack Harkness. But they soon find themselves on the same side, fighting the greatest threat to humanity ever known — humanity itself.

For Earth is filling up fast. Resources are running out. And as history has shown, bad things happen when good people get desperate.

Starring John Barrowman as Captain Jack, Eve Myles as Gwen Cooper, Mekhi Phifer as Rex Matheson, Alexa Havins as Esther Drummond, Arlene Tur as Vera Juarez, and Bill Pullman as Oswald Danes.

Starts Thursday 1 September 2011, 9.30pm only on Prime.

Episodes:

1: The New World1 September 2011
2: Rendition8 September 2011
3: Dead of Night15 September 2011
4: Escape to L.A.22 September 2011
5: The Categories of Life29 September 2011
6: The Middle Men13 October 2011
7: Immortal Sins20 October 2011
8: End of the Road27 October 2011
9: The Gathering4 November 2011
10: The Blood Line10 November 2011

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Series 6 on Prime

Doctor Who returns to Prime with the astonishing first episode of the 2011 series, featuring Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor in an all new set of exciting adventures with his companions Amy (Karen Gillan) and Rory (Arthur Darvill).

Thursday 19 May 2011
08:30 PM - 09:30 PM
THE IMPOSSIBLE ASTRONAUT
The Doctor is back! The new series kicks off with mystery envelopes, the Utah desert and terrible secrets! Join the Doctor for more adventures across time and space!

The series continues...

26 May 2011 — 2: Day of the Moon
2 Jun 2011 — 3: The Curse of the Black Spot
9 Jun 2011 — 4: The Doctor's Wife
16 Jun 2011 — 5: The Rebel Flesh
23 Jun 2011 — 6: The Almost People
30 Jun 2011 — 7: A Good Man Goes to War

Doctor Who on UKTV

Saturday 5 February
7:30pm Midnight [4 / 10] (& 8:15pm Confidential Cut-Down)
The Doctor is trapped, alone, powerless and terrified, on the leisure planet Midnight. Soon, the knocking on the wall begins. Only a woman called Sky seems to know the truth. What sacrifice must the Doctor make?

Sunday 6 February
1:40am Midnight [4 / 10] (& 2:25am Confidential Cut-Down)
6:30am Midnight [4 / 10] (& 7:15am Confidential Cut-Down)

Monday 7 February
8:45am The Sontaran Stratagem [4 / 4] (& 9:30am Confidential Cut-Down)
Martha Jones summons the Doctor back to modern-day Earth, but an old enemy lies in wait. With the mysterious ATMOS devices spreading across the world, Donna discovers that her own family isn't safe.
4:55pm The Poison Sky [4 / 5] (& 5:40pm Confidential Cut-Down)
The Sontarans activate their masterplan and begin to choke the whole of planet Earth. As interplanetary war edges closer, the Doctor has to fight to keep both Martha and Donna alive.

Tuesday 8 February
8:45am The Poison Sky [4 / 5] (& 9:30am Confidential Cut-Down)
5:00pm The Doctor's Daughter [4 / 6] (& 5:45pm Confidential Cut-Down)
The Doctor meets the most important woman of his life on a distant planet, in the middle of an endless war. As General Cobb threatens genocide, the Doctor faces an even greater battle.

Wednesday 9 February
8:45am The Doctor's Daughter [4 / 6] (& 9:30am Confidential Cut-Down)
4:55pm The Unicorn and the Wasp [4 / 7] (& 5:45pm Confidential Cut-Down)
The Doctor and Donna arrive in 1926, the day before Agatha Christie went missing for 10 days. At a dinner party, the Doctor and Donna join forces with the world's most famous crime novelist.

Thursday 10 February
8:55am The Unicorn and the Wasp [4 / 7]
5:05pm Silence in the Library [4 / 8] (& 5:50pm Confidential Cut-Down)
One hundred years ago, the Universe's greatest library was sealed off with only a cryptic warning as explanation: "Count the shadows." However, it now appears that the shadows are on the move again.

Friday 11 February
4:40pm Forest of the Dead [4 / 9] (& 5:30pm Confidential Cut-Down)
As the shadows rise and march, the Doctor forges an alliance with the mysterious River Song. But can anyone stop the Vashta Nerada? Meanwhile, the sinister Nodes declare that Donna is doomed.

Saturday 12 February
7:30pm Turn Left [4 / 11] (& 8:20pm Confidential Cut-Down)
Donna's entire world collapses, but there's no sign of the Doctor. Instead, she finds help from a mysterious blonde woman, a traveller from a parallel universe. Can Donna and Rose Tyler join forces to save the whole of creation?

Sunday 13 February
1:40am Turn Left [4 / 11] (& 2:30am Confidential Cut-Down)
6:45am Turn Left [4 / 11]
4:15pm Turn Left [4 / 11]

Monday 14 February
4:50pm Midnight [4 / 10] (& 5:35pm Confidential Cut-Down)
The Doctor is trapped, alone, powerless and terrified, on the leisure planet Midnight. Soon, the knocking on the wall begins. Only a woman called Sky seems to know the truth. What sacrifice must the Doctor make?

Tuesday 15 February
5:00pm Turn Left [4 / 11] (& 5:55pm Confidential Cut-Down)

Wednesday 16 February
5:00pm The Stolen Earth [4 / 12] (& 5:50pm Confidential Cut-Down)
Earth's greatest heroes assemble in a time of dire need. But can the Doctor's secret army defeat the might of the new Dalek Empire? The Doctor and Donna must brave the Shadow Proclamation to find out the truth.

Thursday 17 February
5:05pm Journey's End [4 / 13]
The entire universe is in danger as the Daleks activate their masterplan. The Doctor is helpless, and even the Tardis faces destruction. The only hope lies with the Doctor's secret army of companions.

Saturday 19 February
7:25pm The Stolen Earth [4 / 12] (& 8:15pm Confidential Cut-Down)
Earth's greatest heroes assemble in a time of dire need. But can the Doctor's secret army defeat the might of the new Dalek Empire? The Doctor and Donna must brave the Shadow Proclamation to find out the truth.

Sunday 20 February
1:35am The Stolen Earth [4 / 12] (& 2:25am Confidential Cut-Down)
6:40am The Stolen Earth [4 / 12] (& 7:25am Confidential Cut-Down)
4:15pm The Stolen Earth [4 / 12]
Earth's greatest heroes assemble in a time of dire need. But can the Doctor's secret army defeat the might of the new Dalek Empire? The Doctor and Donna must brave the Shadow Proclamation to find out the truth.

Saturday 26 February
7:25pm Journey's End [4 / 13]

Sunday 27 February
1:30am Journey's End [4 / 13]
6:35am Journey's End [4 / 13]
4:00pm Journey's End [4 / 13]

Prime

Sunday 30 January 2011
8:30 PM - 9:50 PM

DOCTOR WHO CHRISTMAS SPECIAL

A Christmas Carol

Katherine Jenkins, Michael Gambon, Matt Smith, and the other one

It's the deepest part of winter, the exact midpoint, Christmas Eve - half way out of the dark. Amy and Rory are trapped on a stricken space liner that's plummeting through banks of thick icy fog to the surface of the planet below. Only one man has the power to save them; only one man is in possession of a machine that can clear the fog and let them land safely. That man is Kazran Sardick, a rich but lonely old miser who rules Sardicktown with a sky-mast of iron. The Doctor's only chance of rescuing the ship's four thousand passengers is to save Kazran's soul and show him that life is worth living. For this he needs to go back, way back, to when Kazran was a boy with a life full of promise. But can the Doctor put a song in Kazran's heart and love in his life, in time for Christmas? Can he bring him out of the dark?

In the grand tradition of Doctor Who Christmas specials, this year the show has once again attracted stellar guest stars as veteran actor Michael Gambon (Harry Potter) and stunning Opera diva Katherine Jenkins, in her first acting role, join the Time Lord for what might be his most Christmassy adventure yet!

DOCTOR WHO CHRISTMAS SPECIAL Sunday 30th January 8.30pm

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