Top-rating cooking show My Kitchen Rules returns to TV2 tomorrow night, once again taking over the prime time schedule with thrice-weekly installments. But as hosts Manu Fieldel and Pete Evans return to the judging table, not...
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Showing posts with label Entertainment. Show all posts
Sunday 19 April 2015
Ringo Starr, Green Day, Bill Withers enter Rock Hall
CLEVELAND (AP) " The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is welcoming its newest class, featuring a Beatle, three punks from California and a guitar god from Texas.Ringo Starr, who found unexpected stardom as a frontman after the Beatles...
'Star Wars' design team teases 'Force Awakens' themes
ANAHEIM, California (AP) " "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is about a generational transfer in more ways than one. Set 30 years after the events in "Return of the Jedi" and coming to theaters just over 30 years after the film first...
Saturday 18 April 2015
Lorde featured in latest Sony email hack
Kiwi singing sensation Lorde features in the latest drop of leaked Sony emails with a company boss comparing her favourably to a "lame" Lady Gaga.In an email written a month before Lorde won two Grammy Awards in January 2014, the...
Scarlett O'Hara outfit fetches $137,000 at auction
DALLAS (AP) " An outfit Vivien Leigh wore when she played Scarlett O'Hara in the 1939 film "Gone With the Wind" has fetched $137,000 at auction.Heritage Auctions offered the gray jacket and skirt, featuring a black zigzag applique,...
Orphan Black: Send in the clones
On one of his first days on the set of Orphan Black , Ari Millen was introduced to the man set to kill him."I was supposed to die in episode six (of season two)," Millen says about his role on the cult sci-fi show, which follows...
Earth Day aims to reach millions with 'Angry Birds' game
WASHINGTON (AP) " The hugely popular game "Angry Birds" is showing Earth Day some love this year.Game developers at Rovio Entertainment are announcing plans Saturday to create an in-game experience about climate change. The game...
TV pick: The Killing Field
It's a well-worn premise, but that doesn't mean it won't make for a gripping watch. This Australian Broadchurch -esque murder mystery is set in the small isolated town of Mingara, a quiet place where everyone knows everyone. Except...
Singer Sam Hunt rising in both country and pop worlds
NEW YORK (AP) " Rising country star Sam Hunt may be finding success on the pop charts, but don't fret " he won't pull a Taylor Swift."By no means do I want to try to leave country music," Hunt said in a recent interview. "That's...
'Get women out of the kitchen', TVNZ told
Former Justice Minister Judith Collins has told TVNZ bosses she wants its news bulletins to take women more seriously.Her criticisms include showing too many women in the kitchen and in "lesser roles".In the just-released annual...
The Block gears up for Auckland inner-city sites
Four character villas — all with two storeys — will feature in the next season of The Block NZ . The new Fans versus Faves series will see newbie renovators pitted against past contestants and is due to start filming...
Divorced Gilda pregnant with her second child
One of New Zealand's richest men and his socialite wife have divorced.News of the divorce of Gilda and James Kirkpatrick comes in the week she announced she was pregnant with her second child.He is worth $150 million, according...
Inspiration in the kitchen: The best cooking books of spring
SEEKING fresh inspiration in the kitchen? Vanessa Berridge shares her selection of the season’s most imaginative recipe collections
Usher, Gwen Stefani among headliners for Earth Day rally
WASHINGTON (AP) " An all-day Earth Day rally and concert Saturday is drawing some big names to the National Mall.Usher, Mary J. Blige, Gwen Stefani, Common and Train are scheduled to perform during the free Global Citizen 2015 Earth...
Britain's Got Talent 2015: Dance act Boyband wow the judges with Uptown Funk performance
WE'RE one week into the new series of Britain's Got Talent and tonight's show will see a five piece dance act called Boyband impress the judges.
Britain's Got Talent singer Becky O’Brien feared she would be killed by violent husband
BRITAIN'S GOT TALENT viewers may be close to tears tonight as they're introduced to wannabe singer Becky O’Brien.
Robin Williams the posthumous star of '3 Still Standing'
TORONTO (AP) " Before the late Robin Williams enthralled television audiences on "Mork and Mindy," he already was a star on the 1970s stand-up comedy circuit " and by the '80s was a leading light for a new stand-up generation.The...
BBC bosses in desperate bid to keep Richard Hammond and James May on Top Gear
BBC bosses are desperately trying to persuade Richard Hammond and James May to stay on Top Gear following Jeremy Clarkson's sacking.
iZombie: Brain food for zombie fans
Somehow, despite being partial to a jolly good zombie romp (or rampage), I've only just caught up with iZombie (TVNZ OnDemand) which I can only put down to having had my, er, fill of blood and gore and autopsies and weirdness on...
Letters from the battlefield
Michael Williams' Symphony No 1 ( Letters from the Front ), which the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra will play in its Spirit of Anzac programme on Thursday, is not the first time the Hamilton composer has worked with the orchestra.In...
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