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If you’re anything like me, then you probably like reading depressing statistics about the state of “women in film” and then whipping yourself into apoplexies of rage about it all. Fortunately it’s been a banner year for discussions on that front, since the 2013 cinema landscape is one so heavily populated by men that in a Freudian typo I just wrote “ladscape”.
It’s been a whole Olympiad since we last saw Mitre 10 Dream Home or Simon Barnett on our screens. But while the latter no longer has Stars in His Eyes, he’s excited about fronting a new version of the perennially popular home renovation competition, especially as it has been set in his home province of Canterbury (Kaiapoi’s new Sovereign Palms subdivision, to be exact).
While emphasising the playful camaraderie between the four X Factor judges, Stan Walker has called Daniel Bedingfield out on his dramatic tendencies. It follows Bedingfield calling Walker a soft touch due to his somewhat delicate way with even the least-talented contestants.
In a battle of TV talent battles, MasterChef is beating X Factor when it comes to eyes on screens. According to last night’s ratings from Nielson, One’s MasterChef managed to draw over 508,000 viewers, and X Factor, on rival network TV3, pulled in about 454,000
In a battle of TV talent battles, MasterChef is beating X Factor when it comes to eyes on screens. According to last night’s ratings from Nielson, One’s MasterChef managed to draw over 508,000 viewers, and X Factor, on rival network TV3, pulled in about 454,000
The premiere of New Zealand’s first season of The X Factor has topped TV3s previous ratings hit The Block.
Everyone’s favourite “mozzies” look set to return to New Zealand’s television screens, with Mediaworks announcing The GC has been given the go ahead for a second season. Funded by Te Mangai Paho, the second season will follow many of the same tanned and trendy Maori whose contribution to society included a new meaning for the word “aunty”.
Steamy “intimate” photos of Jaime Ridge, including her in the bath, have appeared in pop culture magazine Remix NZ today.
In the future of Stephen Spielberg’s Minority Report, televisions and computers have been replaced by transparent screens on which life-size images appear to be floating in thin air. Watching Tom Cruise operate this fictional technology, David Lauren, Vice President of Ralph Lauren, was inspired to develop similar screens, but with a retail spin — his version would be implanted behind a store’s glass window and would be touch sensitive, allowing window shoppers to interactively browse through Lauren merchandise and purchase what they saw using a built in credit-card swiper.
The intensity with which the spiffily attired investment brokers of the African Banking Corp. stare at their computer screens is misleading.