Your guide to the week’s best on Sky and free-to-air TV
New Zealand’s Best Homes with Phil Spencer (7.30pm, Sundays
from June 9, TVNZ 1)
Location, Location, Location and Love It or List It co-host Phil Spencer goes solo, taking viewers on a tour of some of Aotearoa’s most stunning residences – from a mountain retreat in Queenstown to a cliff-top masterpiece overlooking Hauraki Gulf and an off-the-grid beach house on Great Barrier Island.
Spencer will meet the architects who dreamed up these spaces and chat to the owners who get to enjoy them every day.
Lego Masters Australia vs The World (7pm, Fridays and
Saturdays from June 7, Three)
Hamish Blake and Brickman return for the sixth season of this popular building competition.
This time, four Aussie teams are up against duos representing Denmark, Germany, France and the United States. The challenges will include go-kart racing, creating a spectacular window display and a celebration of Batman.
“At least one of the visitors would seem to start at a natural advantage: as the country that invented Lego, surely the Danish competitors have bricks in their blood, so to speak,” Blake told the Sydney Morning Herald in response to suggestions of home-town favouritism.
A Thousand and One (8.30pm, Saturday, June 8, Sky Movies Premiere)
Winner of the US Grand Jury Prize at last year’s Sundance Film Festival, writer-director AV Rockwell’s debut feature is an emotion-filled drama about the relationship between ex-con Inez (Coming 2 America’s Teyana Taylor) and her young charge Terry (Aaron Kingsley Adetola/Aven Courtney/Josiah Cross).
Like Barry Jenkins’ Oscar-winning Moonlight, it’s a story told across three specific points in time, beginning with the moment Inez decides to “kidnap” the then 6-year-old to “save him” from the foster care system.
The Tower: Death Message (9.15pm, Saturdays from June 8, TVNZ1)
Gemma Whelan and Tahirah Sharif reprise their roles as DS Sarah Collins and PC Lizzie Adama for the four-part second season of this British police procedural based on the books by Kate London.
As this story opens, Collins is tasked with a cold case, while Adama’s willingness to do things by the book is tested.
Twister
(7.30pm, Sunday, June 9, Bravo)
“Night of horrors”, proclaims a billboard advertising a double-feature at a drive-in theatre that’s about to be devastated by a tornado.
It’s an apt summation of director Jan de Bont’s tempestuous 1996 blockbuster, which is about to finally get a cinematic sequel featuring Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell and Anthony Ramos.
This is a film where the characters play second fiddle to the carnage – a disaster movie played out in America’s wide-open spaces, rather than the usual confined quarters. Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton and Cary Elwes star.