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8:30pm Sunday, May 27 on TV2

Adam Sandler (Just Go With It) goes from small town pizza boy to big time billionaire and learns that money doesn’t necessarily buy happiness in the Sunday Premiere Movie: Mr Deeds.

Longfellow Deeds (Sandler) is a lovable pizza boy leading a simple but happy life in the tiny hamlet of Mandrake Falls until a slick corporate mogul brings news that Deeds is about to be rolling in a different kind of dough.

A long lost relative has left him an inheritance of $40 billion, along with a chain of media outlets, a football team, a basketball team and a private helicopter ready to whisk him off to corporate America.

Deeds is quickly swept up into a 24/7 media frenzy. Leading the charge is the beautiful Babe Bennett (Winona Ryder, Black Swan) of TV’s Inside Access, a likable producer working her way up to her dream job. Her sleazy boss wants some dirt on Deeds, and it’s up to Babe to forge a devious plan to get it.

With Babe nipping at his heels and a conniving business partner who is trying to take the reigns of his empire at any cost, Deeds ultimately discovers what life is all about and has to prove that money changes everything…but not everyone.

7:30pm Saturday, May 26 on TV2

An orphaned young inventor is whisked away in a time machine to find the odd-ball family he never knew existed in Meet the Robinsons.

Lewis is a boy-genius with a love of gizmos and gadgets and an undying hope of finding the family he never knew. But Lewis’ journey is about to take him to a place even he couldn’t have imagined, a place where the impossible no longer exists: ‘the future’.

When Lewis encounters a mysterious stranger named Wilbur Robinson he’s in for the time-travel of his life and will be whisked off to meet a family unlike any other, the sublimely fun and futuristic Robinsons, who will help him to discover a series of amazing and heartfelt secrets about his own limitless potential.

But his incredible trip will also bring him into conflict with a villain who gives evil a bad name: the bungling Bowler Hat Guy who steals Lewis’ only way home.

11:40pm Friday, June 1 on TV2

A dangerous trio struggle to fit into modern society as their other-worldly urges see them flit between life and the afterlife in the brand new drama, Being Human.

Being human: nobody ever said it was easy, but for three twenty-something roommates – who happen to be a vampire, a werewolf, and a ghost – is it even possible? By turns frightening, witty, and romantic, Being Human explores what it means to be human through the eyes of these outsiders.

Aidan was a Revolution soldier who sacrificed himself to vampires to spare his men. Now, some 260 years later, he is still struggling to escape the orbit of his powerful mentor, Bishop. Josh was a promising medical student forced to abandon his family and future after a werewolf attack left him cursed. And Sally, happily engaged before her tragic death, must now figure out how to move on as a ghost.

As Aidan, Josh and Sally learn that there are fates worse than death, they also realise that there’s more to life – and the afterlife – than most ‘normal’ humans could ever imagine.

8:30pm Thursday, May 31 on TV2

Rock god Roger Daltry, from The Who, lends his voice to a talking caterpillar in tonight’s Alice In Wonderland themed Once Upon A Time.

While searching for a missing Mary Margaret (Ginnifer Goodwin), Emma (Jennifer Morrison) is kidnapped by a man whose affinity for hats has him teetering on the edge of madness.

Meanwhile, viewers will be transported outside of the fairy tale land that was for the first time when the Evil Queen (Lana Parrilla) persuades a skilful man of magic to come work for her one last time and travel to Wonderland in order to help steal something from the Queen of Hearts (Jennifer Koenig).

8:00pm Thursday, May 31 on TV2

Are their barks worse than their bites? A dog with a desire for danger challenges our dog guru tonight on Last Chance Dogs.

Dog trainer Gina is facing a nightmare scenario regarding an aggressive pit bull with a taste for human flesh, and a desperate owner who has to choose between her dog and child.

7:00pm Thursday, May 31 on TV2

Vasa (Teuila Blakely) fails to find fulfilment this week on Shortland Street.

Reeling from Maxwell’s (Robbie Magasiva) judgment that he and Ula (Frankie Adams) are better off without her, Vasa begins to believe that perhaps he is right. Convinced that her involvement in their lives will only cause more pain and suffering, Vasa withdraws herself from the situation and is left feeling empty.

Determined to suppress her pain over losing her family, Vasa decides to throw herself into her affair with Zac (Mike Edward) but when his reaction is also less than welcoming she is left feeling emptier than ever.

7:00pm Tuesday, May 29 on TV2

Paige’s (Rachel Forman) sordid past comes back to haunt her this week on Shortland Street.

Feeling guilty about brushing off Josh (Chris Tempest), Paige is nervous when she learns she will be working with him in ED. Starting the shift, Paige becomes disheartened when it appears that Josh is giving her the cold shoulder, seemingly disappointed about their missed date. Trying to impress him with her medical skills, Paige is distraught when she realises that in her haste she has forgotten to sign the drug register.

Realising her error, Paige is forced to come clean to Josh about her past with drug addiction but is left dumbfounded when she realises her confession was all in vain.

8:30pm Monday, May 28 on TV2

One of the women packs her bags and prepares to leave Wisteria Lane for good, tonight in Desperate Housewives: The Final Season.

Susan (Teri Hatcher) tells Porter that she’ll set up a nursery and watch over his and Julie’s (Andrea Bowen) baby after Lynette (Felicity Huffman) firmly tells her son that she will not help raise her future granddaughter. Across the road, Orson (Kyle MacLachlan) convinces Bree (Marcia Cross) to go away with him to the Maine countryside – perhaps never returning to Wisteria Lane.

Meanwhile, good deeds never go unpunished when, after paying off Ben’s (Charles Mesure) loan shark, the thug sets his eyes on destroying Renee’s (Vanessa Williams) life.

8:00pm Monday, May 28 on TV2

Batten down the hatches! Neighbours at War returns this week as Mary Lambie stands in the firing line between one resident and the folks over the fence.

It’s a land war on Auckland’s North Shore as unit-dweller Kishor claims his neighbour Pat has taken over their shared backyard. Pat claims Kishor just wants to reap the rewards of his blood, sweat and landscaping.

Can former Good Morning host Mary break the deadlock?

7:00pm Monday, May 28 on TV2

Brooke (Beth Allen) heads into uncharted territory and puts family before her career this week on Shortland Street.

When Vinnie (Pua Magasiva) threatens to make a complaint against Bree’s (Rachael Blampied) workplace behaviour, Bree pleads to Brooke (Beth Allen) to get to Rachel (Angela Bloomfield) first and discredit his story. Caught by her plight, Brooke goes in to bat for her sister and is pleased when she becomes privy to information about Rachel that she knows she could work in her favour.

Sure the information will solve the problem completely, Brooke takes the information straight to the DHB and is quietly satisfied when her news gets Bree off the hook and leaves Rachel to face the wrath of the DHB.