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6:00am Friday, December 25 on TV2

To celebrate Christmas Day, TV2 has a festive and fun-packed line-up of movies for the whole family to enjoy, from dawn until dusk.

For the early risers, A Miser Brother's Christmas, at 7.05am, is a family animation following Santa as he gets stuck in the middle of the Miser brothers' feud. Can the brothers overcome their differences and save Christmas?

In Santa Buddies at 12pm, Puppy Paws, the feisty son of Santa Paws, forgets the true meaning of Christmas, and it's up to the Buddies, a group of puppies - Budderball, B-Dawg, Rosebud, Buddha, and Mudbud - to remind him that Christmas is not about what you get; it's about what you give. Join the Buddies on an exciting journey to the magical world of the North Pole.

From 7:00pm Monday, December 21 on TV2

On Monday at 7pm, TV2's Christmas animation movie-spin-off, Monsters And Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins From Outer Space, finds the gang now working for the US government, as the world comes under threat from an invading army of mutant vegetables, that must be stopped at all costs. Featuring the voice talent of Reese Witherspoon (Legally Blonde), Seth Rogen (Knocked Up), Hugh Laurie (Stuart Little), and Kiefer Sutherland (24).

Adam Sandler (50 First Dates) and Drew Barrymore (Charlie's Angels) star in TV2's Monday Christmas Week Movie, The Wedding Singer at 8.30pm. Robbie, a singer, and Julia, a waitress, are both engaged to be married to the wrong people, until fortune intervenes to help them discover each other.

I think you can tell just by watching the ads that this show will turn out to be as bad or even worse (if possible) than So You Wanna Be a Popstar or Sing Like a Superstar, or whatever they were called.

I see it has washed up 'celebrities' as judges with people such as that ex-Shortland St actor from several years ago and what's-his-name ex-shock-jock radio host/NZ Idol judge. Very exciting...not.

Please tell me this is not a sign of what local television on TVNZ is going to look like in the years to come.

I've noticed that next Monday, the 31st of August, TV2 is showing Ugly Betty reruns. Fine, nothing wrong with that...except the slot is for half an hour and Betty is a 1 hour shot...seems TV2 has cut the episodes in half with the first half of the one hour episode airing one day and the second half airing the next. (i.e. Monday Part 1 of Episode 1, Season 2 and Tuesday, Part 2 of Episode 1, Season 2)

This seems like an utterly bizarre decision...anyone know why the would do this?

Just come across an odd bit of scheduling in the guides...

TV2 Monday Morning Aug 31
The Gift  AO   00:15 - 02:30
A clairvoyant in a small Southern town is recruited to help solve the mysterious disappearance of a beautiful socialite. Starring Cate Blanchett and Greg Kinnear. Directed by Sam Raimi (2001).

TV3 Saturday Movie: The Gift Sat-05-Sep 20:30
DESCRIPTION: Supernatural horror meets character drama in this Sam Raimi-directed thriller. Set in Georgia, the film concerns a widowed mother named Annie (Cate Blanchett) who is blessed with the ability to have psychic visions. When Annie is asked to use her powers to investigate the murder of a rich society girl (Katie Holmes) who was engaged to a local high school principal (Greg Kinnear), she finds her 'gift' is as destructive as it is helpful. Also starring Giovanni Ribisi, Hilary Swank and Keanu Reeves.

What’s on this week?

Monday 15 June

Hulk Hogan’s Celebrity Wrestling Championship - 7:30PM on C4 - This must belong in the so bad it must be good file, right?  Right...?

Brothers and Sisters - 9:30PM on 2 - Part 2 from last week.

Flight of the Conchords: Best Ever! - 10PM on Prime - Not sure exactly what this is, but Bret and Jemaine = funny.

There have already been a number of complaints about TV2's new lets try and be cool TXT speak promos.  You don't have to spend long on twitter in the evenings before you see more people complaining about the dumbing down.  On blogs and forums everywhere, people are complaining about it.  It's just not cool.

As Moata puts it, you're not cool enough for that. You are TVNZ.

I agree.  It's like hearing your mother try and use current slang or see your father dressed up in baggy jeans and a hoodie.  It just doesn't work and the only phrase that comes to mind is "try-hard".  It's ok to just be yourself, you know.