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There’s actually science on our TV

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Science, technology, innovation and design in New Zealand, in Māori and English. Friday nights at 10.30 on Māori TV.

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The web is a competition

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Every word on the web is in competition with untold trillions of words. Choose your words carefully.

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Futurama’s good news

Sci-fi TV show Futurama is to return.

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Battlestar Galactica: my problem now is to disengage

I haven’t been watching much TV lately — as in for most of 2008, and now into 2009. There are several reasons: I don’t want to watch too much — I have plenty of things to do in my life; I don’t need TV as a time-filler. Since I discovered audio and video podcasts I’ve [...]

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Do you want more sci-fi on NZ TV? Sign here

New Zealand television is full of weight-loss, home-selling, survival, talent show garbage. The amount of sci-fi has been in steady decline over recent times, and when they do show it, it tends to be in strange time slots. We need more quality sci-fi on TV! Read It’s high time Sky got the Sci-Fi channel – [...]

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Veronica Mars on Vibe

Deb was home sick the other day, and spent the afternoon watching TV. That’s how I caught what happened to be the first episode of Veronica Mars on Vibe. I’ve seen many mentions by US-based friends and colleagues of this show, all saying how good it was, so I downed tools for the hour and [...]

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