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Broadway director and golden boy Charlie Summers has come home to New Zealand. And he’s devastated. After 20 years working his way up to the top of the musical theatre world, he has found himself back in his childhood bedroom and back helping his mother, Gaye, at the local community musical theater. The eclectic cast and crew there may lack professional skills, but certainly don’t lack passion.

Monday, December 15, at 8:00 p.m.

 

Broadway director and golden boy Charlie Summers has come home to New Zealand. And he’s devastated. After 20 years working his way up to the top of the musical theatre world, he has found himself back in his childhood bedroom and back helping his mother, Gaye, at the local community musical theater. The eclectic cast and crew there may lack professional skills, but certainly don’t lack passion.

Sundays, December 14 - December 28, at 8:00 p.m.

 

Group of men and women in blue uniforms standing in a hanger with a plane in the background.

Based on real-life stories, follow the modern-day heroes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service as they navigate private lives as turbulent and profound as the heart-stopping emergencies they attend to in the Australian outback.

Premieres Thursday, December 11, at 9:30 p.m.

 

Cast of Seaside Hotel.

Guests flock to the hotel full of hope, seeking the carefree life they knew before war.

Sundays, November 23 - January 18, at 11:00 p.m.

 

Dickensian is a bold reinvention of Charles Dickens’ timeless novels, where his most iconic characters live side by side in the same Victorian neighborhood. Free from the straightjacket of adaptation, Dickensian takes familiar characters on new journeys.

Sundays, December 14 - February 15, at 7:00 p.m.

 

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