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The week’s best live action
The Family Law,
Wednesday.WINTER SPORT
Sky TV has significantly
expanded its sports cover-
age this year and now
offers nine sport channels,
a sports news channel, two
ESPN and two Trackside
channels. In early August,
it locked down a three-year
partnership with Winter
Games NZ, an elite event
that is part of the build-
up to the 2022 Winter
Olympics and Winter
Paralympics in Beijing. The games begin on August 23 and
take place in Central Otago, at venues in Naseby, Queen-
stown and Wanaka. The snowboard big air qualifiers are
on Saturday (Sky Sport 8, 9.30am and 2.10pm), with the
finals on Sunday (Sky Sport 3, 11.50am). For the rest of the
week, coverage is spread over Sky Sport 3 and 9 – there’s
quite a bit of curling – and Prime has a highlights show on
Tuesday (6.30pm).despite the fact that a lot
of the classic cars on sale at
Mathewsons, a museum and
auction house, are definitely
not bangers. Three genera-
tions of the Mathewson family
are involved in the classic car
business in the tiny village of
Thornton-le-Dale in North
Yorkshire, which is also home
to a 17th-century, Grade
II-listed thatched cottage, an
annual scarecrow festival and
Lavenders Tea Rooms, Gifts &
Takeaway. Come for the classic
cars, stay for the Wallace and
Gromit vibe.The Family Law (TVNZ OnDe-
mand). A charming Australian
comedy series created by Ben-
jamin Law, who loosely adapts
his 2010 book of the same
name. It has echoes of Fresh
Off the Boat or Canadian series
Kim’s Convenience (available on
Netflix), in that it is about
the second-generation
children of immigrant
parents – in this case, Ben
(Trystan Go) is one of five
Chinese-Australian sib-
lings. The first season takes
place over the course of a
long, hot Queensland summer
and tackles the breakdown in
Ben’s parents’ relationship. “A
gentle, loving and very Aus-
tralian family comedy,” said
the Guardian Australia.World’s Busiest Train Stations
(TVNZ 1, 8.40pm). Well, what
can we say? It sounds thrilling.FRIDAY AUGUST 30
7 Days (Three, 9.00pm). The
panel show that has given
New Zealand comedy so
much – regular pay cheques,
for a start – celebrates its
10th year on air. That really
is something, especially
for regulars Paul Ego, Dai
Henwood and Jeremy Corbett,
who haven’t changed one
bit in 10 years, except two of
them have beards now. What
are they going to do for their
special birthday episode? Who
knows? They’re comedians,
and therefore wacky and
unpredictable.7 Days, Friday.TENNIS
Young Japanese player Naomi Osaka has struggled this
year since her win in the Australian Open, but she is still
seeded No 1 going into the US Open. Serena Williams,
who beat Osaka at the Canadian Open in early August,
is seeded eighth. Naturally, Novak Djokovic is No 1 in
the men’s draw. Coverage of the 139th US Open begins
early on Tuesday morning (ESPN, 3.00am) and continues
throughout the week.ROWING
New Zealand Rowing’s push – or pull, perhaps – to get a
competitive men’s eight on the world stage may come to
fruition at the 2019 World Rowing Championships, which
this year take place in Austria. The eights, which include
Olympians Mahé Drysdale and Hamish Bond, finished
fourth and third in the two World Cup regattas this year,
so perhaps it’s time to peak. Coverage starts on Thursday
(Sky Sport 3, 8.00pm) and continues on Friday (Sky Sport 3,
8.55pm).The New Zealand
men’s eight.Snowboard big air.