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ON THE ROAD AGAIN:
Where to next for
ageing British rock
star Terry Hufer after
his return to Piha?
Season three of the
multi-award-winning
web series High Road
does a George Lucas
and goes back to
the beginning with a prequel. In the opening
episode, Terry (Mark Mitchinson) is in London,
where his long-sufering sister, Emma Thomp-
son (yes, that Emma Thompson), persuades him
to visit his daughter in New Zealand. Hilarity
ensues. Season three is available from Novem-
ber 5; more info at highroadwebseries.com. Catch
up on the past two seasons on YouTube at
tinyurl.com/NZLHighRoad.GRUMPY OLD MEN: American actor Danny
DeVito is dipping his toe in the directing
pool with his short film Curmudgeons, a foul-
mouthed, funny, touching story about a pair of
pensioners (David Margulies and DeVito) torn
apart by circumstance. It was Vimeo’s first o-
cial staf pick, and was nominated for an award
in the Tribeca Film Festival. Surely an Oscar
nomination must be on the cards, too: tinyurl.
com/NZLCurmudgeons.Gower and Lisa Owen in the
US. Just a reminder that Clin-
ton needs 270 electoral votes
to win.
Mom (TVNZ 2, 9.00pm). Season
four of the rehab comedy has
William Fichtner as a regular
cast member, which means
we’ll be seeing a lot more of
Adam, Bonnie’s boyfriend.
In the season opener, their
relationship is tested when he
moves in with Bonnie (Allison
Janney) and Christy (Anna
Faris) for a few weeks.
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 11- 2 2. 6 3 (Prime, 9.35pm). Just
when you thought James
Franco was a crazy nutbar, he
goes and produces a soulful,
serious performance. Stephen
King’s 2011 novel that quickly
became a best-seller in the US
is adapted by Bridget Carpen-
ter, whose previous credits
include Friday Night Lights and
The Red Road; it doesn’t hurt
that JJ Abrams is an execu-
tive producer. History buffs,
or conspiracy theorists, will
know that the title is the date
of JFK’s assassination in Dallas,
and the story features a sad-
sack English teacher (Franco)
who is given the chance to
go back in time to try to stop
JFK’s killer, Lee Harvey Oswald.
Naturally, there is a catch or
three and he complicates mat-
ters by forming a relationship
with a librarian (Sarah Gadon,
who is due to play the lead
in the adaptation of Margaret
Atwood’s novel Alias Grace).Onlineby FIONA RAE
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farmers have shares in a com-
munity windfarm and also
use solar panels and biogas.
Germany is also moving
towards renewables: the pri-
vately funded Butendiek wind
farm in the North Sea features
80 massive turbines and the
country as a whole has 22,000
wind turbines. It’s expensive
now, but it’s part of a move
out of nuclear and fossil fuels.
Campbell’s global trip also
includes King George Island
in Antarctica, where research-
ers measure glacial retreat
and temperature rises; Miami,
where waterfronts are under
threat from looding; and
California, which is in its fourth
year of drought.
Nightmare on Everest (Choice
TV, Wednesday, 7.30pm) is also
Australian, and features foot-
age by climbers and trekkers
who were there when an
earthquake struck Nepal in
April last year.SVOD HIGHLIGHT:
What’s good in
subscription video
on demand. Writer
and satirist Charlie
Brooker is playing
with Netflix (netix.
com/nz) money for
his new season of
Black Mirror, the
anthology series that
features ultra-black
stories of techno-dread and human folly. The
first story, Nosedive, is directed by Joe Wright
(Atonement) and stars Bryce Dallas Howard,
Alice Eve and James Norton.For links go to http://www.listener.co.nz/online- 2 2. 6 3, Friday.
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