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TV One is shaking up its Sunday Theatre line-up this year, commissioning a series of one-off local dramas to fill the prime time spot.
The first - Until Proven Innocent - screens next Sunday, February 8, and features Jodie Rimmer and Peter Elliot in a dramatisation of the David Dougherty case.
Emily Barclay and Keisha Castle-Hughes team up to play the junior versions of Annie Whittle and Rena Owen in Piece of My Heart. Set between the present day and the 1960s, the drama follows two women's stories of adoption in New Zealand and will screen in March.
Life's A Riot - the story of Auckland's 1932 Queen St Riots - will also head to Sunday Theatre later in the year, alongside last year's cinema releases Show of Hands and Apron Strings.
A further four local dramas are in development for the slot, to screen later in the year or early next year.
The move to stand-alone dramas follows a less-than-stellar run of drama series for the network, including Orange Roughies and Rude Awakenings.
The channel hasn't turned its back on series completely though, and is preparing to screen Diplomatic Immunity, a new comedy from Outrageous Fortune creator James Griffin, starring Craig Parker and Dave Fane.
