It was a hot afternoon so my partner and I met up at this cute corner bar for a couple of refreshing drinks.

There are new sitcoms flying at us from all directions this week as networks continue to roll out their new season wares.

The media and public fascination with Stephen Hawking has, it seems to me, always been driven by a mixture of infantilising sentimentalism and morbid curiosity.

These Brit acting newbies got to play with the big guns in an action black comedy with a stiff upper lip. They talk to Lydia Jenkin.

What do you do when you've made the defining TV show of the era? Press rewind. Chris Schulz meets Vince Gilligan and Bob Odenkirk, the men hoping Better Call Saul can live up to the legacy of Breaking Bad.

Given the civil rights subject matter, the greatness of Martin Luther King as the man at the centre of the story, and relevance today it's surprising Selma isn't a bigger, flashier film.

No one should be surprised by this 36th studio album from 73-year-old Dylan being standards.

The Song of the Year is one of the many Grammy Awards being given out on Monday, New Zealand time. We asked some of our favourite ZM presenters which is their pick to win.

TV3'S 2015 season of X Factor NZ 2015 will start screening on Sunday, February 15, setting up a local reality TV head-to-head with TVNZ's new DIY show Our First Home, which goes to air for the first time this Sunday.

Over several mixtapes and two New Zealand live appearances, Joey Bada$$ has proved an incendiary talent.

It felt like Mikky Ekko had come out of nowhere when he featured on Rihanna's 2013 hit Stay. Now the American singer-songwriter is introducing his own music with debut album Time.

As french as croissants aux amandes and so extravagantly theatrical that you can practically smell the greasepaint in the cinema, this small and goofy French comedy follows the struggles of a young teenager to come to terms with his sexual identity.

Michele Manelis talks with the star of Selma about the civil rights struggle in the US and racism today.

Frances Morton talks to the woman whose heroic tale of beating life's problems took her from wilderness to red carpet.

Just as you were about to give up on witches, in come some scheming, dark, violent types to restore their good name, writes Rebecca Barry Hill.

Great drama speaks to any day in which it is performed. The second-most famous play by the great Arthur Miller deals with the witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts, in the late 17th century.

It might be set in Norway's remote Arctic north but crime drama Fortitude doesn't have much in common with its Scandinavian predecessors, its creator tells Sarah Hughes.

James Nesbitt tells Vanessa Thorpe how his role as a father grieving after his child disappears helped him face his own anxieties.

Chief Waterboy Mike Scott said after his last album - musical settings of poems by W.B. Yeats - that he wanted to return to rock 'n' roll, hence these nine often rambunctious, sometimes soulful, occasionally thoughtful and mostly engaging songs.

Fans of the original Danish crime series The Killing and other Scandi-noir shows of past years are directed towards Fortitude, the Norwegian-set drama with an international cast.

A month after it screened in Britain, Downton Abbey fans are getting to see the period drama's annual Christmas Special, which Prime has split into two halves (tonight and next week) for local consumption. Here's a guide to the new episodes.

In his latest comedy caper Mortdecai, Johnny Depp has delivered yet another ham that only forgiving fans could love. What has brought him to this, asks Stephine Merry.

Channing Tatum has gone from beefcake to credible A-list star. But he still doesn't know how to act, he tells James Mottram.

Paul Simon and Sting talk to Russell Baillie about the pair's joint tour that lands in Auckland tomorrow night and New Plymouth on Saturday.

Did the lack of a Big Day Out go unnoticed this year? Or were you in a puddle of tears on January 16? Chris Schulz and Lydia Jenkin share their thoughts.

Remember Kriss Kross? Those two-hit wonders who wore all their clothes backwards and wanted to "warm it up" and "make you jump, jump" in 1992? Get ready to meet 2015's version.

Jemaine Clement is standing on the Sundance red carpet awaiting the premiere of his latest movie People, Places, Things, the first American movie in which he has a starring role. It is a very big deal.

TVNZ'S first big reality show of the year is Our First Home, a brand new DIY reality show format. It starts next Sunday (February 8, TV One, 7.30pm) and will be on screen three nights a week, following three competing families.

There are times in this brilliantly acted and understated psychological drama when it seems very little happens at all, but when the lights go up you're left reeling by the culmination of events that have quietly unfolded.