Lydia Jenkin examines some different options for the switch to Digital TV.

Watch the 2013 Critics' Choice Prize Showcase back in full, thanks to Spotify and Vodafone.

Featuring performances and interviews with Paquin, Janine and the Mixtape and Sheep, Dog and Wolf.

Originally streamed live from Auckland's Kings Arms Tavern on November 6th 2013.

The Hallenstein Brothers Critics' Choice Prize is part of the Vodafone New Zealand Music Awards.

Three artists are vying for the Critics' Choice Prize tonight. We'll be running profiles on each leading up to the event, which will be livestreamed on nzherald.co.nz. Today, it's Janine and the Mixtape.

In preparation for the launch of an eagerly anticipated new local reality show tomorrow night, I've looked to a couple of unusual places for my television viewing.

Three artists are vying for the Critics' Choice Prize on Wednesday night. We'll be running profiles on each leading up to the event, which will be livestreamed on nzherald.co.nz. Today, it's Sheep, Dog & Wolf.

Lorde has blasted the shock tactics of her fellow pop stars as a strategy that will logically end with artists having sex on stage at the Grammys.

Australian superstar Chris Hemsworth tells Michele Manelis why exposing himself on the big screen was more unsettling than speeding on the race track and how he’s a family man at heart.

With Halloween approaching, Chris Schulz makes his picks for the biggest scares of the year so far.

Anyone troubled by the madness that has swirled around the late King of Pop can rest assured that this time the craziness is safely in the hands of true professionals.

Underbelly's new series comes up short, discovers Nick Grant.

Little is known about Paul Henry's new weeknight show on TV3, but sources say it could replace late night news show Nightline.

Lorde has continued winning over America with a typically uncensored interview with Rolling Stone magazine.

Norton's excitability still locked on maximum as 14th series starts, writes Colin Hogg.

Best people-watching. Anywhere.

Russell Baillie reviews Television's Auckland show.

Movie blogger Dominic Corry says the new Hillary drama Beyond the Edge works because it captures a sense of cinematic vertigo.

British actor Tom Hiddleston is relishing his role playing the bad guy. He talks to Chris Schulz about his third appearance as Loki in Thor: The Dark World.

Lorde may be lighting up the pop world but she isn't a leading contender in the New Zealand Music Awards.

Shapeshifter, Aaradhna, Unknown Mortal Orchestra and Lorde lead the nominees list for the New Zealand Music Awards, announced today.

Movie blogger Dominic Corry names his top 10 films from the once-popular Hollywood sub-genre - 'Yuppies In Peril'.

Events this week have seemed more than usually random and chaotic - to the point where many people lost track of which side was using which conspiracy to divert whom from what.

Beyonce prepared for her final New Zealand concert last night with a double leap from Auckland's Sky Tower.

It's been 12 years since Beyonce last graced a stage in New Zealand, but the moment she strutted on stage through the midst of her all girl band, and parted her sea of 10 dancers.

Beyonce performs at Vector Arena in Auckland during her The Mrs Carter Show world tour.