TELEVISION

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 18

DOCO: THE HIGHLAND VET (TVNZ 1, 8.35pm). A new fly-on-the-wall series set in two veterinary practices in Thurso and Wick in Scotland’s northernmost Caithness region. The show follows an earlier The Yorkshire Vet and is narrated in a fitting accent by Phyllis Logan who played Mrs Hughes in Downton Abbey. The patients of the first episode include an injured puppy, an ailing rescued beach donkey and a raucous parrot named Squeaky.

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 19

The noughties British game show format that gave us the catchphrase “You are the weakest link, goodbye” got a New Zealand version for two seasons in 2001-02 and clucky Esme Hoggett from – as the meanie in charge. Surely, there has been some mistake? “I’m a 60-year-old woman trying to survive in showbiz,” she told the . “I’ve done plenty of 360° turns over the years, this is another, and it has been very satisfying.”