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SATURDAY APRIL 2

E.T. THE EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL

Phone home

TVNZ 2, 7.00pm

Steven Spielberg’s second alien movie after Close Encounters of the Third Kind became the most beloved family film of his career and the model for a whole lot of subsequent other films and shows about critters from other worlds splashing down in suburbia. (1982)

SONIC THE HEDGEHOG

Not quite a whole new level

Three, 7.00pm

The super-speedy prickly blue Sega game character of the 90s gets its inevitable movie, which is

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