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SATURDAY JANUARY 14

DORA AND THE LOST CITY OF GOLD

Backpacking in Peru

Three, 7.00pm

An inspired, self-aware live-action adaptation of the Dora the Explorer kids’ cartoon series, with the teenage heroine on a mission to rescue her parents from a hidden Inca city. (2019)

WATERSHIP DOWN

Oma rāpeti

Whakaata Māori, 7.00pm

There was a Netflix/BBC remake a few years back, but this first animated feature of Richard Adams’ best-selling bunny saga is still the stuff of nightmares. Even before Art Garfunkel starts singing Bright Eyes. (1978)

JOHNNY ENGLISH

Bean meets Bond

TVNZ 2, 8.00pm

The first

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