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TV Picks of the week

SUNDAY OCTOBER 29

MY MUM, YOUR DAD AUSTRALIA

Matchmaking mum

Screening: Three, 7.30pm

Streaming: ThreeNow

The Australian take on the dating show format in which single parents are nominated by their grown-up children for a “second chance at love” and are brought together at a luxury retreat. Because these are the times we live in the would-be couples are surveilled by their matchmaking kids from a room called the Bunker. It’s all totally normal.

WORLD ON FIRE

WWII epic of the week, No 1

Screening: TVNZ 1, 9.30pm

Streaming: TVNZ+

Because of the pandemic, there has been a four-year gap since the debut season of this

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