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SATURDAY APRIL 20

THE GREAT CELEBRITY BAKE OFF

Rose represents

Screening: TVNZ 1, 7pm

Streaming: TVNZ+

It’s not just any Celebrity Bake Off,it’s the one with our own Rose Matafeo in it. The Kiwi comedy star joins David Schwimmer, Jesy Nelson, Jay Blades and Gemma Collins for the first episode of the 2023 season of the show, competing to raise money for their chosen charities. Before the episode screened, Matafeo declared: “My strength, I’d say, is that I’ve got a lot of creativity, and I can improvise a bit. My biggest weakness is that I cannot follow instructions, I simply cannot read a recipe properly, and I routinely do not follow some of the rules of baking.”

CALL THE MIDWIFE

New faces at Nonnatus

Screening: TVNZ 1, 8.10pm

Streaming: TVNZ+

It’s 1969, the year of Woodstock and the Moon landing, and there

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