Some of New Zealand's biggest broadcasters returned to air today, but with new looks, new shows and new on-air buddies.

COMMENT: Over the months, it has become very clear that he watches massive amount of cable TV and regularly borrows ideas from it.

Literature's most eligible bachelor is likely to have sported powdered hair, a long nose and pointed chin.

Be warned: the heartwarming ad which has gone viral might have you reaching for the tissues.

Hollywood star Reese Witherspoon and talk show queen Oprah Winfrey are headed to New Zealand.

Netflix has sparked an angry online backlash and calls for a boycott over plans to screen a new comedy called Dear White People.

If Sex and the City was the culture-defining series of the late 1990s and early 2000s - a glossy, glamorous portrayal of a rarified Manhattan existence - then Girls has been the millennial riposte.

Eli Matthewson and Chris Parker from Funny Girls discuss their hit new podcast

The Xena: Warrior Princess wore red on the New York Fashion Week runway.

Mike Hosking and Toni Street have the biggest audience by far of any current affairs show on air. So why don't they make the most of it?

It's one of the most beloved - and oft-quoted - Simpsons episodes ever, but the 1997 classic 'Homer's Phobia' very nearly didn't make it to air.

TVNZ confirmed this week season two of Coast New Zealand was currently in production.

"It's a sunny Wednesday morning I should absolutely be in the office instead of at a church in west Sydney attending the wedding of two people who don't even know each other."

"The crazy thing is it's probably not gonna happen, but there is a nonzero chance of it happening now. So yeah, I am slightly concerned," John Oliver says.

Having already returned from cancellation once, 24 is truly the show that will not die.

OUCH. Mariah Carey's ex-husband Nick Cannon has revealed what he really thinks of her televised "romance" with toyboy dancer Bryan Tanaka.

Novelty pop songs, fail compilations, dodgy bird banter and coffee orders being made during the weather. What is going on at Breakfast?

Breakfast presenters enjoy their own fail compilation of bloopers from the week. Source: TVNZ

Actor Jay Laga'aia has flipped the table on his easygoing persona, blasting his cast mates on an Australian reality show for acting like kids during an explosive rant.

Source: Three

The American actor, writer and producer - who was best known for his starring role as Captain Apollo - died from pancreatic cancer.

After 28 years its all over for TV3 as MediaWorks rebrands and renames the channel.

After Kylie Minogue v Jenner, here are some of the weirdest celebrity trademark issues.

Melissa McCarthy on SNL shows the power comedians have under a Trump presidency.

One of last year's most acclaimed new comedy shows is finally available for New Zealand viewers to watch - legally.

The Simpson's predictive powers go further than just swinging Gaga

The fourth of Marvel's Netflix series has debuted a trailer.

It's great at weddings when your attention-deprived mother-in-law slags you off to everyone before labelling you a pig and oinking.

A team of journalists spent a year inside one of the country's most underprivileged schools filming the Herald's first long-form documentary.

David Attenborough's original BBC series Zoo Quest is back on our screens - 60 years after it premiered. But this time, it's different.