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Good for a Laugh! THE GOLDBERGS Three, Saturday, 2.55pm

SUNDAY FEBRUARY 16

Q+A with Jack Tame (TVNZ 1, 9.00am). Jack Tame returns in what will be a bigger year than usual in politics. The current-affairs series begins the year on Sunday mornings and will switch to its Monday evening time slot in April.

. The penultimate season of the British action series – it has been renewed for one last hurrah by Cinemax, the US cable channel that is famous for its high-octane, super-action-y violence and many explosions (it is, with Antony Starr). The only thing you need to know is that is completely bonkers and the covert “Section 20” saves the world more than once every season. Special-ops soldiers Gracie Novin (Australian Alin Sumarwata), Thomas “Mac” McAllister (Brit Warren Brown) and Samuel Wyatt (Daniel MacPherson, also Australian, but playing an American) are off to Malaysia in season seven, where a Russian bomber has crashed. fans will recognise Jamie Bamber, who is the new temporary commanding officer of Section 20.

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