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TVNZ On Demand special Shortland Street: Retribution is grittier fare than normal for the popular drama

REVIEW: If you don’t try to unpick the plot too much, this undemanding watch offers an uplifting dose of warm and fluffy feels.

Former Go Girl Anna Hutchison is back on our screens in a rom-com, while TVNZ2 debuts a new, Sunday tea-time quiz show.

“Sophie comes to New Zealand on an inheritance for her grandmother’s knitting shop,” says Hutchison (Go Girls), who now lives in Los Angeles with her American husband and their toddler daughter, Joanie. “She absolutely falls in love with the place and like so many Americans I know in real life, it’s kind of like, ‘Woah, this place is magic’. Supplied Los-Angeles based New Zealand actor Anna Hutchison plays an American woman named Sophie. “So she falls in love with the town, t...