I was perhaps the only person who caught this NZ mini-series the first time it aired, and I thought it was quite good, but TV3 are repeating it this Thursday and Friday.

PA's own Fiona Rae notes in the Listener in her TV Week column:

"The mystery wrapped in the enigma that is New Zealand television spat out this series last year and the general consensus was, “What were they thinking?” Perhaps it was too mysterious and enigmatic for just one viewing and all will become clear upon a second."

But the question I have is how do TV3 intend to fit a six-hour tv series into the four hours they've given it?

I know that sydicated shows have minutes shaved to allow extra advertising, and there's occasionally editing of shows and movies to make them acceptable for free-to-air broadcast, but cutting a third of a series and leaving it remotely intelligible must have been a major effort!