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SATURDAY FEBRUARY 12

MADAGASCAR (TVNZ 2, 7.00pm). Amusing Dream-Works animated tale of New York zoo residents heading back to the wild, which spawned a franchise that extended to TV shows and a stage production, and perma-nently wedged the song I Like to Move It in the brains of a generation. (2005)

FREE BIRDS (Three, 7.00pm). Animated turkeys-escape-Thanksgiving-through-time-travel comedy with a title that’s an, er, riff on the Lynyrd Skynyrd song and featuring the voices of Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson and Amy Poehler. Undercooked. (2013)

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