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SATURDAY JUNE 8

THE TOWER: DEATH MESSAGE

Men are still terrible Screening: TVNZ 1, 9.15pm Streaming: TVNZ+

The name is a legacy one – there’s no tower block in the story this time – but DS Sarah Collins (Gemma Whelan) is back and as grumpy and gay as ever. In this four-part adaptation of the second book in Kate London’s original novel series, Collins has been transferred to Homicide Command and on her first day she’s assigned a cold case – the disappearance of a teenage girl on the day of Princess Diana’s funeral in

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