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Dancing With the Stars NZ is the latest COVID-19 casualty, with Three canning it for the second year in a row. The network announced the “very difficult decision” this morning, along with some coming-soon highlights, including the world premiere of Sydney Harbour Force, a 10-hour Discovery series about real-life Water Rats. However, Three isn’t picking up […]

A week of Shortland Street episodes with te reo Māori subtitling will spearhead TVNZ’s marking of Māori Language Week. Here’s the media release: Celebrate Te Wiki o te Reo Māori with TVNZ     Celebrate Te Wiki o te Reo Māori 2021 (Māori Language Week) with TVNZ and enjoy a raft of new and existing content. From dedicated storytelling in te reo Māori and subtitling on Shortland Street, to new show launches and promo takeovers, Te Reo Tātaki (TVNZ) wants to help get Kiwis speaking te reo Māori this September. […]

A weekly guide to what’s new of note on air and online Sunday ➢ 9/11: Inside the President’s War Room Apple TV+ Streaming for free today only. “Documentaries tend to rise or fall on the quality of their contributors, and Inside the President’s War Room boasted a roster any Bush administration reunion tour would have been […]

TVNZ Sales reports Celebrity Treasure Island was the fourth most-watched show of the week among viewers aged 18-54, a demographic that straddles the key audiences for TVNZ 1 and TVNZ 2. It was beaten by only 1 News at Six, Seven Sharp and 1 Breaking News because of the extraordinary interest in lockdown developments and […]

Following today’s calling of auditions for a second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under, TVNZ OnDemand has announced it will stream S3 of the UK version from September 24. Episodes will be fast-tracked weekly within hours of their BBC Three and iPlayer release. Reads the blurb: Twelve queens will enter the werk room ready for the […]

TVNZ 2’s premiere of Jono & Ben Good Sports on Thursday won its slot with the network’s target audience, 18-49 year-olds, and was competitive in the other core commercial demographic, 25-54. It averaged 3.3% of 18-49s and 3.8% of 25-54s on the back of 4.0% / 3.8% for Police Ten 7. It overlapped with TVNZ […]

TVNZ 1’s Give Us a Clue ended its top-rating form on Wednesday by losing in the core commercial demographics for the first time. It averaged 4.8% of 25-54 year-olds and 4.1% of 18-49s but finished behind TVNZ 2’s big new hit, Celebrity Treasure Island. The latter averaged 6.6% / 5.2% and helped lead-out Taskmaster NZ […]

TVNZ has ordered a new season of RuPaul’s Drag Race after the first was streamed more than 500,000 times. Here’s the media release: RuPaul’s Drag Race is coming back Down Under Start your engines Aotearoa, your queen is back and looking to add to the royal family. The Emmy Award winning series RuPaul’s Drag Race is […]

Saturday Abominable (TVNZ 2, 7.00) Dora and the Lost City of Gold (Three, 7.00) A Simple Wish (Maori TV, 7.00) Four Holidays (TVNZ 2, 8.35) Like Father Like Son (Maori TV, 8.40) Death Race (Three, 9.00) Constantine (Duke, 9.25) Fisherman’s Friends (Three, 11.00)   Sunday Jason Bourne (TVNZ 2, 8.30) Fargo (Maori TV, 8.30) Spider-Man (Three, 8.45) Happy Death Day […]

The same day it was revealed  season two of See had set a new ratings benchmark for Apple TV+, Parrot Analytics reported Netflix’s La Casa De Papel (Money Heist) was the most in-demand TV show in the world across all platforms over the weekend. “This could serve as a crucial turning point for Netflix, as the streamer […]