ScreenScribe

TVNZ’s election night coverage drew more than 1.4 million viewers across its channels and platforms, including a record-breaking 260,000+ streams on TVNZ+. Here’s the media release: 1News Your Vote 2023 Election Night scores massive audience numbers as Kiwis turn to TVNZ TVNZ scored massive audience numbers across its channels and platforms on Saturday night with […]

TVNZ’s general election coverage will include five live debates across multiple platforms. Here’s the media release: Your Vote 2023: 1News brings you everything you need to know about the election, however, and wherever, you choose to watch it  On October 14th, New Zealanders will get a sense of who could be leading the country next. As voters […]

TVNZ will use warhorses Shortland Street and Hyundai Country Calendar, specials, the premiere of a series about tā moko and the return of Origins to mark Māori Language Week across its broadcast and digital channels. Here’s the media release: Whakanuia Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori ki Te Reo Tātaki!  Celebrate Te Wiki o te Reo Māori (Māori Language Week) with Te Reo Tātaki (TVNZ) in 2023 and enjoy a raft of new […]

As part of its Matariki 2023 celebration, TVNZ+ will stream a 4K digital preservation of groundbreaking 1974 documentary series Tangata Whenua. “In partnership with Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision, the iconic series has now been digitised to 4K quality to faithfully reproduce the characteristics of the original analogue image in digital format, providing clarity and […]

TVNZ 1’s coverage of King Charles III’s coronation drew 2.6 times as many viewers as Three’s, the broadcaster reports. Here’s the media release: 1.2 million people tune into TVNZ’s coverage of Their Majesties’ Coronation As the world watched the Coronation of His Majesty The King and Her Majesty The Queen, TVNZ celebrated the momentous occasion […]

New Kiwi drama The Gone, which fuses Maori and Irish culture, is going to TVNZ+ the same month it premieres on TVNZ 1. The network will air the NZ-Ireland co-pro, which stars Grey’s Anatomy’s Richard Flood, weekly while all six episodes will land May 7 on TVNZ+. Filmed on the Hauraki Plains and in Ireland, it was […]

TVNZ has released more details about its coverage of Charles III’s coronation, which will dominate TVNZ 1’s schedule the weekend of May 6-7, with live BBC coverage on Saturday night, and conclude with an eclectic variety concert on May 8. Here’s the media release: Celebrate The Coronation of Their Majesties with TVNZ  TVNZ is proud to mark […]

TVNZ 1 has relegated Tuesday night’s Barkley Manor to off-peak. Season two of the low-rating series has been airing 8.00 Tuesdays, after SPCA Rescue, but has proved the weakest link in TVNZ 1’s primetime chain. The programme has lost too big a share of viewers in the core commercial demographics, and while lead-out Mt Hutt […]

TVNZ 1’s Breakfast will return with two new presenters on January 23: Anna Burns-Francis and Chris Chang. Here’s the media release: New Year, New Look for TVNZ’s Breakfast TVNZ today announced that Anna Burns-Francis and Chris Chang will join Breakfast. Anna and Chris will take a presenting seat alongside Jenny-May Clarkson and Matty McLean on […]

TVNZ 1’s launch of Frozen Planet II will be pre-empted by Harry: The Interview. The 90-minute promotion for the prince’s autobiography will air 7.30 Monday, within hours of its ITV premiere. Here’s the media release: TVNZ will broadcast a special interview with Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, next Monday in which he will talk […]