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TVNZ 2 has ditched The 100k Pound Drop and Spartan: New Zealand vs Australia from its Saturday night schedule and is reinstating an evening movie slot. After only three weeks, the transTasman reality competition is being relegated to 5.30 Saturdays, displacing the 6.05 broadcast of the UK game show. I haven’t seen the ratings for […]

   TVNZ tonight announced its 2020 highlights, including a new multi-year BBC deal for wildlife documentary series and OnDemand exclusives like The Dead Lands, Glow Up and Doctor Who. Many of the local series already have been announced through NZ On Air funding rounds (One Lane Bridge, Black Hands) or co-pros (The Luminaries), but among the […]

TVNZ 2’s taken the lid off when The Great Kiwi Bake Off will return. The new season will launch 7.00 on November 3 in a new, expanded format of 90-minute episodes. Reads the press release: The tent is up, the oven mitts are off and our bakers are ready to do delicious battle when The […]

Batwoman | TVNZ OnDemand, 7.00 Monday/TVNZ 2, 8.30 Tuesday ☆☆☆☆ “Gritty and fiercely feminist, the series is very much an Arrowverse show but also stands as its own thing. It’s exciting and new and filled with intriguing characters and complex relationships that set up the series as a potentially worthwhile experience. And while deeply rooted in […]

TVNZ 2 this morning took the lid off a My Kitchen Rules spin-off in which Kiwi restaurateurs will compete. My Restaurant Rules will screen 7.30 Mondays and Tuesdays from September 30. According to the press release: This brand-new format will see five local restaurants battling it out for $100,000 and the bragging rights to say their […]

TVNZ 2 at last has admitted defeat with Will & Grace by pulling the reboot from primetime. The next episode was due to screen 8.40 tomorrow but the sitcom has been suddenly demoted to around 10.30 Wednesdays, where the rest of the latest season will air instead of Two and a Half Men re-runs. Replacing […]

TVNZ 2 has just announced it will screen live coverage of today’s highwire walk 25 stories above New York City’s Times Square. Siblings Nik and LijanaWallenda will make a never-before-attempted 1,300-foot walk 25 stories above street level from midday today (instead of Judge Rinder). If you miss the live broadcast, TVNZ 2 will repeat it tonight […]

TVNZ 2 will fast-track the final episode of The Big Bang Theory so it screens here within hours of the US. The hour-long series finale will air in The Simpsons’ 7.30 Friday slot, on May 17. Here’s the TVNZ Sales press release: TVNZ 2 to air the final ever episode of The Big Bang Theory […]

TVNZ 2 is pulling Changing Rooms Australia after presumably a third low-rating broadcast. I haven’t seen last night’s ratings but they must have been dire enough for the network to this evening announce it will drop Changing Rooms Australia after tonight’s airing. Sunday’s scheduled broadcast will be replaced by a movie, Finding Dory, while taking over […]

Manifest | TVNZ 1, 8.30 Monday/TVNZ 2, 9.30 Wednesday ☆☆☆☆ “The epitome of what Hollywood calls high-concept story-telling. A plane takes off from an airport in the Caribbean one afternoon and, despite a little rough weather, arrives seemingly intact in New York … five and a half years later. If that sounds weird but not particularly […]