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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 […]

TVNZ 2 is relegating Grey’s Anatomy to late-night after weeks of dismal ratings for the long-running hospital drama. As of this week, the Tuesday broadcast will shift from 9.30 to 10.25. It will be replaced by a new season of Paranormal Caught on Camera. The change means that 2 Broke Girls will now air at […]

TVNZ 2 will screen key Silver Ferns Internationals games under a new partnership with Sky that sees the pay-TV operator once again bypass the free-to-air channel it owns, Prime, for a bigger rival. “This agreement follows the recent success of our Olympic Games partnership where we worked with TVNZ to bring the Olympics to all […]

Dancing With the Stars’ Candy Lane and Game of Thrones’ Joe Naufahu (above) will be among those who sink or swim on the next season of Celebrity Treasure Island. Here’s the media release: FIVE MORE KIWI CELEBRITIES PREPARE FOR CAMP LIFE ON CELEBRITY TREASURE ISLAND Brynley Stent, Candy Lane, Casey Frank, Joe Naufahu and Tegan […]

TVNZ 2’s drip-feeding of who’s who on this year’s Celebrity Treasure Island continued this morning with the revelation of the next group of castaways, including comedian Kimberley Crossman (above), and another raft of names promised for Friday. Here’s the media release: FIVE MORE CELEBS HEAD TO THE SANDY SHORES OF CELEBRITY TREASURE ISLAND Anna Simcic, […]

Celebrity Treasure Island will return to TVNZ 2 in September. Here’s the media release revealing the new celebrity castaways: FIRST KIWI CELEBS REVEALED FOR TVNZ’S CELEBRITY TREASURE ISLAND  Celebrity Treasure Island returns to TVNZ 2 this September and this time a brand-new batch of celebrities will battle it out on home soil as the show […]

TVNZ is taking apart block by block one of its competitor’s most popular series by commissioning a local version of the international format. Today the broadcaster announced production of a Lego Masters NZ series that will air next year on TVNZ 2. The international series have been a hit for Three, so it’s surprising that […]

Coronation Street will soon switch channels to TVNZ 2 — but only for the duration of the Tokyo Olympics. TVNZ 1 will screen saturation coverage of the Olympics daily from midday, breaking only for 1 News at 6pm and Seven Sharp. Normally that would disrupt continuity of a serial like Coronation Street. But instead of […]

Friends: The Reunion was a big TVNZ 2 crowdpleaser last night, drawing 888,000 overnight viewers, TVNZ reports. It won its time slot in the core commercial demographics, with 379,300 18-49 year-olds tuning in, and 449,300 25-54 year-olds. At the same time, there were more than 20,000 live streams of TVNZ 2 and 78,000 OnDemand streams. […]

The early reviews for the year’s most hyped special are friendly and, well, less-than-friendly. Deadline Hollywood said Friends: The Reunion (TVNZ 2, 7.02 tonight) was a “filler-packed special … for hardcore fans only” while Variety thought it a “glossy, poignant, careful trip down Memory Lane”. The New York Times called it “the superexpressway of memory […]