HD Ratings: NCIS Fans Split

NCIS fans appear to be torn between the original and the latest spin-off, Hawai’i, following TVNZ 2’s decision to pit the latter against the former on Three.

Hawai’i won both core commercial demographics the first night they clashed but Tuesday’s re-match saw NCIS win with Three’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, and Hawai’i with TVNZ 2’s 18-49s.

NCIS averaged 1.9% of 25-54s and 1.2% of 18-49s vs 1.5% and 1.3% for Hawai’i.

With all people aged 5+, NCIS was the clear winner, averaging 2.2% compared with 1.7% for Hawai’i.

The law-and-order contest continued at 9.30, when NCIS: Los Angeles beat FBI International in the 25-54 demo (0.9% vs 0.6%) and split the 18-49 vote (0.5%).

But both were topped by TVNZ 1’s Coronation Street, which averaged 1.2% of 25-54s and 0.9% of 18-49s.

That was on the back of First Responders winning the 8.30 hour, with 2.2%/1.7% of these demos.

TVNZ 1 also dominated earlier, with 1 News at 6pm and Seven Sharp easily winning their slots, although lead-outs The Casketeers and Lap of Luxury lost to TVNZ 2’s repeat of Travel Guides (Australia).

Three’s Bondi Rescue double-ep, which last year was one of the channel’s top performers, finished third.

Prime’s free-to-air runs of And Just Like That … and Your Honor continued to struggle, with 25-54 averages of only 0.1%.

These high-profile HBO Max and Showtime series even were beaten by Eden’s Lose a Stone in 21 Days (0.9%) and Escape to the Chateau DIY (1.0%), Duke’s classic movie The Killing Fields (0.7%), and Maori TV’s Africa’s Wild Horizons (0.2%) and Toa Hunter Gatherer (0.4%).

TVNZ 1 won the night with 28+ shares of the core demos; Three beat TVNZ 2 in the 25-54 race but not 18-49.

Note: These overnight ratings exclude viewership of the networks’ +1 SD channels.