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Fans of the outback whodunit Mystery Road can start from the beginning of Detective Jay Swan’s journey when ThreeNow premieres the prequel series Mystery Road: Origin (full season, October 5). Set in 1999, it opens on Constable Swan’s first day on the beat. Reads the blurb: Fresh from the city and tipped for big things, Jay […]

The next season of Kairākau, which will premiere on September 21 (Whakaata Māori, 9.00 and MĀORI+), was inspired by the Musket Wars of nearly 200 years ago. Here’s the media release: KAIRĀKAU SEASON III: WHERE THE PATU MEETS THE MUSKET – ON WHAKAATA MĀORI Mana tangata. Mana iwi. Mana whenua. Mana kairākau. Kairākau Season III brings […]

Saturday The Lost World – Jurassic Park (TVNZ 2, 7.00) Storm Boy (Three, 7.00) The Lion King – Reo Māori (Whakaata Māori, 7.00) The Mummy Returns (Duke, 8.30) Wild Target (Eden, 8.30) The Revenant (Whakaata Māori, 8.30) Dune (Three, 8.55) Peppermint (TVNZ 2, 9.25)   Sunday Inception (TVNZ 2, 12.25am) Yves Saint Laurent (TVNZ 2, 2.55am) Shaun the Sheep: The Movie (TVNZ […]

Neither Warner Bros. Discovery nor Samsung is commenting on why it’s taken so long for the country’s top-selling TV brand to launch the ThreeNow app. Today WBD announced the streaming app was available to download on Samsung TVs sold within the last six years. Most other TV brands, especially those running on the Android platform, […]

David Lomas Investigates again won the 7.30 Wednesday hour in the key 25-54 demographic — albeit narrowly. Three’s lost-and-found hit averaged 76,455 viewers (3.73 rating/25.32 share) vs 73,936 (3.60 rating/24.98 share) for TVNZ 1’s season premiere of The Celebrity Chase. The previous week it lost to the final of Bradley Walsh & Son: Breaking Bad; TVNZ […]

➢➢ Three experiments with its primetime programming in the last week of September by stripping the “lively” Paramount+ docuseries Con Girl 8.30 Sunday-Wednesday. “This documentary unravels the mind-boggling exploits of one of Australia’s most prolific scammers … whose lies were so extreme they still defy belief,” The Guardian said. “This is an odd, grimly fascinating story that […]

Three’s House Rules NZ bounced back in the overnight ratings on Monday, when it out-rated TVNZ 2’s Taskmaster in the key 25-54 demographic. It averaged 67,620 viewers (3.30 rating/18.41 share), which was twice as many as Sunday’s season premiere (32,127, 1.57 rating/7.24 share) — and comparable to the penultimate episode of The Traitors NZ the […]

Hunted Australia on TVNZ 2 enjoyed a big lift in 25-54 viewership in its first Thursday night airing against weaker competition on Three. Until last week, it had to contend with 7 Days dominating the 7.30 hour in this critical commercial demographic. But with the Kiwi panel show giving way to the UK version of […]

The results “didn’t necessarily fall in our favour” but that didn’t deter New Zealanders from watching the All Blacks’ opening World Cup match and the Warriors’ first finals match on Sky, Sky Open and Sky Sport Now over the weekend, reports Sky TV:

Three’s House Rules NZ did anything but for its season premiere on Sunday, when it was badly beaten in the core commercial demographic by Harry Potter on TVNZ 2 and Sunday on TVNZ 1. House Rules drew roughly a third of the 25-54 viewership of its 7.30 rivals, averaging 32,127 for a 1.57 rating/7.24 share, after streaming first […]