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Acquiring Grand Designs UK as part of its Grand Designs NZ deal is rewarding TVNZ 1 on Thursday nights, where the original has been winning its 7.30 hour in the channel’s 25-54 demographic in two of the last three weeks. But TVNZ 1’s surprise acquisition of an even bigger UK hit isn’t generating the same […]

Disney+ will premiere Rebel, a drama series about an Erin Brokovich wannabe, on May 28. It stars Katy Sagal (Married … With Children, Sons of Anarchy) as Annie “Rebel” Bello, a blue-collar legal advocate without a law degree. Reads the blurb: She’s a funny, messy, brilliant, and fearless woman who cares desperately about the causes she […]

Three’s Bay Patrol and Bondi Rescue cruised to another easy win on Wednesday. The former averaged 3.9% of the network’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, and the latter 4.8%. TVNZ 2’s Popstars averaged 2.7% over the hour to finish third, behind TVNZ 1’s season premiere of Bradley & Barney Walsh: Breaking Dad (3.4%) and the first […]

Saturday The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (TVNZ 2, 6.30) Captain Underpants (Three, 7.00) Valiant (Maori TV, 7.00) Terminator 3: Rose of the Machines (TVNZ 2, 8.30) 28 Days Later (Duke, 8.30) Juliet, Naked (Three, 8.50) The King’s Speech (Maori TV, 8.30) Fight Club (TVNZ 2, 10.30) Sleepless (Three, 10.50)   Sunday Yoga Hosers (TVNZ 2, 1am) […]

Three has recruited ex-All Blacks Stephen Donald and Liam Messam to lead a super-sized second season of 2nd Chance Charlie that will air twice-weekly in primetime. It will screen 9.30 Thursdays from May 6 and repeat 5.30 Sundays. Here’s the media release: RUGBY LEGENDS STEPHEN DONALD AND LIAM MESSAM JOIN THREE’S 2ND CHANCE CHARLIE PLUS […]

➢➢ Three will double-bill new seasons of 9-1-1 and spin-off 9-1-1: Lone Star on Monday nights from May 3. S4 of the former will air at 9.10 and S2 of the latter at 10.00. They spearhead a strongly constructed weeknight schedule, with NCIS and NCIS: LA screening Tuesdays, a beach-themed Wednesday with Bay Patrol, Bondi […]

TVNZ 2 executives will be hoping tonight’s revelation of the 12 Popstars contenders will rescue the show’s ratings, as it continues to struggle against Three’s Married at First Sight Australia and TVNZ 1’s Dog Squad duo. Tuesday’s episode lost to TVNZ 1’s Dog Squad and Dog Squad: Puppy School in both the 18-49 and 25-54 demographics and barely […]

An anthology drama series teeming with Hollywood heavyweights will premiere next month on Amazon Prime Video. The seven-part Solos, which stars Morgan Freeman, Anne Hathaway and Helen Mirren, Uzo Aduba, Nicole Beharie, Anthony Mackie, Dan Stevens and Constance Wu will stream from May 21. It’s billed as exploring “the strange, beautiful, heart-breaking, hilarious, wondrous truths […]

Acorn TV, which peppers its vintage British TV drama slate with occasional originals and NZ premieres, will launch globally on May 24 a six-part whodunit starring After Life’s Kerry Godliman. You can view the trailer here. Here’s the media release: ACORN TV ORIGINAL SEASIDE MURDER MYSTERY WHITSTABLE PEARL DOCKS MONDAY, MAY 24 Starring Kerry Godliman (Ricky […]

A new TVNZ OnDemand series will “celebrate te reo Māori through the power of waiata” as seven musicians translate and re-record their songs. Waiata / Anthems is a follow up to the #1-selling original album that was released in 2019 to mark the 20-year anniversary of Hinewehi Mohi’s controversial  first performance of the New Zealand National […]