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3rd Degree’s scoop about new evidence in the David Bain case earned the HD current affairs hour its highest ratings yet. It averaged 7.6% – 9.0% of the key demographics to rate ahead of TV One’s 24 Hours in A&E but behind TV2’s HD comedies The Big Bang Theory (12.0% – 16.3%) and 2 Broke […]

Arrow continues to fly high on TV2, with Wednesday’s episode drawing 2-4 times the viewership of the competition on TV One and TV3. It averaged 9.7% – 13.6% of the major demographics, which is phenomenal for a 9.30 drama. Arrow’s popularity also is helping to boost viewership of lead-out Revolution, which averaged an unusually high […]

TV3 will be happy with the ratings for Wednesday’s series premiere of high-risk Kiwi crime drama Harry. It averaged 4.1% – 7.1% of the major demographics and won the 9.30 hour with adults 18-49 and 25-54, no mean feat given it was “gritty, downbeat stuff” and TV One and TV2 had higher-rating leads-in. Moreover, viewership in […]

Tonight at 8.35 TV2 will air an hour ahead of TV3’s highly anticipated new drama Harry the highest-rating Big Bang Theory episode in US TV history. The Bakersfield Expedition was the first BBT episode in the show’s six-year run to top a stratospheric 20 million viewers. It strands Leonard, Sheldon, Howard and Raj in the […]

TV3 has scheduled an extra repeat of its low-rating 3rd Degree spin-off, The Vote, for Anzac Day. It will screen less than 24 hours after its 8.30 Wednesday broadcast, at 10.55am on April 25, as well as in 3rd Degree’s Saturday morning repeat slot of 11am on April 27. TV3 won’t release details of the […]

Wednesday’s late-night season finale of The Walking Dead out-rated primetime shows Winners & Losers and 3rd Degree in some of the key demographics. Despite starting at 10.50, the zombie drama averaged 3.5% – 6.5%, drew more than 4.0% of adults 18-39 and 18-49, and was most popular with household shoppers. At 8.30, Winners & Losers, […]

TV3’s current affairs initiative, 3rd Degree Presents The Vote, whetted critics’ appetites but was dog tucker with viewers. The monthly debate had its debut on Wednesday, when its fast food gasbfest posted 3rd Degree’s lowest ratings to date. Despite being warmly previewed by media pundits, and hailed as “a show with a purpose and a […]

TV3’s Bones showed its true colours on Thursday, when the 150th episode rated higher than usual to average 6.7% – 12.0% of the key demographics. It was out-rated by TV One’s SD comedies Miranda and Mrs Brown’s Boys but The Ghost in the Machine, which guest starred singer Cyndi Lauper, pipped TV2’s Once Upon a […]

TV3’s premiere of NZ’s first HD current affairs hour, 3rd Degree, made a solid debut on Wednesday when it easily out-rated TV One’s Winners & Losers. 3rd Degree was never going to beat TV2’s mix of My Kitchen Rules and HD sitcoms but it rated higher than last week’s Wild Colombia finale, averaging 5.7% – […]

The tag line for TV3’s 60 Minutes successor, 3rd Degree, promises “a new kind of current affairs”. And in one respect at least that will be true: 3rd Degree is the first NZ current affairs hour to be 100% pure HD — and will be for some time. An earlier post that Q+A, which resumes […]