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Stripping HBO’s Chernobyl across five nights at 8.30 has boosted Prime’s ratings. So far three of the episodes have screened. The premiere was the most watched but the others have maintained most of their viewership in the core commercial demographics and rated higher than what typically airs at 8.30 on the Sky-owned free-to-air channel. Monday […]

➢➢ Prime will strip the outstanding miniseries Chernobyl from 8.30 Sunday-Thursday from December 8. The nuclear reactor meltdown dramatisation originally screened here on SoHo and is widely regarded as the best TV drama of the year. The consecutive-nights strategy lends itself well to Chernobyl’s compelling, blood-curdling momentum and follows its stellar Blu-ray release … ➢➢ […]

Three’s Australian Ninja Warrior pummelled the first two episodes of TVNZ 2’s Australian Survivor. The latter averaged 2.4% of TVNZ 2’s target audience, 18-49 year-olds, on Tuesday, and the latter, 4.2%. In Three’s key 25-54 demographic, Survivor averaged 3.1% and Ninja, 4.7%. On Monday, Survivor averaged 1.7% of 18-49s and 2.8% of 25-54s, and Ninja, […]

TVNZ 1 won all of the core commercial demographics on Tuesday night as key TVNZ 2 and Three series struggled. The older-skewing network was unassailable in the 25-54 and 18-49 demos, from 5pm-midnight. Its 7.30 anchor, Paramedics, averaged 6.8% of 25-54s and 5.6% of 18-49s, and was competitive with Three’s Married at First Sight NZ […]

Lightbox will stream weekly the fourth and final season of Mr. Robot from October 7. The conclusion to the series, about an underground hacker group that wants to take down the “one percent” and trigger a worldwide revolution, will unfold over the 2015 Christmas holidays. The publicity promises it “will be filled with hacking, splashed […]

Three’s mid-season finale of emergency services drama 9-1-1 won its slot in all the core commercial demographics on Monday night. It averaged 4.1% of the network’s 25-54 audience compared to 3.0% for TVNZ 1’s Take Two and TVNZ 2’s Australian Survivor. 9-1-1 averaged 3.2% of 18-49s (vs 2.6% for T2 and 2.8% for AS) and […]

House Rules did anything but when the latest season premiered Monday on Three. It averaged only 3.7% of the network’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, and the first hour lost in every core commercial demographic to TVNZ 1’s unassailable Fair Go and Border Security, and TVNZ 2’s 7.30 runner-up, Project Runway NZ. However, the renovation show did […]

Three easily won Monday night in all the core commercial demographics, with Australian Ninja Warrior and 9-1-1 proving to be an enduring dynamic duo. In the 25-54 demo, ANJ (6.4%) lost to TVNZ 1’s Fair Go (7.0%) and Border Security (6.3%) but peaked at 7.0% in its second hour and won outright in the other […]

After two weeks of low ratings, Rescue 9-1-1 (Three, 9.00 Mondays), bounced back last week against weaker competition on TVNZ 2: the season premiere of Australian Survivor. The emergency services drama almost doubled its 25-54 average, to 5.0%, on the back of a surging Married at First Sight NZ (7.4% of the same demo, up […]

Season two of one of last year’s biggest hits on Three, emergency services drama 9-1-1 (9.00 Mondays), may soon be on life support. The series resumed with shaky ratings two weeks ago — in the US it scored a series high — and after tanking last week, Three’s programmers this week will be be on […]