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Sunday TVNZ 1’s Sunday Theatre dramatisation Ablaze proved to be a damp squib, averaging only 1.5% of the network’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds. This was despite rave reviews. Stuff judged it to be “the best film of this year’s Sunday Theatre crop” and The Spinoff, “a memorable drama, one that will share an important piece […]

➢➢ Three will premiere season two of The Rookie (8.30 Wednesdays) on October 2, within a few days of its US debut. In the first episode, Officer Bradford’s life hangs in the balance as the force grapples with a plotted attack. Reports Entertainment Weekly: “Season 2 appears to be picking up exactly where season 1 left […]

Three has renewed Westside for a fifth season and commissioned a mini-series about Jonah Lomu while TVNZ has greenlit two more Sunday Theatre telemovies. South Pacific Pictures’ Outrageous Fortune spin-off will return for 10 more episodes next year after receiving up to nearly $7 million in funding from NZ On Air. The deal makes the West […]