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The season seven finale of The Walking Dead was the lowest rating on US TV since season two’s in 2012 and down sharply on season six’s. But here it improved on what’s been a lacklustre mid-season and exited with the zombie drama’s highest ratings this year. It won the 9.45 hour in all the core demographics, […]

TVNZ 1 will use the Easter break to overhaul its failing Monday night schedule. From April 17, APB will shift to 9.30, replacing Blindspot, which moves to late-night Friday the same week. Both are gimmicky crime dramas that quickly lost their novelty value after initially buoyant ratings. It’s not yet know which drama will take […]

TVNZ 1’s Monday line-up must be on borrowed time as the ratings for APB and Blindspot continue to languish. Monday’s episode of APB averaged only 2.0% of the network’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, while Blindspot averaged 1.9% and was out-rated by the second half of Prime’ movie, Exit Wounds. In the 18-49 demographic, the crime dramas and […]

  TVNZ 1 is banking on its new Monday night crime drama APB to boost Blindspot’s viewership. The former hit tonight relocates from 8.30 Thursday, where it’s bombed, to follow APB at 9.30. The move won’t resurrect the show’s original popularity but it can scarcely rate worse in the later slot than it did on Thursdays. The most […]

APB (TVNZ 1, 8.30 Mondays) “In recent years, Fox has unveiled cop dramas starring robots, Houdini and a magically preserved Ichabod Crane. But APB may be the network’s most fantastical foray yet. APB chronicles a billionaire’s takeover of an urban police district, and posits that what will fix the problems with American policing is not more accountability […]

TVNZ 1 is demoting crime drama Blindspot from 8.30 Thursdays to 9.30 Mondays after persistently low ratings since its season premiere.  It’s the latest US drama to falter badly after starting strongly last year. Last week’s episode averaged only 2.6% of the network’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, compared to 5.7% for TVNZ 2’s re-run of Men […]

New Zealand’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly free-to-air in 1080i    Saturday  The Wonder of Animals (TV3, 4.55)  Ultimate Fishing With Matt Watson (TV1, 5.00) Newshub Live at 6pm (TV3, 6.00)  The Simpsons (TV2, 6.05, R) The Middle (TV2, 6.30, 5.1, R) Outback Pilots (TV1, 7.00) Movie: Inkheart (TV2, 7.00, R) Movie: Garfield (TV3, 7.00, 5.1, R) Antiques Roadshow (Prime, 7.30) Te Radar’s Chequered Past (TV1, 8.05)  […]

The networks have lined up a raft of free-to-air movie premieres for the week starting February 25 but the most recent is being buried late-night. TVNZ 2 will screen Johnny Depp’s 2015 bomb, Mortdecai, at 11.45 on February 25. The same weekend it will premiere the obscure Melissa McCarthy-Susan Sarandon vehicle, Tammy (8.45 Sunday), and the horror, Annabelle […]

TVNZ 1 will premiere the latest series from the writers of The Missing on February 19. One of Us will air 8.30 Sundays ahead of the next season of The Missing’s premiere next month in what at this stage is meant to be a 9.30 Monday slot (as the lead-out from Our Girl successor APB). It […]