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Lightbox’s deal with Warner Bros has paid off with Spark’s streaming service about to launch season three of Blindspot exclusively in this market. TVNZ 1 still plans to screen the series but Lightbox will have it first, starting November 5 with a double-episode (it will stream weekly thereafter). Lightbox also has seasons one and two […]

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 will pre-empt Code Black for a Mrs Brown’s Boys Easter special on April 13 but if the hospital drama’s ratings don’t improve, it may go the way of Blindspot. Blindspot was dumped from 8.30 Thursdays to 9.30 Mondays after failing to sustain enough viewers. And although Code Black has improved on its performance, and […]

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 […]

The critics abhor it but TVNZ 2’s Sensing Murder is one of the network’s most popular shows. Duncan Grieve in the NZ Herald dubbed it a “grotesque sham” that’s “made an unwelcome return from the grave”. And Steve Kilgallon in a 2016 Stuff article declared TVNZ “should be ashamed” of renewing the psychic sleuthing hour for a […]

  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 […]

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 […]

   TVNZ 1 will bed in its new season with nearly a week of nightly premieres from January 21. It will use its premium 8.30 Sunday drama slot to launch season two of Kiwi-inspired Aussie hit 800 Words with a double episode, ahead of the season two premiere of Indian Summers. TVNZ 1 has not […]

   Lightbox has picked up a new Hugh Laurie drama from 21st Century Fox TV and signed a programming deal with Warner Bros. The Spark streaming service that’s facing unprecedented competition from giants Netflix and Amazon today announced it had notched up 200,000 customers since launching in August 2014 “and is well on its way towards […]

AHS ‘mystery’ solved … Blindspot eyes new slot … Brief re-encounter … American Horror Story resumes tonight on FX in the US, five days ahead of its season premiere on SoHo. Reveals Variety about the unusually secretive storyline: “The theme of Season 6 is ‘My Roanoke Nightmare,’ and will likely reference the Mystery of Roanoke aka the […]