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Doctor Who (Prime, 7.30 Monday) “The agonisingly long wait is over. After a 16-month hiatus, proper weekly Doctor Who is back for 12 episodes, and the fact that the first of series ten is called The Pilot is not to be taken lightly. There’s a reference to a pilot within the dialogue, but you could […]

TVNZ 2’s movies dominated on Saturday night but the network’s free-to-air premiere of American Sniper on Sunday was slaughtered by the competition. It averaged 2.5% of 25-54 year-olds, compared to 5.8% for Broadchurch and 3.9% for Transformers: Age of Extinction. Broadchurch won the 8.30 hour in this demo and Transformers was tops from 9.30-11.30, winning in the […]

New Zealand’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly free-to-air in 1080i    Saturday  The Hunt (TV3, 5.00, R) Ultimate Fishing With Matt Watson (TV1, 5.00) Ados Addicted to Fishing (Prime, 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) Network Movie Premiere: Annie (TV2, 7.00) Network Movie Premiere: How to Train Your Dragon […]

Three’s Sunday night season premiere of The Bachelor NZ won its slot in the core age demographics. It averaged 6.6% of 25-54 year-olds, 6.4% of 18-49s and 6.7% of 18-39s. My Kitchen Rules, which started half-an-hour later, averaged 4.3% of 25-54s, 3.5% of 18-49s and 2.8% of 18-39s. The Bachelor’s popularity helped the network movie premiere of […]

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) Prime Horse Racing: New Zealand Derby (Prime, 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: Monsters vs Aliens (TV2, 7.00, R) Movie: Garfield: A Tail […]

Broadchurch (TVNZ 1, 8.30 Sundays) “So, back to Broadchurch, for the third – and final – time. A traumatised woman turns up in the night at the police station in town. A single tear rolls from a faraway blue eye down her cheek. Her name is Trish and she has been raped. DS Ellie Miller and DI […]

TVNZ 1 programmers will be praying Sunday’s season three premiere of Broadchurch lifts its weekend ratings in the core commercial demographics. The crime drama’s UK premiere was British TV’s most-watched programme of the evening with 7.5 million viewers and a 34 share in Live+1, which Deadline Hollywood reports was only a “tick down” on the season two […]

TVNZ 1 will premiere the latest series of Broadchurch within a week of the UK. The David Tennant-Olivia Colman reunion will go to air on ITV on February 27 and screen 8.30 Sundays on TVNZ 1 from March 5. The network will be hoping it succeeds in a slot where other high-profile crime dramas, like […]

After swamping viewers with a rash of American mediocrities, from long-in-the-tooth vets like Criminal Minds and Castle to toothless newcomers Blindspot, The Family, Code Black, Secrets & Lies and The Astronaut Wives’ Club, TV One at last is about to rediscover what used to distinguish it from the competition: premium British drama. In a bold […]

“If you’ve struggled to understand how it was that chaplains or parish priests who abused boys for decades were not stopped or why the church covered it up or why the victims took two decades to disclose the offences, a searing new television drama Devil’s Playground will bring you closer to an understanding. Arguably Foxtel’s most […]