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Dancing With the Stars NZ won its grand final slot on Sunday in all the core commercial demographics despite fierce competition from the TVNZ channels. TVNZ 1 aired a headline-making Sunday profile of Wairarapa farmer James Cameron while TVNZ’s My Kitchen Rules has been consistently out-rating DWTS of late. But DWTS’ two-hour swansong was untouchable. […]

  MediaWorks has been trumpeting the online popularity of Love Island UK but its linear TV ratings have been abysmal since its premiere a week ago. Monday’s and Tuesday’s episode averaged only 0.9% of Three’s 25-54 viewership, Friday’s 0.4%, Thursday’s 0.7% and Wednesday’s 0.5%. This improved on Family Feud’s 5.00 average but was sharply below the […]

   ➢➢ TVNZ 1 will launch its winter schedule with three series premieres and the return of three staples in the week starting June 8. Despite the ratings disappointment of The Bay, the network will continue its 8.30 Wednesday crime drama slot with Manhunt, the compelling true-life dramatisation starring Martin Clunes that already can be […]

Catch-22 | TVNZ OnDemand, from Saturday ☆☆☆☆  “Executive produced by George Clooney and Grant Heslov — with each directing two episodes — the limited series was developed and written by Luke Davies (Lion) and David Michod (Animal Kingdom), who manage to find the difficult tonal balance of the book: a winning combination of satire, madcap […]

TVNZ OnDemand will premiere the latest attempt to adapt Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 to the screen on May 18. Mike Nichols’ 1970 movie was a flop and Richard Dreyfus failed to spawn a series from a 1973 pilot commissioned off the back of M*A*S*H’s success. The six-hour series, which George Clooney produced, directed and stars in, […]