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➢➢ Prime will launch a new season of Louis Theroux documentaries with Surviving America’s Most Hated Family (9.45 Thursdays from November 21).Thirteen years since first encountering one of America’s most notorious hate groups, Theroux returns to Kansas to spend time with the Westboro Baptist church, a controversial Christian ministry that for years has picketed at […]

TVNZ 2 is replacing this week’s Have You Been Paying Attention? (7.30 Wednesday) with Michael McIntyre’s Big Surprises, a best-of compilation. Wellington Paranormal will still air at 8.30 but stablemate Zombody Save Me!  has been pushed back to 10.00; God Friended Me will screen earlier than usual, at 9.05. Replacing Thursday’s HYBPA? repeat will be 8 Out of […]

➢➢ Movie fans can look forward to several HD premieres in the week starting September 14, ranging from The Birth of a Nation (Three, 11.15 Saturday) and Transformers: The Last Knight (Three, 8.30 Sunday) to Blade Runner 2049 (TVNZ 2, 9.50 Sunday). BR2049 will be preceded by the director’s cut of the original (midnight Saturday) … ➢➢ Other […]

TVNZ’s OnDemand streams are rocketing ahead, with average weekly streams up 78% year-on-year. Shortland Street, Friends, The  Big Bang Theory (which is now on Netflix NZ, including the first three seasons in HD — TVOD’s are SD), Home and Away and Coronation Street are the most “binge watched” shows — and also the most streamed. It […]

TVNZ 1 is pulling tomorrow afternoon’s catch-up broadcast of Coronation Street in the wake of the Christchurch mosque shootings. The double-episode will screen Monday at 1pm but not tomorrow because the storyline clashes sharply with the two-minute silence the broadcaster will observe with the rest of the country at 1.32 (Extreme Cake Makers will screen […]

Shortland Street dominated TVNZ OnDemand streams in 2018, ranking first for the most streamed and highest reaching shows. Soaps accounted for three of the five most-streamed shows, Love Island was the fifth and, amazingly, a 25-year-old sitcom was the third most in-demand. Here’s the infographic TVNZ Sales released today illustrating the highlights:

Three scored with another venerable movie franchise on Thursday when Pierce Brosnan’s first outing as James Bond topped the ratings in all the core commercial demographics. GoldenEye, which Kiwi Martin Campbell directed in 1995, averaged 3.7% of 25-54s, 3.2% of 18-49s, 2.3% of 18-39s and 4.6% of household shoppers with kids. The first hour lost […]

Shortland Street tonight will become the first TVNZ OnDemand streamed series to be close captioned. The broadcaster says its on-demand platform will be the first NZ video streaming service to provide closed captions. It’s part of a pilot programme with TVNZ’s accessibility partner Able and will lead to series like Coronation Street, Home and Away […]

Disastrous ratings for TVNZ 2’s premiere of Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation has prompted the network to dump the Australian quiz show for Wednesday night movies in the short term. It’s part of a makeover that will also see the low-rating sitcoms American Housewife and Life in Pieces pulled and re-runs of The Big Bang Theory […]

TVNZ OnDemand has clocked up more than 100 million streams in the past year, with soap operas being the shows most in-demand. Shortland Street had nearly two-and-a-half times as many streams as its closest rival, Home and Away, while Coronation Street was the year’s third most-streamed programme. Also in the top 10 were different series […]