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TV1’s Sunday night premiere of Doctor Foster won the 8.30 hour in the 5+ and 25-54 demographics but stablemate Cuffs shed more than half of this viewership. As a result, TV3’s network movie premiere of GI Joe: Retaliation won the 8.30-10.30 zone in the 18-49, 25-54 and household-shoppers-with-kids demos. It averaged 4.2% – 6.5% of these groups compared […]

CUFFS | TV1, 9.35 Sunday Cuffs off. Cuffs is a police drama all about English front-line cops, just like The Bill, Heartbeat and Z Cars were. Unlike them, Cuffs is set in the seaside resort of Brighton. As the cameras started rolling last year, the BBC media department described it thus: “Cuffs is a fresh, […]

NZ’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly free-to-air in 1080i Saturday Rheem Outdoors With Geoff (TV3, 5.00) The Simpsons (TV3, 5.30, 5.1, R) MasterChef Australia (TV1, 7.00) Movie: Journey to the Centre of the Earth (TV2, 7.00, R) Doc Martin (TV1, 8.05) Movie: Dark Shadows (TV2, 8.55, R) Movie: Bandits (TV3, 9.00, 5.1) Sherlock (TV1, 10.05, R) Network Movie Premiere: The Mortal Instruments – City of Bones (TV2, 11.00) Blue […]

TV1 will experiment with stripped programming of a new drama series in primetime ahead of TV2 doing likewise with its own multi-night local commission, Filthy Rich. From January 17 – 21, TV1 will air back-to-back 8.30 episodes of the acclaimed UK thriller, Doctor Foster. It stars Suranne Jones (above) as a GP who who discovers sexual […]