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TVNZ 1’s season two premiere of Cold Feet received a lukewarm reception on Sunday. It averaged only 1.3% of the network’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, off the back off a less-than-regal 2.9% for Victoria (down from 4.6% the previous week). Both were hammered by Three’s re-run of Bridesmaids, which won the 8.30-10.30 period with a 25-54 […]

New Zealand’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly free-to-air in 1080i    Saturday  River Monsters With Jeremy Wade (TV1, 5.00) Season Premiere: Survivor: Heroes v. Healers v. Hustlers (TV3, 5.00) Ados Addicted to Fishing (Prime, 5.00, R) 1 News at 6pm (TV1, 6.00) Newshub Live at 6pm (TV3, 6.00) Flog It! (Prime, 6.00) Premiere: Galapagos – Islands Of Change (TV1, […]

  ➢ Can The X Factor UK give TVNZ 1 some much needed ‘Wow!’ factor? It will premiere on September 29, and screen 7.30 Fridays and Saturdays. The series won its Saturday night slot in the UK last weekend to beat Strictly Come Dancing for the first time this year. (The Saturday broadcast has traditionally […]

Prime TV’s dominated the latest round of NZ On Air funding for factual content, with its Decades in Colour winning support for a second series, while TV3’s Grand Designs 2 has had its run extended to 14 episodes. Originally 10 episodes were commissioned for season two of the Imagination TV hit, which rated through the roof last year (it will be […]

NZ’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly free-to-air in 1080i Saturday Robson Green’s Ultimate Catch (TV1, 5.00) Rheem Outdoors With Geoff (TV3, 5.00) The Goldbergs (TV3, 5.30, 5.1, R) The Middle (TV2, 6.30, 5.1, R) Hyundai Country Calendar (TV1, 7.00, R) Movie: Spider-Man 2 (TV2, 7.00, R) Movie: We Bought a Zoo (TV3, 7.00, 5.1, R) Posh Pawn (TV1, 7.30) Father Brown (Prime, 7.30) Partners […]

DECADES IN COLOUR Prime, 8.30 Sunday On the surface it’s a great idea – plunder (in a polite way) home movie collections around the country, tweak the brightness and contrast and then string them together in rough date order with some sort of linking narrative. In practice, it works. Episode 1 looks at the fifties, […]

Next month Prime will premiere two NZ documentaries in HD: Decades in Colour and Peak Antibiotics. The former (8.30 Sundays from April 3), which Judy Bailey will present, revisits NZ in the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s. The publicity dubs it a “living snapshot” rather than a history lesson, so expect more home-movie nostalgia than socio-political analysis. Peak Antibiotics (April 4, 8.30) investigates the rise of antibiotic resistance […]