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New Zealand’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly on the networks in 1080i   Saturday The ITM Fishing Show – Classic Episodes (TV One, 4.55, R) Trade Zone Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.00) Bondi Vet (TV3, 5.30, 5.1) Annabel Langbein Free Range Cook: Through the Seasons (TV One, 7.00) Movie: Jumanji (TV2, 7.00, 5.1, R) Series Premiere: For the Love of Cars (TV3, 7.30, […]

New Zealand’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly on the networks in 1080i Saturday ITM Fishing Show (TV One, 5.00) Rheem Outdoors With Geoff (TV3, 5.00) The Simpsons (TV3, 5.30, 5.1, R) Annabel Langbein Free Range Cook: Through the Seasons (TV One, 7.00) Movie: Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (TV2, 7.00, 5.1, R) Ice Road Truckers (TV3, 7.30, 5.1) […]

Overlooked in TVNZ’s trumpeting of its fast-tracking of new US superhero dramas this week was the belated debut of an older sci-fi series starring Kiwi Karl Urban. TV2 has scheduled Almost Human, which was axed after only one season, as the third leg of a Sunday night fantasy triple feature that opens with Gotham at 8.30 […]

NZ’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i on the networks:   Saturday Rheem Outdoors With Geoff (TV3, 5.00) The ITM Fishing Show (TV3, 5.30) Country Calendar (TV One, 7.00) Duck Dynasty (TV2, 7.00) Series Premiere: This Town (TV One, 7.30) Ice Road Truckers (TV3, 7.30, 5.1) Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries (TV One, 8.30) Blue Bloods (TV3, 9.25, 5.1) Outrageous Fortune (TV3, […]

There was good and bad HD drama news for TV One on Wednesday: Scandal enjoyed a tentative uptick but Nothing Trivial hit a new low. The Kiwi drama averaged only 4.1% of the network’s target audience, adults 25-54 – which placed it fourth at 8.30 after TV2’s HD comedies, TV3’s 3rd Degree and Prime’s Under […]

TV2 has reversed its decision to pink-slip Devious Maids and will screen all of the episodes in the first season at 9.30 Wednesdays. Last week the network gave the Desperate Wives spin-off the chop three weeks before the end of season one. The “last” episode was to have been Wednesday’s but today it was announced […]

TV critic Jane Clifton in today’s Dominion Post declared “few light drama series are more entertaining than Nothing Trivial, back last night on TV One … “Like all the great ensemble cast series – Friends, Cold Feet – this is a gang the viewer subconsciously longs to join.” Not any more, it seems. The third-season premiere […]

Wednesday’s episode of The Block NZ was the highest rating yet among household shoppers. It averaged 18.7% of HHS and 10.7% – 11.5% of the other key demos. They were down slightly on Monday’s premiere but still ahead of TV2’s HD sitcoms, Two and a Half Men (9.4% – 12.9%) and The Neighbors (7.6% – […]

TV2 showed it had the bear necessities to beat TV3’s two-hour season finale of House Rules on Sunday. After a week long, top-rating build-up, the Aussie do-it-yourself hit couldn’t nail an HD re-run of Yogi Bear. The latter averaged an astonishing 10.4% – 16.0% of the key demographics whereas House Rules had to settle for […]

Devious Maids has rated well enough in the US to be renewed for a second season on the cable channel Lifetime. But it’s free-to-air fate in NZ is less certain, as the Desperate Housewives spin-off continues to shed viewers at 9.30 Wednesday on TV2. Last week”s episode was the lowest-rated yet, averaging just 3.0% – […]