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TVNZ 1 has changed its prescription for launching series two of Doctor Foster. Originally, the network was going to repeat series one 9.35 Sundays from October 1 but now it’s opted to screen only the season finale in this slot. If you missed the series when it first aired, it can be viewed as a […]

The Replacement | TVNZ 1, 8.30 Sunday ➢ “You’re pregnant? Congratulations. So your work will have to get in cover. And the person doing the covering may well try to steal your life. Don’t you hate it when that happens? I’ve not done the pregnant part, but I have worried about being superfluous after even a […]

TVNZ 1 hopes to emulate the success of last summer’s Doctor Foster by screening another British thriller on five consecutive nights. The Level will air 8.30 Sunday-Thursday from January 15 and will be the springboard for TVNZ 1 to start rolling out its new season. It stars Under the Dome’s Karla Crome and Rob James-Collier (Coronation […]

After swamping viewers with a rash of American mediocrities, from long-in-the-tooth vets like Criminal Minds and Castle to toothless newcomers Blindspot, The Family, Code Black, Secrets & Lies and The Astronaut Wives’ Club, TV One at last is about to rediscover what used to distinguish it from the competition: premium British drama. In a bold […]

One of this year’s BAFTA TV nominees, The Enfield Haunting, will premiere next month on The Zone. The three-part thriller dramatises the spooky events that rocked a family home in suburban North London nearly 40 years ago. It centres on an 11-year-old girl who tries to convince her family and a paranormal investigator that she’s […]

TV2’s launch of Grandfathered was a grand hit on Monday, thanks to having the return of Shortland Street as its lead-in.  Shorty’s hour-long season premiere was up 8% on last year’s. It averaged 13.2% – 14.6% of the core commercial demographics and helped its new sitcom stablemate to average 8.8% – 9.7%. They and the movie […]

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 […]

TV1’s Doctor Foster was just what the network ordered, with last night’s premiere averaging 5.1% of its target audience, 25-54 year-olds, and 8.4% of viewers aged 5+. It won the hour in both demos, beating TV2’s Tangled and Scary Movie 5, which overlapped it, and TV3’s network movie premiere of GI Joe: Retaliation. But the movies dominated […]

It will be fascinating to see how the BBC thriller Doctor Foster rates for TV1 over the course of next week. Primetime stripping or multi-night runs of serials, and cooking and renovation shows is well established but running five episodes of a drama series on consecutive nights is unprecedented here and harks back to the miniseries craze of […]

DOCTOR FOSTER | TV1, 8.30 Sunday-Thursday Prior to this show, the only Dr Foster I’d heard of went to Gloucester in the pouring rain, stepped in a puddle of considerable depth and was subsequently never heard of again. This new Dr Foster is also somewhat accident-prone, if discovering a blond hair on your dark-haired husband’s […]