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Prime continues to frustrate Top Gear fans by screening a mix of re-runs and compilation specials ahead of the latest season going to air. There’s still no word on when it will start but on May 6 Prime will premiere Top Gear: The Races, in which Matt LeBlanc steers us through the most memorable racing moments from the first […]

It’s not even been love at second, third or fourth sight for TV3 viewers. So decisively have they rejected Married at First Sight USA that the network is pulling the reality strip from primetime and relegating it to Saturday afternoons, starting this weekend when it will replace re-runs of Community and Bob’s Burgers. The rescheduling will have […]

Housewives, Bachelorettes feud … Adele’s a hit … Saturday spring clean … TV3 will use Family Feud to try to boost viewership of Real Housewives of Auckland. On September 6 it will air All Stars: Bachelorettes vs. Real Housewives, in which the stars from Housewives and The Bachelor NZ compete to win big for charity (as ABC did in […]

Donald Trump is not only winning the race to be the Republican Party nominee for President but also the ratings on NZ TV. Tuesday’s Channel 4 documentary The Mad World of Donald Trump won the 9.30 hour in all the core commercial demographics for TV One, with rating averages of 2.8% – 5.7%. It screened […]

Two local shows premiered to top ratings last night on TV2 and TV3. Filthy Rich, which continues tonight at 8.30, easily won its slot by averaging 6.5% – 10.1% of the core commercial demographics and delivering 23.7-28.6 channel shares. And at 5.30, TV3’s Family Feud out-rated even TV2’s Home and Away in the 18-39 demo, albeit only […]

❏ Wow! What a week for HD on free-to-air TV. Prime at last has got with the programme (even if its HD access is limited to Sky’s platform because of the cost of extending it to Freeview|HD), TV2 is unleashing its biggest week of the new season and TV3 will try to kick-start primetime with the […]

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: The Spy Next Door (TV2, 7.00, R) Movie: Raiders of the Lost Ark (TV3, 7.00, R) Posh Pawn (TV1, 8.15) Movie: Road Trip (TV2, 8.50, R) Network Movie Premiere: The Counselor (TV3, 9.20) Crimson Field (TV1, 10.15, […]

Most of Prime’s peak-hour content will be in native HD when the channel upgrades to 1080i transmission on February 13. The catch is you’ll need to have one of Sky’s new decoders, or a MySky HDi or MySky+ to watch it in HD as it will still be SD on Freeview. HD highlights in the […]

TV3’s new-season schedule is still under wraps but the network has confirmed that re-runs of The Simpsons will continue. It’s about to repeat season 25 again in HD in the 5.30 Saturday slot while SD re-runs will remain a mainstay on TV4, where the ‘toon is stripped 7.00 weeknights (s25 ends this week and s23 […]