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TVNZ 1’s Eat Well for Less has become one of the biggest hits of the new season. Thursday’s season finale averaged 7.5% of the 25-54 demographic, 5.7% of 18-49, 4.3% of 18-39 and 6.4% of household shoppers with kids. It won the 7.30 hour in all the key commercial demos against TVNZ 2’s Family Food […]

TVNZ 1’s newest drama series Innocent rated higher than National Treasure when it premiered on Tuesday. The thriller averaged 3.5% of viewers 25-54 for the first hour and 2.1% for the second, to finish behind the reality shows on TVNZ 2 and Three. This was despite being delivered a strong lead-in by The Celebrity Chase, […]

TVNZ 2’s Monday premiere of I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! (Australia) won its slot in the key commercial demographics. It averaged 3.2% of the 18-49 and 18-39 demos, and 5.6% of household shoppers with kids. But in the 25-54 demo (3.4%), it was out-rated by a second episode of Three’s House Rules […]

TVNZ 1’s Thursday line-up took a tumble after dominating last week’s 25-54 ratings. A History of Comedy plummeted more than four ratings points, with its 25-54 average collapsing from 5.1% to this week’s 1.8%. Similarly, lead-in Eat Well for Less shed two points, from 6.2% to 4.2%, opposite TVNZ 2’s surging Family Food Fight, which averaged […]

   In The Battle of the Bargain Bin Blockbusters, TVNZ 2’s The Wedding Crashers topped Three’s The Green Mile on Wednesday. The prison drama was competitive in the 25-54 demographic, where it averaged 2.5% over its three-and-a-half-hour broadcast and out-rated 2’s movie in the first hour. But otherwise Wedding Crashers dominated with 2.6% of 25-54, […]

Reality continues to rule for Three on Tuesday with House Rules, Lost & Found and Road Cops helping the network to win the night in three of the four core commercial demographics and barely losing the fourth. This was despite the burgeoning appeal of TVNZ 2’s Family Food Fight and Instant Hotel starting to bite […]

Three earned stellar ratings for yet another broadcast of sci-fi blockbuster Avatar on Wednesday, when it blasted ahead of the competition from 7.00-10.30. Over three-and-a-half-hours it averaged 5.5% of the crucial 25-54 demographic, winning every quarter-hour segment except the first. It was the same in the other core commercial demos except 18-49, where the first […]

   Saturday The X Factor UK (TV1, 7.00, F) Movie: Sister Act (TV2, 7.00, R) Movie: Agent Cody Banks: Destination London (TV3, 7.00, R) MasterChef Junior USA (Prime, 7.30) Agatha Raisin (Prime, 8.30) The Toy Box (TV1, 8.40) Movie: Jewel of the Nile (TV3, 8.50, R) Movie: Shanghai Noon (TV2, 8.55, R) Father Brown (Prime, 9.30) Coronation Street (TV1, 9.35) Movie: One Chance (TV1, […]

➢ Prime will uncork a new season of Louis Theroux documentaries on January 11 at 9.35 with Drinking to Oblivion. The Guardian hailed it as “brilliant television … honest, brutal, numbing, sad.” And the Daily Mail reports a young alcoholic shown drinking himself to death on the programme has been sober for a year. Other episodes […]