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Prime’s new Tuesday night period drama The Gilded Age is rating better than previous dramas the channel’s aired in the slot. This week’s episode average 0.4% of Prime’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, which is an improvement on the 0.0%-0.2% the likes of And Just Like That …, Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol, Your Honor and Succession typically […]

Neon will stream a behind-the-scenes series about HBO’s House of the Dragon that will follow each weekly episode of the Game of Thrones prequel. The House That Dragons Built will feature everything from set construction and digital effects to cast interviews and producer insights. It will stream from 2.00 Mondays for the first five weeks, then […]

Three’s Sunday movie Skyscraper rated through the roof, clobbering The Brokenwood Mysteries and TVNZ 2’s movie The Mountain Between Us. The previous week’s season-eight premiere of Brokenwood easily won its two-hour slot in the core commercial demographics, when it averaged 3.1% of 25-54 year-olds and 2.9% of 18-49s. But episode two could muster only 1.9%/1.5% respectively […]

Three’s last-minute scheduling of Grease in the wake of Olivia Newton-John’s death proved to be a Friday night crowdpleaser. It averaged 3.1% of the channel’s 25-54 viewership and while the opening half-hour lost to TVNZ 1’s The Repair Shop, which also averaged 3.1% for the hour, it dominated thereafter. Grease’s first hour lost to TRS […]

An Apple TV+ series starring Sons of Anarchy’s Charlie Hunnam astride another motorbike will stream from October 14, when the first three of 12 episodes will premiere. Based on the novel by Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram is billed as “a hopeful cinematic love story coupled with a thrilling epic adventure that follows one man’s journey […]

A documentary about the historic 1983 America’s Cup upset will stream next month on Netflix as part of the second season of Untold. Race of the Century is billed as “a classic underdog story” about the scrappy group of Australians who dethroned the New York Yacht Club and broke the longest winning streak in history: 132 […]

Prime will screen radio journalist Tova O’Brien’s interview with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday at 7.30. It also will stream on Neon from Tuesday. Reads the blurb for Tova Meets Zelensky: Today FM journalist and radio host Tova O’Brien sits down with President Volodymyr Zelensky in an exclusive interview to hear first-hand his response to […]

Sky’s Neon service will stream the acclaimed documentary series about Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, The Last Movie Stars, from Sunday. The six-part series was directed by Ethan Hawke and executive produced by Martin Scorsese. It scored a 100% Rotten Tomatoes rating, based on 38 reviews. Reads the critics’ consensus: The Last Movie Stars delivers the […]

Saturday Boss Baby (TVNZ 2, 7.00)  Zeus and Roxanne (Whakaata Māori, 7.00) Friends With Kids (Three, 8.30) Young Ones (Eden, 8.30) American Animals (Whakaata Māori, 8.40) Baby Mama (TVNZ 2, 8.55) Body Snatchers (Duke, 9.30) Ladies in Black (Three, 10.30) Saw 4 (TVNZ 2, 10.50) Natural Born Killers (Duke, 11.10)   Sunday Reign of Superman (TVNZ 2, 2.10am) Stuart Little (TVNZ 2, 4.25) […]

➢➢ George Clarke’s Flipping Fast (TVNZ 1, 8.30 Wednesdays from August 24) gives six teams of novice property developers £100,000 each to see who can make the biggest profit over 12 months. The Guardian dubbed it “an addictive journey into stupidity” while The Telegraph observed “this curious offering from Channel 4, amid a cost of living […]