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Hot Off the Press Release: NZ TV Craft Award Winners

LOCAL TELEVISION’S BEST ARTISANS & TECHNICIANS NAMED AT THE 2019 NEW ZEALAND TELEVISION CRAFT AWARDS (Auckland – November 6, 2019) The best editors, cinematographers, composers, post production technicians and designers were among those honoured tonight at the 2019 New Zealand Television Craft Awards, hosted by Screen Auckland. Thirteen categories were presented by Newshub Entertainment Editor […]

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Hot Off the Press Release: In Dark Places Leads TV Nominations

In Dark Places has scored more nominations than any other production in this year’s NZ TV awards. Here’s the press release: HUAWEI MATE30 PRO NEW ZEALAND TELEVISION AWARDS 2019 FINALISTS ANNOUNCED (Auckland – October 24, 2019) Finalists in the Huawei Mate30 Pro New Zealand Television Awards 2019 have been announced with 115 nominations from a […]

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HD Ratings: Fresh Eggs Passes Use-By Date

TVNZ 2’s heroic effort to salvage viewership of Fresh Eggs failed on Sunday, when the double-episode finale finished fourth at 8.30 in key demographics. The Kiwi black comedy had its primetime midweek run interrupted when the Christchurch mosque shootings forced TVNZ 2 to pull it from the schedule because of sensitivity over its violence. Last […]

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Networks Continue Primetime Purge

  The networks and Sky TV are continuing to programme on eggshells in the wake of Friday’s horrendous mosque shootings. Sensitivity to tragedy is to be commended but the overreaction to content with any vestige of violence or terrorism themes means virtually only the news is safe to focus on such concerns. I thought the […]

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HD Ratings: Eggs Beaten at First Sight

TVNZ 2’s new local drama Fresh Eggs couldn’t crack Three’s Tuesday night supremacy with Married at First Sight and NCIS. The series premiere averaged 4.4% of 25-54 year-olds and 3.6% of 18-49 year-olds, to finish ahead of TVNZ’s World’s Worst Flights but behind the overlapping MAFS and NCIS. MAFS averaged 7.9% of 25-54s and 6.1% […]

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HD Heads-Up: February 16 – 22

➢➢ TVNZ 2 will lock in one of its strongest new-season schedules in years with the premiere of quirky Kiwi drama Fresh Eggs on February 19. If the skilfully cut promos are an indication, this could be a breakthrough for the moribund genre. Billed as “a black comedy series with a deliciously twisted sense of […]

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