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TVNZ’s OnDemand streams are rocketing ahead, with average weekly streams up 78% year-on-year. Shortland Street, Friends, The  Big Bang Theory (which is now on Netflix NZ, including the first three seasons in HD — TVOD’s are SD), Home and Away and Coronation Street are the most “binge watched” shows — and also the most streamed. It […]

Shortland Street dominated TVNZ OnDemand streams in 2018, ranking first for the most streamed and highest reaching shows. Soaps accounted for three of the five most-streamed shows, Love Island was the fifth and, amazingly, a 25-year-old sitcom was the third most in-demand. Here’s the infographic TVNZ Sales released today illustrating the highlights:

  Friends and 2 Broke Girls are the latest Warner Bros shows to become available on-demand at tvnz.co.nz amid the pending premieres of three series made with Kiwi talent. Every episode of every season made of Friends and Girls went live on the streaming platform today, along with the first two seasons of Famous In Love and Trial […]

Friends From College (Netflix, from today) “The characters on this half-hour dramedy, which starts streaming Friday, are the kind of people who get seated at a huge table in the middle of a restaurant and then proceed to irritate everyone dining in the vicinity. They’re loud, overdramatic, immature, and often inconsiderate to anyone who isn’t […]

   TV3 will screen the network movie premiere of Fifty Shades of Grey on January 22 at 8.30. It will air opposite TVNZ 2’s HD repeat of The Hangover Part 3, which will follow the free-to-air premiere of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. TVNZ 1 also has a network movie premiere that weekend: […]

TV2 is dumping The Voice from primetime and is soon to trial Home and Away in Shortland Street’s 7pm slot. TV2 announced today that the Aussie serial would succeed Shortland Street from December 12, when the latter takes its summer break. Home and Away also will be off over the Christmas/New Year period but TV2 […]

Tonight, Matt LeBlanc’s Joey moves out on Friends (TV2, 6.00) ahead of Matt LeBlanc’s Matt LeBlanc moving back in, in the latest season of Episodes (SoHo, 9.00). Sky’s premium drama channel is teaming the comedy-within-a-comedy, Episodes, with the 8.30 premiere of Silicon Valley in a new Friday night comedy hour. Hitherto, SoHo’s flagship comedies aired 8.30-9.30 […]

American Horror Story at last gets to be seen here in HD – on Blu-ray. MediaWorks consigned the award-winning hit to SD channel Four instead of showcasing it in 1080i on TV3. “One of the increasingly few television shows to be shot on film — the Super 35 system, in particular — American Horror Story […]

The complete series collection of Friends is slated for release here on November 14 for a price still to be disclosed. The 21-disc set will include 17 hours of extras from the DVD releases, plus three hours of new bonus content (incuding a retrospective documentary with new interviews, never-before-released cast appearances, unaired footage, and a new gag reel). […]

Friends (TV2, 6.30, R)  Monica burns her first Thanksgiving dinner as the Underdog balloon gets away; Joey becomes a poster boy for an embarrassing illness; Ross sings to his unborn child. ✭✭✭ Modern Family (TV3, 7.00, 5.1, R) It’s Luke and Manny’s first school dance. ✭✭✭✭ Drug Bust (TV3, 7.30, R) Te Manurewa CIB plan to bust meth-dealers; […]