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Fighting Season | TVNZ OnDemand, from Monday ☆☆☆☆ “Well meaning but imperfect new local drama that explores the experience of Australian soldiers both in combat and at home. It’s a good idea – an important one, even – but unfortunately the characters tend to simply act as vessels for various issues rather than fully rounded human […]

TV2 will screen Shortland Street in 5.1 Dolby Digital for the first time next month. The hour-long seasonal finale on December 11 will give viewers a taste of what they can expect when the serial broadcasts permanently in surround sound from January 2014. The South Pacific Pictures perennial has led the way with other small-screen […]

Shooting starts next month of a new HD comedy/drama that TV2 will screen next year on Tuesday nights. Step Dave is the latest South Pacific Pictures commission for the channel that needs a Go Girls successor after the fifth season of that series tumbled in the ratings this year. The 13-hour comedy/drama from Go Girls […]

The day after TV2 rightly trumpeted the ratings for Monday’s movie-length episode of  Shortland Street’s, its other Kiwi drama staple , Go Girls, suffered a series low for its double-episode finale. Given the revamped twentysomething drama averaged only 5.0% – 6.4% of the key demographics against weak to middling competition, and on the back of […]

Three HD dramas that have been waiting in the wings are poised to at last make their debuts this month while screening within weeks of the US will be a Desperate Housewives-lite. The Tom Selleck police drama, Blue Bloods, will succeed CSI: NY 9.30 Saturday on TV3 from July 13, where it will overlap TV […]

The first HD season of Mitre 10 Dream Home started strongly on Tuesday, averaging 10.1% – 16.5% of the major demographics. It wasn’t enough to beat TV One’s Dynamo: Magician Impossible (7.9% – 17.7%) but drew up to twice as many viewers as TV3’s double-episode finale of Modern Family. However, Dream Home’s dream start scarcely […]

NZ’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i on the networks: Saturday Trade Zone Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.00) ITM Fishing Show (TV3, 5.30) Country Calendar (TV One, 7.00) Coasters (TV One, 7.30) Ice Road Truckers (TV3, 7.30, 5.1) Dishing Up Australia With Al Brown (TV One, 8.00) Call the Midwife (TV One, 8.30, R, F) CSI: New York (TV3, 9.30, 5.1, F) […]

3rd Degree’s scoop about new evidence in the David Bain case earned the HD current affairs hour its highest ratings yet. It averaged 7.6% – 9.0% of the key demographics to rate ahead of TV One’s 24 Hours in A&E but behind TV2’s HD comedies The Big Bang Theory (12.0% – 16.3%) and 2 Broke […]

NZ’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i on the networks:   Saturday Trade Zone Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.00) ITM Fishing Show (TV3, 5.30) Country Calendar (TV One, 7.00) Coasters (TV One, 7.30) Season Premiere: Ice Road Truckers (TV3, 7.30, 5.1) Dishing Up Australia With Al Brown (TV One, 8.00) Call the Midwife (TV One, 8.30, R) CSI: Crime Scene […]

TV3’s HD sitcoms Modern Family and Go On gave up their gains of the last two weeks when TV One spellbound viewers with Tuesday’s premiere of Dynamo — Magician Impossible. What sounds like a laundry detergent special cleaned up, averaging an extraordinarily high 10.1% – 16.2% of the major demographics. Modern Family rated 5.3% – […]