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Three’s Graham Norton Show made a ratings comeback on Friday after losing the previous week to a Harry Potter movie. It didn’t win the 8.30 hour in its 24-54 demographic but did see-saw with TVNZ 2’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I to virtually split the audience with a 4.8 average. That was […]

The week starting May 29 will see an unusual number of free-to-air HD movie premieres: In Darkness (TV One, 11.40 Saturday), Noah (TV3, 8.30 Sunday), Need for Speed (TV2, 8.45 Sunday), Deliver Us From Evil (TV2, 11.10 Sunday), Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (TV3, 8.30 Monday) and Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (Prime, 9.30 Friday). Other coming attractions in HD that […]

TV2 will screen the network movie premiere of Gravity on May 8 midway through TV3’s re-run of Avatar. The latter will start at 7.00 and the former at 8.45. TV2 also has two other premieres that weekend — The Legend of Hercules (9.30 Saturday) and The Family (11.25 Saturday) — while TV3 will premiere The Fault […]

TV3 is dropping Shark Tank after two weeks back on air and replacing it and stablemate Caught on Camera with movies, starting with SD re-runs of Ghost Town on Monday and Along Came Polly the following week. It will screen one network movie premiere in the week starting December 26 — Last Vegas (8.55 Saturday) — […]

TV2’s network movie premiere of Jack Reacher on Sunday easily won its slot in all the commercial demographics but TV3’s new-look line-up is out-rating TV1’s. The Tom Cruise hit averaged 6.3% – 8.6% off the back off another network premiere, Planes (3.2% – 7.3%). The Disney ‘toon rated above 3.6% only among household shoppers with kids […]

TV3 will use The Block NZ: Villa Wars to launch a NZ version of housemate Grand Designs, new drama Satisfaction and the return of The Blacklist. The premieres are part of a scheduling overhaul that will see The Block NZ stripped Sunday-Wednesday, the rebirth of 3D on 9.30 Mondays after Heroes Reborn, and new episodes of The Graham […]

Holy HD superheroes! TV2 will launch its latest HD fantasy drama, Arrow, the same week it repeats in HD two Batman movies and a futuristic gaming thriller. Batman Forever will air midday Sunday and The Dark Knight as The Sunday Premiere Movie, ahead of Gamer at 11.40. Arrow will go to air 9.15 Monday before […]

Nothing Trivial ended its second season on Sunday by winning the 8.30 hour with it target audience, 25-54 year-olds. It averaged 11.3% of this audience, retaining most of the 13.0% that tuned into the semi-final of NZ’s Got Talent. Trivial averaged a sprightly 7.4% – 10.9% of other key demos and Talent, 9.8% – 14.0%; […]

Arnold Schwarzenegger proved to be the networks’ biggest action hero over the weekend. His guest stint, alongside Miranda Hart (pictured) and Ronnie Corbett, on the season 12 premiere of The Graham Norton Show pumped up the chat show’s ratings to their highest levels in months and he also had a cameo in Sunday’s top-rating network […]

Nurse Jackie at last is returning to TV3’s night shift. The network that aired the original season within six weeks of its US broadcast has sat on the fourth for six months. Indeed, originally it had another HD comedy/drama slotted for post-Homeland on Mondays, House of Lies, which TV Guide dubbed “a pitiless, biting satire […]