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Ghosts of Christmas past will abound this festive season on TV3. The Scrooge-like schedule includes Christmas Eve re-runs of Grease Live! (7.00), Lip Sync Battle Holiday Special (9.50), Aotearoha: Rising Stars (10.50), NCIS: LA (11.50) and Les Miserables (12.35am) ahead of movie obscurities Paper Angels (3am) and Guess Who’s Coming to Christmas (4.30am). Christmas Day fare isn’t any fresher, with […]

❏ Netflix Original Series The Get Down: Season 1A (August 12) Told through the lives and music of a ragtag crew of South Bronx teens, The Get Down is a mythic saga of the transformation of 1970s New York City. Scream: Season 2 (August 8) In this new TV series sequel to the classic horror franchise, […]

Viewers were hopelessly devoted to TV3’s Grease: Live special on Friday. The three-hour musical that aired to top ratings only days earlier in the US averaged a 7.1 rating/24.7 share of TV3’s target audience, 25-54 year olds. It averaged 6.3% – 8.5% of the other core commercial demographics and won its slot across the board with shares of […]

TV3 is pre-empting Lip Sync Battle, The Graham Norton Show and Live at the Apollo on Friday to screen the TV musical Grease: Live! within days of the US, where it drew a “massive” 18.6 million viewers. Said The Hollywood Reporter of the three-hour special: “This production wasn’t about hitting notes or taking breath, but rather about making […]