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  To watch the latest fast-tracked seasons of Young Sheldon, Grey’s Anatomy and The Resident, you’ll need to log in to TVNZ OnDemand. The Resident will stream from September 25 and the other series from September 27. There isn’t an air date for the medical dramas but Young Sheldon’s third season will screen next month […]

TVNZ 2’s persistence with Will & Grace as an anchor show continues to puzzle, with the sitcom’s return on Tuesday retaining less than a third of My Kitchen Rules’ lead-in viewership. It averaged only 1.5% of the network’s target audience, 18-49 years-olds, 0.8% of 18-39s, 2.5% of 25-54s and 3.2% of household shopper with kids. The […]

The return of My Kitchen Rules Australia is spicing up TVNZ 2’s ratings, with Tuesday’s episode topping all the core commercial demographics. It helped the network to dominate from 7.00-11.00, with its line-up of Shortland Street, MKR, Grey’s Anatomy and Tourettes — Teenage Tics winning the biggest shares of all the key demos for the night. […]

The season two premiere of Grey’s Anatomy lost to TVNZ 1’s Rich House, Poor House and Three’s NCIS in three of the four core commercial demographics on Tuesday. It averaged 2.2% of 25-54 year-olds, 1.9% of 18-49s and 3.6% of household shoppers with kids but won with 18-39s (1.4%). The demo averages were roughly comparable with […]

➢➢ TVNZ 1 is clearing its schedule in the week starting April 6 to stage the unprecedented stunt of stripping a Kiwi psychological thriller across five nights. Victoria and Bad Mothers will end their runs while specials like Our Everest Challenge (8.40 Tuesday) and Billy Connolly’s Ultimate World Tour (8.30 Thursday) will bridge the week until the […]

The programming fall-out from the Christchurch mosque shootings continues, with Three dropping American Dad from late-night Fridays. New episodes of the long-running ‘toon about the Family Guy of CIA agents will be replaced by re-runs of Bob’s Burgers, effective from tonight. Said a network spokesperson: “Out of respect to the mood of the nation, we […]

TVNZ’s decision to leap-frog 18 months of Coronation Street and relaunch it with a weeknight strip has paid off in the ratings. Last week’s 9.30 Monday-Friday episodes often won their time slots in key demographics and out-rated the shows they replaced earlier in the week. As of tonight, Coro St reverts to a Wednesday-Friday schedule […]

TVNZ 2 programmers will be hoping this weekend’s off-peak repeats of The Resident will have improved its sampling for Tuesday’s episode. The network launched the hospital drama with back-to-back episodes on Monday and Tuesday after the top-rating My Kitchen Rules in a bid to bed it in quickly for its permanent post-MKR Tuesday slot. But […]

➢ Lest we forget, indeed. The only network paying more than lip service to Anzac Day on April 25 will be Maori TV, which will devote most of its schedule to the commemoration, starting with The Auckland Dawn Service at 5.20am and continuing with the premieres of Kiwi Women of WWII (9am), In Foreign Fields […]

➢ TVNZ is increasingly using its on-demand service to platform top-notch documentaries that once would have aired in primetime. Now available for streaming, alongside Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War, are a clutch of docos that probe America’s political pulse, including: President Trump, which reveals the key moments that shaped Donald Trump and why he sought the […]