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New Project for TV3 … Tepid feat … Rules rollover … More movie mania … MediaWorks is promising a “reinvention” of weeknights at 7.00, today announcing panel show The Project will replace Story in early 2017. lt will combine current affairs and entertainment “in a unique way” with yet-to-be named hosts interacting with guest panelists (including Paul […]

Sky Movies Greats Premiere: Poseidon (Sky 22, 8.30, 5.1) The killer wave can’t come quick enough in this lame duck of a disaster movie that’s a technical tour-de-force but a damp squib dramatically. It completes director Wolfgang Petersen’s so-called “water trilogy” yet sails perilously close to being his Waterloo in the wake of Das Boot and The […]

The networks’ HD cup will runneth over on June 10, when TV3’s network HD premiere of Peter Jackson’s The Lovely Bones airs opposite TV2’s re-run of Twilight and TV One’s launch of another Audi NZ Sunday Theatre season. Jackson’s dramatisation of the Alice Sebold novel about a murdered 14-year-old who watches over her family stars Hanna’s […]

Part two of the HD Inside NZ season, 24 Hours: Police, rated exceptionally well in the face of much tougher competition than part one. Last night saw the resumption of TV2’s HD sitcom powerhouses, The Big Bang Theory and Cougar Town, after being pre-empted the previous week for Comedy Jam. Yet the doco’s ratings largely […]

Friends (TV2, 6.30, R) Chandler’s annoying former girlfriend reappears and causes him stress; Ross plays rugby to impress Emily, with painful results. Shortland Street (TV2, 7.00) Chris and Gabrielle operate in a new way; Brooke and the nurses go to war; Regan realises Brodie knows too much. Two and a Half Men (TV2, 7.30) While […]

Wednesday’s episode of Hawaii Five-O will be the last to screen in primetime. Thereafter, the rest of the first season will screen late-night Mondays, in the post-Nightline slot where TV3 has been airing same-week repeats. The network is dropping the crime show from 8.30pm Wednesdays after three months of persistently low ratings that a change […]

Having Survivor: Redemption Island as its new lead-in didn’t help to buoy Hawaii Five-0’s ratings last night. Survivor’s ratings largely mirrored 60 Minutes’ in the same slot a week earlier (60 Minutes airs 7.30pm Sundays as of this weekend). But Five-0 drew fewer viewers in all of the major demographics than the previous week: 4.7% […]

Friends (TV2, 6.30, R) Chandler unknowingly hits on Joey’s new girlfriend; Ross and Rachel play on each other’s jealousy; Phoebe discovers her voice is sexier when she has a cold. Shortland Street (TV2, 7.00) Hunter climbs back in the driving seat; Vasa gets under Murray’s skin; TK screws things up for someone he loves. Two […]

After having finally decided to bite the bullet and take Hawaii Five-0 off-air, the Steve McGarrett reboot last night rebounded in the ratings. They were still low – 7.5% of household shoppers with kids, 5.5% of 18-49 year-olds, 6.5% of 25-54 year-olds – but up sharply on last week’s shocking nadir opposite TV2’s sitcom juggernaut […]

Friends (TV2, 6.30, R) At her beach house, Phoebe meets a family friend with links to her past; Ross discovers that Rachel still loves him, so must choose between her and Bonnie. Shortland Street (TV2, 7.00) Roimata won’t let Daniel take her life; Callum counts the cost of his ambition; Brodie’s caught in a trap […]