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TVNZ 2’s new local drama Fresh Eggs couldn’t crack Three’s Tuesday night supremacy with Married at First Sight and NCIS. The series premiere averaged 4.4% of 25-54 year-olds and 3.6% of 18-49 year-olds, to finish ahead of TVNZ’s World’s Worst Flights but behind the overlapping MAFS and NCIS. MAFS averaged 7.9% of 25-54s and 6.1% […]

➢➢ TVNZ 2 will lock in one of its strongest new-season schedules in years with the premiere of quirky Kiwi drama Fresh Eggs on February 19. If the skilfully cut promos are an indication, this could be a breakthrough for the moribund genre. Billed as “a black comedy series with a deliciously twisted sense of […]

TVNZ 1’s Fair Go and Highway Cops won Monday’s 7.30 hour in three of the four core commercial demographics. The former averaged 7.8% of 1’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, and the latter, 6.6%. Both series also were tops among 18-49s and household shoppers with kids while the 18-39 demo opted for TVNZ 2’s Heartbreak Island […]

TVNZ 2’s Heartbreak Island is winning the hearts of 18-39 year-olds and household shoppers with kids. Last night’s episode averaged 8.9% of HHS/k, to narrowly beat Three’s Dancing With the Stars (8.8%), and 5.5% of 18-39s (vs DWTS’ 5.0%). But it finished third in the 25-54 demo (4.5%), after DWTS (7.9%) and TVNZ 1’s Fair […]

➢ The Big Three HD networks are refreshing their primetime line-ups in the week starting June 9. TVNZ 1 will screen Coronation Street 9.30 Monday-Friday to launch its audacious catch-up gambit. It will be preceded by a two-hour compilation of 18 months’ worth of storylines (8.30 Sunday) and narrow the gap between NZ and UK […]

TVNZ today revealed some of its new-season line-up for 2016/17 and a quadrupling of its on-demand service. Here’s the press release it’s just issued: Big On Local, Big On Audiences, Bigger OnDemand: Sizing Up TVNZ’s New Content Plans Be watching for big local event television, a doubling down on TVNZ’s commitment to new audiences and […]