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TV2 is pulling The Flash from primetime and replacing next week’s scheduled episode with The Day I Almost Died. It follows Wednesday’s crossover episode with Arrow averaging only 2.4% – 4.7% of the core commercial demographics and largely finishing third at 9.30. Fans can continue to see The Flash express from the US at TVNZ OnDemand, where the next […]

TV2 will compensate for the pre-emption of Arrow and The Flash in the last week of November by screening the network movie premiere of Thor: The Dark World. Neither superhero series will air in the week starting November 21 because each will be off-air that week in the US. TV2 is replacing them with The Day I […]

TV3 didn’t dent TV2’s Thursday night dominance with its replacement programming for low-rating crime dramas Backstrom and Motive. It’s puzzling, given the size of MediaWorks’ film library, why the channel would pick a title as dated and lacklustre as The Jackal to open its action movie season. Abruptly dumping Backstrom and Motive after just two weeks […]

House Rules is starting to rate through the roof among household shoppers with kids but is struggling to nail the 18-39, 18-49 and 25-54 demographics. Thursday’s episode averaged 11.3% of HHS/k, compared to 5.6% – 6.6% for the other key demos. The HHS/k rating was still far behind the 16.9% for Police Ten-7 and 14.2% […]