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Shortland Street dominated TVNZ OnDemand streams in 2018, ranking first for the most streamed and highest reaching shows. Soaps accounted for three of the five most-streamed shows, Love Island was the fifth and, amazingly, a 25-year-old sitcom was the third most in-demand. Here’s the infographic TVNZ Sales released today illustrating the highlights:

Deep Water | TVNZ OnDemand, from Wednesday ➢➢ “Deep Water, a four-part detective drama that is essentially Home and Away meets The Killing. Set in present day Bondi Beach, the events that unfold are inspired by the spate of real-life hate murders that are a stain on Sydney. During the 1970s and 1980s scores of […]

Home and Away fans left high and dry … Homer gets his own hour … 7 Days turns seven … Brokenwood “fixed” for re-runs … Westside goes west … Home and Away and The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon are going “on hiatus” during the Olympic Games. Because the domestic networks on which these shows air in Australia and […]

Top 20, 5pm-midnight, 25-54 Top 20, 5pm-midnight, 18-49 Top 20, 5pm-midnight, 5+

Top 20, 5pm-midnight, 25-54 Top 20, 5pm-midnight, 18-49 Top 20, 5pm-midnight, 5+

NZ’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly on the networks in 1080i Saturday Trade Zone Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.00) The Simpsons (TV3, 5.30, 5.1, R) MasterChef Australia (TV1, 7.00) Movie: Mr Magorium’s Wonder Emporium (TV2, 7.00, R) Movie: Home Alone (TV3, 7.00, 5.1, R) Doc Martin (TV1, 8.15) Network Movie Premiere: The Wolf of Wall Street (TV2, 9.00) Movie: Up in the Air (TV3, 9.05, 5.1, R) […]

T’is the season for season finales. More than a dozen HD series end their runs in the week starting December 12, with Shortland Street and Home and Away making the most spectacular exits. The former will conclude with a 90-minute cliffhanger on December 14 while the latter will count down with three extra-long eps: an hour on December 15 […]

While MediaWorks awaits NZ On Air’s funding decision on the future of its proposed serial, Trinity Point, fans of TV2’s soaps face a slippery scheduling slope. In the week starting December 5, TV2 will screen double-episodes of Home and Away, but only on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, from 5.30-6.30, while Neighbours and Shortland Street will […]

On the eve of the Blu-ray release of the 50th anniversary of The Sound of Music, TV1 will screen a “live” performance of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical in HD on Good Friday. The Sound of Music Live! will air commercial-free from 7.00-9.15, pre-empting Seven Sharp and Location Location. It screened four months ago on NBC and […]

TV2’s network movie premiere of Aladdin in HD will spearhead the channel’s new-season assault on its rivals. It will screen the Walt Disney classic 7pm on February 8, to help launch a week-long slew of new and returning series. As amazing as it seems, given Aladdin came out 23 years ago, this will be the […]