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TVNZ 2’s season finale of My Kitchen Rules NZ won its slot in all the core commercial demographics on Sunday when a father and daughter were crowned top chefs. It averaged 5.7% of 2’s target demo, 18-49 year-olds, versus 2.7% for Three’s House Rules and 3.6% for the premiere of TVNZ 1’s Queen of the […]

Three’s mid-season finale of emergency services drama 9-1-1 won its slot in all the core commercial demographics on Monday night. It averaged 4.1% of the network’s 25-54 audience compared to 3.0% for TVNZ 1’s Take Two and TVNZ 2’s Australian Survivor. 9-1-1 averaged 3.2% of 18-49s (vs 2.6% for T2 and 2.8% for AS) and […]

Three’s The Project bounced back on Tuesday to beat TVNZ 1’s Seven Sharp in all the key demographics. It averaged 4.3% of 25-54s (vs 3.7%), 3.7% of 18-49s (vs 3.3%), 2.7% of 18-39s (vs 2.4%), and 5.6% of household shoppers with kids (vs 3.4%). The stronger lead-in helped House Rules to rate higher on its […]

House Rules did anything but when the latest season premiered Monday on Three. It averaged only 3.7% of the network’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, and the first hour lost in every core commercial demographic to TVNZ 1’s unassailable Fair Go and Border Security, and TVNZ 2’s 7.30 runner-up, Project Runway NZ. However, the renovation show did […]

➢➢ Duke will refresh Wednesdays from November 28 with a new doco double-bill: Warship (8.30) and The Vertical Mile (9.30). The latter is a two-part account of Deadly 60’s Steve Blackshall’s attempt to climb the North Face of the Eiger, or “The Ogre”. It should be worth a look in HD because he used special shoulder-mounted […]

On Wednesday Three’s Newshub Live was only 1.1 rating points behind 1 News at 6pm in the 25-54 demographic and one-tenth of a point behind in the 18-49 demo. It rated a 25-54 average of 6.8% versus 1 News’ 7.9%, and an 18-49 average of 5.5% vs 5.6%. In the 18-39 demo, Newshub Live won, […]

TVNZ 1’s newest drama series Innocent rated higher than National Treasure when it premiered on Tuesday. The thriller averaged 3.5% of viewers 25-54 for the first hour and 2.1% for the second, to finish behind the reality shows on TVNZ 2 and Three. This was despite being delivered a strong lead-in by The Celebrity Chase, […]

TVNZ 2’s Monday premiere of I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here! (Australia) won its slot in the key commercial demographics. It averaged 3.2% of the 18-49 and 18-39 demos, and 5.6% of household shoppers with kids. But in the 25-54 demo (3.4%), it was out-rated by a second episode of Three’s House Rules […]

It’s not surprising TVNZ 1’s elected to repeat the premiere of its Sunday night drama Liar on Saturday at 8.55. This was always the plan, partly because programmers would have factored in the impact of Sky Sports’ international 20/20 cricket coverage, which proved to be formidable competition for the free-to-air channels from 8.00-9.00. Combined with […]

   In The Battle of the Bargain Bin Blockbusters, TVNZ 2’s The Wedding Crashers topped Three’s The Green Mile on Wednesday. The prison drama was competitive in the 25-54 demographic, where it averaged 2.5% over its three-and-a-half-hour broadcast and out-rated 2’s movie in the first hour. But otherwise Wedding Crashers dominated with 2.6% of 25-54, […]