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TV2’s Reno Rumble is building in popularity while TV3’s new sci-fi drama Humans has collapsed. Tuesday’s episode of the latter tumbled from the premiere’s highs, averaging only 2.2% – 4.3% of the commercial demographics. It finished behind TV1’s The Mentalist (2.9% – 5.4%) in three of the four key demos and, along with lead-out Caught on Camera, […]

TV Preview: How to Murder Your Wife | TV1, 8.30 Sunday When you’re putting together a telemovie about the sad case of a hen-pecked bloke who finally snaps and kills his wife before chopping her into six bits and burying her in the backyard, playing it for laughs is quite an unusual approach. But that’s what […]

The award-winning How to Murder Your Wife will next month launch the latest season of NZ Sunday Theatre dramas. It’s one of four NZ On Air-funded productions that will premiere 8.30 Sundays on TV1 from August 16. How to Murder Your Wife is a dramatised black comedy about a 65-year-old who conspires to kill his pushy partner […]

Within a few days of confirmation of the latest NZ drama series to get the axe, The Almighty Johnsons, NZ On Air has announced three HD drama commissions, although not all will air here in HD. It is bankrolling six telemovies to the tune of nearly $10 million. Two of the productions are stand-alone true-life […]