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Jono and Ben’s final broadcast didn’t win its slot on Thursday but Three’s live telecast of the Vodafone NZ Music Awards was top of the pops. The ceremony won its two-hour slot in all of the core commercial demographics, proving vulnerable to only TVNZ 2’s Seven Year Switch (UK) in its opening half-hour because of spillover […]

➢➢ The pick of the HD network movie premieres for the week starting November 10 is Maori TV’s Raid on Rommel, which is less a comment on the quality of the 1971 release than the paucity of free-to-air premieres. It follows the channel’s peak-hour showcasing of HD true classics, like High Noon and Breakfast at Tiffany’s, on the […]

Three’s network movie premiere of Rocky sequel Creed was laid low by the competition on Thursday. It averaged an abysmal 1.2% of Three’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, and only 1.0% of 18-49s. The latest in the Rocky Balboa saga wasn’t helped by Jono and Ben’s bantam-weight lead-ins: 2.9% of 25-54 and 1.9% of 18-49. But even […]

The pick of Three’s underwhelming primetime Christmas highlights are a fast-tracked Graham Norton special, with guests Will Smith, Jenna Coleman, Jamie Oliver and musician Tom Chaplin, and a seasonal extravaganza from Jono and Ben. In order of transmission: Movie: Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas (7.00 Saturday) Movie: Die Hard (8.30 Sunday) Modern Family […]

New Zealand’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly free-to-air in 1080i    Saturday  River Monsters With Jeremy Wade  (TV1, 4.55) The Block NZ (TV3, 5.00, R) Ados Addicted to Fishing (Prime, 5.00) Movie: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (TV2, 5.25, R) 1 News at 6pm (TV1, 6.00) Newshub Live at 6pm (TV3, 6.00) Flog It! (Prime, 6.00) MasterChef Australia (TV1, 7.00) Movie: Wild Hogs (TV2, 7.00, […]

Jono and Ben’s 7.30 Thursday debut on Three last week didn’t excite critics but network executives would have been heartened by the ratings. The Spinoff headlined its review: “Jono and Ben was a hot mess in a hot tub – and not in a good way.” And Stuff’s Jane Bowron said: “The show carried too many pre-recorded sequences and old segments […]

New Zealand’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly free-to-air in 1080i Saturday  The Wonder of Animals (TV3, 4.55)  Ultimate Fishing With Matt Watson (TV1, 5.00) The Simpsons (TV2, 6.00, R) Newshub Live at 6pm (TV3, 6.00)  The Middle (TV2, 6.30, 5.1, R) The Wonderful World of Gordon Watson (Prime, 6.30, R) Series Premiere: Outback Pilots (TV1, 7.00) Movie: Daddy Day Care (TV2, 7.00, R) Movie: Walking With […]

MediaWorks’ roll-out of a new imagery that turns TV3 into Three coincides with the launch of The Project as Story’s replacement in what hitherto has been a current affairs slot, a new-look Jono and Ben on a new night (7.30 Thursdays) and a rejig of Three’s top-rating Friday night line-up. The Project will air for half-an-hour 7.00 Monday-Thursday from February […]

Prime will pre-empt Monday’s 7.30 premiere of Fishing Impossible for the 60 Minutes special, Barack Obama – Eight Years In The White House. His interview with Steve Kroft was his last TV interview as President of the United States. In the US, CBS aired it five days before Donald Trump’s inauguration. Arguably, Prime should have run it last […]

NZ’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly free-to-air in 1080i Saturday Hikoi: The Land March (TV1, 5.00, R) Rheem Outdoors With Geoff (TV3, 5.00) The Simpsons (TV3, 5.30, 5.1, R) MasterChef Australia (TV1, 7.00) Movie: Herbie: Fully Loaded (TV2, 7.00, R) Network Movie Premiere: Turbo (TV3, 7.00, 5.1) Series Premiere: Posh Pawn (TV1 8.10) Network Movie Premiere: Zoolander (TV2, 8.50, R) The Great […]