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My Mad Fat Diary | TVNZ Ondemand, from Tuesday ☆☆☆☆ “Set between 1996 and ]98, My Mad Fat Diary tells the story of Rae (Sharon Rooney) and her attempts to assimilate back into normal life after spending a summer in psychiatric care following a suicide attempt … What could have been just another cookie-cutter teen […]

TVNZ’s OnDemand streams are rocketing ahead, with average weekly streams up 78% year-on-year. Shortland Street, Friends, The  Big Bang Theory (which is now on Netflix NZ, including the first three seasons in HD — TVOD’s are SD), Home and Away and Coronation Street are the most “binge watched” shows — and also the most streamed. It […]

My Kitchen Rules’ popularity is helping to turn Mom into TVNZ 2’s most highly-rated sitcom. Monday’s episode averaged 5.0% of the network’s target audience, 18-49 year-olds,  5.0% of 18-49s, 4.0% of 18-39s and 8.4% of household shoppers with kids. These were exceptional numbers for a 9pm half-hour, retaining most of the lead-in MKR delivered (8.3% of […]

Killing Eve may have been the darling of the BAFTA TV Awards but continues to rate poorly on TVNZ 2. This week it won three BAFTAs for best drama series, actress (Jolie Comer) and supporting actress (Fiona Shaw). But the same day, in its 9.30 Monday slot, it averaged only 1.0% of 18-49 year-olds, TVNZ […]

Widely acclaimed BBC thriller The Victim will be available to stream as a complete series on TVNZ OnDemand from May 27. It stars Kelly Macdonald (Boardwalk Empire) as a grieving mother who accuses online the man she suspects killed her son. But is he a notorious child murderer or a victim of mistaken identity? “Grab a […]

Dancing With the Stars lost to My Kitchen Rules for the second night in a row on Monday. The extra-long edition of MKR won its slot in all the core commercial demographics, beating not only DWTS but also its popular stablemate, The Rookie. MKR averaged 8.3% of the 25-54 demo (vs DWTS’ 6.7% and The […]

The season 14 premiere of Criminal Minds failed to arrest TVNZ 1’s Monday night ratings decline. It averaged 2.7% of the network’s 25-54 audience vs 5.1% for TVNZ 2’s Mom and 4.2% for Three’s The Rookie. Once a top-rating staple, it’s not only age and familiarity that have dented its appeal but also the lack […]

Killing Eve has been renewed within hours of its season two premiere on TVNZ 2 but its Monday debut was out-gunned by Three’s The Rookie. It averaged only 1.0% of TVNZ 2’s target audience, 18-49 year-olds, and 2.0% of Three’s core demographic, 25-54 year-olds. The Rookie averaged 3.6% and 4.2% of these demos respectively. Of course, […]

Next month TVNZ OnDemand will fast-track from the US the new Noah (ER) Wyle drama, The Red Line, and belatedly premiere Danish thriller Those Who Kill. The Red Line (streams weekly from April 18) sounds like an ambitious American Crime-style drama, told from the varying perspectives of three vastly different families whose lives are traumatised […]

➢➢ TVNZ 1 is clearing its schedule in the week starting April 6 to stage the unprecedented stunt of stripping a Kiwi psychological thriller across five nights. Victoria and Bad Mothers will end their runs while specials like Our Everest Challenge (8.40 Tuesday) and Billy Connolly’s Ultimate World Tour (8.30 Thursday) will bridge the week until the […]