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TV2 was the real deal on Tuesday with its blockbuster line-up of Shortland Street, The Middle, The Real O’Neals and Quantico. The network’s 7.30 comedy hour drew about three times as many 25-54 and 18-49 viewers as TV3’s Wedding Surprises: Caught on Camera and was also sharply more popular than TV One’s Kiwi Living except in […]

Tuesday’s premiere of Kiwi Living in its new mid-week slot rated better among 25-54 and 18-49 year-olds than its predecessor, Outback Truckers. It averaged 5.4% of 25-54s compared to 4.1% for the season finale of Truckers the previous week. That helped lead-out The Hard Stuff With Nigel Latta to rate half-a-rating point higher — even though […]

The final of the NZ Sunday Theatre season, The Monster of Mangatiti, lost to the network movie premiere of The Incredible Burt Wonderstone in three of the four core commercial demographics. TV1’s true-crime dramatisation, which critics other than our Doug dubbed “affecting, important television” and “perhaps the most extraordinary of a strong field of true story […]

NZ’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly on the networks in 1080i Saturday The ITM Fishing Show (TV1, 5.00) Season Premiere: Rheem Great Outdoors With Geoff (TV3, 5.00) Hyundai Country Calendar (TV1, 7.00) Movie: The Shaggy Dog (TV2, 7.00, R) Storage Hunters (TV3, 7.00, 5.1) Our World: Inside the Animal Mind (TV1, 7.30, F) Highway Thru Hell (TV3, 7.30, 5.1) Motive (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) […]

Westside spearheads a slew of season and series finales in the first full week of July. It will end its six-week, high-rating run on July 4, three days ahead of the series’ release on DVD. The same night TV2 will take on Westside lead-in Dancing With the Stars with a second weekly episode of The Voice […]