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Sky’s Neon will start streaming Love Island UK from January 14. The series bombed last year on Three, when the broadcaster tried to shoehorn the racy show into a 5pm slot as the lead-in to Newshub Live. But it performed well on ThreeNow and there will be six new episodes a week on Neon “Express” […]

  MediaWorks has been trumpeting the online popularity of Love Island UK but its linear TV ratings have been abysmal since its premiere a week ago. Monday’s and Tuesday’s episode averaged only 0.9% of Three’s 25-54 viewership, Friday’s 0.4%, Thursday’s 0.7% and Wednesday’s 0.5%. This improved on Family Feud’s 5.00 average but was sharply below the […]

Three is pulling I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here! after weeks of abysmal ratings and relocating it to 2.30 weekdays. Replacing it at 4.30 will be Entertainment Tonight, at 5.00 a repeat of Family Feud Australia and at 5.30 re-runs of Modern Family’s ninth season. The changes apply until Love Island UK’s […]

➢➢ The networks will celebrate Queen’s Birthday Weekend with a raft of specials and movie premieres. Two of the specials will be tributes to kings of a different sort: Muhammad Ali and Elvis Presley. What’s My Name: Muhammad Ali (Prime, 9.30 Monday) is an acclaimed, Antoine (The Magnificent Seven) Fuqua-directed HBO documentary about the boxer that […]