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The show that Three hopes will lift its Newshub Live ratings, Love Island UK, will premiere within hours of scoring record ratings in the UK. The series will air 5.00 weekdays following Wednesday’s 90-minute season premiere at 4.30. MediaWorks has promoted the show as being “fast-tracked” to its streaming platform, ThreeNow, but it won’t go […]

TVNZ OnDemand has clocked up more than 100 million streams in the past year, with soap operas being the shows most in-demand. Shortland Street had nearly two-and-a-half times as many streams as its closest rival, Home and Away, while Coronation Street was the year’s third most-streamed programme. Also in the top 10 were different series […]

TVNZ 2 is girding its Friday night loins with a comedic gladiatorial game show to replace Naked Attraction from December 1. Bromans was meant to be ITV’s next Love Island, but with its “21st century lads” and their girlfriends carrying on in Ancient Rome. It originally was going to be called Ladiators — until the […]

Three owned the night on Tuesday with a line-up that included The Block NZ and Who Owns New Zealand Now. The Bryan Bruce documentary that the NZ Herald argued never should have been made won the 8.30 hour with a 25-54 average of 5.3% off the back of The Block’s 10.2%. Viewership was constant over the […]

Love Island has yet to bask in the ratings glory of its on-demand popularity. TVNZ 2 has been stripping season three of the ITV hit post-9.30 over the last two weeks but there’s no sign of momentum starting to build. Monday’s episode averaged only 1.7% of TVNZ 2’s target audience, 18-49 year-olds, which was higher […]

The same week MasterChef Australia winds up another marathon run, TVNZ 2 will strip the return of Love Island in primetime. The first series of the steamy reality smash aired as daytime fodder in 2015 but season three will screen 9.30 Monday-Thursday and 9.10 Fridays from August 14 in a bid to arrest an audience […]