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Sunday TVNZ 1’s Sunday Theatre dramatisation Ablaze proved to be a damp squib, averaging only 1.5% of the network’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds. This was despite rave reviews. Stuff judged it to be “the best film of this year’s Sunday Theatre crop” and The Spinoff, “a memorable drama, one that will share an important piece […]

Unexpected live Rugby World Cup coverage on Duke, because of streaming problems on Spark, provided a Sunday night ratings windfall for the TVNZ channel. The first of three games scored above-average ratings while the others largely won their time slots in the core commercial demographics. The second game averaged 6.8% of 25-54 year-olds and the third, 4.2%; […]

TVNZ 1 has commissioned a multi-platform history of Kiwi humour. Funny As: The Story of New Zealand Comedy will comprise a five-part, hour-long series on the network, extended interviews on TVNZ OnDemand, and archival footage on NZ On Screen. The Augusto series has received up to nearly $1.5 million in NZ On Air  funding, along […]

The Zone is promoting its HD season of The Prisoner from late afternoon to early evening. It will also screen a week earlier: 7.30 Sundays from March 4, possibly in recognition of the significance of this year being the cult show’s 50th anniversary. In another change since this post, The Zone has dropped Xena: Warrior Princess […]