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Next month TVNZ OnDemand will stream the latest seasons of Manifest, The Bachelor, Criminal Minds and Station 19. Seasons two of Manifest and 24 of The Bachelor will stream weekly from January 7, S3 of Station 19 from January 23, and the 15th and final season of Criminal Minds from January 9. TV Guide says […]

Three’s The Rookie earned its highest ratings so far on Monday when it crushed TVNZ 1’s Manifest and TVNZ 2’s Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back. It benefitted from Married at First Sight’s heroic lead-in but its popularity also exposed the weakness of TVNZ’s competition. The Rookie won the 9.00 hour in the […]

TVNZ 1’s Manifest (8.30 Mondays) got off to a bumpy start last week but fared better on TVNZ 2, suggesting the Lost-style drama should have been scheduled on the latter from the outset. The first hour of the double-episode averaged 2.7% of TVNZ 1’s core commercial demographic, 25-54 year-olds, on the back of The Casketeers’ […]

Manifest | TVNZ 1, 8.30 Monday/TVNZ 2, 9.30 Wednesday ☆☆☆☆ “The epitome of what Hollywood calls high-concept story-telling. A plane takes off from an airport in the Caribbean one afternoon and, despite a little rough weather, arrives seemingly intact in New York … five and a half years later. If that sounds weird but not particularly […]

➢➢ TVNZ is expanding its cross-channel promotion strategy, where TVNZ 1 advertises coming attractions on TVNZ 2 and vice versa, to dual broadcasts of the same shows. It will launch the gambit with Manifest, which TVNZ 1 will premiere on February 11 with a double episode followed by a same-week repeat on TVNZ 2 (9.45 […]

The Passage | TVNZ OnDemand, from Tuesday ☆☆☆☆ “The Passage is a high-concept sci-fi thriller based on popular novels by Justin Cronin. It has been boiled down to its most essential elements and easily digestible plot points, exactly the right way to mainstream the show for a broadcast audience without making it dull, dumb or disingenuous … what makes […]