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Killing Eve has been renewed within hours of its season two premiere on TVNZ 2 but its Monday debut was out-gunned by Three’s The Rookie. It averaged only 1.0% of TVNZ 2’s target audience, 18-49 year-olds, and 2.0% of Three’s core demographic, 25-54 year-olds. The Rookie averaged 3.6% and 4.2% of these demos respectively. Of course, […]

Three’s free-to-air premiere of Baywatch left the competition high and dry on Sunday. It won its slot in all the core commercial demographics, and averaged 4.4% of the network’s target viewership, 25-54 year-olds, versus 1.8% for TVNZ 2’s premiere of Snatched, 2.7% for TVNZ 1’s season finale of Victoria and 1.1% for its stablemate, Mrs Wilson. Baywatch […]

TVNZ 2’s carefully calculated strategy to launch Whiskey Cavalier with three episodes in one week was undone by the Christchurch mosque shootings — and cost the spy romp when it did premiere on Wednesday. The single-episode debut averaged only 2.2% of TVNZ 2’s target audience, 18-49 year-olds, and 3.0% of 25-54 year-olds. It out-rated TVNZ […]

Leaving Neverland’s blockbuster ratings didn’t stop Three from winning its fifth consecutive week in the 25-54 stakes, making it the #1 network in this core commercial demographic for the year to date. It averaged a 24.5% share for the week (including Three +1), its highest weekly peak-hour share since September 2017. Married at First Sight […]

  Three is swapping time slots for two of its persistently low-rating primetime dramas. As of next week, Designated Survivor and Tin Star will air after Newshub Late. Designated Survivor will switch from 9.55 Mondays to 10.25, and Tin Star from 10.00 Tuesdays to 10.30. Their peak-hour programming was always peculiar, given Designated Survivor is […]

Changing Rooms Australia could soon be changing slots if its overnight ratings don’t improve. Last Sunday’s premiere tanked, averaging only 1.3% of TVNZ 2’s target audience, 18-49 year-olds. It also flopped with 25-54s (1.5%), 18-39s (1.3%) and household shoppers with kids (3.0%). Its chief rival, Three’s Married at First Sight Australia, averaged 4.7% of 18-49s, […]

TVNZ 2’s new local drama Fresh Eggs couldn’t crack Three’s Tuesday night supremacy with Married at First Sight and NCIS. The series premiere averaged 4.4% of 25-54 year-olds and 3.6% of 18-49 year-olds, to finish ahead of TVNZ’s World’s Worst Flights but behind the overlapping MAFS and NCIS. MAFS averaged 7.9% of 25-54s and 6.1% […]

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’ […]

The wisdom of Three’s new Sunday night movie strategy — playing female-skewed titles after Married at First Sight NZ — will need revising after TVNZ 2 pummelled Me Before You with Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. The Tom Cruise sequel won its slot in all the core commercial demographics on Sunday. It averaged 5.4% of […]