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The season finale of Married at First Sight Australia was more popular than Shortland Street in all the core commercial demographics. It was the most watched show of the night, drawing 10.5% of 25-54s (38.3% share), 8.5% of 18-49s (37.2% share), 6.8% of 18-39s (36.7% share) and 14.1% of household shoppers with kids (41.4% share). […]

Continuing low ratings for TVNZ 1’s new Monday night drama The Brave could see it shunted off to off-peak. Monday’s episode averaged only 2.0% of the network’s core commercial demographic, 25-54 year-olds, compared to 4.8% for TVNZ 2’s Young Sheldon and 4.5% for Three’s 9-1-1. The problem for The Brave is it starts at 8.30, […]

The launch of Gordon Ramsay on Cocaine and the return of 20/20 helped TVNZ 1 to largely win Tuesday night amid fierce competition from TVNZ 2 and Three. It posted a 24.3% share of the key 25-54 demographic compared to 2’s 21.5% and Three’s 21.7%. Ramsay’s 3.4 rating didn’t win the hour but it improved on […]

TVNZ 1’s premiere of The Brave on Monday was out-rated by TVNZ 2’s comedies and Three’s 9-1-1. It averaged 2.3% of its target demographic, 25-54, compared to Young Sheldon’s time-slot winning 6.5%, Will & Grace’s 4.0% and 9-1-1’s 4.1%. The pattern was the same across the other core commercial demos, partly because 9-1-1 benefitted from […]

   Three will premiere Married at First Sight NZ on October 1 at 7.00 and air it two nights a week — Sundays and Mondays — for seven weeks. On Mondays it will face off against TVNZ 2’s format rival, My Kitchen Rules NZ, which will debut on September 25 with a new look that […]

MediaWorks won’t be commissioning another series of X Factor NZ or even screening the UK version. Following comments by readers of this site, I asked the broadcaster if another series of the talent quest format was on the radar. And if not a local version, would it be picking up new episodes of the UK […]

TVNZ 2’s replacement of 24: Legacy and Lethal Weapon with action movie re-runs has quadrupled its core Tuesday night viewership. Last night’s White House Down averaged 5.1% of the channel’s key demographic, 18-49 year olds, 6.0% of 25-54 year olds and 4.4% of 18-39 year olds. The first hour lost to Three’s Married at First Sight — 6.8% of […]

This Is Us may not be in its new 9.30 Wednesday home for long if its ratings don’t improve after last week’s mid-season premiere. Off the back of new episodes of  TVNZ 2’s high-rating sitcoms The Big Bang Theory and Mom, it averaged only 1.7% of the network’s target audience, 18-49 year-olds, and 2.0% of 25-54 […]