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If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it — and if you are broke, make the best of what you have. That seems to be the strategy behind Three’s line-up for 2020, which leavens a slate heavy on returning reality and procedural hits with a handful of ambitious new local series, including two new dramas, the final […]

A belated TV dramatisation of the Bain family murders led this week’s NZ On Air announcements about the funding agency’s latest commissions. Black Hands will be a five-part Warner Bros NZ adaptation of the Stuff podcast that chronicles the months leading up to the slaying of five Bain family members 25 years ago in Dunedin. […]

➢➢ Three will double down on a strategy that’s served it well — Kiwi comedy — when it teams newcomers Mean Mums and Golden Boy on an 8.35 Tuesday double-bill from July 16. Both tested well during last year’s Comedy Pilot Week. South Pacific Pictures’ Mean Mums follows the misadventures of an unlikely gang of misfit […]

NZ On Air this morning announced it would fund as series two of the Kiwi comedy pilots that recently aired on Three: Mean Mums and Golden Boy. It’s also bankrolling a new vehicle for Guy Williams, two TVNZ OnDemand initiatives, including a psychological horror, and a sixth season of Prime’s The Brokenwood Mysteries. Here’s the […]

MediaWorks reports the first of Three’s Kiwi comedy pilots, Mean Mums, won its 8.30 Sunday slot with 6.4% of the network’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds. It earned a 28.9% share of this demographic on the back of The Block NZ’s 9.5 rating/28.9 share (these figures include both Three and Three +1). Mean Mums’ lead-out, the […]