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Potty programming half-baked  …  Extra Dirty Laundry  … Go Girl …  “Anyone still pining after the soggy bottoms and cringeworthy puns of The Great British Bake Off, make a note in your diaries, for … the launch of its ‘messier cousin‘, The Great Pottery Throw Down,” said The Independent of TV One’s new Saturday night attraction, which premieres 7.30 on September […]

TV3 will screen the new Rebecca Gibney hit Wanted within weeks of its Australian premiere. The darkly funny, action-crammed drama will air 8.30 Mondays from March 21, by when Wanted will have just completed its six-week run on the Seven Network. Gibney, who also co-created and co-executive produced the series, plays one of two strangers who […]

Welcome to a new spin on one of this site’s most popular features. As of today, HD Heads-Up becomes a daily digest of what’s happening in HD here and internationally. It will be updated during the day with programming alerts, occasional commentary and headlines with source links.  TV3 is pre-empting Saturday’s 7.00 HD movie Legally […]

TV2’s network movie premiere of The Expendables 2 slaughtered TV3’s re-run of Nim’s Island on Thursday. The wheezing geezers-with-guns sequel averaged 5.2% – 6.0% of the major demographics to win its slot against weak competition. The previous week’s repeat of the original Expendables rated lower because it faced a fiercer foe — Lara Croft Tomb […]

Thursday’s beefcake-vs-cheesecake battle saw The Expendables and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider neck-and-neck in the ratings. Expendables averaged 3.9% – 5.2% for TV2 and Lara Tomb 3.9% – 6.4% for TV3. The former won outright with adults 25-54 while the latter was tops among household shoppers with kids. But the first of TV1’s SD Miranda specials beat both in the […]

New Zealand’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly on the networks in 1080i Saturday Rheem Outdoors With Geoff (TV3, 5.00) Movie: Mr Magoo (TV2, 5.15, R) The Simpsons (TV3, 5.30, 5.1, R) Movie: Dumb and Dumber (TV2, 7.00, 5.1, R) Movie: Johnny English Reborn (TV3, 7.00, 5.1, R) Network Movie Premiere: Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (TV3, 9.00, 5.1) Movie: The Mask (TV2, […]

The second live X Factor NZ broadcast out-rated the first, averaging 13.2% – 16.3% of the major demographics. It won its two-hour slot outright in these demos and was well ahead of principal HD rival, MasterChef NZ, in each. The latter averaged 8.2% – 11.2% and its HD lead-out, Packed to the Rafters, 5.3% – […]

TV2 viewers weren’t carried away by Saturday’s HD premiere of Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway. It rated as poorly as the series it replaced, Two and a Half Men (re-runs) and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. The variety hour averaged only 3.3% of TV2’s target audience, adults 18-39, and was most popular with household shoppers: […]

Series Premiere: Planet Dinosaur (TV One, 7.00) “This six-part series, narrated by John Hurt, is the most expensive and ambitious monsterfest since Walking with Dinosaurs, and it showcases these newly discovered beasts in all their snarling, thumping, flesh-tearing CGI glory,” said The Times. “Before the latest bone fragments were found, the biggest beast on the block was Tyrannosaurus rex, […]

TV2’s search for a stronger 9pm Wednesday comedy than Happy Endings will have to continue. Last night it tested the waters with an episode of Mike & Molly, which averaged 8.7%-12.6% — on a par with Happy Endings — and easily won its slot opposite the second halves of Castle and The Almighty Johnsons. But […]