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Two of Lightbox’s signature exclusives will return for new seasons early next year. Season five of time-travelling romance Outlander will stream from February 17 and season five of Better Call Saul from February 24. In the former, the Frasers are still fighting for their family and the home they have forged on Fraser’s Ridge. Jamie […]

➢➢ A signature comedy duo on Three is switching channels for their latest series. TVNZ 2 will debut Hamish & Andy’s Perfect Holiday on November 27, as its new 8.30 Wednesday comedy anchor. It will premiere 10 days after it went to air in Australia (it premieres there on Sunday). The three-part series follows their […]

  MediaWorks has been trumpeting the online popularity of Love Island UK but its linear TV ratings have been abysmal since its premiere a week ago. Monday’s and Tuesday’s episode averaged only 0.9% of Three’s 25-54 viewership, Friday’s 0.4%, Thursday’s 0.7% and Wednesday’s 0.5%. This improved on Family Feud’s 5.00 average but was sharply below the […]

Three is pulling its new Thursday night comedy The Conners from primetime after only two weeks on air. The Roseanne spin-off will be replaced by a second episode of its lead-in, Modern Family, from February 21. In the US, the show overcame the loss of its star, Roseanne Barr, to become a ratings winner, second […]

Thursday’s Roseanne recorded season-low ratings. The hit reboot that Three fast-tracked from the US averaged 2.8% of the network’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, compared to 3.5% the previous week. Lead-out Modern Family also slipped week-on-week, from 3.6% to 2.9%, while the movie, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, averaged 3.4% versus 3.7% for Robin Hood on […]

Three says it is “incredibly happy” with how Roseanne (7.30 Thursdays) is rating in this market. “We were incredibly happy with the performance of Roseanne‘s premiere episode, as it won its timeslot in 25-54, with a 4.7 rating and a 15.6 share,” a MediaWorks publicist says. “In turn, it lifted the performance of Modern Family at 8pm, which rated […]

Roseanne’s season 10 premiere didn’t rock the ratings here but proved competitive for Three and lifted lead-out Modern Family’s viewership. The show’s return last week averaged 3.3% of the network’s core 25-54 audience, compared to 3.6% for the opening half-hour of TVNZ 2’s movie, Transformers, and 4.0% for TVNZ 1’s Karena & Kasey’s Kitchen Diplomacy. […]

Three will be banking on next week’s return of modernised family sitcom Roseanne to salvage its Thursday comedy hour. The reboot of the ’90s hit will take over Modern Family’s 7.30 slot and the latter will shift to 8.00, displacing 9JKL. Last night 9JKL ended its run mid-season after rarely rising above 2% of Three’s target audience, […]

Three’s repeat of the Dwyane Johnson  movie, Hercules, strong-armed the competition on Thursday. It won in all the core commercial demographics, with channel shares of 15.8% – 23.9%. It averaged 3.8% of Three’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, compared to 1.9% for Our Dream Hotel and 1.4% for Coronation Street on TVNZ 1. TVNZ 2’s First Dates […]

A re-run of a six-year-old Jason Bourne movie mostly out-rated the competition in the key demographics on Thursday. Three’s Bourne Legacy averaged 4.5% of 25-54 year-olds and 3.8% of 18-49 year-olds. It drew 2-3 times the 25-54 viewership of TVNZ 1’s The History of Comedy (2.0%) and Coronation Street (1.6%) while leading TVNZ 2’s First […]