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TVNZ 2’s season finale of My Kitchen Rules NZ won its slot in all the core commercial demographics on Sunday when a father and daughter were crowned top chefs. It averaged 5.7% of 2’s target demo, 18-49 year-olds, versus 2.7% for Three’s House Rules and 3.6% for the premiere of TVNZ 1’s Queen of the […]

Replacing Australian Survivor with the movie John Wick on Sunday helped to re-ignite TVNZ 2’s weekend ratings. The network originally scheduled the Keanu Reeves hit-man hit for post-10pm before bringing it forward to 8.30 in the Survivor slot, where the Australian series had been struggling against Three’s action movies. In 2’s target demographic, John Wick […]

TVNZ 2 programmers must be pondering Australian Survivor’s primetime future after another week of low ratings. This weekend it will face its toughest Sunday night competition yet: Three’s premiere of The Magnificent Seven in the wake of Australian Ninja Warrior’s first Sunday broadcast. Ninja has had an outstanding first week on air, dominating its Monday and […]

Three’s Married at First Sight NZ continued its blockbuster run on Sunday and Monday, although it was challenged in some key demographics by TVNZ 2’s My Kitchen Rules NZ and Project Runway NZ. MAFS was tops with its core 25-54 demo on both nights but initially lost on Sunday to TVNZ 1’s Meghan and Harry: The […]

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 […]

TVNZ 2 will screen the inaugural series of The Great Kiwi Bake Off 7.30 Tuesdays from October 16. It cements a formidable line-up against Three’s Married at First Sight NZ, which will screen Sunday-Tuesday from this weekend. From mid-October, TVNZ 2 will combat it with My Kitchen Rules NZ on Sundays, Project Runway NZ on […]

Three’s struggling Tin Star has rebounded in the ratings since TVNZ 1’s pulled Criminal Minds for Doctor Foster. Monday’s episode of the British crime drama averaged 4.1% of Three’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, to win the 8.30 hour against Doctor Foster (2.5%) and all but one quarter-hour segment of TVNZ 2’s comedy combo, Will & […]

Three’s All Star Family Feud special proved more tempting than TVNZ 2’s season premiere of My Kitchen Rules NZ on Monday. Jono & Ben vs 7 Days: The Rematch overcame a formidable handicap — beginning midway through the final “winter season” episode of Shortland Street — to beat the opening half-hour of the reformatted MKRNZ […]

New Zealand’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly free-to-air in 1080i    Saturday  River Monsters With Jeremy Wade (TV1, 5.00) Ados Addicted to Fishing (Prime, 5.00, R) 1 News at 6pm (TV1, 6.00) Newshub Live at 6pm (TV3, 6.00) Flog It! (Prime, 6.00) 1 News Vote 17 Election Night Special (TV1, 7.00) Newshub Election Special: Decision ’17 (TV3, 7.00) The Coroner (Prime, […]

TVNZ 2 will premiere the Will & Grace revival on October 2. It will air 8.30 Mondays after My Kitchen Rules NZ, which starts on September 25. As a curtain-raiser to season nine of Will & Grace, the first in 12 years, TVNZ 2 will re-run the first episode of the original series after the […]