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TVNZ 2 this morning took the lid off a My Kitchen Rules spin-off in which Kiwi restaurateurs will compete. My Restaurant Rules will screen 7.30 Mondays and Tuesdays from September 30. According to the press release: This brand-new format will see five local restaurants battling it out for $100,000 and the bragging rights to say their […]

   The Nicolas Cage relic, National Treasure, mined more viewers than Three’s FBI comedy The Heat on Sunday. But Three still won the night’s biggest shares of the core commercial demographics, thanks to a resurgent Newshub Live and the smoking hot The Block NZ: Firehouse. Newshub Live topped 1 News in the 18-49 demo, seesawed with it among […]

Three’s The Block NZ: Firehouse largely lost to TVNZ 2’s My Kitchen Rules on Monday night but out-rated it on Sunday. Only one-tenth of a rating point separated them in the 25-54 and 18-49 demographics on Monday, with TBNZ edging out MKR in the former but losing in the other core commercial demographics. But on Sunday it […]

In only its second broadcast, The Block NZ: Firehouse out-rated My Kitchen Rules. Tuesday’s episode averaged 7.2% of 25-54 year-olds (versus MKR’s 5.8%) and 6.5% of 18-49s (vs 4.7%). It also led MKR by about two ratings points in the 18-39 and household shopper demographics, and left Outback Truckers in its dust. TBNZ set up […]

Three’s season premiere of The Block NZ: Firehouse opened strongly on Monday and helped the return of Westside to win the 8.30 hour. TBNZ was out-rated by TVNZ 2’s My Kitchen Rules but still posted impressive numbers, including 6.9% of 25-54 year-olds (versus 7.8% for MKR) and 6.5% of 18-49s (vs 6.7%). It was also […]

Dancing With the Stars NZ won its grand final slot on Sunday in all the core commercial demographics despite fierce competition from the TVNZ channels. TVNZ 1 aired a headline-making Sunday profile of Wairarapa farmer James Cameron while TVNZ’s My Kitchen Rules has been consistently out-rating DWTS of late. But DWTS’ two-hour swansong was untouchable. […]

My Kitchen Rules has built up such a head of steam that it’s steamrolling the competition. Monday’s episode easily out-rated Three’s Dancing With the Stars and TVNZ 1’s Queen’s Birthday programming while Tuesday’s was even more popular. It averaged 10.1% of 25-54 year-olds vs 8.5% the previous night, and 8.2% of 18-49s vs 7.2%. Tuesday’s […]

My Kitchen Rules’ popularity is helping to turn Mom into TVNZ 2’s most highly-rated sitcom. Monday’s episode averaged 5.0% of the network’s target audience, 18-49 year-olds,  5.0% of 18-49s, 4.0% of 18-39s and 8.4% of household shoppers with kids. These were exceptional numbers for a 9pm half-hour, retaining most of the lead-in MKR delivered (8.3% of […]

The final of Les Miserables on Sunday brightened up TVNZ 1’s ratings. It averaged 4.5% of the network’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, to win the first hour of its 90-minute slot. It was equally strong with household shoppers with kids (4.4%) and competitive in the 18-49 (3.2%) and 18-39 (2.3%) demographics. Les Mis was helped […]

The season premiere of TVNZ 1’s What Next? on Tuesday lost to both TVNZ 2’s Will & Grace and Three’s NCIS. It averaged 3.0% of the network’s 25-54 demographic compared to W&G’s 4.3% and NICS’ 4.4%. Moreover, it drew less than half the 25-54 viewership of the previous week’s How the Other Kids Live. The […]