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SoHo Highlight: Five Days 2 (Sky 10, 8.30) The police are struggling to find out more about how the victim died but Laurie is determined that the abandoned baby and the body on the tracks are connected. Even if you found last week’s premiere plodding, The Daily Telegraph reckons the complications and contrivances of this lengthy police […]

The popularity of Frozen Planet and Nature’s Great Events, which continues tonight at 8.30, has encouraged TV One to screen more natural history content in HD. The next BBC wildlife series to go out in 1080i will be Yellowstone. It originally aired off-peak in SD but in the wake of high ratings for Planet and […]

NCIS: Los Angeles posted season-high ratings on Tuesday when it won the 9.30 hour with TV3’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds. The conclusion to a two-part story averaged 8.4% of this age group compared to only 6.6% for part one. It also was up a couple of points in other key demographics, and among household shoppers […]

SoHo Highlight: Strike Back (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) Season finale: Scott and Stonebridge track a pair of suicide bombers who could bring Budapest – and the World Security Summit – to its knees. Said The AV Club of the series The Independent memorably dubbed “a terminally dim-witted bit of SAS combat porn“: “As much as the show could […]

Viewers are flocking to see TV One’s HD wildlife hour, Nature’s Great Events. Episode three, The Sardine Run, was the most watched yet and squeezed out Tuesday night crowdpleaser Go Girls in every key demographic except TV2’s target audience, 18-39 year-olds. It averaged 16.5% of household shoppers (compared to Girls’ 11.8%), 12.4% of 25-54 year-olds […]

SoHo Highlight: Superheroes (Sky 10, 7.30, 5.1) Variety dubbed this HBO documentary “a so-so study of obsessive do-gooders who patrol their city streets in costume. Average Joes with hand-stitched getups and names such as Dark Guardian and Mr Xtreme appear reasonably entertaining, though the pic lets them down by promising a level of real-life action they can’t […]

TV One’s re-run of Nature’s Great Events in HD is proving as popular as Frozen Planet, out-rating not only lead-in MasterChef NZ but also HD rival Go Girls in key demographics. Tuesday’s episode averaged 10.4% of TV One’s targeted 25-54 audience, to win the 8.30pm hour opposite Go Girls’ 10.2% and NCIS’ 8.5% on TV3. […]

Season Premiere: The Closer (TV One, 11.05) When Brenda’s squad investigates the quadruple murder of a family, she accidentally stumbles into the middle of an FBI investigation that may have been a factor in the homicide. While the fifth season first aired three years ago in the US (and was released here on DVD 18 months ago), its […]

TV2’s HD hit Go Girls is losing its lead as Tuesday’s 8.30pm front-runner. Last night’s episode saw it neck-and-neck in the 25-54 demographic for the first time with HD rivals on TV One and TV3. It barely won the slot with 10.8%, compared with 10.7% for Nature’s Great Events and 10.3% for NCIS. Indeed, TV […]

 Frozen Planet’s popularity seems to have broken the ice for seeing more natural history in HD, at least on TV One. Screenscribe.tv has just confirmed that tonight’s 8.30 repeat of Nature’s Great Events will screen in HD, even though it originally aired two years ago in SD. Narrated by David Attenborough, this six-part, BBC must-see intelligently and spectacularly […]