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TV3 was quick to hammer home the success of The Block NZ’s season three premiere on Tuesday, issuing a press release this morning that pointed out it drew a much bigger 25-54 audience than TV One’s My Kitchen Rules NZ. The 25-54 demographic is the one both networks target. The Block NZ averaged 201,900 of […]

Nigel Latta’s take on child abuse and domestic violence beat lead-in The Mentalist on Tuesday. It averaged 4.9% – 10.2% compared to the crime drama’s 2.7% – 6.3% and was competitive with TV2’s HD entertainment. While the first half lost to the last leg of The Amazing Race: Australia v New Zealand (7.4% – 10.6%), […]

TV One programmers would have been popping the champagne corks for Nigel Latta’s special on the dangers of drinking alcohol on Tuesday. It averaged 4.3% – 9.7% of the key demographics, won the 9.30 hour among adults 25-54 and household shoppers with kids, and was competitive with TV2’s The Amazing Race: Australia v NZ in […]

The first trans-Tasman Amazing Race contest, Australia v NZ, easily won its slot on Tuesday, when the premiere averaged 6.4% – 9.5% of the major demographics. It shed more than half the viewership of lead-in My Kitchen Rules (14.7% – 19.2%) but streaked ahead of the competition and helped to lift TV2’s peak-hour ratings and […]

Viewers no longer appear to be just that into House. Episode two of what will be the maverick medic’s final season rated much lower than the first on Sunday, which crippled HD lead-out The Big C’s prospects of recovering from its dismal debut. Opposite the second half of TV2’s SD movie, He’s Just Not That […]

Friends (TV2, 6.30, R) As Monica’s biological clock ticks away like a time bomb, Carol goes into labour, and Rachel flirts with a gynaecologist she meets at the hospital. Two and a Half Men (TV2, 7.30) When Lindsey asks Alan to move in with her, Charlie will do anything to get Alan to say yes. […]