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The first HD season of Mitre 10 Dream Home started strongly on Tuesday, averaging 10.1% – 16.5% of the major demographics. It wasn’t enough to beat TV One’s Dynamo: Magician Impossible (7.9% – 17.7%) but drew up to twice as many viewers as TV3’s double-episode finale of Modern Family. However, Dream Home’s dream start scarcely […]

3rd Degree’s scoop about new evidence in the David Bain case earned the HD current affairs hour its highest ratings yet. It averaged 7.6% – 9.0% of the key demographics to rate ahead of TV One’s 24 Hours in A&E but behind TV2’s HD comedies The Big Bang Theory (12.0% – 16.3%) and 2 Broke […]

NZ’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i on the networks:   Saturday Trade Zone Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.00) ITM Fishing Show (TV3, 5.30) Country Calendar (TV One, 7.00) Coasters (TV One, 7.30) Dishing Up Australia With Al Brown (TV One, 8.00) Call the Midwife (TV One, 8.30, R) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) Network Movie Premiere: The Lincoln […]

While the US networks unleash their summer schedules, NZ’s are poised to give theirs a mid-year spring clean. A slew of season finales will unspool in the week starting June 22, including HD staples NCIS, NCIS: LA, Bones and Criminal Minds (above). It’s possible that even Castle may be on the move after a dismal […]

TV3’s Outrageous Fortune replacement, the HD conspiracy thriller, The Event, last night won its slot with the audience the network is targeting in 2011: 25-54 year-olds. It averaged 10.7% of this demo over the course of its hour-long premiere, opening with 10.6% and closing with an unusually consistent 10.5%, peaking at 10.9% in-between. But in […]