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Top 20, 5pm-midnight, 25-54 Top 20, 5pm-midnight, 18-49 Top 20, 5pm-midnight, 5+

Top 20, 5pm-midnight, 25-54 Top 20, 5pm-midnight, 18-49 Top 20, 5pm-midnight, 5+

Top 20, 5pm-midnight, 25-54 Top 20, 5pm-midnight, 18-49 Top 20, 5pm-midnight, 5+

TV One’s Sunday night premiere of the Roots re-make won its slot with the network’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds. The first of four parts averaged a 7.9 rating and a 27% channel share. It helped TV One to win the night in the 25-54 and 18-49 demos, with TVNZ reporting a “massive” 27% jump in viewership […]

Roots (TV One, 8.30 Sunday) “The original Roots was marred by choices now seen as pandering to white audiences, like a slave-ship captain with a tortured conscience. The remake is resolute in producing credible historical fiction and presenting it through a slave’s perspective. It is also disinterested in assuaging white discomfort … A propulsive, plot-driven narrative and performances remarkable for their emotional depth and physicality keep […]

NZ’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly free-to-air in 1080i Saturday Series Premiere: Atlantic: The Wildest Ocean on Earth (TV3, 4.55) The ITM Fishing Show (TV1, 5.00) Ados Addicted to Fishing (Prime, 5.00)  Wonderful World of Disney: The Hunchback of Notre Dame (TV2, 5.10, R) Hyundai Country Calendar (TV1, 7.00) Movie: 17 Again (TV2, 7.00, R)  Movie: Ghostbusters(TV3, 7.00, 5.1, R) Britain’s Got Talent (TV1, 7.30)  Coronation […]

TV2 looks set to overhaul Sunday nights by cutting short The Simpsons’ run. The July 3 broadcast is billed as the season finale, even though two episodes from the 27th season have yet to air. Fland Canyon is episode 19, leaving To Courier With Love and Orange is the New Mellow outstanding (episode 21, Simprovised, was […]

TVNZ Ondemand will not be fast-tracking Roots here ahead of its TV One premiere in July. The miniseries re-make goes to air today in the US and Asia, where it will air on four consecutive nights on the History Channel, and will screen in most territories in June. But NZ and Australian networks appear to […]

Forty years ago Kiws were among the last in the world to see the legendary miniseries Roots and may be at the back of the bus for this year’s re-make, too. TVNZ is one of more than 50 broadcasters that has licensed the new version of Alex Haley’s best-seller, which will be simulcast across History, A&E and Lifetime […]