Tag Archives: Roseanne

Critical Condition: The Conners

The Conners | Three, 8.00 Thursday ☆☆☆☆ “It will likely be difficult for most people to judge ABC’s new family sitcom — starring the former cast of Roseanne, minus Roseanne Barr — on its own merits, given the ugly and unfortunate pile of baggage that comes with it. But based on the first two episodes, […]

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HD Ratings: Roseanne Not So Rosy

Thursday’s Roseanne recorded season-low ratings. The hit reboot that Three fast-tracked from the US averaged 2.8% of the network’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, compared to 3.5% the previous week. Lead-out Modern Family also slipped week-on-week, from 3.6% to 2.9%, while the movie, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, averaged 3.4% versus 3.7% for Robin Hood on […]

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Roseanne’s Kiwi Glow Still Rosy

Three says it is “incredibly happy” with how Roseanne (7.30 Thursdays) is rating in this market. “We were incredibly happy with the performance of Roseanne‘s premiere episode, as it won its timeslot in 25-54, with a 4.7 rating and a 15.6 share,” a MediaWorks publicist says. “In turn, it lifted the performance of Modern Family at 8pm, which rated […]

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HD Ratings: Roseanne Makes Robust Debut

Roseanne’s season 10 premiere didn’t rock the ratings here but proved competitive for Three and lifted lead-out Modern Family’s viewership. The show’s return last week averaged 3.3% of the network’s core 25-54 audience, compared to 3.6% for the opening half-hour of TVNZ 2’s movie, Transformers, and 4.0% for TVNZ 1’s Karena & Kasey’s Kitchen Diplomacy. […]

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HD Heads-Up: March 29

➢ Three will be elated about the Roseanne revival’s huge US ratings. The reboot premieres 7.30 tonight in a bid to improve the network’s troubled comedy hour, pushing low-rating signature show Modern Family back to 8.00 (stablemate 9JKL has been pulled and will resurface Saturday afternoons). Deadline reports this week’s Roseanne’s season premiere was “huge” for […]

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Critical Condition: Roseanne

Roseanne | Three, 7.30 Thursday ➢ “Roseanne returns looking much as you probably remember it. There’s that couch. There’s that quilt. And there are Roseanne (Roseanne Barr) and Dan Conner (John Goodman), lovingly busting each others’ chops … But the new Roseanne also has the potential to do something a little deeper and more ambitious than […]

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HD Ratings: Will Roseanne Up the Ante for Three?

Three will be banking on next week’s return of modernised family sitcom Roseanne to salvage its Thursday comedy hour. The reboot of the ’90s hit will take over Modern Family’s 7.30 slot and the latter will shift to 8.00, displacing 9JKL. Last night 9JKL ended its run mid-season after rarely rising above 2% of Three’s target audience, […]

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Roseanne Returns to Three

The sitcom that helped to distinguish TV3 in the 1990s will make a comeback on Three the same week it screens in the US. The next-generation Roseanne will air 7.30 Thursdays from March 29 — a day after its US debut — as the lead-in to Modern Family in its new 8.00 slot. The first […]

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