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TV3 will launch two mid-week dramas in HD the same week it reverts to Sunday night movies and resumes one of it longest-running procedurals for the first time time in HD. SVU will make its HD debut on June 28, as the first half of a Saturday night double-bill with season two of Blue Bloods. […]

Series Highlight: NCIS (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) Gibbs and Fornell team up when their mutual ex-wife — and running gag source — Diane (guest star Melinda McGraw) calls to say that her husband was kidnapped. The AV Club thought this “probably the best episode of NCIS I’ve ever seen mainly because of McGraw”, who was a fixture on Hank (which TV2 is re-running […]

NZ TV’s best-kept secret at last has been discovered. Tuesday’s episode of The Secret Lives of Dancers still finished third in its slot but posted its best ratings of the season. It averaged 5.6% of 25-54 year-olds, 5.2% of 18-49, 4.4% of 18-39 and 6.5% of household shoppers. HD rival The Middle danced circles around […]

Series Highlight: The Middle (TV2, 7.30) Frankie and Mike take the family on a camping trip and revisit memories of their campsite honeymoon. In part two of what was an hour-long season premiere in the US, Ray Romano guest stars as an old pal of Mike’s who stumbles upon their romantic getaway. “You look really familiar,” […]

Series premiere: Suburgatory (TV2, 8.00) Welcome to the suburbs, heaven for many. But for one teenager from New York City, the suburbs represent her unique version of hell. Forget purgatory, this is Suburgatory. Some US reviewers thought the same, including the New York Times: “The series begins with a tenuous premise, uses it to leap to an inaccurate […]

Two of TV3’s HD flagships, Outrageous Fortune and The Secret Lives of Dancers, last night took a tumble. But they still had enough poise to help the network win Tuesday’s ratings race. Both local productions dipped sharply in viewership, with Outrageous Fortune down from 19%-plus ratings in key demos the previous week to 14.7% of […]