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TVNZ 1’s Tuesday night premiere of Serengeti savaged the competition, winning its time slot in all the core commercial demographics and rewarding the broadcaster for locking up a long-term deal for BBC natural history series. It averaged 6.1% of the network’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, 5.2% of 18-49s, 3.5% of 18-39s and 7.6% of household […]

Three’s The Project will end the year on a high tonight after beating Seven Sharp three of the last four nights. It lost to its TVNZ 1 rival on Tuesday but otherwise out-rated it in all the core commercial demographics the rest of the week (except household shoppers with kids on Wednesday — which, ironically, […]

Three scored with another venerable movie franchise on Thursday when Pierce Brosnan’s first outing as James Bond topped the ratings in all the core commercial demographics. GoldenEye, which Kiwi Martin Campbell directed in 1995, averaged 3.7% of 25-54s, 3.2% of 18-49s, 2.3% of 18-39s and 4.6% of household shoppers with kids. The first hour lost […]

Three’s The Project bounced back on Tuesday to beat TVNZ 1’s Seven Sharp in all the key demographics. It averaged 4.3% of 25-54s (vs 3.7%), 3.7% of 18-49s (vs 3.3%), 2.7% of 18-39s (vs 2.4%), and 5.6% of household shoppers with kids (vs 3.4%). The stronger lead-in helped House Rules to rate higher on its […]

TVNZ 1’s Seven Sharp continues to lose its edge in the ratings, with Monday night’s broadcast finishing behind Three’s The Project in all the core commercial demographics. The slimmest margin was in the demo that matters most to both networks, 25-54 year-olds, where The Project averaged 4.8% vs Sharp’s 4.3%. The widest gap was among household […]

Jono and Ben’s final broadcast didn’t win its slot on Thursday but Three’s live telecast of the Vodafone NZ Music Awards was top of the pops. The ceremony won its two-hour slot in all of the core commercial demographics, proving vulnerable to only TVNZ 2’s Seven Year Switch (UK) in its opening half-hour because of spillover […]

Three’s Newshub Live and The Project were trounced in Wednesday’s ratings by TVNZ 1’s 1 News at Six and Seven Sharp. 1 News drew twice as many viewers in three of the four core commercial demographics and in the 18-39 demo that Newshub Live often wins, it was ahead by 1.2 rating points. Whereas 1 […]

Three’s The Project didn’t make as strong a ratings bow on Monday as predecessor Story did when it took over the 7.00 weeknight slot but it was competitive with TVNZ 1’s Seven Sharp and held its viewership in the core commercial demographics. The rapid-fire, news-lite panel show averaged 3.6% of Three’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, compared to Seven Sharp’s […]

Despite weeks of headlines about the controversy behind its demise, TV3’s prematurely shortened season of Top Gear didn’t top the ratings when it ended on Thursday. The last episode to feature Jeremy Clarkson averaged 5.0% – 8.8% of the commercial demographics. That was streets ahead of TV1’s Katherine Mills: Mind Games but well behind TV2’s Police Ten 7 […]

TV3’s historic 7pm win against TV One on Tuesday, when Campbell Live out-rated Seven Sharp even in the 5+ demographic, wasn’t the only setback for TVNZ. TV2 programmers would have been disappointed Revenge averaged 7.5% – 10.2% of the key demos given summer re-runs and a primetime recap special preceded the double-episode season premiere. This […]