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➢➢ TVNZ 1 continues to lead the new season charge over summer with the addition of two new UK dramas to its schedule: Trust Me (9.30 Saturdays from January 11) and Deep Water (8.30 Mondays from January 13). Both series can be streamed OnDemand. TVNZ 1 also will use live coverage of the T20 Black Clash on January 17 […]

TVNZ 2 appears to have found the perfect stablemate for Have You Been Paying Attention?: Hamish & Andy’s Perfect Holiday. Wednesday’s premiere of the duo’s latest travelogue — and the first not to air on Three — won its slot in three of the core commercial demographics. It averaged 4.5% of 25-54 year-olds, 3.7% of […]

Viewers weren’t head over heels about TVNZ 1’s new Thursday night comedy, How to Stay Married. The premiere averaged only 2.6% of the network’s 25-54 target audience. It was competitive with Three’s umpteenth re-run of Night at the Museum (2.8%) but lost to TVNZ 2’s repeat of Travel Guides Australia (4.1%). The half-hour opened with 3.2% of […]

TVNZ’s OnDemand streams are rocketing ahead, with average weekly streams up 78% year-on-year. Shortland Street, Friends, The  Big Bang Theory (which is now on Netflix NZ, including the first three seasons in HD — TVOD’s are SD), Home and Away and Coronation Street are the most “binge watched” shows — and also the most streamed. It […]

➢➢ Three will double down on a strategy that’s served it well — Kiwi comedy — when it teams newcomers Mean Mums and Golden Boy on an 8.35 Tuesday double-bill from July 16. Both tested well during last year’s Comedy Pilot Week. South Pacific Pictures’ Mean Mums follows the misadventures of an unlikely gang of misfit […]

Three’s last-minute decision to extend its Easter Monday broadcast of Dancing With the Stars couldn’t overrule TVNZ 2’s Shortland Street and My Kitchen Rules Australia in the ratings. The tactic led to DWTS starting earlier, at 7.00, and squaring off against Shortland Street for the first time. The soap out-rated it in all the core commercial […]

The return of My Kitchen Rules Australia is spicing up TVNZ 2’s ratings, with Tuesday’s episode topping all the core commercial demographics. It helped the network to dominate from 7.00-11.00, with its line-up of Shortland Street, MKR, Grey’s Anatomy and Tourettes — Teenage Tics winning the biggest shares of all the key demos for the night. […]

Shortland Street dominated TVNZ OnDemand streams in 2018, ranking first for the most streamed and highest reaching shows. Soaps accounted for three of the five most-streamed shows, Love Island was the fifth and, amazingly, a 25-year-old sitcom was the third most in-demand. Here’s the infographic TVNZ Sales released today illustrating the highlights:

➢➢ TVNZ 2 will start to roll out its new season schedule mid-January with the return of Shortland Street and the premiere of Bride and Prejudice Australia. Shortland Street will open with an hour-long episode on January 14 and initially will air Monday to Thursday. B&P will be its lead-out on Mondays and Tuesdays, and […]

The Great Kiwi Bake Off bowed out to higher ratings than the season finale of Project Runway NZ. Bake Off easily won its extended Tuesday slot, averaging 4.8% of TVNZ 2’s target audience, 18-49 year-olds, 5.8% of 25-54s, 4.2% of 18-39s and 6.4% of household shoppers with kids. By comparison, Monday’s Project Runway averaged 3.2% […]