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Next month TVNZ OnDemand will stream the latest seasons of Manifest, The Bachelor, Criminal Minds and Station 19. Seasons two of Manifest and 24 of The Bachelor will stream weekly from January 7, S3 of Station 19 from January 23, and the 15th and final season of Criminal Minds from January 9. TV Guide says […]

TVNZ 2 has axed twice-weekly broadcasts of Whiskey Cavalier the same week it launched them. As of next week, the low-rating spy romp will revert to once-a-week airings, but in a later slot: 9.35 Wednesdays instead of 8.30 Wednesdays. Why the network ever thought it would work in peak hour two nights in a row […]

   ➢➢ Movie fans can look forward to three blockbuster free-to-air premieres in the week leading up to Easter. Three will debut Despicable Me 3 (7.00 Saturday) and The Mummy (8.40 Sunday) while TVNZ 2 will pre-empt its Thursday programming for Spider-man: Homecoming (TVNZ 2, 8.00 Thursday). Both TVNZ 2 and Three also will screen […]

Shrewd counter-programming by TVNZ 2 has turned Gordon Ramsay’s 24 Hours to Hell and Back into a foil for Three’s hitherto top-rating Westside. On Monday, the reality show won the 8.30 hour in three of the four core commercial demographics but Westside dominated in the demo that matters most to Three, 25-54. It averaged 5.5% of […]