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My Kitchen Rules’ popularity earned Step Dave some of its highest ratings for the season on Tuesday. The final episode averaged 8.9% – 12.4% of the major demographics and won the 8.30 hour across the board. That was a big step up from the previous week, when its penultimate episode averaged only 4.6% – 7.4% […]

Britain may have talent — but not enough to topple TV3’s NCIS in its 11th season. The long-running procedural largely won the 8.30 hour with 5.6% – 9.6% of the key demographics. It lost only among adults 18-39 to the penultimate episode of Step Dave (4.6% – 7.4%). TV One’s HD premiere of Britain’s Got Talent […]

Flagship Kiwi dramas on TVNZ were crippled Tuesday by the popularity of perennial procedurals NCIS and NCIS: Los Angeles. TV One’s well reviewed Anzac week telefeature, Field Punishment No. 1 (above), averaged only 3.4% – 6.7% of the key demographics over two hours compared to 5.6% – 12.8% for TV3’s NCIS and 4.6% – 9.5% for […]

Tuesday continues to be one of the week’s most competitive nights, with all three HD networks see-sawing in the ratings. TV2 made big week-on-week gains with household shoppers with kids while TV3 won the night with its target audience, 25-54 year-olds. The up-and-down nature of the night was highlighted at 8.30, when TV2’s Step Dave […]

TV2 took another hit Tuesday with near-season lows for Step Dave and Revenge while TV One was on a roll with its earlier wildlife hour delivering a strong lead-in for its two-hour doco block. TV One sharply improved its peak-hour ratings and shares week-on-week, TV3’s were steady (with the bonus an upsurge among household shoppers […]

TV One’s relaunch of its peak-hour wildlife strand in an earlier slot earned it unsually high ratings for the 7.30 Tuesday hour. The irresistible World’s Oddest Animal Couples averaged 5.5% – 12.1% of the key demographics to beat the competition among adults 25-54 and household shoppers with kids. It was the network’s star attraction of […]

TV3’s dynamic crime-fighting duo helped it to win the night on Tuesday with its target audience, adults 25-54. The Yuletide episode of NCIS averaged 7.2% – 8.9% to beat TV2’s Step Dave (5.8% – 9.3%) in all the key demographics except household shoppers with kids. And at 9.30, NCIS: Los Angeles (6.1%- 8.1%) decisively out-rated HD […]

TV2’s Step Dave scored near-season high ratings on Tuesday but TV3’s NCIS remained competitive while its sister show overpowered Revenge. Step Dave averaged 8.3% – 12.1% of the major demographics opposite NCIS’ 5.4% – 11.1%. It crushed the crime drama in the 18-39 and 18-49 demos but the gap was much narrower among adults 25-54 […]

Tuesday continues to be one of TV2 and TV3’s most competitive nights, with each jostling for HD supremacy while TV One claws back viewers to win higher ratings and shares. Step Dave (above) averaged 6.8% – 9.4% of the major demographics opposite NCIS’ 5.4% – 9.5%. While the ratings were down, it was a largely a […]

TV3’s Tuesday line-up helped it to win the night with the network’s target audience of 25-54 year-olds. It averaged a 28.2% share of this demographic compared to 27.7% the previous week. TV2’s share also was up, from 24.1% to 25.3% but TV One’s slipped from 18.8% to 16.8% as newcomer 24 Hours in A&E failed […]