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Doubling up the season finale episodes of Super Fun Night helped TV2 to dominate Monday’s ratings and served lead-out Kitchen Nightmares its highest audience this season. Since it’s been back on air, Gordon Ramsay’s show has fared badly with Brooklyn Nine-Nine as its lead-in. But this week’s finale averaged 5.1% – 8.2% of the key […]

Monday’s network premiere of Battleship on TV3 blew the competition out of the water. The blockbuster averaged 5.4% – 8.4% of the major demographics, which was modest compared to how it would have rated on TV2. But it easily won its slot, drawing far more viewers than TV One’s Person of Interest (3.3% – 7.7%) […]

New Zealand’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly on the networks in 1080i Saturday Trade Zone Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.00) Modern Family (TV3, 5.30, 5.1, R) Hyundai Country Calendar (TV One, 7.00) MasterChef Masterclass (TV One, 7.30) Ice Road Truckers (TV3, 7.30, 5.1) Endeavour (TV One, 8.30) CSI (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) Network Movie Premiere: Contagion (TV2, 9.05, 5.1) CSI: NY (TV3, 9.30 5.1) […]

TVNZ’s 9.30 Monday shows proved vulnerable to TV3’s re-run of the movie Paul, with both The Following and Kitchen Nightmares losing to it in all the major demographics except household shoppers with kids. The ET comedy averaged 4.4% – 5.6% and largely lost the 8.30 hour to TV2’s comedies and TV One’s Person of Interest. […]

After a slow start, TV3’s runaway train thriller proved unstoppable in the ratings on Monday. The re-run of Unstoppable out-rated TV2’s penultimate fourth-season episode of The Walking Dead in all the key demographics except household shoppers with kids despite the network’s 8.30 comedy block delivering Dead a full-steam-ahead lead-in. Averaging 5.4% – 6.1% over two […]

Mondays continue to be one of TV2’s highest-rating nights, with its two-hour comedy block leaving everyone but the competition laughing. This week The Middle averaged 10.7% – 14.2% of the major demographics, Trophy Wife 8.5% – 12.5%, Super Fun Night 9.6% – 13.4% and Brooklyn Nine-Nine 7.4% – 9.0%. This compares to TV One and […]

TV2’s super fun Monday comedy block strategy is giving fans of The Walking Dead the last laugh. On its new night, after two hours of HD sitcoms, the zombie drama at last is turning into the hit it has been in the US for the past couple of seasons. Indeed, a series that was on […]

TV3’s network movie premiere of Chronicle crashed and burned on Monday. It averaged only 3.6% – 5.3% of the major demographics and largely finished third across the board. Even more surprising was the weak return of 2012’s top-rating The GC. It averaged 5.4% – 6.2% on the back of Road Cops’ 5.8% – 7.7%. These […]

TV One’s The Following returned on Monday with less of a following than it started a year ago while MasterChef NZ’s second episode largely finished third after TV2’s sitcoms and TV3’s The Block: All Stars. The Following averaged only 1.7% – 3.7% of the major demographics (adults 18-39, 18-49, 25-54, household shoppers with kids) for its […]

TV2’s new sitcoms Super Fun Night and Trophy Wife won their slots on the back of Shortland Street’s return on Monday. But the channel’s bid to turn TV One bomb Scandal into a hit flopped opposite TV3’s HD re-run of Robin Hood. Super Fun Night averaged 11.0% – 11.9% of the major demographics (adults 18-39, […]