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Dancing With the Stars may be the all-star anchor of Three’s Monday line-up but it’s Lost & Found and Inside Crime that are stealing the limelight. Last Monday’s DWTS lost to time-slot rival My Kitchen Rules in all the core commercial demographics, averaging 6.2% of Three’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, versus MKR’s 7.7%. But lead-outs L&F […]

  Three’s Dancing With the Stars dominated the ratings for the second night in a row — but faced fancier footwork from TVNZ 2’s My Kitchen Rules than it did Survivor NZ on Sunday. DWTS easily topped the 25-54 and 18-49 demographics, with respective averages of 7.9% and 6.6% vs MKR’s 6.2% and 5.1%. But […]

  TVNZ 1 blitzed the competition last weekend with its new-look Sunday night schedule, which cut back Sunday to half-an-hour and launched season three of Coast NZ midway through TVNZ 2’s season two premiere of Survivor NZ. But will the strategy hold up tonight when Three’s reboot of Dancing With the Stars kicks up its heels […]

TVNZ has announced it will make its own version of cooking show hit The Great British Bake Off. But it’s not yet clear if Prime will continue to screen the original series and spin-off The Great Australian Bake Off. A question mark remains over whether TVNZ will acquire the rights to both series, as part […]

➢ TVNZ 2 is turning Emerald City into a mini-series event. The Wizard of Oz re-imaging that ran for only 10 episodes in the US will screen as double-episodes after the Saturday Family Movie from July 1. “Fans of the alternate reality/fantasy genre should enjoy Emerald City, and I think they’ll get a kick out […]

TVNZ 2 is pulling Car Crash Global from its Friday schedule and replacing it with Boy Band two days ahead of Three relaunching The Block NZ (above). Boy Band will screen 9.00 Fridays from June 23, within 24 hours of its US premiere on ABC. The 10-episode series will track young male vocalists vying to prove they have what it takes to join America’s next […]

  TVNZ 2 will use the May 7 launch of Survivor NZ to promote two new comedy series and resurrect a third. Survivor NZ will air 7.00 Sundays and 7.30 Mondays, with the former displacing new episodes of The Simpsons. Premiering 7.30 Tuesday on May 9 will be American Housewife while the 7.30 Wednesday lead-in to the return of Dr […]

Next year TVNZ will live-stream its linear channels, which are being rebranded this weekend in the face of Twittersphere outrage, and will premiere more shows first online. Here’s TVNZ’s new-season announcement in full: Coming to a screen near you: TVNZ is applying fresh thinking to its 2017 line-up. Viewers can expect more shows available OnDemand first, […]

TV3’s The Block NZ returns on May 29, when it will square off against TV2’s My Kitchen Rules Australia not only on Sundays but also on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 7.30. TV3 says the twist with season five, Girls vs Boys, will be replacing couples with teams of best mates — two of women and two of men […]