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   It wasn’t a happy Easter for The Bachelor NZ, with Monday’s episode getting crushed by the HD competition. It averaged only 2.6% of Three’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, compared to 5.9% for TVNZ 1’s Saving Mr Banks and 6.6% for TVNZ 2’s My Kitchen Rules. TBNZ’s low turnout also was bad news for lead-out The […]

Three’s Sunday night season premiere of The Bachelor NZ won its slot in the core age demographics. It averaged 6.6% of 25-54 year-olds, 6.4% of 18-49s and 6.7% of 18-39s. My Kitchen Rules, which started half-an-hour later, averaged 4.3% of 25-54s, 3.5% of 18-49s and 2.8% of 18-39s. The Bachelor’s popularity helped the network movie premiere of […]

The Bachelor Australia is the second new-season casualty TV2 has dispatched to off-peak within almost as many days. Following Friday’s announcement that Wednesday’s Agent Carter would be shifting back an hour, to 10.30, this afternoon TV2 said it was rescheduling The Bachelor Australia to Saturday afternoons and replacing its 7.30 Friday broadcast with re-runs of […]

TV3 has picked up MasterChef NZ and will launch a Kiwi version of The Bachelor in 2015. The two properties hitherto have been TVNZ staples but TV One quit MasterChef for the lower-rating My Kitchen Rules NZ while TV2 has aired only the international versions of The Bachelor. The acquisitions were announced at MediaWorks’ new […]

Rake’s charms have won over critics more than viewers. The Wednesday night newcomer had a disastrous debut, averaging only 1.7% – 3.3% of the major demographics (adults 18-39, 18-49, 25-54, household shoppers with kids). Despite acclaim by The Dominion Post (“a treasure“) and The NZ Herald (“funny, clever and silly“), TV One’s decision to schedule it […]