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The shine came off Magnum P.I. on Wednesday when Three’s Hawaiian crime hit lost its time slot for the first time in three weeks. Ratings for lead-in Lego Masters Australia also were lower than previous weeks. But the show was still sturdy enough to easily win the 7.30 hour in all the core commercial demographics, […]

Lego Masters Australia might have upended Three’s new Wednes-day line-up with a longer-than-expected premiere but proved to be a bigger-than-expected blockbuster. The two-hour launch won its time slot in all the core demographics with Married at First Sight Australia-like popularity. It averaged 7.6% of 25-54 year-olds (the network’s key viewership), 6.0% of 18-49s, 4.7% of […]

The Bay | TVNZ 1, 8.30 Wednesday ☆☆☆☆ “The Bay is Broadchurch in Morecambe. I would even bet half my David Tennant memorabilia collection that was the makers’ pitch in its entirety. Why not? It’s perfect. I would have bought it as a commissioner, and as a viewer I was entirely sold … Suspects and police officers […]

TVNZ 1 will try to rebuild Wednesday nights with the premiere of Broadchurch successor The Bay on May 1. The high-rating whodunit went to air last month on ITV, where The Guardian described it as “Broadchurch in Morecambe … “I would even bet half my David Tennant memorabilia collection that was the makers’ pitch in […]