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Australian Ninja Warrior’s winning streak on Three ended Sunday, when it was squeezed by local heroes on TVNZ 1 and TVNZ 2. For the first time this season, ANW failed to win its time slot in any of the core commercial demographics. Sunday’s Kaikoura earthquake special and lead-in Hyundai Country Calendar won the 25-54 and […]

Three’s network movie premiere of The Magnificent Seven roped in twice as many 25-54 viewers as TVNZ 1’s launch of baby-snatching drama series The Cry. The western reboot averaged 6.0% of both networks’ core demographic vs 3.3% for The Cry. But in the hour that the two locked horns, the gap was much wider: 7.1% […]

The Cry | TVNZ 1, 8.30 Sunday ☆☆☆☆ “Jenna Coleman has arrived on our screens to tell us a story of struggling first-time mother Joanna, who travels from Glasgow to Melbourne with husband Alistair (Ewen Leslie) and son Noah – only for her baby boy to disappear. They were visiting Australia to seek custody of […]

➢➢ At last! TVNZ is fast-tracking a premium British drama to primetime rather than OnDemand. The Cry (8.30 Sundays from November 4) is a psychological thriller that chronicles how a marriage collapses in the wake of a tragedy. It stars Jenna Coleman (Victoria) and Ewen Leslie as a Scottish couple whose baby is abducted while visiting […]