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The Undatebables was unbeatable when it returned on Thursday to win the 8.30 hour in all the commercial demographics. It averaged 6.8% – 8.5% of viewers aged 18-39, 18-49, 25-54 and household shoppers with kids. TV1’s House Husbands averaged a season low 0.8% – 2.0% off the back of Restoration Man’s 2.6% – 7.5% while […]

NZ’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly on the networks in 1080i Saturday Rheem Outdoors With Geoff (TV3, 5.00) Joey (TV2, 5.30, R) The Simpsons (TV3, 5.30, 5.1, R) Hyundai Country Calendar (TV1, 7.00) Movie: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (TV2, 7.00, R) Network Movie Premiere: The Croods (TV3, 7.00) Movie: The Patriot (TV3, 8.50, R) Mr Selfridge (TV1, 9.30, F) Last […]

“Surely there can be no doubt that recommitting to Heroes requires a leap of faith, considering how the show’s original run famously imploded after its first season — losing track of its characters and its story and plummeting through incoherence into irrelevance. Still, the buzz-generating energy of that first 2006 season lingers, enough to cause NBC and creator Tim […]

The Last Ship: The Complete First Season “This show’s 1.78:1 1080p picture quality is absolutely splendid. With a pretty effective mix of practical effects and CGI, detail rarely falters during the big ‘Wow!’ shots of the ship, or during tight quarters combat sequences. Colours are bright and beautiful – especially the colour blue considering the numerous […]

TV2’s unprecedented same week-as-the-US season premiere of The Big Bang Theory anchors what will be a new-look Wednesday night on the network. The two-hour comedy block is being retained but will revert to a 7.30 start with new lead-ins to TBBT: The Middle and black-ish. They resume from October 7, the same night TV2 will dump […]

TV2 will screen the next season of The Big Bang Theory within two days of the US. Season nine will launch September 23 as part of a big boost to TV2’s mid-week comedy block that will include new episodes of The Middle and Black-ish, from 7.30-8.30, and continuation of the current post-Bang line-up of Mom, […]

TV2’s dramatic season finale of The Flash was out-paced by TV3’s Lost & Found. The episode, which The Hollywood Reporter said “provided plenty of hints about season two and the spinoff Legends of Tomorrow,” averaged 2.8% – 5.2% of the key demographics. It beat Lost & Found (3.6% – 5.4%) among household shoppers with kids but lost […]

NZ’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly on the networks in 1080i  Saturday The ITM Fishing Show (TV1, 5.00) Trade Zone Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.00) Hyundai Country Calendar (TV1, 7.00) Movie: Shanghai Knights (TV2, 7.00, R) Storage Hunters (TV3, 7.00, 5.1) Our World: Frozen Planet (TV1, 7.30, R) Highway Thru Hell (TV3, 7.30, 5.1) CSI (TV3, 8.30, 5.1, R) Movie: Bubble Boy (TV2, 9.15, R) Chicago PD (TV3, […]

TV2 will screen the network movie premiere of Iron Man 3 in HD the same week it farewells The Flash and reunites Agents of SHIELD. Iron Man 3 will go head-to-head with TV3’s repeat of Transformers: Dark of the Moon on May 17, which will benefit from having a 90-minute “Grand Final Performance” of The […]

Despite weeks of headlines about the controversy behind its demise, TV3’s prematurely shortened season of Top Gear didn’t top the ratings when it ended on Thursday. The last episode to feature Jeremy Clarkson averaged 5.0% – 8.8% of the commercial demographics. That was streets ahead of TV1’s Katherine Mills: Mind Games but well behind TV2’s Police Ten 7 […]