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Three looks to have a lock on Sunday nights over summer with the first entry in its Fast and Furious season revving up the ratings. It averaged 4.1% of Three’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, and won its slot in the other core commercial demographics, too (although among households shopper with kids only one-tenth of a […]

The popularity of Kiwi crowdpleaser Hunt for the Wilderpeople on Sunday wilted viewership of another local favourite, The Brokenwood Mysteries. TVNZ’s re-run of the Taika Waititi hit won its slot in the four core commercial demographics but was most popular with the 25-54 viewers Prime targets with its Kiwi whodunit. Wilderpeople averaged 5.6% of this […]

Despite TVNZ 2’s network movie premiere of Kingsman: The Golden Circle blowing away the competition on Sunday, TVNZ 1 still won the night in three of the four core commercial demograhics. The spy romp sequel averaged 4.5% of 25-54 year-olds, 3.9% of 18-49s, 3.0% of 18-39s and 4.2% of household shoppers with kids to win […]

➢➢ Wahoo! TVNZ 2 will refresh its primetime slate in the first week of November with the season 31 premiere of The Simpsons (6.30 Sunday) — as the lead-in to S2 of The Great Kiwi Bake Off — and another run of hour-long episodes of Shortland Street (TVNZ 2, 7.00 Mondays), ahead of the return of Australian Survivor (8.00). Australian Survivor also […]

TVNZ 2’s taken the lid off when The Great Kiwi Bake Off will return. The new season will launch 7.00 on November 3 in a new, expanded format of 90-minute episodes. Reads the press release: The tent is up, the oven mitts are off and our bakers are ready to do delicious battle when The […]

The Great Kiwi Bake Off bowed out to higher ratings than the season finale of Project Runway NZ. Bake Off easily won its extended Tuesday slot, averaging 4.8% of TVNZ 2’s target audience, 18-49 year-olds, 5.8% of 25-54s, 4.2% of 18-39s and 6.4% of household shoppers with kids. By comparison, Monday’s Project Runway averaged 3.2% […]

Three’s The Project will end the year on a high tonight after beating Seven Sharp three of the last four nights. It lost to its TVNZ 1 rival on Tuesday but otherwise out-rated it in all the core commercial demographics the rest of the week (except household shoppers with kids on Wednesday — which, ironically, […]

Three’s The Project bounced back on Tuesday to beat TVNZ 1’s Seven Sharp in all the key demographics. It averaged 4.3% of 25-54s (vs 3.7%), 3.7% of 18-49s (vs 3.3%), 2.7% of 18-39s (vs 2.4%), and 5.6% of household shoppers with kids (vs 3.4%). The stronger lead-in helped House Rules to rate higher on its […]

TVNZ 2’s The Great Kiwi Bake Off out-rated Three’s Australian Ninja Warrior for the first time in the 25-54 demographic on Tuesday. The cooking show averaged 5.6% vs 4.9% for the first hour of ANW, although the latter averaged 5.3% for its 100-minute broadcast. Bake Off also won the 18-39 demo and was competitive with […]

After a week of on-demand streaming, a primetime re-run and an “extra slice” episode on Sunday, and icing-on-the-cake reviews, can The Great Kiwi Bake Off  tonight surpass Married at First Sight NZ in the ratings? It started competitively last week, averaging 5.9% of viewers 25-54 (vs 6.2% for MAFS) and 4.4% of 18-49 (vs 4.8%), and […]