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New Zealand’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly free-to-air in 1080i    Saturday  Chasing Monsters (TV1, 5.00)  Cupcake Wars (TV2, 5.00) Grand Designs NZ (TV3, 5.00, R) Black-ish (TV2, 6.00, 5.1, R) Newshub Live at 6pm (TV3, 6.00)  University Challenge (Prime, 6.00)  MasterChef USA (Prime, 6.30) Hyundai Country Calendar (TV1, 7.00) Movie: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (TV2, 7.00, R) The X Factor Australia (TV3, 7.00) Posh […]

TV2 was the real deal on Tuesday with its blockbuster line-up of Shortland Street, The Middle, The Real O’Neals and Quantico. The network’s 7.30 comedy hour drew about three times as many 25-54 and 18-49 viewers as TV3’s Wedding Surprises: Caught on Camera and was also sharply more popular than TV One’s Kiwi Living except in […]

Tuesday’s premiere of Kiwi Living in its new mid-week slot rated better among 25-54 and 18-49 year-olds than its predecessor, Outback Truckers. It averaged 5.4% of 25-54s compared to 4.1% for the season finale of Truckers the previous week. That helped lead-out The Hard Stuff With Nigel Latta to rate half-a-rating point higher — even though […]

The countdown towards Sunday’s season finale of The Block NZ: Girls vs Boys hammered TV2’s new comedy block of The Middle and The Real O’Neals. The sitcoms out-rated TV One’s Outback Truckers but trailed the reality hour by several points in the 18-49, 25-54 and 5+ demos. Prime’s premiere of Jericho averaged 3.7% of viewers […]

The Real O’Neals (TV2, 8.00 Tuesday) “For years, ABC has been the home of the gently quirky family comedy, with each entry putting some new tilt on the nuclear unit: Modern Family, The Middle, Black-ish, The Goldbergs. The latest addition to that crop of shows is The Real O’Neals, in which a seemingly perfect Catholic family in Chicago have their […]

New Zealand’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly free-to-air in 1080i Saturday Tiger – Spy in the Jungle (TV3, 4.55) The ITM Fishing Show (TV1, 5.00) Newshub Live at 6pm (TV3, 6.00) Rio 2016 Kiwi Highlights (Prime, 6.00)  Hyundai Country Calendar (TV1, 7.00) Movie: The Lego Movie (TV2, 7.00, R)  Movie: Mrs Doubtfire (TV3, 7.00, R) Tonight at the London Palladium (TV1, 7.30)  Alex Polizzi’s Secret […]

TV2 gets Real … New home for classic Homer … Middle-season comeback … TV3 rediscovers Lost & Found … Never seen an embarrassing body? …  TV2’s newest addition to its comedy stable, The Real O’Neals, will premiere on August 9. It stars Raising Hope’s Martha Plimpton as the mother in a tight-knit Catholic family that liberate […]