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Boy Band has gone from being #1 with a bullet to getting the bullet. With ratings heading in the wrong direction after only two weeks for the One Direction wannabes, TVNZ 2 is pulling the talent quest series from primetime. Its last 9pm broadcast will be on Friday; from July 22, it will air 10.30am […]

New Zealand’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly free-to-air in 1080i   Saturday  Gorilla Family and Me (TV3, 4.50) Extreme Road Rescue (TV1, 5.00) Movie: Gnomeo & Juliet (TVNZ 2, 5.20, R) 1 News at 6pm (TV1, 6.00) The Simpsons (TV2, 6.00, R) Newshub Live at 6pm (TV3, 6.00) Flog It! (Prime, 6.00) The Middle (TV2, 6.30, 5.1, R) Britain’s […]

► TVNZ 2 will overhaul its Friday line-up with the return of The Voice Australia on June 9 at 7.30. It went to air a month ago on Nine Network, when it edged out My Kitchen Rules in the ratings “thanks to new judges”, the Daily Telegraph reports. “Insiders believe interest in new judges Boy George and […]

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NZ’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly free-to-air in 1080i Saturday Wonderful World of Disney: Ratatouille (TV2, 4.50, R) The ITM Fishing Show (TV One, 5.00) Trade Zone Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.00) Ados Addicted to Fishing (Prime, 5.00)  The Goldbergs (TV3, 5.30, 5.1, R) Hyundai Country Calendar (TV1, 7.00) Movie: Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2 (TV2, 7.00, R)  Movie: Meet the Fockers (TV3, 7.00, 5.1, R) Britain’s […]

Just as MediaWorks swapped episodes of The Simpsons back and forth between TV3 and Four, so will TVNZ alternate seasons of Family Guy. Episodes from seasons 9-13 air six nights a week in SD on Duke but season 14 will premiere on TV2 on June 24 as part of a new-look Friday line-up that includes […]

The Lone Ranger may have been a box office disaster for Disney but its network movie premiere romped home in the ratings for TV2. It averaged 5.4% – 9.2% of the commercial demographics on Sunday and left the competition in the dust. The Western movie got a running start from lead-in Shrek averaging a monstrous 6.8% – 10.8%. […]

TV1 topped all the commercial demographics on Sunday thanks to its unassailable line-up of One News, Sunday and Topp Country. Each programme resoundingly won its slot across the board and helped episode two of the Rebecca Gibney drama, Winter, to average 3.4% – 6.5% of the key demos. It won the hour with TV1’s 25-54 audience and was competitive […]

The final of the NZ Sunday Theatre season, The Monster of Mangatiti, lost to the network movie premiere of The Incredible Burt Wonderstone in three of the four core commercial demographics. TV1’s true-crime dramatisation, which critics other than our Doug dubbed “affecting, important television” and “perhaps the most extraordinary of a strong field of true story […]