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Sunday TVNZ 1’s The War of the Worlds improved on its premiere to win its final hour in all the core commercial demographics. Overall it averaged 3.2% of 25-54 year-olds and household shoppers with kids, 2.2% of 18-49s and 2.1% of 18-39s. The first hour lost to the last hour of TVNZ 2’s Star Wars […]

  TVNZ 2’s network movie premiere of Thor: Ragnarok on Sunday hammered the competition, including TVNZ 1’s “world premiere” of The War of the Worlds. The BBC miniseries averaged 2.7% of 25-54 year-olds and 1.5% of 18-49s vs 4.7% and 3.7% respectively for Thor. The latter had a 90-minute head start on Worlds, so was peaking […]

➢➢ Poldark’s Eleanor Tomlinson, Rafe Spall, Robert Carlyle and Rupert Graves star in the first British television adaptation of The War of the Worlds (TVNZ 1, 8.30 Sunday). TVNZ 1 is billing the three-part space invaders series as a “world premiere” ahead of the the BBC announcing a date for its own telecast. This version […]