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  TVNZ 1’s new-look Britcom Thursday scored highly with its target audience. Last week’s launch of The Windsors, Upstart Crow and Mountain Goats was tops with 25-54 year-olds. The Royals send-up averaged 4.3% of this demographic, Upstart Crow 3.6% and Mountain Goats 3.5%, generating channel shares of 18.3% – 20.6%. Off the back of MasterChef Australia’s […]

The Windsors (TVNZ 1, 8.35 Thursdays) “Channel 4’s extremely rude cartoonish soap opera about the royal family starts tonight. And my goodness is it rude. The opening two episodes imagine our royal family as irredeemably stupid, lazy, self-indulgent and so absurdly posh that they can’t even pronounce the wordy ‘gyspy’ correctly … It really evokes the glory […]

New Zealand’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly free-to-air in 1080i   Saturday  Cupcake Wars (TV2, 5.00) Grand Designs NZ (TV3, 5.00, R) Special: Fantastic Beasts and JK Rowling’s Wizard (TV2, 6.00) 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 Deathly Hallows Part I (TV2, 7.00, R) Movie: Zookeeper (TV3, 7.00, […]

Upstart Windsors … Big Bang fades … Room UK’s back … Last rites for The Exorcist … TVNZ 1 will launch a two-hour British comedy block on December 8. It will open at 8.35 with The Windsors, continue at 9.10 with Upstart Crow and conclude at 9.45 with Mountain Goats. The Windsors reimagines the lives of that […]