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Two of Lightbox’s signature exclusives will return for new seasons early next year. Season five of time-travelling romance Outlander will stream from February 17 and season five of Better Call Saul from February 24. In the former, the Frasers are still fighting for their family and the home they have forged on Fraser’s Ridge. Jamie […]

  Three is swapping time slots for two of its persistently low-rating primetime dramas. As of next week, Designated Survivor and Tin Star will air after Newshub Late. Designated Survivor will switch from 9.55 Mondays to 10.25, and Tin Star from 10.00 Tuesdays to 10.30. Their peak-hour programming was always peculiar, given Designated Survivor is […]

   ➢➢ Three will bed in its new season schedule with the February 2-8 rollout of four primetime drama series, the return of two modern family comedies and Married at First Sight Australia (which will screen within a week of its Australian launch), and the premiere of America’s Got Talent: The Champions (7.00 Saturdays) … ➢➢ Billed the […]

Lightbox will stream season one of the latest Stephen King series, Castle Rock, from September 13. Next month it also will express from the US season two of The Good Doctor (weekly from September 25) and pick up season three of Hulu comedy Casual (September 5), season eight of Modern Family (September 19) and Rockies […]

The return of The Walking Dead on Monday helped TVNZ 2 to wipe out the competition for the night. The season-eight premiere posted the zombie sensation’s lowest opening US ratings in five years but here held up well and easily won the 9.30 hour in the key commercial demographics. It averaged 4.0% of 25-54 and 18-49 […]

Three’s struggling Tin Star has rebounded in the ratings since TVNZ 1’s pulled Criminal Minds for Doctor Foster. Monday’s episode of the British crime drama averaged 4.1% of Three’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, to win the 8.30 hour against Doctor Foster (2.5%) and all but one quarter-hour segment of TVNZ 2’s comedy combo, Will & […]

TVNZ 1 viewers don’t want another dose of Doctor Foster. The season-two premiere flopped on Monday when it drew fewer 25-54 year-olds — the core commercial demographic for TVNZ 1 — than TVNZ 2’s comedies and barely more than Three’s struggling British drama, Tin Star. It averaged 2.7% of the network’s core commercial demographic compared […]

Three’s All Star Family Feud special proved more tempting than TVNZ 2’s season premiere of My Kitchen Rules NZ on Monday. Jono & Ben vs 7 Days: The Rematch overcame a formidable handicap — beginning midway through the final “winter season” episode of Shortland Street — to beat the opening half-hour of the reformatted MKRNZ […]

Three’s top-rating election coverage on Saturday helped the network to record its highest weekly share of 25-54 year-olds in more than 10 years. Newshub Decision 17 Election Special won the night not just in the demographic it targets most but also in the 18-49 and 18-39 demos. According to the broadcaster, it outperformed the 1 News […]

Three’s new crime drama Tin Star out-rated TVNZ 1’s Criminal Minds on Monday but not TVNZ 2’s Wentworth. The premiere averaged 4.0% of 25-54 year-olds, Three’s core demographic, compared to Wentworth’s 6.7% and Criminal Minds’ 2.5%. A dark cable drama was never going to challenge the appeal of a free-to-air hit like Wentworth but Three […]