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Three will be banking on next week’s return of modernised family sitcom Roseanne to salvage its Thursday comedy hour. The reboot of the ’90s hit will take over Modern Family’s 7.30 slot and the latter will shift to 8.00, displacing 9JKL. Last night 9JKL ended its run mid-season after rarely rising above 2% of Three’s target audience, […]

Three’s repeat of the Dwyane Johnson  movie, Hercules, strong-armed the competition on Thursday. It won in all the core commercial demographics, with channel shares of 15.8% – 23.9%. It averaged 3.8% of Three’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, compared to 1.9% for Our Dream Hotel and 1.4% for Coronation Street on TVNZ 1. TVNZ 2’s First Dates […]

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 Rose Noelle dramatisation, Abandoned, was the first in this season of NZ Sunday Theatre dramas to win its slot outright in the commercial demographics. It averaged 5.0% – 7.4% of the viewers that matter most to the networks, beating both TV2’s Bad Teacher (3.6% – 4.5%) and TV3’s Fast Five (4.7% – 6.6%). Abandoned’s […]

TV2’s network movie premiere of We’re the Millers was the toast of Sunday night viewing. The Jennifer Aniston comedy averaged 7.5% – 10.0% of the commercial demographics to draw roughly twice the viewership of its its competition. TV1’s Sunday Theatre drama, Venus and Mars, averaged 1.9% – 4.7% and TV3’s network movie premiere of About […]

NZ’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly on the networks in 1080i Saturday Rheem Outdoors With Geoff (TV3, 5.00) Hyundai Country Calendar (TV1, 7.00) Movie: Daddy Day Care (TV2, 7.00, R) Safe Crackers (TV3, 7.00) American Ninja Warrior (TV3, 7.30) Blue Bloods (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) Movie: Zack and Miri Make a Porno (TV2, 8.50, R) SVU (TV3, 9.25, 5.1) Mr Selfridge (TV1, 9.30) Audi Quattro Winter Games (TV3, […]

TV1’s struggling Wednesday line-up will get a makeover with a new Rachel Hunter vehicle and an Australian version of Benefits Street. Rachel Hunter’s Tour of Beauty will replace the low-rating Gadget Man as Fair Go’s lead-out on August 26 while Struggle Street will take over from the sublime but neglected This Town at 8.30. Imagination TV (House House, MasterChef […]

TV One’s Sunday night premiere of belated British thriller Broadchurch helped the network to dominate primetime, albeit not as comprehensively as the previous week. Broadchurch averaged 6.2% – 8.1% of the major demographics, following the launch of Topp Country, which drew 5.6% – 8.8% after Sunday’s 8.8% – 9.9%. TV One’s line-up was especially popular with […]

TVNZ giveth and TVNZ taketh away – the same week the broadcaster debuts Broadchurch (above) more than a year after the UK, it pulls off-air mid-season its highest-rating comedy, The Big Bang Theory. The good news is TBBT’s being pre-empted temporarily because of the thrice-weekly scheduling of My Kitchen Rules. MKR’s variable running times have thrown […]