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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 […]

Upstart Crow (TVNZ 1, 9.10 Thursdays) “Upstart Crow is a knockabout, well-researched take on the working and domestic life of Shakespeare, which fudges his timeline to allow scenes in both Stratford-upon-Avon with his family, and with his theatrical muckers in London … Even if your knowledge of Elizabethan domesticity is scant, Elton’s new family sitcom is […]

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 […]

   Victoria: Eight-part drama about the early life of Queen Victoria, from the ascension to the throne at the age of 18 to her courtship and marriage to Prince Albert. Jenna Coleman (Doctor Who) stars. One of Us: Gripping  thriller that centres around a horrific double murder which rocks the lives of two families living side-by-side in rural Scotland. Upstart […]