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The wisdom of Three’s new Sunday night movie strategy — playing female-skewed titles after Married at First Sight NZ — will need revising after TVNZ 2 pummelled Me Before You with Jack Reacher: Never Go Back. The Tom Cruise sequel won its slot in all the core commercial demographics on Sunday. It averaged 5.4% of […]

Costume drama Vanity Fair opened modestly for TVNZ 1, with Sunday’s premiere averaging 3.1% of 25-54 year-olds and Monday’s second episode, 3.8%. Sunday’s viewership was nearly two points lower than the previous Sunday’s Curious Mind finale and slumped from 5.0% to 2.0% opposite Three’s Mean Mums (5.8%) and the first hour of Keeping Up With the Joneses […]

Vanity Fair | TVNZ 1, 8.30 Sunday & Monday ➢➢ “Does the world need another adaptation of Vanity Fair? On the strength of this start to ITV’s new series, the answer would have to be yes. It feels as energetic and sparkly as a social climber’s zeal … This seven-part series has been made with Amazon […]

➢➢ TVNZ 1 is so determined to make Vanity Fair a hit that it will screen the first two episodes on consecutive nights and repeat them late-night. The costume drama will premiere on September 23, in an 8.30 Sunday slot, continue 8.30 Monday and repeat in a two-hour block after Deep State on September 29. […]

TVNZ has bought the ITV costume drama Vanity Fair at the MIPTV market. The seven-part series, which is an Amazon Studios co-production with Mammoth Screen (Victoria, Poldark), stars Bates Motel’s Olivia Cooke as the heroine of  William Makepeace Thackeray’s literary classic, which was published 170 years ago. Martin Clunes, Suranne Jones, Michael Palin and Penny […]