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TV3’s HD premiere of the outstanding documentary, When a City Falls, had no chance against that other “big one”: TV2’s comedy block juggernaut. The two-hour special averaged 8.7% of TV3’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, compared to Two and a Half Men’s 14.4%, 2 Broke Girls’ 13.8%, The Big Bang Theory’s 14.9% and Happy Endings’ 8.8%. The numbers were mirrored […]

Movie: When a City Falls (TV3, 7.30, 5.1) Gerard Smyth’s Christchurch earthquake documentary offers a new and grass roots understanding of what happened to 500,000 New Zealanders the year their lives changed forever. When a City Falls was the fifth highest-grossing NZ release of 2011, earning more than $280,000 at the box office (it’s still screening in some centres […]

TV3 will screen in HD the Christchurch earthquake documentary, When a City Falls, on the eve of its DVD release. It will air from 7.30pm Wednesday (February 22) and, unusually for a local commission, will be broadcast in 5.1 audio. The DVD of When a City Falls goes on sale the next day, with the […]