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Ratings continue to collapse for one of Three’s brightest 2019 drama hopes, Magnum P.I.. Wednesday’s episode sunk to season lows in all the core commercial demographics. It averaged only 1.9% of Three’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, off the back of 6.2% for lead-in Lego Masters Australia. This shocking fall-off was reflected in the other key demos, […]

   Thursday continues to be Three’s most vulnerable weeknight after asserting its dominance on Sundays and Mondays with Dancing With the Stars, on Wednesdays with its newest ratings phenomenon, Lego Masters Australia, and keeping competitive on Tuesdays with Lost & Found. But Thursdays have long been its Achilles heel, with comedy series like Jono and […]

TVNZ 2 has axed twice-weekly broadcasts of Whiskey Cavalier the same week it launched them. As of next week, the low-rating spy romp will revert to once-a-week airings, but in a later slot: 9.35 Wednesdays instead of 8.30 Wednesdays. Why the network ever thought it would work in peak hour two nights in a row […]

TVNZ 2’s carefully calculated strategy to launch Whiskey Cavalier with three episodes in one week was undone by the Christchurch mosque shootings — and cost the spy romp when it did premiere on Wednesday. The single-episode debut averaged only 2.2% of TVNZ 2’s target audience, 18-49 year-olds, and 3.0% of 25-54 year-olds. It out-rated TVNZ […]

TVNZ 2 has opted to proceed with this week’s launch of Whiskey Cavalier — despite pulling the originally scheduled double-episode premiere on Sunday because it was deemed inappropriate in the wake of the Christchurch mosque shootings. The first episode will screen 8.30 tomorrow in what will be its weekly Wednesday slot. Whiskey Cavalier is an […]

➢➢ Modern Dinosaurs (Prime, 7.30 Sundays from March 17) is a series from Making Movies (New Zealand From Above, Beneath New Zealand) in which kiwi creatures get top billing. The first episode covers the tuatara and the second, the kiwi. Reads the blurb: “How did the tuatara survive when most dinosaurs were driven to oblivion? […]