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TV2’s network movie premiere of Jack Reacher on Sunday easily won its slot in all the commercial demographics but TV3’s new-look line-up is out-rating TV1’s. The Tom Cruise hit averaged 6.3% – 8.6% off the back off another network premiere, Planes (3.2% – 7.3%). The Disney ‘toon rated above 3.6% only among household shoppers with kids […]

The Lone Ranger may have been a box office disaster for Disney but its network movie premiere romped home in the ratings for TV2. It averaged 5.4% – 9.2% of the commercial demographics on Sunday and left the competition in the dust. The Western movie got a running start from lead-in Shrek averaging a monstrous 6.8% – 10.8%. […]

TV Preview: Winter | TV1, 8.30 Sunday As a police officer Rebecca Gibney likes to play things by the book. In Winter, where she’s reprising the role of Detective Sergeant Eve Winter, the book is Standard Police Procedural Jargon for Television. Not that it matters, because Winter (the show) is a whodunit and snappy original dialogue only gets in the way, […]

NZ’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly on the networks in 1080i Saturday Rheem Outdoors With Geoff (TV3, 5.00) Storage Hunters (TV3, 5.30, 5.1, R) Hyundai Country Calendar (TV1, 7.00) Movie: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (TV2, 7.00, R) The Simpsons (TV3, 7.00, 5.1, R) American Ninja Warrior (TV3, 7.30) Blue Bloods (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) SVU (TV3, 9.25, 5.1) […]