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New Zealand’s definitive free-to-air guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i: Saturday NZ’s Got Talent (TV One, 4.55, R) TradeZone Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.30, R) Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook: Simple Pleasures (TV One, 7.00) ITM Fishing Show (TV3, 7.00) CSI: New York (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) CSI: Miami (TV3 9.30, 5.1) Homeland (TV3, 10.30, 5.1, R) Revolution (TV2, 11.05, 5.1, R) [...]

Despite NZ’s Got Talent storming the ratings on Sunday, HD stablemates Nothing Trivial and Offspring enjoyed only modest lifts in viewership. Nothing Trivial averaged 5.6% – 9.1% of key demographics, compared to 5.0% – 8.3% the previous week, and Offspring 3.3% – 6.8% (vs 3.1% – 6.4% for the season premiere). The biggest winner of [...]

NZ’s Got Talent shot up the ratings charts, with its Sunday night premiere drawing an awesome 21.4% of TV One’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds. That’s as jaw-dropping as some of the acts that featured on this crowd-pleasing sensation, which had even veteran reviewer Colin Hogg, of the NZ Herald, dubbing it ”more than entertaining enough to [...]

Season Pemiere: Shameless (TV2, 11.30, 5.1) It’s summertime and the Gallaghers are hustling. Far better than the UK original, this “black-as-coal comedy” returns for another late-night HD run. One US critic reckons summer brings out the best in the Gallaghers: “The warm weather brings with it a slightly more relaxed tone. The Gallaghers are still under constant threat [...]

SoHo Highlight: Hell on Wheels (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) “Slaughterhouse focuses on the repercussions of Elam killing Schmidt, the man who killed a prostitute, for Lily,” says Paste magazine. “The easiest show to compare Hell on Wheels to has been Deadwood, clearly, but Slaughterhouse somewhat distinguishes it from that show, probably more than any other episode has before. With [...]

The live season finale of The Block NZ helped TV3 to win the night on Thursday but couldn’t turn its new musical drama into a smash hit. The Block NZ averaged 11.4% – 15.8% of the key demographics, peaking with 22% of household shoppers and 19% of 25-54 year-olds in its last quarter-hour. It largely [...]

NZ’s definitive fee-to-air guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i:   Saturday NZ’s Got Talent (TV One, 4.55, R) TradeZone Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.00, R) Hyundai Country Calendar (TV One, 7.00) ITM Fishing Show (TV3, 7.00) CSI: New York (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) CSI: Miami (TV3 9.30, 5.1) Sunday Operation Hero (TV2, 4.00) Hunger for the Wild (TV One, 4.25, R) Let’s Get Inventin’ (TV2, [...]

SoHo Highlight: Boss (Sky 10, 8.35, 5.1) Better With Popcorn says episode two of the Kelsey Grammer sensation deals dramatically and emotionally with the fallout from the shooting at the end of the season premiere and whether Mayor Tom Kane’s wife, Meredith, will survive. “Politics and power grabs are mostly forgotten, at least for the first half [...]

TV3′s penultimate episode of The Block NZ helped the network to win Wednesday night but couldn’t stop viewers from deserting its new drama series, The Killing. The whodunit that originally aired on SoHo averaged 5.6% – 7.7% of key demographics, which is a strong result for a 9.30 drama on TV3. But viewership halved over [...]

It was inevitable – two of the biggest talent quests on US TV soon will go head-to-head here in the HD hot seat. TV2 will launch season two of The Voice with a three-hour special opposite TV3’s second weekly episode of The X Factor USA on September 21. Something similar happened in the UK earlier this [...]