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TV3’s rescheduling of Monday night’s X Factor NZ paid off, with the ratings up sharply on the previous week’s season low. The first live results show averaged 9.6% – 10.3% of the major demographics compared to 6.8% – 8.5% a week earlier. Although this was no match for My Kitchen Rules (15.9% – 23.6%), with [...]

Sunday’s MasterChef NZ and the first live X Factor NZ split the key demographics but TV2 won the rest of the night with its network HD premiere of Red Riding Hood. MasterChef averaged 10.2% – 13.7%, which was up on the previous week’s 8.1% – 12.0%, and X Factor, over its two-hour broadcast, 11.2% – 14.4%, [...]

NZ’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i on the networks:   Saturday Trade Zone Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.00) ITM Fishing Show (TV3, 5.30) Country Calendar (TV One, 7.00) MasterChef MasterClass (TV One, 7.30) Network Movie Premiere: Tron: Legacy (TV2, 7.00, 5.1) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) CSI: New York (TV3, 9.30, 5.1) Law & Order: Los Angeles (TV3, 11.30, [...]

New HD drawcards for the last week of May are limited to the fifth season premiere of Castle and the network premiere of Tron: Legacy. Castle will return to its 9.30 Monday slot on TV One, picking up from where the fourth season left off. It opens the morning after Richard Castle and Kate Beckett’s [...]

Episode two of TV3’s widely acclaimed HD commission Harry was skewered by episode two of TV2’s new HD hit, Arrow. The latter delivered spectacular ratings for the 9.30 hour, averaging 9.2% – 12.2% of the major demographics. That was 2-3 times the viewership of Harry, which averaged only 4.0% – 4.9% compared to 4.1% – [...]

TV2 was on the mark with Monday’s premiere of superhero thriller Arrow. Thanks to savvy scheduling, delaying Arrow’s NZ premiere by seven months doesn’t appear to have dented its appeal On the back of top ratings for the hour-long Shortland Street and My Kitchen Rules, it averaged 9.1% – 14.8% of the key demographics, which [...]

NZ’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i on the networks:   Saturday Trade Zone Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.00) ITM Fishing Show (TV3, 5.30) Country Calendar (TV One, 7.00) MasterChef MasterClass (TV One, 7.30) Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway (TV2, 7.30, F) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) Movie: I Am Legend (TV2, 8.45 5.1, R) Arrow (TV2, [...]

On the eve of its “upfront” new season previews to advertisers, media and broadcasters from around the world, the US networks today announced a slew of cancellations, renewals and commissions. Of the series that air here in HD, gone are: Touch (although star Kiefer Sutherland may return in a 24 spin-off), Southland, Smash, Go On, [...]

TV3 will be happy with the ratings for Wednesday’s series premiere of high-risk Kiwi crime drama Harry. It averaged 4.1% – 7.1% of the major demographics and won the 9.30 hour with adults 18-49 and 25-54, no mean feat given it was “gritty, downbeat stuff” and TV One and TV2 had higher-rating leads-in. Moreover, viewership in [...]

TV3 will broadcast its first live X Factor NZ as a two-hour special on May 19, prompting TV2 to push back its network HD premiere of the movie, Red Riding Hood, to 9.00 that night. Clearly, and with good reason, TV2 fears starting the Sunday Premiere Movie at the usual hour of 8.30, opposite the [...]