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Strongman – The Tragedy proved to be just that for TV3 in the ratings, with the 90-minute special finishing a distant third in its 7pm Sunday slot. It averaged 5.6% of the network’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, compared to the 10.5% TV One’s The Food Truck and Sunday drew, and 4.3%-4.9% of other key demographics. Strongman [...]

SoHo Highlight: Game of Thrones (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) Theon completes his master stroke; in King’s Landing, the Lannisters send Myrcella from harm’s way just in time; Dany vows to take what is hers;  Qhorin gives Jon a chance to prove himself. “After last week’s slightly slow episode – which had the feeling that it was [...]

SoHo Highlight: Magic City (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) Series premiere: Ike Evans, owner of Miami’s most glamorous hotel, needs his 1958 New Year’s Eve concert to be a smash — so to ensure its success, he makes a deal with a mobster. “After an episode or two, when you sort out the characters and how their lives [...]

SoHo Highlight: Mad Men (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) Said The Hollywood Reporter of episode five: “In a rousing return to form, the Far Away Places episode of Mad Men was its most ambitious this season and one that, given the last couple of overly-obvious efforts, would normally cause serious worry about its ability to pull off not only [...]

Replacing its Thursday line-up with a movie had mixed results for TV One. The network HD premiere of The Hurt Locker averaged 7.3% of TV One’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, over two-and-a-half hours. That’s higher than the 6.0% average the previous week but the first hour rated lower than the last episode of The Chawners’ Last [...]

Season Premiere: Sherlock (TV One, 8.30) A case of blackmail threatens to topple the monarchy itself, but the treachery goes even deeper as Holmes and Watson battle international terrorism, rogue CIA agents, and a secret conspiracy involving the British government. “Sherlock is back on our screens and this time it’s even sexier than before,” The Independent said. “Especially, for [...]

TV3 hopes it will have a breakout hit in Sons of Anarchy successor Breakout Kings, which will premiere 9.30pm on May 23. The HD drama from the producers of Prison Break updates the it-takes-a-thief-to-catch-a-thief scenario by teaming recidivist prison escapees with US Marshals to capture other convicts on the lam. While critics were divided over [...]

SoHo Highlights: Girls/Veep (Sky 10, 8.30/9.00, 5.1) New girl power double-bill that should delight fans of hits as diverse as Sex & the City and The Thick Of It. Girls concerns four young New Yorkers who are lower down the the socio-economic scale than Carrie and co but confronting the same dating and identity issues. As creator and star Lena Dunham told Time magazine about [...]

New Zealand’s definitive free-to-air guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i: Saturday TradeZone Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.30) Hyundai Country Calendar (TV One, 7.00) ITM Fishing Show (TV3, 7.00) Terra Nova (TV3, 7.30, 5.1, F) Movie: Alien vs Predator: Requiem (TV3, 8.30, 5.1, R) Movie: A Serious Man (TV3, 10.30, 5.1,R) Sunday Pretty Little Liars (TV2, 5.30, 5.1) The War at Home (TV2, 6.30, [...]

TV3′s Funny Roots made a solid if unspectacular debut on Tuesday, largely improving on lead-in Target but unable to threaten TV One’s MasterChef NZ or TV2′s Suburgatory. It averaged 7.2% of TV3′s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, compared with the second half of MasterChef’s 15.9% and Suburgatory’s 9.8%. The 18-49 rating was 6.6% versus MasterChef’s 13.5% [...]