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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 [...]

The new-look Go Girls appears to be losing old fans rather than gaining new ones. The re-cast fifth season struggled out of the gate last week and last night shed more viewers, despite a celebrity guest turn by One News anchor Simon Dallow. It averaged 6.9% – 8.9% of the major demographics, which is a [...]

Tonight at 8.35 TV2 will air an hour ahead of TV3′s highly anticipated new drama Harry the highest-rating Big Bang Theory episode in US TV history. The Bakersfield Expedition was the first BBT episode in the show’s six-year run to top a stratospheric 20 million viewers. It strands Leonard, Sheldon, Howard and Raj in the [...]

The year’s first hour-long “winter” edition of Shortland Street led to the lowest ratings yet for The X Factor NZ. Monday’s episode still rated extraordinarily well for its TV3 time slot, averaging 8.1% – 11.2% of the major demographics. But it was dwarfed by Shortland Street’s 16.6% – 27.5%, with the serial’s viewership peaking in [...]

In a busy weekend for network HD movie premieres, Bridesmaids was the winner. TV3 bowed Bridesmaids after Sunday’s X Factor NZ, where it averaged 6.9% – 8.5% of the key demos to largely win its slot. It was most popular with adults 18-39 and seesawed with TV One’s Packed to the Rafters and TV2’s movie [...]

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) Saving Gen-Y (TV3, 7.30) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) Network Movie Premiere: Predicament (TV One, 10.35) MasterChef NZ (TV [...]

TV3’s Bones double-bill strategy went from zero to hero in a week. Pairing a season-six re-run with a season-eight first-run episode seemed risky, especially after the first teaming tanked in the ratings. But last night the Bones re-run narrowly out-rated TV2’s Embarrassing Bodies Live From the Clinic with adults 18-49 and 25-54, the demographics that [...]

Holy HD superheroes! TV2 will launch its latest HD fantasy drama, Arrow, the same week it repeats in HD two Batman movies and a futuristic gaming thriller. Batman Forever will air midday Sunday and The Dark Knight as The Sunday Premiere Movie, ahead of Gamer at 11.40. Arrow will go to air 9.15 Monday before [...]

Tuesday’s debut of the new-look Go Girls won its slot but rated sharply lower than 2012’s season-four premiere. The long-running HD hit averaged 10.0% of TV2’s target audience, adults 18-39, compared to 16.2% for last year’s launch. This was reflected in other demographics, too: 9.7% of adults 18-49 (vs 13.0% last year); 9.5% of adults [...]

The Blue Rose ends its run tonight (TV3, 9.45) within 24 hours of the next season of Go Girls going to air and barely two days ahead of its release on DVD. While the HD drama misses out on Blu-ray distribution, the DVD set is beautifully packaged with an inner and outer sleeve, and includes [...]