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TV2 has axed Sunday HD comedy Anger Management after a second consecutive week of the kind of ratings that make TV executives see red. From this Sunday it’s replacing the Charlie Sheen sitcom and its SD stablemate, Fool Britannia, with re-runs of Renters. Both were beaten at the weekend by TV3′s The Simpsons and Family [...]

In a shocking ratings switcheroo, Sunday’s Simpsons hour on TV3 out-rated TV2’s comedy line-up. The Simpsons re-run at 7.00 averaged 5.5% – 8.1% of the key demographics to beat another repeat of The Big Bang Theory from episode one, season one (4.3% – 6.4%). And the original 7.30 broadcast (5.4% – 7.4%) drew up to [...]

TV2 will premiere season two of Anger Management the same weekend it re-sumes re-runs of star Charlie Sheen’s first sitcom sensation, Two and a Half Men. Anger Management will screen in a new slot — 8.00 Sundays — from February 17 while season two of Two and a Half Men will air 7.00 Saturdays. TV2 [...]

Fringe ends its fourth season tonight (TV2, 10.35) ahead of its postponed Blu-ray release. The set was meant to have gone on sale this month but has been rescheduled for November. Said Entertainment Weekly of the season closure: “Fringe has taken risks, repeatedly over the seasons, with the riff of bringing characters back to life, if [...]

TV2 wants its Revolution to rule. The network is using the two-hour season finale of top-rating My Kitchen Rules to launch one of US TV’s hottest new hits on October 16 (both programmes will pre-empt The Mentalist and Body of Proof). Twenty-four hours later, it will screen a second episode in the 9.30 Wednesday slot where Revolution is [...]

Wednesday’s premiere of Charlie Sheen’s new HD sitcom, Anger Management, didn’t make as big a bang in the ratings as predecessor Two and a Half Men. It won its 8.30 slot with TV2’s target audience, 18-39 year-olds (12.1%), but drew with TV3’s Grand Designs Revisited among 18-49 year-olds (11.0%) and lost in the 25-54 (9.9%) [...]

Season Premiere: Anger Management (TV2, 8.30, 5.1) Charlie Sheen plays a baseball player with anger issues-turned-anger management therapist who decides to return to therapy after a bad run-in with his ex-wife’s new boyfriend. “The accomplishment here is that tight writing and editing, a solid cast with good timing and Mr Sheen’s chops as the ne plus ultra of [...]

New Zealand’s definitive free-to-air guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i:  Saturday Judy Bailey’s Australia (TV One, 4.55) TradeZone Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.00) 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 Girl vs Boy (TV2, 5.00) Hart of Dixie (TV2, 5.30, 5.1) The War at Home (TV2, 6.30, [...]

Anger management is what Episodes fans will have to practice. The same week TV2 launches in HD the new Charle Sheen sitcom, Anger Management, TV  One is quitting Episodes only two episodes into its second season. The only justification to delay screening this Bafta-winner for so long was so TV One could air both short-run [...]