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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, [...]

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 [...]

TV3’s punt on pairing new episodes of Bones with two-year-old re-runs flopped Thursday, when the repeat hour shed half the viewership of its lead-in. It was the second consecutive ratings bust in 24 hours for TV3, with the second edition of 3rd Degree’s The Vote faring as badly as the first. Executives will be busy [...]

A week ahead of TV3 running two episodes back to back, Bones out-rated HD rival Once Upon a Time in all of the major demographics. The two series have been seesawing in the ratings for the past month. Last night Bones averaged 6.0% – 9.2% versus 4.8% – 9.1% for Time. But it couldn’t match SD [...]

TV3 will use the first NZ version of The X Factor to give Sunday nights a tune-up. The 90-minute premiere will screen, as ScreenScribe.tv contributor Leo Styles predicted, on April 21, from 7.00-8.30, ahead of the network HD premiere of Sione’s 2: Unfinished Business. X Factor will screen twice weekly, with the second episode airing [...]

TV2 viewers weren’t carried away by Saturday’s HD premiere of Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway. It rated as poorly as the series it replaced, Two and a Half Men (re-runs) and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. The variety hour averaged only 3.3% of TV2′s target audience, adults 18-39, and was most popular with household shoppers: [...]

TV3′s Bones showed its true colours on Thursday, when the 150th episode rated higher than usual to average 6.7% – 12.0% of the key demographics. It was out-rated by TV One’s SD comedies Miranda and Mrs Brown’s Boys but The Ghost in the Machine, which guest starred singer Cyndi Lauper, pipped TV2′s Once Upon a [...]

TV3′s Sons of Anarchy is accelerating in the ratings, with Wednesday’s episode largely winning the 9.30 hour. It averaged 5.6% – 10.0% of the key demographics, overtaking TV2′s Hell’s Kitchen, which out-rated it the previous week, and only losing ground to TV One’s Undercover Boss in the 18-39 demo. The bikie gang drama’s escalating popularity [...]

Thursday’s season-two premiere of Once Upon a Time easily won the 8.30 hour against two other HD dramas, Agent Anna and Bones. It averaged 9.0% – 12.6% of the major demographics, compared to 11.0% – 15.7% for last season’s premiere, and was well ahead of the competition among household shoppers and TV2′s target audience, 18-39 [...]

Thursday’s HD premiere of Robyn Malcolm’s first NZ drama series since Outrageous Fortune didn’t rate through the roof for TV One but still proved a sound investment. Agent Anna, a comedy about a fledgling, middle-aged real estate agent, averaged 4.4% – 11.0% of the key demographics, including 8.6% of TV One’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds. [...]