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TV3 is pulling The Slap mid-season from 8.30 Wednesdays and replacing it with an SD re-run of Grand Designs Revisited. The changeover occurs this week, when the HD Australian drama will shift to 9.35 Wednesday for the fourth of eight episodes, replacing Breakout Kings. It’s disappointing a drama of The Slap’s calibre hasn’t been able [...]

After a slow start, Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms has kick-started its ratings. Wednesday’s episode three was the highest rating yet, averaging 8.8%-10.4% of the major demographics compared to 6.5%-7.8% the previous week. While it was still miles behind TV2’s HD comedy duo of The Big Bang Theory and Happy Endings, it overtook TV One’s [...]

TV3′s Breakout Kings posted its highest ratings yet on Wednesday with the episode that guest starred Robert Knepper in a reprisal of his T-Bag role from Prison Break. It averaged 6.5%-7.8% of the key demographics to finish a competitive third in the 9.30 hour, but won it with males aged 25-54 (9.0%). Breakout Kings’ lead-in was [...]

Season Highlight: Breakout Kings (TV3, 9.30, 5.1) The jury’s still out on whether this lighthearted crime drama will go the full term. But episode three’s a must-see for Prison Break fans as it guest stars Robert Knepper in a reprisal of his T-Bag role. The murderous sociopath again has escaped and this time is out to [...]

Wednesday’s premiere of Breakout Kings was not a breakout hit. Like last year’s The Borgias, it failed to capitalise on the following Sons of Anarchy developed in the same slot. It averaged only 4.5%-5.4% of the key demographics off the back of a season finale flop for The Almighty Johnsons. The Kiwi show that the [...]

Series Premiere: Breakout Kings (TV3, 9.30, 5.1) US Marshals form a special team of convicts that have previously escaped from prison to help track down other prison escapees. Like TV2 with GCB, TV3 is debuting this lighthearted action hour within days of its cancellation in the US. However, it was popular enough to last two seasons and earned largely grudging [...]

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) Series return: Ice Road Truckers (TV3, 7.30, 5.1) Series return: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) Sunday Pretty Little Liars (TV2, 5.30, 5.1) The War at Home (TV2, 6.30, R) The Food Truck (TV One, [...]

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 [...]