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Sunday’s MasterChef NZ and the first live X Factor NZ split the key demographics but TV2 won the rest of the night with its network HD premiere of Red Riding Hood. MasterChef averaged 10.2% – 13.7%, which was up on the previous week’s 8.1% – 12.0%, and X Factor, over its two-hour broadcast, 11.2% – 14.4%, [...]

TV2 was on the mark with Monday’s premiere of superhero thriller Arrow. Thanks to savvy scheduling, delaying Arrow’s NZ premiere by seven months doesn’t appear to have dented its appeal On the back of top ratings for the hour-long Shortland Street and My Kitchen Rules, it averaged 9.1% – 14.8% of the key demographics, which [...]

TV3 won the ratings in all the key demographics on Sunday with its HD double-bill of The X Factor NZ and 2013 International Comedy Special. The former averaged 11.6% – 14.1% over 90 minutes — the same as for its premiere — and the latter, 10.0% – 12.4% over two hours. The comedy special screened [...]

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′s HD transmissions of Alice in Wonderland and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King won their time slots in most of the key demographics. Sunday’s Alice averaged 8.3% – 10.3% opposite TV3′s HD re-run of Madagascar (4.8% – 6.1%) while Friday’s King drew 5.0% – 8.0% over its four-hour broadcast. King’s [...]

It looks like “Good night, nurse’” for Jackie after Monday’s final episode sunk to a season (if not series) low. The double-episode send-off averaged a sickly 1.0% – 3.6% of the major demographics, and rated only 1.6% of TV3’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds. This was off the back of 3.9% – 7.8% — and 25-54 [...]

Spectacular ratings for the NZ’s Got Talent finale barely breathed new life into the dead-on-arrival whodunit, Vera. TV One premiered Vera to dismal Friday night ratings mid-year and clearly hoped a bonanza audience for Talent would help to relaunch the Brenda Blethyn mystery series. But whereas Talent averaged 13.3% – 21.4% of the major demographics, [...]

Sunday’s HD premiere of The Zoo finished behind The Big Bang Theory but ahead of Modern Family. It averaged 7.1% – 10.1 of the key demographics compared to Bang’s 9.3% – 12.5% and Family’s 4.3% – 6.3%. Predictably, TV One’s repeat of the Katherine Mansfield drama, Bliss, averaged only 2.7% – 4.3% against movies on [...]

Network Movie: Blood Diamond (TV One, 9.30, 5.1) This is an exciting, suspenseful dramatisation of how the illegal diamond trade fueled civil war in Sierra Leone. While director Edward Zwick glamourises the horrors with a rich vein of Hollywood hokum that emphasises adventure over agenda, not even the 24-carat casting of Leonardo DiCaprio as a fearless rogue and [...]

Sky Movies: Unstoppable (Sky 20, 8.30, 5.1) The Taking of Pelham 123’s Tony Scott and Denzel Washington reunite on another train thriller, about a veteran engineer and a novice conductor (Chris Pine) who try to stop a runaway freight train carrying toxic chemicals from going off the rails. Unstoppable shows why Scott is the world’s top action director – it [...]