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Arrow continues to fly high on TV2, with Wednesday’s episode drawing 2-4 times the viewership of the competition on TV One and TV3. It averaged 9.7% – 13.6% of the major demographics, which is phenomenal for a 9.30 drama. Arrow’s popularity also is helping to boost viewership of lead-out Revolution, which averaged an unusually high [...]

Episode two of TV3’s widely acclaimed HD commission Harry was skewered by episode two of TV2’s new HD hit, Arrow. The latter delivered spectacular ratings for the 9.30 hour, averaging 9.2% – 12.2% of the major demographics. That was 2-3 times the viewership of Harry, which averaged only 4.0% – 4.9% compared to 4.1% – [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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) MasterChef NZ (TV One, 9.30, R) CSI: New York (TV3, [...]

Get ready for a Kiwi HD comedy gala. The same week a new-look Go Girls (above) premieres on TV2, TV3 will screen in HD the stand-up special 2013 Comedy Gala and 7 Days spin-off Ben and Steve: World Famous In … From April 30 season five of Go Girls replaces Revenge (which replaces the low-rating Rookie Blue three episodes shy [...]

TVNZ has announced the latest series of its HD hit, Go Girls, will start filming next week with a largely new cast.  According to the press release, “Now that Amy, Britta, Brad, Cody, Olivia and Kevin have successfully navigated their way through the minefield of their 20s, season five will introduce new friends who decide [...]

Sunday’s premiere of Golden (TV3, 7.00), which has been dubbed a “flabby” Kath & Kim wannabe, spearheads an upsurge in free-to-air HD commissions. It screened ahead of the HD true-crime dramatisation, Siege (TV One, 8.30), followed Saturday’s premiere of Judy Bailey’s Australia and precedes Tuesday night’s HD newcomer Highway Cops (but not, inexplicably, stablemate Radar Across the Pacific). This [...]

TV3′s Funny Roots made a solid if unspectacular debut on Tuesday, largely improving on lead-in Target but unable to threaten TV One’s MasterChef NZ or TV2′s Suburgatory. It averaged 7.2% of TV3′s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, compared with the second half of MasterChef’s 15.9% and Suburgatory’s 9.8%. The 18-49 rating was 6.6% versus MasterChef’s 13.5% [...]