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The season nine premiere of Grey’s Anatomy largely won its slot in key demographics on Monday. But the last half-hour of The X Factor NZ proved too irresistible, with viewers switching over in the middle section of the hospital soap to see the talent quest’s double-elimination round. Grey’s Anatomy averaged 9.6% – 14.5% of the key [...]

TV2 will air an adults-only episode of Two And A Half Men at 9.00 on June 12. The plot revolves around Alan agreeing to a threesome with Lyndsey and Walden, and has the less-than-subtle title of Four Balls, Two Bats and One Mitt (taken from Alan’s description of Lyndsey’s idea of a threesome). Despite the titillation factor, [...]

TV3′s faith in its HD commission, The Blue Rose, was rewarded on Monday when it flowered in the face of fierce competition from TVNZ’s HD incumbents. Unusually for a local drama, TV3 launched it at 8.30, in an exceptionally tough primetime slot opposite Criminal Minds and Grey’s Anatomy. Typically, the network likes to bed in [...]

TV3′s HD premiere of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader out-rated most of the competition on Monday. It averaged 7.0% – 10.1% of the key demographics, compared to 4.9% – 7.5% for the return of Criminal Minds on TV One and 6.6% – 9.9% for Grey’s Anatomy on TV2. Viewership built [...]

Monday’s return of Shortland Street resuscitated TV2′s 7pm ratings while TV3′s HD premiere of Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief was a hit with the network’s target audiences. Shortland Street’ hour-long season premiere averaged a whopping 17.4% – 19.4% of the key demographics and helped to deliver strong sampling of Mr T’s World’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 [...]

Homeland’s been renewed for a third season but it’s unlikely to return in a plum primetime slot if its ratings don’t improve. While the Emmy-winner has hit a series high in the US, on TV3 it comes up sharply short against TV2’s Grey’s Anatomy and TV One’s Beyond the Darklands. True, that’s exceptionally tough competition [...]

Who can blame TV One for dumbing down its programming when top dramas on TV3 continue to languish for the audience they deserve? Monday’s Homeland drew a third to a half of the viewership that tuned into TV2’s Grey’s Anatomy. It averaged 4.0% – 6.0% of the key demographics compared to Grey’s 8.5% – 11.2%. [...]

Sky Movies subscribers will be climbing the walls in anticipation of next month’s HD premiere of Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol. It will screen on November 4 while rounding out the month will be the HD debuts of Moneyball (21st) and The War Horse (25th). Also making their HD bows will be: Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings, Finding [...]

Season Highlight: Grey’s Anatomy (TV2, 8.40, 5.1): It’s raining men, in this bromantic episode that revolves around a freak accident at a comic book convention that sparks a human stampede in the ER. Zombie nurses, deluded hobbits and Game of Thrones references abound. Quipped one US blogger: “All right, everybody, take your seats. I hereby [...]