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NZ’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i on the networks: Saturday Season premiere: Country Calendar (TV One, 7.00) Ice Road Truckers (TV3, 7.30, 5.1, F) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) CSI: New York (TV3, 9.30, 5.1) MasterChef NZ (TV One, 9.35, R) Pan Am (TV One, 10.35, 5.1, F) Movie: Boy (TV One, 11.30) Law & Order: [...]

TV3 will relaunch Hawaii Five-O late-night Wednesdays from March 27 but the bad news for fans is the episodes won’t be new. Like The Good Wife, with which NZ lags two seasons behind the US, the network is inexplicably delaying the resumption of overdue first-run eps. The reboot of the ’60s cop show is into its [...]

Tuesday’s HD premiere of Highway Cops got off to a fast start in the ratings while those Hawaii cops from Five-O at last showed signs of turning the corner. TV One’s reality newcomer averaged 10.0%-12.9% of the major demographics and dented TV3′s Funny Roots (4.9%-6.3%) more than it did Suburgatory (9.3%-14.0%). It was most popular [...]

Season Highlight: The Closer (TV One, 11.00, 5.1) The squad investigates the death of a 12-year-old boy whose father and brother are both gang members. The boy is found dead in a known gang party house, but soon the case includes two more bodies at a different house related to the same crime. Meanwhile, Fritz brings home a [...]

TV One’s MasterChef NZ finale sconed the competition on Tuesday but ratings were still relatively high for HD comedies The Middle and Suburgatory. However, it proved a disastrous night for TV3 to try to relaunch Hawaii Five-O off the back of NCIS. The latter had been rating strongly in recent weeks but against the second [...]

Season Premiere: Hawaii Five-O (TV3, 9.30, 5.1) The reboot that bombed in different time slots last year returns to ride the ratings wave of NCIS. The second season opens with McGarrett in prison awaiting trial for the governor’s murder, with Kono suspended from the force pending an internal investigation. “What makes the show so much fun to [...]

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) Ice Road Truckers (TV3, 7.30, 5.1) 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) Premiere: Surviving Teen Driving With Nigel Latta  (TV [...]

Hawaii Five-O fans frustrated by time slot changes and pre-emptions will be heartened to hear TV3 hasn’t yet washed its hands of the splashy crime show. TV3 is taking it off-air after next week and replacing it with the Underbelly Files movie, Tell Them Lucifier Was Here. Although Underbelly is one of the network’s most [...]

Friends (TV2, 6.30, R) Phoebe and her half-brother have trouble bonding; Joey attempts to build an entertainment centre; Ross is challenged to name the five celebrities he’d most like to sleep with. Two and a Half Men (TV2, 7.30) Charlie and Alan try to set up their mother with Russell, the pharmacist. Politically Incorrect Guide [...]

Another of TV2′s HD flagships, Go Girls, took a hit this week when Tuesday’s episode rated several points lower than the previous week’s. Even with TV2′s target audience, 18-39 year-olds, it slipped dramatically, from 16.7% a week earlier to 12.8%. It also was down sharply among 18-49 and 25-54 year-olds, and household shoppers with kids. [...]