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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 [...]

NZ’s definitive free-to-air guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i on the networks: Saturday Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.30) Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook: Simple Pleasures (TV One, 7.00, F) The Voice (TV2, 7.30) Ice Road Truckers (TV3, 7.30, 5.1) CSI: New York (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) CSI: Miami (TV3 9.25, 5.1) Pan Am (TV One, 9.35, 5.1) Homeland (TV3, 10.25, 5.1, R) Sunday [...]

TV One’s new HD drama Alcatraz scarcely proved a breakout hit when it debuted on Wednesday. It averaged 2.3% – 6.4% of key demographics, and was most popular with the network’s target audience, 25-54 -year-olds. Dominion Post TV Critic Jane Clifton dubbed it a “satisfying little pocket version of Lost … Though obviously hokem, it’s [...]

TV3 will use it summer afternoon schedule to run out, three years after its launch in the US, the crime caper White Collar. The USA Network hit has completed four seasons. The first two already are out here on DVD and the third releases next month. About an ex-con who helps the FBI to solve [...]

NZ’s definitive free-to-air guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i on the networks:   Saturday NZ’s Got Talent (TV One, 4.55, R, F) Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.30) Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook: Simple Pleasures (TV One, 7.00) On the Grill (TV3, 7.00, F) The Voice (TV2, 7.30) New season: Ice Road Truckers (TV3, 7.30, 5.1) CSI: New York (TV3, 8.30, [...]

The return of the Auckland-based Zoo on Sunday walloped TV3′s Aussie variation, Wildlife at the Zoo. The season premiere averaged 6.3% – 11.2% of the key demographics compared to the competition’s 3.3% – 6.1%. The Zoo preceded the two-hour semi-final of  NZ’s Got Talent, which averaged an untouchable 10.9% – 18.8%. Saturday’s HD premiere of [...]

Is Homeland, which continues tonight (TV3, 8.35), on the verge of blowing itself up? That’s the question The Hollywood Reporter posed after last week’s episode. “Homeland Red Flags: Will It Crash and Burn or Soar to Greatness?” was the headline for critic Tim Goodman’s review. He went on to argue “several plot developments threaten to [...]

NZ’s definitive free-to-air guide to what’s screening nightly in 1080i: Saturday NZ’s Got Talent (TV One, 4.55, R) Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.30) Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook: Simple Pleasures (TV One, 7.00) On the Grill (TV3, 7.00) The Voice (TV2, 7.30) CSI: New York (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) CSI: Miami (TV3 9.30, 5.1) Homeland (TV3, 10.30, 5.1, R) Movie: Someone Like You [...]

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 [...]

New Zealand’s definitive free-to-air guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i: Saturday NZ’s Got Talent (TV One, 4.55, R) Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.30) Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook: Simple Pleasures (TV One, 7.00) On the Grill (TV3, 7.00) CSI: New York (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) CSI: Miami (TV3 9.30, 5.1) Homeland (TV3, 10.30, 5.1, R) Sunday The Fresh Prince of Bel Air (TV2, [...]