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Homeland resurged in the ratings on Monday, averaging 8.3% of  25-54 year-olds to trail TVNZ’s HD rivals by only a couple of points. This was the gripping spy drama’s strongest performance yet with its target audience. It also scored a solid 18-49 rating — 7.4% — that put it only a point behind TV One’s [...]

SoHo Highlight: Luck (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) Ace ices out Smythe, DiRossi and Cohen as partners in the racetrack deal, but Smythe has other ideas; unable to make weight, Leon loses his mount; Joey comes through for Rosie; a stable accident jeopardises Jo’s pregnancy. Said the Wall Street Journal of the penultimate episode: “Like its two star [...]

It was good news-bad news for TV3 on Monday, with Modern Family posting its highest ratings yet but HD stablemate Homeland taking a hit after several weeks of building momentum. Modern Family was unusually competitive in all the demographics, and won its slot with 18-39 year-olds, TV2’s target audience. It averaged 8.6% of this demo [...]

SoHo Highlight: Luck (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) “I was prepared for—nay, expecting—this week’s episode of Luck to crawl toward its conclusion,” Paste magazine said. “But then Michael Gambon—dear, sweet, gentle Michael Gambon—gave us the first truly astounding ‘holy shit‘ moment of the series.” Observed New York magazine: ”Episode seven of Luck at first feels like a placeholder, until you look back over [...]

SoHo Highlight: Luck (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) As Ace pitches his deal to buy a piece of the racetrack, Israel visits Smythe, DiRossi and Cohen onboard Smythe’s yacht, where he’s offered a “second salary” as an informant; an earthquake spooks many of the horses at Santa Anita, but Escalante decides to go ahead and race Mon Gateau. [...]

SoHo Highlight: Luck (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) After learning that Pint of Plain, Gus’ Irish horse, has been tentatively scheduled to race the next day, Ace forces Escalante to swap out Leon for a more experienced jockey, to Joey’s chagrin; Marcus fears for his health and wonders why he’s so attached to Jerry, while Kagle, who’s been [...]

Series Highlight: Modern Family (TV3, 8.00, 5.1) Jay helps Manny to sell wrapping paper for a school fundraiser to teach him the value of hard work, Cam and Mitchell (above) have an Odd Couple stand-off, and Phil and Luke try to create a viral video sensation. The episode was one of season three’s best reviewed and prompted Entertainment Weekly to [...]

Who can blame the free-to-air networks for screening wall-to-wall pap when a drama as outstanding as Homeland languishes for viewers against formulaic fossils like Criminal Minds and Desperate Housewives. At least Monday’s episode held most of its 25-54 year-old gains from the previous week, averaging 6.7% of TV3′s target audience compared to Criminal Minds’ 9.5% [...]

SoHo Highlight: Luck (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) Ace enlists Nathan Israel, a cocky, young whiz kid, in his plans; Walter (Nick Nolte, above) decides to enter his colt, Gettinʼup Morning, in his first race. Episode three was the first to be written by track journalist Bill Barich (Laughing in the Hills), and as a result, tips [...]

As of tonight, TV3 has the best HD double-act of the week: Modern Family and Homeland. This afternoon each series won Writers Guild of America Awards: the former for best episodic comedy (for the season two episode, Caught in the Act), and the the latter for best new series. Tonight, for the first time, TV3 [...]