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Nothing Trivial ended its second season on Sunday by winning the 8.30 hour with it target audience, 25-54 year-olds. It averaged 11.3% of this audience, retaining most of the 13.0% that tuned into the semi-final of NZ’s Got Talent. Trivial averaged a sprightly 7.4% – 10.9% of other key demos and Talent, 9.8% – 14.0%; [...]

Arnold Schwarzenegger proved to be the networks’ biggest action hero over the weekend. His guest stint, alongside Miranda Hart (pictured) and Ronnie Corbett, on the season 12 premiere of The Graham Norton Show pumped up the chat show’s ratings to their highest levels in months and he also had a cameo in Sunday’s top-rating network [...]

TV3 will launch the HD sci-fi show, Defying Gravity, three years after it crashed and burned. The series, about  eight astronauts on an international space station billions of kilometres from Earth, starred Ron Livingston (Band of Brothers, Stand Off) and ran for only two months on US TV in 2009, before it was pulled eight [...]

Despite NZ’s Got Talent storming the ratings on Sunday, HD stablemates Nothing Trivial and Offspring enjoyed only modest lifts in viewership. Nothing Trivial averaged 5.6% – 9.1% of key demographics, compared to 5.0% – 8.3% the previous week, and Offspring 3.3% – 6.8% (vs 3.1% – 6.4% for the season premiere). The biggest winner of [...]

Sky Movies Premiere: Cowboys & Aliens (Sky 20, 8.30, 5.1) The weirdest western since 1966’s Billy the Kid vs Dracula and Jesse James Meets Frankenstein’s Daughter is also the real McCoy. The fantastical plot may revolve around an ET conspiracy to plunder gold from the Wild West. But everything else, from the rugged New Mexico [...]

Monday’s HD premiere of Knight and Day largely won its second hour against Private Practice but lost its first hour to Grey’s Anatomy. The Tom Cruise movie averaged 6.8% – 8.4% of the key demographics, compared to Grey’s 10.9% – 16.1% and Practice’s 6.6% – 11.7% (Practice out-rated Knight only among household shoppers). The night’s [...]

SoHo Highlight: Hell on Wheels (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) Former confederate soldier Cullen Bohannon continues his mission to hunt down the Union soldiers responsible for his wife’s death. “It no longer feels like you’re watching a dozen different TV shows now that the main characters actually interact with one another. And the show’s pace seems more brisk, [...]

New Zealand’s definitive free-to-air guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i: Saturday What Would You Do? (TV One, 4.25, R) Judy Bailey’s Australia (TV One, 4.55, R) TradeZone Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.00, R) Hyundai Country Calendar (TV One, 7.00) ITM Fishing Show (TV3, 7.00) CSI: New York (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) CSI: Miami (TV3 9.30, 5.1) Sunday Series premiere: Operation Hero (TV2, 4.00) [...]

The best police drama series since The Shield will screen in HD from August 28. TV One’s late-night Tuesday sensation Southland will switch to 1080i transmissions with the start of season three. The changeover marks when the under-rated series was picked up by TNT, the home of The Closer and Dallas, following its axing by [...]

Last night premiere of Harry’s Law blazed its way to the top of the 25-54 ratings for TV One. It drew an astonishing 10.5% of the audience the network targets, which made it TV One’s most popular show after One News (10.6%). The Kathy Bates dramedy out-rated its lead-in, the season finale of Nothing Trivial (10.2%), [...]