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Nurse Jackie may need life support shortly if next week’s double-episode rates as dismally as last night’s. It drew nearly half as many viewers as the premiere: only 3.7% of 18-49 year-olds, and 3.6% of 25-54 year-olds and household shoppers with kids. TV3 will be hoping this was the result of low viewing levels because [...]

Friends (TV2, 6.30, R) Emily tells Ross she’ll give him a second chance only if he cuts all ties with Rachel. Shortland Street (TV2, 7.00) TK and Maxwell go head to head; Daniel and Paige turn over a new leaf; Jill’s past comes back to bite her. Modern Family (TV3, 7.00, 5.1) Cameron decides he [...]

ScreenScribe.tv’s definitive free-to-air guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i: Saturday Hyundai Country Calendar (TV One, 7.00) ITM Fishing Show (TV3, 7.00) Movie: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (TV3, 8.30, 5.1, R) Movie: The Last King of Scotland (TV3, 11.00, 5.1, R) Sunday Bigger Better Faster Stronger (TV3, 5.00, R) Pretty [...]

The best HD show on TV last night was the least-watched. Season three of Nurse Jackie opened to solid if unspectacular ratings opposite exceptionally high viewership of Brothers & Sisters. The TV2 drawcard was watched by 10.7% of 18-49 year-olds, 10.5% of 25-54 year-olds and 15.3% of household shoppers with kids. TV3’s dark comedy about [...]

Friends (TV2, 6.30, R) In London for Ross’ wedding, Chandler and Joey argue while sightseeing; after talking with Phoebe, Rachel realises that she still loves Ross. Shortland Street (TV2, 7.00) Brooke discovers child abuse in the family; Callum invites Jill home; Gabrielle short-circuits at a bad moment. Situation Critical (TV One, 8.00, F) A new [...]

ScreenScribe.tv’s definitive free-to-air guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i: Saturday America’s Next Great Restaurant (TV3, 4.00) Hyundai Country Calendar (TV One, 7.00) ITM Fishing Show (TV3, 7.00) Movie: How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) Sunday Bigger Better Faster Stronger (TV3, 5.00, R) Pretty Little Liars (TV2, 5.30) Joey (TV2, 6.30, [...]

The season three premieres of Nurse Jackie and Fringe, and the debut of an Inside NZ strand about international policing, top the HD highlights for the week starting May 28. It opens with the free-to-air premiere of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People in TV3’s 8.30pm Saturday movie slot and closes with the season-two [...]

TV2 is soon to resurrect Fringe in a new late-night slot. The stylish paranormal hour will resume its second-season HD run next month at 10.30pm on Thursdays. The demotion comes six months after TV2 squandered Fringe’s potential by teaming it with incompatible re-runs of The Mentalist opposite TV3’s HD juggernaut line-up of Outrageous Fortune and [...]

Nurse Jackie ended its HD run last night with fewer viewers than usual tuning into the season finale. It was out-rated in all the key demographics by TV2′s HD rival, Fringe, and TV One’s Real Crime doco about chimps that kill, and kept barely half of the viewership that HD lead-in Outrageous Fortune delivered. TV2′s [...]

TV3 will replace its HD hospital hit, Nurse Jackie, with another outrageous HD offering, Californication, on August 24. The same week it will air in HD a repeat of the movie, Transformers (8.30pm Monday), and the free-to-air premiere of the Ashton Kutcher-Cameron Diaz comedy, What Happens in Vegas (8.30pm Friday). Season three of Californication guest stars [...]