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TV3’s Bones double-bill strategy went from zero to hero in a week. Pairing a season-six re-run with a season-eight first-run episode seemed risky, especially after the first teaming tanked in the ratings. But last night the Bones re-run narrowly out-rated TV2’s Embarrassing Bodies Live From the Clinic with adults 18-49 and 25-54, the demographics that [...]

A week ahead of TV3 running two episodes back to back, Bones out-rated HD rival Once Upon a Time in all of the major demographics. The two series have been seesawing in the ratings for the past month. Last night Bones averaged 6.0% – 9.2% versus 4.8% – 9.1% for Time. But it couldn’t match SD [...]

Thursday’s season-two premiere of Once Upon a Time easily won the 8.30 hour against two other HD dramas, Agent Anna and Bones. It averaged 9.0% – 12.6% of the major demographics, compared to 11.0% – 15.7% for last season’s premiere, and was well ahead of the competition among household shoppers and TV2′s target audience, 18-39 [...]

Tonight’s season premiere of The Vampire Diaries (TV2, 10.30) coincides with news of star Claire Holt (Rebekah) landing her own spin-off series, The Originals. The backdoor pilot for the sister show will be Diaries’ April 25 episode in the US; Joseph Morgan (Klaus) and Phoebe Tonkin (Hayley) will co-star. According to the publicity, “The Originals centres on the [...]

Season Finale: Once Upon a Time (TV2, 8.30, 5.1, F) Emma and Regina must team up to save Henry’s life, and Prince Charming tries to escape from the Evil Queen’s clutches to reunite with a fallen Snow White. Lamented the AV Club: “The revelations come fast and furious; but while this episode is heavy on plot, it [...]

SoHo Highlight: Veep (Sky 10, 9.00, 5.1) Selina uses a baseball stadium to launch an anti-obesity campaign. Most US bloggers thought this one of the best episodes yet because of a pivotal plot point. “While Baseball might not have been the funniest episode of Veep it gave the show some focus as it is the first episode [...]

SoHo Highlight: Girls (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) Hannah is confused by her boss’s mixed signals, as well as Adam’s; Marnie and Charlie assess their relationship; Jessa is determined to re-conquer an ex. This was producer Judd Apatow’s favourite episode but most critics thought it one of the least. “I don’t know what Hard Being Easy was trying to do, besides annoy/baffle the [...]

SoHo Highlight: Veep (Sky 10, 9.00, 5.1) According to The Guardian, which was correct in its assessment of last week’s disappointing episode: “Finally, after three episodes of over-long scene-setting and forgettable dialogue, Veep gets it together. The difference between episode four and the previous three is that here the situation provides the comedy and the pace, [...]

SoHo Highlight: Veep (Sky 10, 9.00, 5.1) “Third episode in, and this should be where the series is hitting its stride,” said The Guardian. “Instead it tripped on its shoelaces and landed face-down. Except that might have been funny. Which this wasn’t. In fact this episode nudged the needle from so-so to bad.” But bear [...]

Replacing its Thursday line-up with a movie had mixed results for TV One. The network HD premiere of The Hurt Locker averaged 7.3% of TV One’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, over two-and-a-half hours. That’s higher than the 6.0% average the previous week but the first hour rated lower than the last episode of The Chawners’ Last [...]