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The season nine premiere of Grey’s Anatomy largely won its slot in key demographics on Monday. But the last half-hour of The X Factor NZ proved too irresistible, with viewers switching over in the middle section of the hospital soap to see the talent quest’s double-elimination round. Grey’s Anatomy averaged 9.6% – 14.5% of the key [...]

TV2 drama flagship Go Girls scored record low ratings in key demographics on Tuesday, when it was largely beaten by TV3’s NCIS. The Kiwi drama averaged only 6.3% – 6.7% of adults 18-39, 18-49, 25-54 and household shoppers. It comfortably won the 18-39 demo that TV2 targets but lost in the others to NCIS (5.5% [...]

The season finales of MasterChef NZ and My Kitchen Rules clobbered The X Factor NZ over the long weekend. On Monday, MKR averaged 19.4% – 23.8% of the key demographics compared to X Factor’s 9.6% – 14.0% Sunday’s contest between X Factor and MasterChef was closer, with the former averaging 7.9% – 9.6% and the [...]

TV3’s rescheduling of Monday night’s X Factor NZ paid off, with the ratings up sharply on the previous week’s season low. The first live results show averaged 9.6% – 10.3% of the major demographics compared to 6.8% – 8.5% a week earlier. Although this was no match for My Kitchen Rules (15.9% – 23.6%), with [...]

Following the lowest ratings of the season so far for The X Factor NZ, TV3 is pushing back the start of the Monday night broadcasts from 7.30 to 8.00, effective from May 20. The switch coincides with the first live results show going to air the same night and will eliminate the clash with Shortland [...]

TV2 was on the mark with Monday’s premiere of superhero thriller Arrow. Thanks to savvy scheduling, delaying Arrow’s NZ premiere by seven months doesn’t appear to have dented its appeal On the back of top ratings for the hour-long Shortland Street and My Kitchen Rules, it averaged 9.1% – 14.8% of the key demographics, which [...]

The new-look Go Girls appears to be losing old fans rather than gaining new ones. The re-cast fifth season struggled out of the gate last week and last night shed more viewers, despite a celebrity guest turn by One News anchor Simon Dallow. It averaged 6.9% – 8.9% of the major demographics, which is a [...]

The year’s first hour-long “winter” edition of Shortland Street led to the lowest ratings yet for The X Factor NZ. Monday’s episode still rated extraordinarily well for its TV3 time slot, averaging 8.1% – 11.2% of the major demographics. But it was dwarfed by Shortland Street’s 16.6% – 27.5%, with the serial’s viewership peaking in [...]

TV3 will launch its latest NZ drama series Harry the same week The X Factor NZ faces its stiffest HD competition yet: hour-long episodes of Shortland Street. TV2 will begin its “winter season” of the serial on May 6, when 60-minute eps will overlap Mondays with the first half of TV3′s top-rating X Factor NZ. [...]

Next month TVNZ will stream Shortland Street ondemand in HD. However, it can be viewed this way only on desktop, not in the iPad and iPhone video-on-demand apps the broadcaster released today. “We’re trialling HD to see if there’s an appetite for it and will keep consumers posted on any development,” a spokeswoman told ScreenScribe.tv [...]