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Les Misérables tops a lacklustre, if not outright miserable, week for new Blu-ray releases. Whether or not you like musicals, you’ll love Les Mis’ HD transfer. “The visuals here are absolutely stunning … This movie has some big time production values that are perfectly rendered on screen.” “Les Misérables’ lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 track [...]

NZ’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i on the networks:   Saturday Trade Zone Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.00) ITM Fishing Show (TV3, 5.30) Country Calendar (TV One, 7.00) MasterChef MasterClass (TV One, 7.30) Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway (TV2, 7.30) Saving Gen-Y (TV3, 7.30) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) Network Movie Premiere: Predicament (TV One, 10.35) MasterChef NZ (TV [...]

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 [...]

TV3’s punt on pairing new episodes of Bones with two-year-old re-runs flopped Thursday, when the repeat hour shed half the viewership of its lead-in. It was the second consecutive ratings bust in 24 hours for TV3, with the second edition of 3rd Degree’s The Vote faring as badly as the first. Executives will be busy [...]

TV3 has scheduled an extra repeat of its low-rating 3rd Degree spin-off, The Vote, for Anzac Day. It will screen less than 24 hours after its 8.30 Wednesday broadcast, at 10.55am on April 25, as well as in 3rd Degree’s Saturday morning repeat slot of 11am on April 27. TV3 won’t release details of the [...]

NZ’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i on the networks: Saturday Country Calendar (TV One, 7.00) MasterChef MasterClass (TV One, 7.30) Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway (TV2, 7.30) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) MasterChef NZ (TV One, 9.30, R) CSI: New York (TV3, 9.30, 5.1) Movie: Elegy (TV One, 10.30) Law & Order: Los Angeles (TV3, 11.30, [...]

Wednesday’s late-night season finale of The Walking Dead out-rated primetime shows Winners & Losers and 3rd Degree in some of the key demographics. Despite starting at 10.50, the zombie drama averaged 3.5% – 6.5%, drew more than 4.0% of adults 18-39 and 18-49, and was most popular with household shoppers. At 8.30, Winners & Losers, [...]

NZ’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i on the networks: Saturday Country Calendar (TV One, 7.00) Season premiere: MasterChef MasterClass (TV One, 7.30) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) CSI: New York (TV3, 9.30, 5.1) MasterChef NZ (TV One, 9.35, R) Law & Order: Los Angeles (TV3, 11.30) Movie: Nine Months (TV3, 2.40, R) Sunday Dogs in [...]

TV3′s Bones showed its true colours on Thursday, when the 150th episode rated higher than usual to average 6.7% – 12.0% of the key demographics. It was out-rated by TV One’s SD comedies Miranda and Mrs Brown’s Boys but The Ghost in the Machine, which guest starred singer Cyndi Lauper, pipped TV2′s Once Upon a [...]

NZ’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i on the networks: Saturday Season premiere: Country Calendar (TV One, 7.00) Ice Road Truckers (TV3, 7.30, 5.1, F) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) CSI: New York (TV3, 9.30, 5.1) MasterChef NZ (TV One, 9.35, R) Pan Am (TV One, 10.35, 5.1, F) Movie: Boy (TV One, 11.30) Law & Order: [...]