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The Blue Rose ends its run tonight (TV3, 9.45) within 24 hours of the next season of Go Girls going to air and barely two days ahead of its release on DVD. While the HD drama misses out on Blu-ray distribution, the DVD set is beautifully packaged with an inner and outer sleeve, and includes [...]

Wednesday’s premiere of Breakout Kings was not a breakout hit. Like last year’s The Borgias, it failed to capitalise on the following Sons of Anarchy developed in the same slot. It averaged only 4.5%-5.4% of the key demographics off the back of a season finale flop for The Almighty Johnsons. The Kiwi show that the [...]

The Almighty Johnsons is starting to get into full ratings swing, with Wednesday’s episode delivering season two’s biggest audiences yet. While the first half was dwarfed by TV2′s The Big Bang Theory, the second started to challenge Happy Endings. And in the 18-49 and 18-39 demographics, Johnsons out-rated TV One’s Winners & Losers. Last night’s episode averaged [...]

Season two of The Almighty Johnsons debuted Wednesday with a 25-54 rating well below its season-one average of  9.8%. It drew 6.2% of this demographic, and while season two is in an earlier slot, the competition is much tougher: TV2′s The Big Bang Theory (12.3%) and Happy Endings (7.9%). Such is the pulling power of Big [...]

SoHo Highlight: Boss (Sky 10, 9.45, 5.1) “After four weeks of severely uncomfortable sex scenes, political jostling and secretly dealing with diseases, Boss took an interesting turn in this week’s episode, Remembered,” the Better With Popcorn blog said. “For most of the episode’s 52 minute runtime, we were led to believe that what was going on in the episode was an [...]

New Zealand’s definitive guide to what’s airing nightly free-to-air in 1080i Saturday The Secret Lives of Dancers (TV3, 4.30, R) TradeZone Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.00, R) Rheem Outdoors With Geoff (TV3, 5.30) Keeping Up With the Joneses (TV One, 7.00) Season premiere: Terra Nova (TV3, 7.30, 5.1) The Almighty Johnsons (TV3, 9.25, R) Homeland (TV3, 10.25, R) Winners & [...]