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TV3 will be happy with the ratings for Wednesday’s series premiere of high-risk Kiwi crime drama Harry. It averaged 4.1% – 7.1% of the major demographics and won the 9.30 hour with adults 18-49 and 25-54, no mean feat given it was “gritty, downbeat stuff” and TV One and TV2 had higher-rating leads-in. Moreover, viewership in [...]

Tonight at 8.35 TV2 will air an hour ahead of TV3′s highly anticipated new drama Harry the highest-rating Big Bang Theory episode in US TV history. The Bakersfield Expedition was the first BBT episode in the show’s six-year run to top a stratospheric 20 million viewers. It strands Leonard, Sheldon, Howard and Raj in the [...]

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 [...]

TV2 will premiere season two of Anger Management the same weekend it re-sumes re-runs of star Charlie Sheen’s first sitcom sensation, Two and a Half Men. Anger Management will screen in a new slot — 8.00 Sundays — from February 17 while season two of Two and a Half Men will air 7.00 Saturdays. TV2 [...]

Wednesday’s season premiere of Winners and Losers was another surprise loser for TV One this week, airing just 24 hours after Africa‘s ratings dry spell. The Australian drama averaged only 2.6% – 4.6% of the key demos, compared to 5.9% – 8.5% in the same slot this time last year and 5.4% – 7.5% for last year’s season [...]

The season eight-premiere of Bones started strongly for TV3 on Thursday, averaging 8.3% of its target audience, 25-54 year-olds, and 7.9% of household shoppers. While it was soundly beaten by TV2′s Embarrassing Bodies, which averaged 9.1% – 12.9% of the key demographics, it was up on the previous week’s Hamish and Andy’s Caravan of Courage, [...]

Two classic movies and two top-rating sitcoms make a big bang on Blu-ray this week. “Warner Home Video’s Blu-ray of A Streetcar Named Desire pretty much matches a special edition from a few years ago, but with a terrific HD transfer that increases the film’s physical impact.” “This is yet another excellent high definition presentation culled from largely damage [...]

Series Finale: The Promise (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) In part four of four, Erin refuses to abandon her quest to find Mohammed’s family, even though it takes her on a hazardous journey into Gaza. Said The Times: “The final episode of Peter Kosminsky’s ambitious series packs a considerable punch. The naive English girl (Claire Foy) on her [...]

SoHo Highlight: The Promise (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) In part two of four, Len meets Abu-Hassan Mohammed, an Arab charwallah working for the British Army in 1940s Palestine, while in the present day Erin delves deeper into her grandfather’s story. Writer Peter Kosminksy (The Government Inspector) calls The Promise “undoubtedly my most ambitious undertaking in 30 years [...]

SoHo Premiere: The Promise (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) In part one of four, an 18-year-old travels to Israel to discover first-hand the struggle her grandfather faced when he was a British peacekeeper in 1940s Palestine.  As The Guardian said: “It’s hard to think of a more politically sensitive subject for a primetime TV series, and Peter Kosminsky’s [...]