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TV3 scored a rare Monday night win with its one-off screening of The X Factor USA in an HD face-off with top-rating staples This Is Your Life* and The Mentalist. The episode that couldn’t air in its normal Friday slot, because of a scheduling postponement in the US, helped TV3 to win the night with [...]

Friends (TV2, 6.30, R)  ✫✫✫ Chandler falls asleep in a meeting and accidentally agrees to run his company’s Tulsa office, and Emma won’t stop crying after Rachel interrupts her nap. Shortland Street (TV2, 7.00)  ✫✫✫ Callum learns a lesson; Maxwell mixes private and professional with dire consequences; Evan can’t win with Murray. The X Factor USA (TV3, 7.30) [...]

Friends (TV2, 6.30, R) ✫✫✫ Monica’s restaurant gets a bad review, prompting her to join a cooking class; Chandler prepares for a job interview after Phoebe tells him that he makes a bad first impression. Shortland Street (TV2, 7.00) ✫✫✫ Bella’s changed by a warm hearted man; Vasa lets a friend in; Gabrielle puts herself on the [...]

Friends (TV2, 6.30, R) ✫✫✫ Ross has trouble understanding Joey’s revelation about his feelings for Rachel; Phoebe meets Monica’s soulmate, much to Chandler’s dismay. Shortland Street (TV2, 7.00) ✫✫✫ Brooke can’t shake a devoted friend; Luke looks into the future; Maxwell finds it hard to say no. The Mentalist (TV2, 9.00) ✫✫ Patrick Jane butts heads with a [...]

Friends (TV2, 6.30, R) ✫✫✫ Ross freaks out when his new girlfriend wants to send joint Christmas cards; Chandler tells his boss he broke up with Monica to avoid more awkward dinners. Shortland Street (TV2, 7.00) ✫✫✫ Brooke takes responsibility; Murray conceals bugs in the system; Lana backs an old horse. Movie: The Tuxedo (TV3, 8.30, 5.1, R) ✫ [...]

Friends (TV2, 6.30, R) ✫✫✫ Rachel bumps into her old friend Melissa from college who she once kissed after drinking too much sangria. Winona Ryder guest stars. Shortland Street (TV2, 7.00) ✫✫✫ Daniel’s torn between work and family; Jonathon realises there’s something missing; the Coopers hear bad news. The Mentalist (TV2, 8.30) ✫✫ Sparks fly between Lisbon and [...]

TV3’s HD premiere of Transporter 3 helped the network to win the night with its target audience, 25-54 year-olds. The action movie also won its two-hour slot with 18-49 year-olds and TV2’s key demo, 18-39 year-olds. However, in all of these demos it was a narrow victory over TV2’s HD double-bill, The Mentalist and Body [...]

TV3’s free-to-air HD premiere of Iron Man last night crushed the HD competition on TV One. It helped the network to win the night with 25-54 year-olds, the demographic both TV One and TV3 target. Iron Man’s 25-54 rating was 10.4% versus Criminal Minds: Suspect Behaviour’s 7.4% and Castle’s 5.8%. Iron Man narrowly lost to TV2’s The [...]

Friends (TV2, 6.30, R) The gang contemplates how differently their lives could have turned out. Part one of two. Shortland Street (TV2, 7.00) TK gets a second chance; Brooke sets the record straight; Rachel reaches breaking point. Road Cops (TV3, 7.30, R) A boy racer gathering gets out of hand; a father and son go [...]

TV2 is soon to resurrect Fringe in a new late-night slot. The stylish paranormal hour will resume its second-season HD run next month at 10.30pm on Thursdays. The demotion comes six months after TV2 squandered Fringe’s potential by teaming it with incompatible re-runs of The Mentalist opposite TV3’s HD juggernaut line-up of Outrageous Fortune and [...]