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Sons of Anarchy helped TV3 to clock up the biggest share of its target audience, 25-54 year-olds, on Wednesday. The network’s line-up of World’s Deadliest Roads, Wild Colombia and Anarchy is proving competitive with TV One’s reality and drama mix and even dented the appeal of TV2′s evening comedies, The Middle and Hot in Cleveland. [...]

TV3 will use it summer afternoon schedule to run out, three years after its launch in the US, the crime caper White Collar. The USA Network hit has completed four seasons. The first two already are out here on DVD and the third releases next month. About an ex-con who helps the FBI to solve [...]

Wednesday’s Underbelly: Badness bounced back with a vengeance in the ratings while newcomer Revolution lacked the firepower of its premiere. The latter averaged 6.4% – 8.2% of the key demos compared with 8.8% – 12.6% for Tuesday’s launch. But it still easily won the 9.30 hour opposite The Killing’s shockingly dire 1.2% – 2.2% and [...]

New Zealand’s definitive free-to-air guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i: Saturday NZ’s Got Talent (TV One, 5.00, R) TradeZone Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.00, R) Movie: Mary Poppins (TV2, 6.30) Annabel Langbein The Free Range Cook: Simple Pleasures (TV One, 7.00) ITM Fishing Show (TV3, 7.00) CSI: New York (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) CSI: Miami (TV3 9.30, 5.1) Homeland (TV3, 10.30, 5.1, R) [...]

TV2 wants its Revolution to rule. The network is using the two-hour season finale of top-rating My Kitchen Rules to launch one of US TV’s hottest new hits on October 16 (both programmes will pre-empt The Mentalist and Body of Proof). Twenty-four hours later, it will screen a second episode in the 9.30 Wednesday slot where Revolution is [...]

Season Finale: The Middle (TV2, 7.30, 5.1, F) Frankie and Mike are stunned to discover that Mike’s brother has chosen the Heck house as the site of his fast-approaching wedding … without asking their permission. The Comedy Critic thought this “an absolutely hysterical season finale … that really showcased what the Heck family is all about!” Agreed [...]

Viewers have given TV3 a slap in the face for daring to launch a quality human interest drama in primetime. Wednesday’s premiere of The Slap averaged only 6.1% of the network’s target audience, 25-54 year-olds, compared to Undercover Boss’ 7.2%, The Big Bang Theory’s 14.1% and Happy Endings’ 7.4%. In other key demographics, it averaged [...]

SoHo Highlight: Band of Brothers (Sky 10, 8.30, 5.1) HBO’s searing, authentic, true-life dramatisation of an elite paratroop regiment going to hell and back in wartime Europe at last screens in HD on NZ TV — just in time to mark its 10th anniversary. While the first of 10 episodes suffered from too many boot camp [...]

Series Premiere: Kings Cross ER (TV3, 8.00)  Set in St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, this documentary series opens with a young man rushed to the Emergency Room after being stabbed in the heart at a nightclub in Potts Point. ”This is what a hospital reality show should look like – interesting cases, clearly presented without sensationalism or emotional manipulation,” [...]

New Zealand’s definitive free-to-air guide to what’s airing nightly in 1080i: Saturday The Bionic Vet (TV One, 5.25) TradeZone Gone Fishin’ (TV3, 5.30) Hyundai Country Calendar (TV One, 7.00) ITM Fishing Show (TV3, 7.00) Judy Bailey’s Australia (TV One, 8.30) Ice Road Truckers (TV3, 7.30, 5.1) CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (TV3, 8.30, 5.1) Sunday Pretty Little Liars (TV2, 5.30, 5.1) The War at [...]