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TV3′s HD horror movie, 28 Weeks Later, last night got a bloody nose from TV2′s HD hit, The Mentalist. The first hour of the superior zombie sequel drew only 6.7% of TV3′s target audience, 18-49 year-olds, compared to The Mentalist’s 16.2%, and over the two hours averaged 6.5%. It was the network’s lowest-rating Monday movie [...]

TV3′s HD combo of NZ’s Next Top Model and the movie, Juno, helped the network to win Friday night’s ratings contest. The season-two launch of Model attracted 9.1% of TV3′s target audience, 18-49 year-olds, and the free-to-air premiere of Juno, 10.9%. Model ranked behind TV2′s comedy duo, Two and a Half Men and Gary Unmarried, but [...]

TVNZ was wise to switch This Is Not My Life from TV2, for which the mystery serial was commissioned, to TV One, judging by the premiere’s ratings. Last night’s double-episode launch was popular with TV One’s key demos, 25-54 year-olds and household shoppers with kids, but bombed with 18-39 year-olds, TV2′s target audience. The first [...]

TVNZ this morning revealed Lionsgate, an international distributor that also makes the award-winning Mad Men, has bought the worldwide rights to This Is Not My Life, which starts 8.30 tonight on TV One. The 13-part HD action-mystery about  a man who awakes one day, only to discover he can’t remember his wife, his kids or even his [...]

Can veteran TV scribe Rachel Lang (Outrageous Fortune) pull off the hat trick of having a high-flying drama series on each of the country’s free-to-air networks? That will be answered after her new creation, This Is Not My Life, goes to air on TV One on July 29. The serialised HD mystery, starring Outrageous Fortune’s [...]