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Bumped: Bones, Castle
You can blame Dancing with the Stars for this one. Seven’s return of its variety show will stretch from 6:30 – 9pm on Sunday July 5th, a whopping 2.5 hrs of sambas and sequins. As a result Bones is...
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Seven summer update
Seven has updated its first week of summer programming, filling in several TBAs and shuffling a few shows around. New titles include Stephen Fry in Kingdom as a kindly solicitor who devotes his career...
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Nine wins Week 49
The Nine Network has won the first week of summer non-ratings. Nine: 27.7 Seven: 27.3 TEN: 19.2 ABC: 18.2 SBS: 7.5 Nine won Sydney & Melbourne. Seven took the rest. The top show was Border Patrol...
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ABC tops TEN in summer
The Seven Network has snared a win in the second week of non-ratings. But it was ABC that upstaged everyone -it defeated TEN in Week 50 and was first on Saturday night in Total People. Seven: 28.5...
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Summer’s winners and losers
The summer ratings season of 2009 -2010 has ended. And while Seven has come out on top, Nine also found reason to smile. Seven won summer in Total People, but Nine and the ABC both increased their...
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Bumped: Royal Pains
Another Channel Seven show has been amended in its schedule, this time US dramedy Royal Pains. The series, about a young doctor who becomes a reluctant doctor to the rich and famous, rated 322,000 at...
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Gone: Ocean Force, Beat Squad
Seven is dropping two late night factual imports from its schedule effective immediately. Ocean Force will not air tonight -instead replaced with a repeat of Border Patrol at 11pm. Wednesday night’s...
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Seven: Summer schedule
Seven has released preliminary details on its Summer Schedule, set to begin on Sunday November 28th. Now that we have so many digital channels, schedules this year may not be as rosy as previous years...
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Easter: Seven schedule
We have two weeks of Easter non-ratings coming up from April 17 – 30 which will see some shows resting. Here are some of the shows confirmed to be running new episodes in the week of April 17 on Seven:...
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Bumped: No Ordinary Family
Updated: No Ordinary Family is moving from Seven to 7mate. The show, which has been drawing lacklustre ratings, will no longer air on Seven but will air on 7mate in the same timeslot of 7:30pm Mondays...
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Nine wins Monday night
The Block‘s “room reveal” night delivered the numbers to Nine last night, pulling a solid 1.47m viewers for its one hour episode. The first room renovation was won by Jenna and Josh, but the show’s...
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NZ shows on the rise as “local content”
The TEN Network was forced to screen more New Zealand content in 2011 to meet local content quotas because Neighbours did not attract any points by screening on ELEVEN. Media watchdog the Australian...
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Howzat! 47.3% is Nine’s biggest TV share since 2012.
Australia’s victory in the ICC Cricket World Cup scored the biggest single audience on television so far this year at 2.22m viewers for Session 2. It has eclipsed the Australian Open‘s 1.88m viewers...
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Greenstone TV announces new CEO
NZ-based production company Greenstone has appointed a new CEO in Rachel Antony, currently Director of Production and Development. She replaces Richard Driver who will now serve as NZ Chairman. The...
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Networks still drawing on NZ content as producers await “loophole” closure
Producers are again calling on the government to shut a loophole which allows networks to pass off New Zealand content as Australian. It follows data from the Australian Communications and Media...
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Local the key to CJZ success
It pays to be diverse with your production slate. Sydney-based production company CJZ (Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder) produce more original primetime content than any other company. Their slate of...
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Secrets of CJZ success
Rachel Antony, Nick Murray. Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder prides itself on making original Australian television. While bigger production companies aligned with international firms have a high volume of...
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Entertainment under 600,000, Seven wins Thursday.
Is it summer yet? It sure felt like it yesterday, in more ways than one… Thursdays are known for being quiet but no entertainment show could crack 600,000 viewers last night. Seven Worlds, One Planet...
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Industry awaits clarity on NZ content
In the recent overhaul of Australian quotas is a proposal to address a “loophole” which sees New Zealand television qualifying as Australian content. Under the Australia-NZ Economic Trade Agreement,...
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Japan, Korea say yes to Nine’s MAFS
A+E Networks Asia has picked up season six (2019) of the Australia version of Married at First Sight and will make the show available in Japan and Korea. The Endemol Shine series has already been a...
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