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After last night’s show, there are at least two acts who deserve to be going home.  The way it will work is the act with the lowest number of votes will automatically be going home.  Then, the next two acts with the lowest number of votes will get to face off with the judges eliminating one of them from the competition.

During the recap, Cassie Henderson’s post performance interview reveals she’s less than happy with her mentor, saying “anything Daniel says will be lost to my memory“.  Classic! Continue reading »

On Friday, TVNZ sent out a press release talking up the ratings for Masterchef and My Kitchen Rules.  Masterchef, they told us, had “more core viewers than ever before” in the key 25-54 demo.  Overall though, it was the lowest rating finale of the four seasons to date.

Last night, Sunday returned to hour long episodes and bounced back to an average audience of 662,450 viewers compared to the week earlier where it only drew in 507,170.  From 8pm, TV One dropped down to 383,410 for Food Truck and then 287,420 viewers for Packed to the Rafters.  Overall, TV One was down approximately 15% on last Sunday night.  With the numbers dropping away as they have post Sunday, one must wonder if TVNZ should just run it for two hours while X Factor is on. Continue reading »

After one great week, Campbell Live has dropped 18% to an average audience of 342,208 viewers per episode.  This is still up 3% on the week prior to the big jump.

Seven Sharp also increased its average audience by 3%, thanks in part to the highest rating episode since episode one back in February.

Daniel's outfit is like one of those Sesame St segments where one of these things just doesn't belong…and it's the whole thing #XFactorNZ

— Andrew (@Newt32) June 9, 2013

I just understood more of what Stan Walker said in Maori than what he says in English. #xfactornz

— Jono Manks (@JonoManks) June 9, 2013

Maaka needs to jump off that platform. It's looking like a cluttered Wedding band up there. #xfactornz

— Kaleb M Greaves (@RealKalos) June 9, 2013

Lol at the person with the HAWKES BAY sign. Probably from Flaxmere and excited to have a vivid pen. #xfactornz

— #michaela (@pinkdeedle) June 9, 2013

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It’s Soul Classics tonight.  Can you hear my excitement?  No?

The thing I hate about theme nights like this is that we have to sit through two lots of performances.  One where the acts actually get it and take songs from the genre and force them into their own mold and the other where the acts try and force themselves, usually terribly unsuccessfully, into the genre.  It’s a hideous disconnect that leaves the viewer confused.

That said, here are my thoughts on each of the acts: Continue reading »

Well here’s something we haven’t seen before.  Last night’s episode of The Simpsons on Four has managed to draw more viewers in the key 25-54 demographic than Seven Sharp did for TV One.

The Simpsons had a rating of 4.4 compared to 4.1 for Seven Sharp.  Campbell Live had 5.9 but even all those combined don’t add up to the 15.2 that Shortland Street had on TV2.

You can see today’s 5+ ratings here.

I was completely gutted on Monday night when Dominic Bowden announced that the theme for this week’s live show of The X Factor New Zealand would be soul classics.  Had the Best of British week lived up to its title then taking a step back to something a little less current would have been a nice port of call in this little journey.  Unfortunately it would seem that the producers are intent on removing any ounce of pop music relevance to The X Factor in favour of NZ Idol circa ten years ago.

Soul Classics might be what the producers – who were children of the 60′s and 70′s – want to reminisce about but that generation of music holds very little relevance to today’s Facebooking audience.

Yes, soul is an important part of music that was part of the evolution that got us to where we are today.  However, if the mentors can’t even select semi-decent current songs that their acts can then performe like they’re in a serious music competition, why should they be bothering with music that is decades old?

The thought of hearing Alicia Keys, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye or Tina Turner simply depresses me. Continue reading »

After a good week of ratings punishment from Campbell Live, Seven Sharp bounced back with a vengeance last night, putting more than 92,000 viewers between the two 7pm current affairs programs and delivering TV One the highest rating episode since the show’s debut.

The average audience for last night’s Seven Sharp was 458,930 viewers compared to Campbell Live’s 366,380.

Top 20 most time shifted shows

1. Revenge: 46660 (TV2, 9:50pm – 10:50pm)
2. NCIS: Los Angeles: 38910 (TV3, 9:30pm – 10:30pm)
3. Rookie Blue: 35330 (TV2, 10:50pm – 11:50pm)
4. NCIS: 35260 (TV3, 8:35pm – 9:30pm)
5. Shortland Street: 24260 (TV2, 7:00pm – 7:30pm) Continue reading »

Last night’s episode of Go Girls featured one of the first gay male kisses on prime time television but it didn’t help with the ratings as the show dipped to its lowest ratings in its five year run.

The average audience for the episode was only 189,830 viewers, 38% down on last season.

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