Throng

Most watched

1. One News: 724,320 (TV ONE, 6:00pm - 7:00pm)
2. Rapid Response: 672,980 (TV ONE, 8:00pm - 8:30pm)
3. Shortland Street: 627,370 (TV2, 7:00pm - 8:00pm)
4. Border Patrol: 625,710 (TV ONE, 7:30pm - 8:00pm)
5. Close Up: 583,430 (TV ONE, 7:00pm - 7:30pm)

Most watched evening (7.30pm - 11pm)

1. Rapid Response: 672,980 (TV ONE, 8:00pm - 8:30pm)
2. Border Patrol: 625,710 (TV ONE, 7:30pm - 8:00pm)
3. Neighbours at War: 455,880 (TV2, 8:00pm - 8:30pm)
4. Desperate Housewives: 453,320 (TV2, 8:30pm - 9:30pm)
5. Jumper: 316,320 (TV3, 8:30pm - 10:25pm)

Most watched daytime (9am - 5pm)

Marvel comics coming to television

New animated versions of classic Marvel comics Iron Man, X-Men, Wolverine and Blade are on the way to TV with news Sony is teaming with G4 in order to produce the four series.

Obama to make rare talkshow appearance

American president Barack Obama will dive head on into the daytime talk show scene when he makes an appearance on The View later this week. It is believed it is the first time a sitting US president has appeared on a daytime talk show.

I'm figuring out what I am going to do.

TV1 is airing the movie length premiere "This is Not My Life", at the same time Prime is airing "Survivors". Then there is the usual shows I watch on C4.

Now look at Wednesday night. There is nothing on except maybe "True Blood" which I'm not really into or "Castle" which I haven't got round to seeing yet. V: The Remake sucks, so I'm not going there.

Back to Thursdays, my only option is to tape TV1 and switch back and forth between Prime and C4.

TUESDAY 27 JULY  

BASEBALL

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL: TEAMS & VENUE TBA, ESPN, 11.00am ESPN brings you coverage from the Major League baseball season.  Teams And Venue TBA.

9:35pm Monday, July 26 on Prime

Drama

Big Fish

Monday July 26 at 9.30 PM on Maori Television

Monday night is Manly night on Maori Television! New Zealand's second-favourite NRL team has a new free-to-air home in 2010. Tonight: Sea Eagles v West Tigers.

ANIMAL PLANET - Mondays from 26 July, 9.30pm

Six ferocious prehistoric mega beasts are re-created and brought back to life from fossil clues to show how they might have lived and died, and what they might look like roaming our world today. Featured in this series is the Terror Bird, a bipedal monster that stood seven feet tall and weighed 140 kilos, with eyesight as sharp as a hawk and an 18-inch hooked beak which could bash in the skull of its victim. Also featured is the Spinosaurus, a carnivore twice the size of the T-Rex with a six-foot-high sail, long crocodilian skull and massive claws, and the Acrocanthosaurus, a prehistoric weapon of mass destruction that lived fifty million years before T-Rex and was loaded with the most powerful arms in dinosaur history, a scissor-like bite and a hi-tech neck brace which allowed the beast to kill prey ten times its size.

9:30pm Monday, July 26 on C4

BAFTA-winning Misfits follows five outsiders on community service who get struck by a flash storm and lumbered with special powers.

Tonight: The group have a problem when Simon discovers they're digging up the land where the bodies are buried.