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Most watched

1. One News: 796,450 (TV ONE, 6:00pm – 7:00pm)
2. Shortland Street: 691,490 (TV2, 7:00pm – 7:30pm)
3. Close Up: 584,320 (TV ONE, 7:00pm – 7:30pm)
4. Coronation Street: 579,350 (TV ONE, 7:30pm – 8:30pm)
5. SuperSwarm: 500,520 (TV ONE, 8:30pm – 9:35pm)

Most watched evening (7.30pm – 11pm)

1. Coronation Street: 579,350 (TV ONE, 7:30pm – 8:30pm)
2. SuperSwarm: 500,520 (TV ONE, 8:30pm – 9:35pm)
3. Grey’s Anatomy: 477,390 (TV2, 8:30pm – 9:30pm)
4. Hell’s Kitchen: 427,180 (TV2, 7:35pm – 8:30pm)
5. Private Practice: 373,630 (TV2, 9:30pm – 10:25pm)

Most watched daytime (9am – 5pm)

1. Entertainment Tonight: 138,900 (TV3, 4:30pm – 5:00pm)
2. ONE News Midday: 121,510 (TV ONE, 12:00pm – 12:30pm)
3. ONE News 4:30: 117,570 (TV ONE, 4:30pm – 4:55pm)
4. Emmerdale: 115,380 (TV ONE, 12:30pm – 1:30pm)
5. The Erin Simpson Show: 88,520 (TV2, 4:35pm – 5:00pm)

Most watched on TV ONE

1. One News: 796,450 (6:00pm – 7:00pm)
2. Close Up: 584,320 (7:00pm – 7:30pm)
3. Coronation Street: 579,350 (7:30pm – 8:30pm)
4. SuperSwarm: 500,520 (8:30pm – 9:35pm)
5. Gangs of Oz: 323,710 (9:35pm – 10:30pm)

Most watched on TV2

1. Shortland Street: 691,490 (7:00pm – 7:30pm)
2. Grey’s Anatomy: 477,390 (8:30pm – 9:30pm)
3. Hell’s Kitchen: 427,180 (7:35pm – 8:30pm)
4. Private Practice: 373,630 (9:30pm – 10:25pm)
5. My Wife and Kids: 183,010 (6:30pm – 7:00pm)

Most watched on TV3

1. 3 News: 460,600 (6:00pm – 7:00pm)
2. Home and Away: 374,370 (5:30pm – 6:00pm)
3. What’s Really in Our….?: 354,910 (8:00pm – 8:30pm)
4. Target: 352,800 (7:30pm – 8:00pm)
5. Campbell Live: 268,020 (7:00pm – 7:30pm)

Most watched on C4

1. Family Guy: 98,870 (7:00pm – 7:30pm)
2. King of the Hill: 63,570 (6:30pm – 7:00pm)
3. Malcolm in the Middle: 58,820 (6:00pm – 6:30pm)
4. Rock Of Love Charm School: 49,360 (8:30pm – 9:30pm)
5. How I Met Your Mother: 47,110 (8:00pm – 8:30pm)

Most watched on PRIME

1. Danger Beach: Muriwai: 201,110 (8:00pm – 8:30pm)
2. Prime News: 180,730 (5:30pm – 6:00pm)
3. Customs: 168,940 (7:30pm – 8:00pm)
4. Deal Or No Deal: 154,380 (5:00pm – 5:30pm)
5. The Best of Top Gear: 136,260 (8:30pm – 9:35pm)

Most watched on the BOX

1. C.S.I: 43,330 (9:30pm – 10:30pm)
2. That ’70s Show: 31,020 (6:30pm – 7:00pm)
3. The Simpsons: 30,930 (7:00pm – 7:30pm)
4. Psych: 26,960 (7:30pm – 8:30pm)

Most watched on SKY Sport 1

1. Reunion: 40,790 (8:30pm – 9:30pm)

Most watched on SKY Sport 2

1. Fifa WC 2010 Live: 29,210 (6:30am – 8:20am)

Biggest increases (previous week)

1. Shortland Street: TV2 691490 – up from 590700 (7:00pm – 7:30pm)
2. One News: TV ONE 796450 – up from 702710 (6:00pm – 7:00pm)
3. Entertainment Tonight: TV3 138900 – up from 76400 (4:30pm – 5:00pm)
4. ONE News 4:30: TV ONE 117570 – up from 64710 (4:30pm – 4:55pm)
5. The Simpsons: TV3 214510 – up from 166020 (5:00pm – 5:30pm)

Biggest decreases (previous week)

1. Tonight: TV ONE 182330 – down from 253650 (10:30pm – 11:00pm)
2. Nightline: TV3 138390 – down from 205540 (10:30pm – 11:00pm)
3. Hell’s Kitchen: TV2 427180 – down from 482640 (7:35pm – 8:30pm)
4. Neighbours: TV2 111590 – down from 164330 (6:00pm – 6:30pm)
5. The Good Wife: TV3 187210 – down from 236590 (9:30pm – 10:30pm)

New

1. What’s Really in Our….?: TV3 (8:00pm – 8:30pm)
2. SuperSwarm: TV ONE (8:30pm – 9:35pm)
3. CSI:NY: TV3 (8:30pm – 9:30pm)
4. Gangs of Oz: TV ONE (9:35pm – 10:30pm)
5. Music Filler: C4 (10:25pm – 10:30pm)

Channel Share (All Day)

• TV ONE: 28.1%
• SKY Network: 23.5%
• TV2: 20.2%
• TV3: 15.4%
• PRIME: 5.9%
• Other TV Channels: 3.3%
• C4: 2.8%
• Maori TV: 0.4%

Source: Nielsen Television Audience Measurement, All 5+

No Glee movies yet

Glee co-creator Ryan Murphy has confirmed there will not be any Glee movies in the foreseeable future. With rumours circling the show regarding a big screen debut with news that the cast members have movie clauses in their contracts, Murphy has come out saying that no plans are being made.

New Top Gear featuring less “tomfoolery”

James May has said the upcoming season of Top Gear will have less “tomfoolery”. He says audiences will see a subtle change in the way the show presents itself as the cast and the BBC don’t want to dumb down the show too much.

Glee co-creator honoured

Glee co-creator Ian Brennan is to receive the award for Comedy Writer of the Year at the upcoming Just For Laughs Festival. Aziz Ansari will pick up the Breakout Comedy Star award at the Montreal ceremony as well.

NCIS signs McGee

NCIS has locked in its final series regular after prolonged contract discussions, with Sean Murray inking a new deal. The actor who plays Timothy McGee will be present for the eighth season of the drama with all other series regulars signing deals in the past few months for the upcoming season.

Morissette to return to Weeds

A familiar face will appear on Weeds next season with Alanis Morissette returning to the drama for two episodes. The singer will reprise her role as a doctor on the show.

North Korea broadcast first live match

In a first for North Korea, their state broadcaster aired the country’s 0-7 loss to Portugal in the FIFA World Cup which is believed to be the first Korean away game broadcast live on state television. The commentator ended the broadcast with a simple statement: “The Portuguese won the game and now have four points, we are ending our live broadcast now.”

Damon planning 30 Rock return

Matt Damon is reportedly planning a return to the set of 30 Rock in the future after making an appearance in the recent season finale in the US. The actor played a character called Carol, the man of Liz’s (Tina Fey) dreams.

An impressive turnout of over 309,000 fans dragged themselves out of bed to watch the second All Whites match at the FIFA World Cup against defending champions Italy on TV yesterday morning.

The unfortunate NZ 2.00am kick-off meant the average audience was down on the All Whites first match, a 1-all draw with Slovakia, but still impressive considering this was a Monday morning.

Shane Smeltz’s goal in the 7th minute no doubt jolted most of us wide awake as we went on to enjoy a defensively strong effort from our boys and a theatrical display from the Italians.

TV One’s average audience was 239,030 with Sky Sport 2′s coverage pulling a further 70,710.

The kiwi’s next game against Paraguay is also scheduled for a 2.00am start on Friday morning but hopefully with the weekend approaching more kiwis will be willing to ditch sleep to get up and watch our boys in their final group game.

Orcon’s television ads featuring Iggy Pop have won a top prize at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival in France.

The ads which played on both TV and the internet in this country picked up the Grand Prix Award at the prestigious festival for Auckland-based independent advertising agency Special Group.

The group’s creative director Tony Bradbourne said the win “exceed all we ever wished for.”

“It’s funny because you think winning a gold at Cannes would be fantastic, but you don’t really think about winning the Grand Prix because basically that means it’s judged to be the very best piece of work in the entire world.”

The aim of the ads was to market Orcon’s broadband capabilities through the idea of an online jam session with rock god Iggy Pop.

The agency also picked up a gold Award and two bronze awards in the Promo & Activation category.

Source: Stuff

ONE News:

1. ANZ $45 million settlement (Live cross, Garth Bray)
2. Door-to-door catalogue club warning (Live cross, exclusive, Barbara Dreaver)
3. Breath testing at school rugby match (Live cross, Joy Reid)
4. Raymond Piper case arrests
5. Teenager driver charged over fatal crash

3 News:

1. Breath testing at school rugby match (Live cross, Juanita Copeland)
2. Boy uploaded online (Live in studio, Kate Roger)
3. BP oil spill update (Simon Shepherd)
4. Failed NYC car bomb trial
5. Update on Chinese visit controversy (Duncan Garner)

Commentary:

Barbara Dreaver’s story seemed to lack enough evidence to make it a complete story at this point.  As mentioned in the piece, it was too early to tell if the items ordered would be delivered or not – so one should suspend judgment on that part for now.

Unlike many loan sharks out there, this was an interest-free loan (of which it sounded like they’d given out up to $2.6 million to people in South Auckland – 15 x 7 x 5 x $5000) with payments being made back at an affordable rate of $50 for the first three weeks and then $10 weekly afterwards.  Doing the math, that’s paying it back over 9 years!

So, yes of course it sounds too good to be true, and there’s questions over the company not being registered, and the story didn’t make it clear to me as to whether they had to buy anything from the catalogue (which is an important question) or whether the items were over-priced but the problems sounds more on the terms of the non-company never getting that money back, than the people signing up? More work needed to be done on this story before screening it.

The Boy movie being available illegally online was a complete non-story as pretty much every movie gets made available online illegally these days.  It was funny to hear them say the Copyright Tribunal kept it quiet for two weeks to stop it being downloaded by more people – people looking for the movie would hardly wait for them to make mention of it!  The Sione’s Wedding example was different as that was before the movie was released – Boy has been out for almost three months now.

Verdict:

Tie

American network Starz has acquired the rights to the Underbelly series and are set to develop a US version of the show.

Early talk surrounding the project is suggesting the series could take on a Sopranos-type feel.

The developed series will focus on an American crime family but the exact setting of the show is a point of discussion considering favoured mob haunt New Jersey cannot be touched following The Sopranos and HBO has snapped up Atlantic City for upcoming Scorsese series Boardwalk Empire.

Source: THR

With talk of the switch-off of analogue television being set back to 2015, Vodafone is saying the country’s broadband future is at risk.

John Key and Broadcasting minister Jonathan Coleman are backing the decision to delay the planned end of analogue broadcasts from 2013 to 2015 despite the risk of falling behind in terms of 4G technology.

The analogue switch-off is planned in order to clear the path for prime radio spectrum which would be used to support the launch of 4G mobile networks.

However the Prime Minister surprised the industry last week in saying he believe the change should be made later in 2015 whereas many ministers were backing the earlier 2013 option.

Vodafone are pushing for the move to be made earlier as they believe the that the changes are critical if the Government want to achieve the goals it set out in its $300m rural broadband initiative.

Source: Stuff

A high-ranking Maori journalist at TVNZ has left his job presenting current affairs show Marae after the broadcaster announced plans to restructure the show.

Shane Taurima handed in his resignation after TVNZ laid down plans for a re-shuffle in the ranks which would see seven positions lost with the same number re-advertised.

Taurima, who also holds the editor position for TVNZ’s daily news show Te Karere, will step down from his presenting role on Marae but will look to continue his employment at the broadcaster in other forms.

When plans were first suggested, Taurima threatened to quit if another presenter was added to the show, but TVNZ and the show’s financial backer Te Mangai Paho ignored his threats and have shown support for the changes to be made.

A final decision is set to be made in mid-July.

Te Mangai Paho chief executive John Bishara praised Taurima for his work on the show to date, saying he would be a loss.

“He is a star in Maori television today.

“If he’s truly leaving I believe he’s going to something better – I don’t think he’d make a dopey decision.

“It’s always a shame to see people leave.

“He’s really good but then again he might be going to something better. I wouldn’t hold him back.”

Source: NZ Herald

Several banned ingredients have been found in hair and eyelash products by the producers of a new consumer television series.

The TV3 series What’s Really In Our…? which premieres tonight discovered the banned substances in a series of products available for purchase at Kmart.

The store has since recalled its 1000 Hour Eyelash and Brow Dye Kits which have been stocked in the store since 2005 while Wilson Consumer Products and Gary Harris are also recalling hair colour and creams from the Grecian range.

Full refunds are being offered to consumers who purchased the items.

The producer of the series, Belinda Mcleod says she is shocked by the number of retailers who had no idea they were stocking products with banned substances.

“It’s quite a self-regulating industry, really, and if the retail shops don’t know what some of these banned substances are then it is unlikely consumers would either,” Ms McLeod said.

“It’s only through careful and thorough research that we discovered some of these products were banned in New Zealand.”

Ms McLeod says the series plans to open consumers’ eyes to what they are actually buying.

Source: NZ Herald

TVNZ is looking to sell off its Avalon Studios in Lower Hutt which could see several shows make the move north to Auckland.

A spokeswoman for TVNZ said yesterday the broadcaster is reviewing its assets and that the studios will possibly be sold.

“Ideally we would like to sell it, but we don’t have a buyer. It’s not officially on the market,” Andi Brotherston said.

“We’re always looking at reviewing all our assets, and their value to us.”

The studio currently houses popular TVNZ features Good Morning and Lotto, with seasons of Dancing with the Stars also shot in the largest of the digital studios at the venue.

These shows would re-locate to Auckland should the Avalon studios be sold off.

A TVNZ source has said:  “Every single year they consider closing down Good Morning and moving to Auckland and Lotto moving to Auckland. There is definitely more in it [now] than … there has previously been. Someone said in six weeks’ time they’d have a definitive answer. I think it is … a little bit more definite this time.”

There are doubts as to the sales potential of the studios, with the source saying:  “It would be insanely expensive and it doesn’t produce much.”

Only TV One’s Good Morning show generates a profit due to its advertorial content.

In the past, classic kiwi shows such as What Now and Country Calendar have been produced at the Avalon site as well as specials like Test The Nation.

Source: Stuff