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TVNZ has today announced John Gillespie as its new Head of News and Current Affairs.

TVNZ chief executive Kevin Kenrick says it’s extremely pleasing to appoint a leader with an unquestioned commitment to New Zealand and to TVNZ.

“John is well-known and respected in the industry for his editorial experience and has a thorough understanding of the multi-media environment our news team now works in.

“Because he knows our organisation so well we expect John to make a smooth leadership transition and there’ll be no loss of momentum as we further develop New Zealand’s most watched news and current affairs service.” Continue reading »

The first trailer for the new Arrested Development season has been released.

The new episodes will all debut on Netflix on May 26 in some parts of the world. Unfortunately, we’ll have to find some other way to watch them.

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Should we be surprised if Mr Bedingfield is being escorted into the finals by 4 young girls instead of 3?

Top 20 most time shifted shows

1. Packed to the Rafters: 28250 (TV ONE, 8:35pm – 9:30pm)
2. DCI Banks: 27750 (PRIME, 9:40pm – 10:40pm)
3. Puberty Blues: 24610 (TV ONE, 9:30pm – 10:30pm)
4. Battle Los Angeles: 22760 (TV2, 8:30pm – 10:55pm)
5. The Big Bang Theory: 20730 (TV2, 7:30pm – 8:00pm) Continue reading »

Besides the new pilot orders, the US networks have also confirmed their renewals of existing shows.

Heavy-hitters such as Modern Family, Grey’s Anatomy, The Big Bang Theory, Family Guy, Glee, New Girl and CSI are among the shows to get new seasons for 2013/14.

Here are the shows from NBC, Fox, CBS, ABC and The CW that we can expect to see more of over the next year. Continue reading »

Today marks the launch of Sky TV’s new “good old days” channel Jones!.

Sky described the channel in their press release in March as offering “an affectionate homage to television’s finest moments with an eclectic mix of programming favourites from a time where innocent first screen crushes were made and friendships lasted a lifetime.”

It won’t be for everyone but if you’ve got a soft spot for a few classics such as Cheers, Dad’s Army, Happy Days, MacGyver etc then no doubt you’ll find something worth watching every now and again.

Check out our Jones! programming preview. Continue reading »

Wanna be my Intern PA in Auck while I film Xfactor NZ & launch my new EP ? Gotta have a car. Send resume to dbedingfieldasst@gmail.com

— Daniel Bedingfield (@DanielBedingfld) May 12, 2013

This has got to be the dream job for someone out there.

Duties may include arranging his extensive collection of plaid by colour and style.

I am still laughing at this tweet from last night:

wait wasn’t that keyboardist just in bay of islands ? HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE ? #XFactorNZ

— Alouder Bernadine ♥x (@CherylStanaFan) May 12, 2013

Trivia: The keyboardist was Lisa Crawley who last made a cameo appearance at the start of TV3′s The Blue Rose.

The major American networks have confirmed their latest cancellations and among them are a couple of big-name shows that will not see the light of day again.

Here’s the list for NBC, Fox, CBS, ABC and The CW. Continue reading »

Here are the number for the 14th week of ratings between Campbell Live and Seven Sharp.

Both programmes were up on last week with Campbell Live making the biggest increase by more than 6% up to an average audience of 332,236 viewers per episode compared to Seven Sharp who moved up less than 1% to 391,228 viewers.

Friday once again saw Campbell Live come within a breath of passing its TV One rival with only 1610 viewers separating them.

Friday’s rating for Seven Sharp was it’s lowest in over a month.