Shortland Street

The Monday night Shortland Street hour has managed to chase The X Factor NZ to a later timeslot.

TV3 has confirmed they will be moving the Monday night results episode from 7.30pm to the later time of 8pm.

Sunday’s episode drew 395,500 while Monday’s attracted 317,010.

MediaWorks TV Director of Programming Mark Caulton says the move is due to “audience demand”. Continue reading »

Shortland Street has edged out Coronation Street in the battle for the best TV show at the 2013 Freeview Awards.

The winning margin was a narrow 35 votes with Tv2’s Revenge taking the third place spot.

TV One reigned supreme in the best channel category ahead of TV2.

Freeview General Manager Sam Irvine believes the results are great for local TV.

“As Kiwis we like to see ourselves on TV, hear our accent and watch characters who deal with the same issues in life as we do,” he said. Continue reading »

Last night saw The X Factor go up against the new winter-season of hour long episodes of Shortland Street.  Que the subsequent crowing from TVNZ about the ratings:

TV2 dominated last night’s ratings with the premiere winter one hour of Shortland Street and a special episode of My Kitchen Rules.

A consistent ratings winner, the one hour episode of Shortland Street easily won its 7 – 8pm timeslot with an average audience of 664,000 in all people 5+.

45% of the available 18-49 audience at that time chose to watch Shortland Street, helping it achieve a massive 19.3 rating in this demographic and three times the audience of any other channel. TV3′s The X Factor NZ achieved a 19% share of the available audience in its 7:30 – 8:35pm timeslot in this same demographic. Continue reading »

TVNZ has announced a significant rise in the number of video streams accessed by Kiwis through TVNZ Ondemand last month.

Shortland Street was the most popular show to watch Ondemand, with My Kitchen Rules and The Big Bang Theory following as the second and third most popular.

The explosive growth in Kiwi viewers’ demand for video content saw a record three million video streams for TVNZ Ondemand in March, signalling a “momentous shift in viewing behaviour,” says TVNZ.

TVNZ Ondemand video streams were up 34% for the first three months of 2013 compared to the same time last year. Continue reading »

The Kiwi actress just posted this photo collage to her Instagram account with the caption: “Amazing day on the set of Revenge with @benrenschen @hamishpinkham @katiewilbert #dreamteam”

Look’s like fun.

South Pacific Pictures, the production company that has bought us Outrageous Fortune, Go Girls, Nothing Trivial and Shortland Street has been sold to UK based All3Media.

CEO John Barnett has sold his minority share in the company that he led the management buyout from TVNZ of in 1998 for an undisclosed amount. Continue reading »

TV Guide has announced a few of the winners from their viewer-voted Best on the Box Awards.

Shortland Street claimed four awards, with 7 Days, The Crowd Goes Wild, 3 News and Campbell Live taking home two apiece.

Shane Cortese (Nothing Trivial, The Almighty Johnsons) and Amanda Billing (Shortland Street) were deemed to be the best actor and actress the country has to offer.

Shortland Street’s Ben Mitchell is apparently the ‘sexiest male’ while Go Girl actress Anna Hutchison is regarded as the ‘sexiest female’. Continue reading »

Today is the final day for you to cast your votes in the Best on the Box awards for 2013.

So if you’re yet to have your say head over to bestonthebox.co.nz to vote for your favourites.

As of two weeks ago, Shane Cortese was well ahead in the Best Actor category while Shavaughn Ruakere and Anna Hutchison were the frontrunners for the Best Actress award.

Hutchison and her former Go Girls cast-mate Jay Ryan were ahead in the sexiest male and female categories. Continue reading »