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MediaWorks TV has appointed Sharon Daly to the newly created role of Director of Strategy.

Ms Daly comes from TVNZ where she has most recently been General Manager Research and Insights.

Announcing the appointment MediaWorks TV Chief Executive, Jason Paris, said he was delighted to have secured Sharon Daly for the position.

“Sharon is a top calibre media executive and she will be a great fit for the MediaWorks environment,” said Mr Paris.

“She will be working with me and the executive team across the business, and her experience and contribution will be significant,” he said.

Ms Daly has been at TVNZ for nearly 10 years, and has previously worked at ACP Magazines, and various advertising agencies.

Sharon Daly said she was looking forward to her new role.

“This is an exciting opportunity to work strategically with one of New Zealand’s leading media organisations and I’m looking forward to working alongside the MediaWorks team.”

TV3 has pulled their controversial Monday movie promo which was slammed for being an exact copy of an American Playstation 3 promo.

The promo, which featured 7 Days comedian Dai Henwood and a mildly impressive movie montage, bore a striking resemblance to Sony’s campaign featuring comedian Kevin Butler, leading fans online to label it a forgery and a rip off.

A shot-by-shot comparison video appeared on kiwi gaming website buttonmasher.co.nz which further exposed the similarities.

TV3 has started advertising their "Big Mondays," the ad showing just after the news on Sunday night.

The thing about the ad? It's an exact copy of the Sony "Dear PlayStation" ad campaign for the PlayStation 3 in the US, just with the word "PlayStation" replaced with "TV3," and the internet-famous character Kevin Butler replaced with Dai Henwood.

Here's the Sony ad so you can see for yourself, and I'll try and keep an eye out for the TV3 version.

Filming is due to start next week on new Kiwi series The Almighty Johnsons which is from the minds behind Outrageous Fortune and which features film star Keisha Castle-Hughes.

The brand new series, set for a primetime slot on TV3 next year, centres on a family of which boasts godlike superpowers.

Oscar-nominated actress Castle-Hughes will feature in the series which will be her first regular TV gig, alongside other local talent including Go Girls’ Jared Turner and Mercy Peak’s Tim Balme.

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.

TVNZ and TV3 have copped a parking ban from the Parliamentary precinct for their coverage of Chris Carter earlier this week.

The two network’s car park permits have been revoked by Speaker Lockwood Smith after they both broke Parliament filming rules by shooting footage of the MP in stairwells and corridors in the building on Tuesday.

The camera crews were attempting to collect a comment from Carter on the credit card debacle that is headlining the news this week.

The makers of TV3 consumer show Target have copped a $38,000 fine from the Broadcasting Standards Authority for an inaccurate hidden camera trial.

It has been found that the show breached standards of fairness and accuracy in an episode which looked at chicken sandwiches in a Ponsonby cafe.

Cafe Cezanne was a target of a hidden camera trial in which the show claimed to have found a chicken sandwich which tested positive for faecal coliforms. As it turns out the sample taken was incorrectly labelled and it was discovered that it didn’t come from Cafe Cezanne at all.

The episode screened in June 2009 and although TV3 including an apology in the next episode the cafe owners didn't feel this was adequate and lodged a formal complaint to TVWorks.

Owners Rod Williams and Jackie Wilkinson claimed Target delivered a “false and defamatory allegation” regarding the sandwich.

To mark 50 years of television in NZ, TVNZ has trawled back through the archives and compiled a list of the most notable programs to have graced our screens over the past five decades.

Divided into decade blocks, this list features some cracker shows but also one or two that should never have made it to TV in the first place.

Check it out below.