An overview of the New Zealand Screen Production Industries including Film, Television, Gaming, Handheld and Internet.
Below is a listing of the top ten programmes on NZTV, recorded as of the 7th of Januarary 2011 via Nielsen TV Audience Measurement. The top programme being watched is still One news TV ONE, and yet again reality TV shows are dominating the ratings. One programme to watch out for is Shortland Street which [ Read More ]
New Zealanders like watching New Zealanders what a surprise. The most popular programmes of the moment attracting the biggest audiences are home grown kiwi television. The top 10 programmes listed by media research company AGB Nielsen all aired on TV One. The most watched programme for the year was TVNZ’s Cheers to 50 Years, which [ Read More ]
TVNZ will be expanding their public broadcasting channel TVNZ 7 and launch a much needed new commercial free to air youth orientated and targeted channel in march 2011, about time. TVNZ CEO Rick Ellis said today the expanded TVNZ 7 channel would add a number of viewer favourites including pre-school children’s programmes from the current [ Read More ]
Petra Bagust and Corin Dann have been confirmed to co-host TV ONE’s Breakfast programme when it returns next year. The announcement was made this morning when the pair joined Pippa Wetzell and Peter Williams on-air during Breakfast’s Christmas Special – the last show for Pippa and final programme of the year. Pippa began co-hosting Breakfast [ Read More ]
TVNZ has launched the next round of its free advertising airtime programme for New Zealand’s charitable organisations. Since the 1980s the TVNZ Community Support Foundation has provided more than $35 million of free advertising airtime to the country’s not for profit sector to promote their services and educate New Zealanders to build a better community.
THE WESTS ARE BACK…in the final series of New Zealand’s best loved comedy drama. Now you can purchase Series six, others and much much more at Native Vision. The Wests are a one-family crime wave with a proud tradition in thievery, larceny and pettycrime. Or at least they used to be. At the beginning of [ Read More ]
She is the new milky bar kid, and she is fluent in Te reo. Blonde-haired, blue-eyed Hinetaapora Short from Rotorua beat out more than 1500 entries to fill the mini-cowboy boots of one of New Zealand’s most well known characters.
Former Breakfast host Paul Henry says TVNZ encouraged him to be provocative – but then treated him unreasonably when his on-air comments sparked a public backlash and led to his resignation. Henry, breaking his silence to New Idea magazine, says he was “appalled” that New Zealand officially apologised after he ridiculed the name of senior [ Read More ]
We have been there to watch the ups and downs of the west for five years. Fights, scams, fashion shows, business, weddings, baby’s , prison, family feuds and the list goes on. But sadly the west have signed off and are now living happily ever after. But we all want to know what happens after [ Read More ]
TV ONE’s Countdown To The New Year announces the Freshly Squeezed Talent Quest – applications open 2 November. This New Year’s Eve, TV ONE will be celebrating the end of year with glitz, glamour and a show-stopping spread of entertainment finishing with a spectacular fireworks display from the top of the Sky City Tower at [ Read More ]