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TV3 New Zealand Matariki Schedules 2025

(FRIDAY 20TH JUNE 2025)
5.45am: Matariki mā Puanga (LIVE)
8.45am: Movie: Kiwi Flyer (2012)
12.00pm: Kai Time On The Road
12.30pm: The Bold and the Beautiful
1.00pm: The Young and the Restless
1.30pm: CBS Evening News
2.00pm: Entertainment Tonight
2.30pm: The Hui (REPEATS)
3.00pm: Sticky TV
4.30pm: Bondi Rescue (REPEATS)
5.00pm: Whānau Bake Off
5.30pm: Deal Or No Deal: New Zealand
6.00pm: Newshub Live at 6pm
7.00pm: The 1 Percent Club Australia (REPEATS)
8.00pm: The Graham Norton Show (REPEATS)
9.20pm: 7 Days (REPEATS)
10.20pm: FBI (REPEATS)
11.30pm: FBI: Most Wanted (REPEATS)
12.30am: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
1.30am: CBS Evening News (REPEATS)
2.00am: Infomercials

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TVNZ if it had the rights to 2026 Winter Olympics

TVNZ 1’s schedule during the games

Saturday 7 February 2026
6.00 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony
11.30 2026 Milano-Cortina Highlights
12.00 Deal Or Do Deal UK (repeat)
1.00 John and Lisa’s Weekend Kitchen
2.00 Travelling Auctioneers (repeat)
3.00 2026 Milano-Cortina Highlights (repeat)
4.00 2026 Milano-Cortina Preview
5.00 2026 Milano-Cortina: Day 1 (Live coverage moves to Duke during 1 News Bulletin)
6.00 1 News At Six
7.00 2026 Milano-Cortina: Day 1 (Live coverage resumes till 10am)

Sunday 8 February 2026
6.00 2026 Milano-Cortina: Day 1
10.00 Q+A
11.00 Marae
12.00 Sarah Benny’s New Life In The Country (repeat)
1.00 Emmerdale
1.30 Coronation Street (repeat)
2.00 2026 Milano-Cortina: Day 1 Highlights
4.00 2026 Milano-Cortina: Day 2 Preview
5.00 2026 Milano-Cortina: Day 2 (Live coverage moves to Duke during 1 News Bulletin)
6.00 1 News At Six
7.00 2026 Milano-Cortina: Day 2 (Live Coverage resumes till 10 am)

** Monday 9 February 2026**
6.00 Milano-Cortina 2026 Day 2
10.00 Pointless
11.00 The Chase (repeat)
12.00 Tenable
1.00 Emmerdale
2.00 2026 Milano-Cortina: Day 2 Highlights
4.00 2026 Milano-Cortina: Day 3 Preview
5.00 2026 Milano-Cortina: Day 3 (Live coverage moves to Duke during 1 News Bulletin)
6.00 1 News At Six
7.00 2026 Milano-Cortina: Day 3 (Live Coverage resumes till 10 am)

That would stay the same for the next 13 days until the closing ceremony on 23 February

Monday 23 February 2026
6.00 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics Closing Ceremony
11.00 Tipping Point (repeat)
12.00 1 News At Midday (revival)
12.30 Emmerdale
1.30 Coronation Street (repeat)
2.00 2026 Milano-Cortina: Day 16 Highlights including Closing Ceremony
4.00 Te Karere
4.30 Deal Or No Deal Australia
5.00 The Chase
6.00 1 News At Six
7.00 New Serious Current Affairs Show
7.30 Fair Go (revival)
8.00 The Check Up (New Season)
8.30 Documentary New Zealand
9.30 TVNZ 1’s Real Crime: (including series already streamed on TVNZ+)
10.30 1 News Tonight (revival)
11.00 Late Programs usually Docomentaries or repeats

TVNZ would be able to screen its coverage on TVNZ 1, TVNZ Duke, TVNZ+ and TVNZ Milano-Cortina pop-up channel if TVNZ had beat Sky in securing the rights for 2026 Winter Games. TVNZ 1 would broadcast the most popular Winter sports whereas Duke and the pop up channels would broadcast more niche sports like Luge and Bobsleigh and TVNZ+ would provide ad free coverage if they do not want to watch the ads on TVNZ 1 and Duke.

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If I was 10 if I was to axe the project I wouldn’t try another current affairs program in the same slot. I would go back to what worked previously.

6:00 Deal or No Deal - more money bigger offers
7:00 reality tentpole
8:30 light entertainment

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2594

10 Daytime

MONDAY TO FRIDAY

6:00am Music Nation - music program showcasing both new and classic Australian artists
7:00 The Drew Barrymore Show
8:00am Family Feud
8:30am Wheel Of Fortune
9:00am Lingo
10:00am New Cooking Show
10:30am Morning News
11:00 General Hospital
12:00pm The Gates
1:00pm 10 News at 1
1:45pm Days Of Our Lives
2:45pm Young And The Restless
3:45pm 10 Afternoon News
4:30pm Bold And The Beautiful

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10

Saturday
6:00am Video Hits
8:00am Camper Deals
8:30am On The Fly
9:00am Reel Action
9:30am The Weekly Kickoff
10:00am Saturday Morning

Sunday
6:00am Video Hits
8:00am Business Week
8:30am Meet The Press
9:00am Sportscentre 10
11:00am Escape With ET
11:30am I Fish

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Channel 7 Weekdays

5am 7News
5:30am Sunrise
10am The Morning Show
12pm 7News
1pm The Afternoon Show
4pm 7News Local editions
5pm New Game Show
5:30pm Today Tonight
6pm 7News Local
7pm Home and Away
7:30pm Primetime

Brand themselves as the only Australian network to be all Australian content all day.

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10’s new weekday schedule, done with a bit of a tongue in cheek:

7am - 12pm: US Game Shows and Deal Or No Deal
12pm: 10 News First at Midday
1pm: 10 News: Lunchtime
2pm: The InBetween the News
3pm: 10 News: Afternoon
4pm: 10 News -
5pm: 10 News
6pm: 10 News +
7pm: 10 Eyewitness News
7.30pm: Reality
8.30: Variety (HYBPA, Cheap Seats etc)
9.30: Before the News
10.30: The Late News

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2598

4.5 hours of news in the afternoon?

2599

It was done in jest.

But then again, Seven has news (as such) from 5am until 1pm every weekday, with the Early News at 5am, Sunrise at 5.30am, The Morning Show at 9am and the News at Midday (12pm)

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6:00am Drew Barrymore
7:00am Neighbours (Fri) cooking show encore
7:30am Deal Or No Deal (rpt)
8:00am Lingo
9:00am Reality Encore
10:00am ET
10:30am Cooking Shows
11:00am 10 News
11:30am Family Feud
12:00pm Days Of Our Lives
1:00pm 10 News
2:00pm Young And The Restless
3:00pm 10 News
3:30pm Wheel Of Fortune
4:00pm Neighbours (Fri) cooking show encore
4:30pm Bold And The Beautiful

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Crazy theory, hear me out on this one.

Could 10 be positioning itself for a serious bid for the NRL rights?

No real investment on Friday nights, no investment whatsoever on Saturday.

Me thinks 10 will look to air Friday night and Saturday night NRL games. Perhaps a Sports themed show preceding between 6 and 7 on Saturday streamlining all nights.

I also believe 10 are positioning to dump Deal or No Deal, when Big Brother arrives and the whole watch and stream positioning will see 10 News Late move to 10pm on television as well as streaming concurrently.

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In all seriousness, I have the same tinfoil hat on here. I reckon they are.

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10 News + flow mock:

2 minute rapid fire ‘top stories’ run through. Standing presentation. Both presenters, alternating.

In-depth look at one of the days top stories, with a live relevant cross. Single presenter, alternate. 4 minutes.

Break, 3 minutes.

– 9 minutes

1 minute rapid fire ‘happening now’ run through.

In-depth look at another of the days top stories, with a live relevant cross. Single presenter, alternate. 4 minutes.

Break, 3 minutes.

– 17 minutes

1 minute rapid fire ‘developing’ stories run through.

First special report / investigation, with a live relevant cross. Single presenter, alternate. 5 minutes.

Break 3 minutes.

– 26 minutes

2 minute rapid fire ‘headlines’ run through. Standing presentation. Both presenters, alternating.

In-depth look at one of the days top stories, with a live relevant cross. Single presenter, alternate. 4 minutes.

Break 3 minutes.

– 35 minutes

1 minute rapid fire ‘across the socials’ run through.

In-depth look at another of the days top stories, with a live relevant cross. Single presenter, alternate. 4 minutes.

Break 3 minutes.

– 43 minutes

1 minute rapid fire ‘developing’ stories run through.

Second special report / investigation, with a live relevant cross. Single presenter, alternate. 5 minutes.

Break 3 minutes.

– 51 minutes.

1 minute rapid fire ‘happening now’ run through.

[Alternating segment]

  • Entertainment with Angela Bishop. Let this be the segment for international and local artists, novelists, comedians - to make up for the loss of The Project space people are decrying. 6 minutes.

  • a lighter look at the news, with a comedian at the desk. 6 minutes.

  • ‘your voice’ with Denham and Amelia out in the field doing quick voice pop interviews with everyday Australian’s from all walks of life for their take on the news of the week and what really matters to them. 6 minutes.

  • ‘Question Time’ quick rapid fire 3 person panel, with short answers to questions curated from ‘your voice’. A mini qanda if you will. 6 - 7 minutes.

2 minute rapid fire ‘recap, developing’, with a ‘the 10 news team will stay across this throughout the evening and bring you the latest at [insert time] on 10 Late News. That’s all from us here at 10 News Plus for this evening.’

– close

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I know i will probably get criticism from these ideas for 10, but i will say these anyway. Two programs i would love to see made are the following.

Star Search - possibly for Friday or Saturday at 7:30pm. Use the format that the Greg Evans version did. Professional or semi-professionals appearing and being judged by industry professionals.

On This Day - this would delve into news archives and show stories of significance from each day - a show that could be pre-recorded and screen daily at 7am and encores on secondary channels

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Just a random idea for a replacement to 10News+:

PM (working title, open to suggestions)

Basically like Seven Sharp in NZ and The Project. Or The Morning Show but at night.

It would ideally have two main presenters and maybe a reporter or Late News presenter in the newsroom doing news updates

Studio: 10 Football studio, updated with PTZ cameras to save costs.

Rundown could look a little bit like this:

6pm - 6:10pm: News, Sport and Weather
6:10 - 15pm: Lighter news stories (e.g Panda gives birth)
6:15 - 6:30pm: Lifestyle segments (cooking, TikTok stars, celebrity news etc) - Prerecorded during the day to save on staff costs.
6:30 - 6:35: News recap + Weather check
6:35 - 6:50: Lifestyle
6:50 - 7pm: Good News, Entertainment and other gap filling lighter stories

OR if they extended local news to 6:30:

6pm - 6:10pm: News, Sport and Weather
6:10 - 6:25pm: Lifestyle segments (cooking, TikTok stars, celebrity news etc)
6:25 - 6:30pm: Good News, Entertainment and other gap filling lighter stories

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10: September - December

4.00: Cooking Show
4.30: Bold and the Beautiful
5.00: 10 News
6.00: 10 News Extra (a faster paced 10 News +)
6.30: Neighbours *
7.00: Deal or No Deal
7.30: Primetime

On Fridays: 6 - 7pm: 10 News+ with Hugh and Ursula (Neighbours only airs Monday - to Thursday).

Neighbours Series Final is December 11. Jamie Oliver Christmas Specials and Dog House Australia to air after that. And a complete refresh in January 2026.

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2607

Saturday 5 July 2025 alternative if streaming revolution never happened

TVNZ 1
6.00 Country Calendar (G, rpt)
6.30 Rural Delivery (G)
7.00 Saturday Breakfast
9.00 Roads Less Travelled (G)
9.30 Rick Stein’s Food Stories (G)
10.00 Saturday Kitchen (G)
11.35 Keeping Up Apperances (PG, rpt)
1.30 Saturday Grandstand:
1.35 NBL Rapid League: Taranaki Airs v Otago Nuggets (highlights)
2.40 NRL Women’s Premiership: Brisbane Broncos vs Wests Tigers (live at Totally Workwear Stadium, Greenslopes, Queensland)
4.30 Judi Love’s Culinary Cruise (G)
5.30 New Zealand Food Story With Ben Bayly (G, rpt)
6.00 1 News At Six
7.00 Country Calendar (G)
7.30 The Dog House (G)
8.30 Marlow Murder Club (M)
9.30 The Messenger (M)
10.35 The Split (PG, rpt)
11.35 Penny Dreadful (16VLC)
12.35 BBC World

TVNZ 2
6.00 Care Bears: Unlock The Magic (G, rpt)
6.20 Takaro Tribe (G, rpt)
6.35 Kiri And Lou (G, rpt)
6.45 Go, Diego, Go! (G)
7.10 Agent Binky: Pets Of The Universe (G, rpt)
8.00 Teen Titans Go! (G, rpt)
8.20 Transformers: Earthspark (G, rpt)
8.45 Megamind Rules! (G)
9.10 Holly Hobbie (G, rpt)
9.35 Young Riders (G)
10.00 Fresh (G)
10.30 Shortland Street Omnibus (G, rpt)
12.00 Frasier (G)
12.30 Saturday Matinee: Café Society (2016) (M)
2.30 Sullivan’s Crossing (M)
3.30 Dynamo: Magician Impossible (PG, rpt)
4.30 2 Sports Action: ANZ Premiership Netball: Central Pulse vs Northern Stars (live from TSB Arena, Wellington)
6.00 The Big Bang Theory (PG)
6.30 St Denis Medical (rpt, PG)
7.00 Americas’s Got Talent (PG)
8.00 Lotto
8.05 Americas Got Talent (continued, PG)
8.55 Movie: The Dark Tower (2017) (M)
10.45 Movie: Nude Tuesday (2022) (16LSC)
12.25 Taskmaster Australia (PG, rpt)
1.25 2 Sports Action: NRL: North Queensland Cowboys vs Melbourne Storm (delayed coverage from Country Bank Stadium, Townsville)
3.25 Based On A True Story (16VLC, rpt)
3.55 Fresh (G)
4.25 Infomercial

Three
6.00 Charles Stanley
6.30 Turning Point With David Jeremiah
7.00 AM Weekend
8.30 The Famous Five (G)
9.00 Danger Force (G)
9.30 Erin & Aaron (G)
10.00 The Nation
11.00 The Official NZ Top 40 (G)
12.00 The Masked Singer Australia (PG)
1.00 Ink Master (PG)
2.00 This Is Us (M, rpt)
3.00 Three Sport: Cricket: Australia vs West Indies (highlights from Grenada)
4.00 Well Traveller (G)
4.30 Getaway (G)
5.00 Outdoors With Geoff (G)
5.30 Gone Fishin (G)
6.00 ThreeNews
7.00 Three Sport: Rugby Union: All Blacks vs France (live from Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin)
9.00 Saturday Night at the Movies: Captive (2015) (16VLC)
11.10 Late Movie: The Other Woman (2014) (M)
1.15 Infomercials
5.00 Joyce Meyer
5.30 Charles Stanley

Sky Open
6.00 Home Shopping
8.25 The Drawing Show (G)
8.30 Michal And Moe (G, rpt)
8.55 Moe & Friends (G, rpt)
9.10 Extreme Cake Sports (G)
9.30 My Favourite Dead Person (G)
9.40 Kea Kids News (G)
10.00 Wheel Of Fortune (PG, rpt)
10.30 Jeopardy! (PG, rpt)
11.00 Pointless Australia (G, rpt)
12.00 The Crowd Goes Wild Omnibus
2.30 Pawn Stars (PG, rpt)
3.00 MasterChef USA (M)
4.00 Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives (PG, rpt)
4.30 WhichCar (G)
5.00 Ado’s Addicted to Fishing (G)
5.30 News First at 5.30
6.00 Glow Up: Britain’s Next Make-up Star (PG)
7.00 Sport: Maori All Blacks vs Scotland (live from Semenoff Stadium, Whangarei)
9.00 Movie: Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
11.05 The Jetty (16VLC, rpt)
12.25 First Dates (M)
1.30 Home Shopping

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I think 10 needs to look at the past to potentially shape its future schedule. Yes, viewer behaviours change but here are 3 potential programs/formats they should at least consider in a staggered way.

  1. A reboot of sorts of GMA - think something compact like TVAM/Sunrise early years. A 1 hour show, possibly at 7am weekdays
  2. A daily state based morning style show - think Good Morning Sydney etc
  3. A late morning news style program - similar to 11AM

Weekends

  1. A Sunday style show
  2. A Meet The Press style show
  3. Reboot of Business Week
  4. A Saturday or Sunday morning sports show - simlar to Sports World and Sports Sunday.
  5. A weekend edition of the 11AM style show
  6. Reboot of Video Hits - i would schedule it from 6am through until 8am or 8:30am with the content above filling out the mornings

You would not invest in all these at once but could provide a stable alternative to the weekend editions of the weekday shows

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Saturday 12th July 2025

TVNZ 1
6.00am: Country Calendar (repeats)
6.30am: Rural Delivery
7.00am: Infomercials
9.00am: Roads Less Traveled
9.30am: Rick Stein’s Food Stories
10.00am: Going, Going, Gone (double episodes)
11.00am: Marae (repeats)
11.30am: Saturday Kitchen
12.30pm: Keeping Up Appearances
1.30pm: The Chase USA (double episodes)
3.30pm: Moving Houses (repeats)
4.30pm: Deal Or No Deal UK
5.00pm: The Chase
6.00pm: 1 News at Six
7.00pm: New Zealand Food Story with Ben Bayly
7.30pm: MasterChef USA
8.00pm: Lotto
8.05pm: MasterChef USA (continued)
8.35pm: Marlow Murder Club
9.35pm: The Messenger
10.35pm: The Split
11.35pm: ABC World News
12.05am: Infomercials

TVNZ 2
12.30am: The Good Doctor (repeats)
1.30am: Emmerdale
2.00am: ABC World News Tonight
2.30am: Infomercials
4.30am: Neighbours (repeats)
5.00am: Infomercials
6.00am: Children’s Programming
9.30am: Infomercials
10.30am: American Idol
12.30pm: Australian Idol (repeats)
1.30pm: The Amazing Race (repeats)
3.30pm: 2 Tunes
4.00pm: ANZ Premiership Netball, Magic v Pulses: Final (Live)
6.00pm: The Big Bang Theory
7.00pm: Family Movie: Ratatouille (2007)
8.30pm: Synergy Hair Netball League (Delayed Coverage)
10.30pm: 9-1-1 (repeats)
11.30pm: DOC (repeats)
12.30am: ABC World News
1.00am: Infomercials

TV3
6.00am: Religious Programming
7.00am: Best of AM Show
8.00am: Rocko’s Modern Life
8.30am: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
9.00am: Danger Mouse
9.30am: Pukana
10.00am: Newshub Nation
11.00am: Entertainment Tonight Weekend
12.00pm: CBS Evening News
12.30pm: 3 Sport: Rugby Union: All Blacks vs France (Highlights)
1.30pm: 3 Sport: NRL: Warriors vs Storm (Highlights)
2.30pm: Deal Or No Deal New Zealand (repeats)
3.00pm: Deal Or No Deal Island (repeats) (2 episodes)
4.00pm: The Official NZ Top 40
5.00pm: The Masked Singer Australia
6.00pm: Newshub Live at 6pm
7.00pm: 3’s Family Movie: The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004)
8.30pm: 3 Movie: Out Of The Blue (2006)
10.30pm: Law and Order: SVU: (repeats)
11.30pm: NCIS (repeats)
12.30am: CBS Evening News
1.00am: Infomercials

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The way 10 could program if it was serious about news and current affairs and was to move away from reality programming at 7:30pm. (I know I am more likely to win lotto than 10 doing this)

Sunday
5:00pm Ten News @ 5
5:30pm Sports Weekend
6:00pm Ten News @ 6
7:00pm Ten News+ Sunday Edition
7:30pm Face The Nation Australia

Monday
5:00pm Ten News @ 5
5:30pm Sports Daily
6:00pm Ten News @ 6
7:00pm Ten News+
7:30pm Eyewitness

Tuesday
5:00pm Ten News @ 5
5:30pm Sports Daily
6:00pm Ten News @ 6
7:00pm Ten News+
7:30pm Australia’s Most Wanted

Wednesday
5:00pm Ten News @ 5
5:30pm Sports Daily
6:00pm Ten News @ 6
7:00pm Ten News+
7:30pm 48 Hours Australia

Thursday
5:00pm Ten News @ 5
5:30pm Sports Daily
6:00pm Ten News @ 6
7:00pm Ten News+
7:30pm Good Newsweek

Friday
5:00pm Ten News @ 5
5:30pm Sports Daily
6:00pm Ten News @ 6
7:00pm Ten News+
7:30pm State Affair

Saturday
5:00pm Ten News @ 5
5:30pm Sports Weekend
6:00pm Ten News @ 6
7:00pm Ten News+
7:30pm Ten Newsweek
8:00pm Meet The Press

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