Huge win for Sky Sport, major loss for Spark Sport.
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Can’t help but wonder how long Spark sport will keep going for. Maybe they’ll sell it to Sky, like Lightbox
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Is’nt Spark sport kind of already tied up with Sky anyway? similar to Kayo over here?
No. They’re competitors. More akin to Optus.
It’s a good question - they have the cricket rights for another 3 years after this year but they seem to have cost cut from the opening season with fewer cameras. I don’t know that they’d be getting return on it. Presumably the international deals they could onsell rather easily but they’ve just signed a couple of long term ones.
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Announced this morning, TVNZ has confirmed that it will simulcast with BBC One to air Doctor Who: The Power of the Doctor at 7:30am NZST on Labour Day (24th October). It will rerun at 5:00pm on the same day.
This special will mark Jodie Whittaker’s last outing as the 13th Doctor.
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Also mentioned in the article above is the NZ debut of reality show The Bridge Australia, commissioned by Paramount+ and narrated by Hugo Weaving. It will premiere on TVNZ2 on Thursday, October 27 at 9.30pm.
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Delete if not allowed, but have nabbed this ratings chart off The Spinoff website to give us a rare insight into NZ TV ratings in 2023.
I will happily cringe on behalf of the nation that a repeat of The Chase Bloopers commanded an audience of 404,500 viewers. Long live the oldies who prop up TVNZ1.
The Chase is popular across all age groups - hence why they flog it in primetime too!
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No surprise to see My Life is Murder rating well - the only locally made drama in the top 20.
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what’s the article on the spinoff this from? just curious.
The documentary that aired on One on Tuesday night, ‘No Maori Allowed’, was excellent.
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The Australian version of Would I Lie to You? starts tonight on TVNZ2 at 9pm, right after The Voice Australia. Filmed in Melbourne, the first season was hosted by Chrissie Swan with Chris Taylor and Frank Woodley as team captains.
Here is the line-up for the first episode.
The show was recently renewed for a second season by Network 10 at its 2023 upfronts, with Charlie Pickering replacing Chris Taylor as team captain. Chrissie Swan returns as host and Frank Woodley returns as team captain.
Wonder if we’ll get The Cheap Seats here anytime soon
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Surprised they didn’t already do a deal for that show given they have their own version of HYBPA? and given Mel’s involvement.
Perhaps there are plans for a local version down the track.
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The Cheap Seats would be full of tv spoilers for Australian shows not yet broadcast in NZ
Would it though? It’s predominantly all news based content, can’t imagine there would be many (if any) spoilers for NZ viewers.
The Cheap Sets would be a great filler when Have You Been Paying Attention takes a break and would be good in the TVNZ 2 Friday comedy blcok
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I hope the cheep seats comes to tv2 soon, they announced that they are coming back for 2023 so hopefully then
We await with anticipation for next months TVNZ and Discovery NZ Upfronts.
I think that TVNZ 2 will do a NZ version of The Voice, Hunted NZ and local Drama series The Bishop and TVNZ 1 will go more public service like and new series of One Lane Bridge and Warner Bros. Discovery NZ will revive Inside NZ and new local series Dry Creek
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