is Renee Wright still working for as TVNZ 1 voice? generally she voices the show cards “tonight on 1 —-“ but recently it’s a generic voice over “have a wonderful evening on one”
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Not sure but I know Hamish Denton who has been the corporate voice for TVNZ 2 and others has not long finished up
TVNZ2 closedown slide that seems to be airing overnight when they have a block of airtime to fill. Has previously been filled with music until last week and before that, this: New Zealand TV - #1340 by OnAir
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Had a quick flick through the Three ratecards this morning. Looks like the expected has come true - more Discovery reruns in the AM slot from the 8th
Meanwhile weeknights stay more or less the same with the new Stuff deal, while on the weekends the family movie now airs half an hour earlier. David Lomas also moves into a new Sunday 6:30pm slot, which seems a bit of a gamble imo.
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Season 2 of Taskmaster Australia premieres on TVNZ 2 next Wednesday (June 19) at 8.35pm, after MasterChef Australia. Each episode will be shown four weeks after Australia.
It is actually the third filmed season, featuring Anne Edmonds and partner Lloyd Langford, as well as Josh Thomas, Jenny Tian and Wil Anderson.
Australian promo
On the same night, on TVNZ 1, is the debut of 4-part travel series Bill Bailey’s Wild West Australia at 8.30pm.
Comedian and musician Bill Bailey takes a trip across Western Australia’s far south, encountering a plethora of true-blue Aussie locals, animals and landscapes. Follow him as he visits the best beach in the world, scales the spectacular trees of the Valley of the Giants, paddleboards in near zero degree waters of the Southern Ocean with a former NBA star, does burnouts in a tugboat, and attempts to start a secessionist movement.
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Also coming to TVNZ 1 is that American legal drama Elisabeth which is expected to air on Tuesdays at 8.30. Elisabeth Tasconi is a quirky lawyer who first appeared on The Good Wife which aired several seasons on Three. After couple of seasons on Bravo of The Bachelor Australia returns to its old network which is TVNZ 2 airing overnight Tuesday at 2.25am
Rates incredibly well, especially by Three’s standards. Last figure I saw from the latest season was over 300,000.
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Not sure if autocorrect or something, but the show is called Elsbeth.
The character being Elsbeth Tascioni.
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Madam premieres July 4 on ThreeNow.
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The 37th running of the America’s Cup is coming to Three/ThreeNow and Stuff.co.nz in August.
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Wonder if we will see more tie-ups for programming where it is mutually beneficial for Three/Stuff? That or there was an existing agreement in place for the race which is being honoured.
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After it gone to air in the UK almost 8 years ago, ITV game show Tenable airs for the first time in New Zealand debuting at Midday on TVNZ 1 from 1 July pushing British soap opera Emmerdale back to 1pm. Over in Australia, Tenable already aired 4 seasons on the ABC.
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Looks like Bravo NZ could be on the chopping block by WBD
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But if they did, which wouldn’t surprise me, they’d open up themselves into NBCU doing a deal with TVNZ. I’ve only ever watched about an hour of Bravo in the entire time they’ve been on air, but apparently their ratings aren’t that bad, for the sort of thing they offer, so it’s a possibility, I guess.
It would also mean The Disco Bros wouldn’t have to put two of their channels on Kordia/JDA Muxes, which might save them a little bit of money too.
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The channel rates well, I don’t see why they would mess with it. The history of channel 4 is littered with failures apart from C4//Bravo. Do they really want to go through another round of finding a niche channel to replace it. Honestly the penny pinching at WBD is all short term gain and long term pain. Maybe they’re readying the NZ arm for sale and want to make it as attractive as possible to sell. I doubt TVNZ would want the Bravo channel considering they’re going through their own cuts, it might just end up behind a paywall on Sky tbh.
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Joanna Paul-Robie revealed on RNZ today that she has terminal cancer.
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Oh my mum will be pi*sed 