Castle – Renewed Criminal Minds – Renewed Person Of Interest – Renewed Harry’s Law – Canceled
Body Of Proof – Renewed Cougar Town – Renewed, but moving to TBS Grey’s Anatomy – Renewed Happy Endings – Renewed The Middle – Renewed Once Upon A Time – Renewed Private Practice – Renewed Revenge – Renewed Suburgatory – Renewed 2 Broke Girls – Renewed The Big Bang Theory – Renewed The Mentalist – Renewed Mike & Molly – Renewed Two and a Half Men – Renewed Hart of Dixie – Renewed Gossip Girl – Renewed Supernatural – Renewed The Vampire Diaries – Renewed Fringe – Renewed Desperate Housewives – Final Season GCB – Canceled Are You There, Chelsea? – Canceled Pan Am – Canceled Work It! – Canceled I Hate My Teenage Daughter – Canceled
Last Man Standing – Renewed Modern Family – Renewed CSI – Renewed CSI: NY – Renewed The Good Wife – Renewed Hawaii Five-0 – Renewed NCIS – Renewed NCIS: LA – Renewed Bones – Renewed Glee – Renewed Raising Hope – Renewed Touch – Renewed Law & Order: SVU – Renewed CSI: Miami – Canceled The Finder – Canceled Awake – Canceled House – Final Season Terra Nova – Canceled
Don’t Trust The B—- in Apartment 23 – Renewed 90210 – Renewed Parenthood – Renewed American Dad – Renewed The Cleveland Show – Renewed Family Guy – Renewed New Girl – Renewed The Simpsons – Renewed Bob’s Burgers – Renewed 30 Rock – Renewed Community – Renewed The Office – Renewed Parks & Recreation – Renewed Rules of Engagement – Unsure

What are your thoughts? Interesting how shows such as Pan Am and GCB (the latter starts next week) haven’t even aired here yet, but are goners. No surprise though, this happens all too often and the end result is poor scheduling of shows that actually have some quality left in them *cough* Reaper *cough*.

I’d already watched I Hate My Teenage Daughter in my own time, and really liked it, but it was a bit weak to stay afloat. As for The Finder, I feel the idea was interesting enough, but the execution not so much – I could never bring myself to see past episode one.

Source: TV by the Numbers

When TVNZ’s free-to-air public service offering goes off the air next month, it will be replaced with a mundane excuse for a channel. Citing the overseas success of “+ 1″ channels, TVNZ have jumped on the bandwagon of offering one – joining Mediaworks in the affair.

While Mediaworks’ TV3 + 1 was an insult when first unveiled to the expectant New Zealand public, it appears as a shimmering example of television compared to what TV One has done. It’s not just the fact that it’s a timeshifted channel, but what it’s replacing that’s so horrendous. Replacing quality, public service television with a duplicate of another channel is a feeble attempt at filling the void, to say the least. The way I see it, it’s TVNZ’s way of reducing their free-to-air ‘obligation’, and being able to center more time on the launch of Igloo later this year.

Other players have managed to release compelling offerings for the Freeview platform – just look at the success that Choice TV has had since launch. With this being the year that the analogue switch-off commences, why would you want to jeopardise the chances of its uptake? It would more understandable if On Demand services weren’t available, but their ease of access makes this offering even more disgraceful.

So, TVNZ, One + 1 is not a viable replacement for TVNZ 7. It’s now going to be an even sadder day when TVNZ 7 fades to black.

Shows such as The GC, the expected, tentatively named ‘Keeping Up with The Ridges’ and even Glee are making the channel appear as though it doesn’t understand where its channel should be, in its proposed shift from an 18-49 demographic to 25-54. These shows have so much more appeal with the younger audiences that FOUR is taking in, so why not move them there?

TV3 projects an outward personality comprising informative and, well, older. So, why aren’t younger shows, like Glee and even Home and Away making the move to FOUR? Is the audience overlap between the two channels too close, or do people associate very closely with TV3 as the home of these shows? I’ve had this overwhelming feeling that Glee has long belonged on FOUR – in fact, I was incredibly surprised when it wasn’t part of the list of shows making the jump. It doesn’t seem to sit right alongside the plethora of crime dramas TV3 is snapping up.

What are your thoughts – is TV3 confused or not?

The six-part comedy series features Sami playing all five main characters: Azeem, an Iranian cab driver; Pasha, a 30-year old going on 18; Georgie, a homeless woman who finds a lost baby; Jo, a lesbian personal trainer who’s desperately in love with her co-worker; and Linda, a well-to-do woman with goals of finding the next big thing in art.

Congratulations to the team for getting picked up overseas! Although I do have my doubts about whether or not this will take off – just look at Outrageous Fortune before it.

ChoiceTV Preview Loop from Top Shelf Productions Limited on Vimeo.

If you don’t get Freeview HD, see it for yourself here:

The selected favourite episodes will be played from Monday April 30th – Friday May 4th at 7:00pm. To choose your favourites, vote now at FOUR.co.nz.

In the meantime, TV3 will play The Best Of Graham Norton, Fridays at 8:30pm.

The new half-hour series, which appears to be New Zealand and Australia’s answer to the US’s Jersey Shore and the UK’s Geordie Shore, looks at the lives of young Maori looking to jump the ditch to Australia, for money and for play.

Check out the reel below for exciting information, including some of the shows you can expect – Better Homes and Gardens, What’s Really In Our Food and more. The vibe I’m getting from this channel is a combination of Food TV and the Living Channel currently on Sky. Sounds like a fantastic addition to the Freeview lineup.