Brisbane's been hit by some devastating storms in the lead-up to the first cricket test between the Black Caps and Australia, but behind the closed gates of the Gabba ground another storm was bre ...
Cached : Cricket Australia and media lock heads
Fans of the television show that some had billed as the successor to the once wildly successful Sex and the City series have reacted swiftly to rumours that it is about to be axed by NBC. They are ...
Cached : Lipstick revolt to save Carrie's heirs
Fairfax Media is to fold its BusinessDay website back into Stuff.co.nz but insists that it is "an architectural change" and it is not backtracking on its online strategy. The BusinessDay we ...
Cached : Media : BusinessDay stuffed into main site
New Zealand is moving into the digital age with analogue television likely to be phased out by 2012, a report commissioned by NZ On Air has found. About 55 per cent of households now have digital tel ...
Cached : More than half New Zealanders watching digital TV
The outlandish sketch comedy show Little Britain has crossed the Atlantic and created American characters for its latest series. Tom Hoskyns offers fans an immigration guide Not content with the ext ...
Cached : Welcome to big America
Could it be that the guy formerly known as Newsboy has grown up? When he surfaced in the first of the Eating Media Lunch specials a couple of weeks ago, he looked all adult, sporting his smart suit an ...
Cached : Linda Herrick: Conventional wisdom
Tomorrow marks the official changing of the guard at Shortland Street HQ, as producer Jason Daniels walks off the studio lot for good, handing the reins to his successor, Steven Zanoski. Daniels ha ...
Cached : Shortland Street head hangs his hat up
New Zealand is moving into the digital age with analogue television likely to be phased out by 2012, a report commissioned by NZ On Air has found. About 55 per cent of households now have digital tel ...
Cached : More than half New Zealanders watching digital TV
I still haven't figured out the rules for Who Wants to Be a Bum? Which is what Filthy Rich and Homeless (TV One, last night, 9.30) ought to be called. Does the filthy rich lister who is best ...
Cached : TV review : Filthy Rich and Homeless
Broadcasters claim that a 5 per cent increase in television watching to October 31 signals the industry is strong as it heads into the new programming season and an economic downturn. The result coun ...
Cached : Viewers up but TVNZ takes no risks
Sticklers for law and order might think the boys and girls in blue are stretched too thin on the streets, but they'll no doubt be pleased to know that quotas are being kept up on prime time. As ...
Cached : TV Review: Beat Squad
An explosion in online piracy has forced New Zealand's free-to-air TV networks to fast-track the screening of top international shows. Superhero drama Heroes and British car series Top Gear ...
Cached : Fast-track to air TV's top shows
So how did the media measure up over the campaign? The standout was Morning Report's Geoff Robinson's coverage of the last days of the American presidential campaign. Whoever made the deci ...
Cached : Deborah Coddington : Political waffle veers from sharp to shoddy
Leftie Kiwi musician Don McGlashan is fuming after TVNZ used one of his songs to accompany a montage of images celebrating National leader John Key's election victory last Saturday. Anchor Me , ...
Cached : Don McGlashan: 'I would rather have sex with a very ugly crayfish'
An explosion in online piracy has forced New Zealand's free-to-air TV networks to fast-track the screening of top international shows. Superhero drama Heroes and British car series Top Gear ...
Cached : Fast-track to air TV's top shows
It may have been almost 10 years since Jeremy Wells set foot in Gore, but the Southland locals don't forget a face. The Eating Media Lunch host was in the Southland town last weekend for One ...
Cached : Southern discomfort for Wells
Viewers who have long suspected that House 's longtime adversary Dr Lisa Cuddy would make a great mum thanks to the practise she has had handling the whims of her doctor are in for a treat. In ...
Cached : Maternal urges
Downstairs in a tiny Grey Lynn office, screen doyenne Robyn Malcolm is talking business with her agent, Imogen Johnson. The cosy scene is at odds with the tough reputation Johnson has earned as a ta ...
Cached : Imogen, Special Agent
They loved us in Xena and now the legend of New Zealand is about to grow even more in a new drama for American television audiences. The new adventure-fantasy series Legend of the Seeker is described ...
Cached : Wizard of a tale for NZ
NEW YORK - Broadcaster MSNBC was the victim of a hoax when it reported that an adviser to Senator John McCain had identified himself as the source of an embarrassing story about former vice-presidenti ...
Cached : Fake source dupes network