Producers of Filthy Rich have been forced to do a revamp of the opening episode of series 2 after an NZ on Air assessment deemed it wasn't up to scratch. The decision came three months after the debut season of Filthy Rich finished screening on TV2, attracting limited ratings and poor reviews from critics. Filthy Rich premiered to an audience of more than 406,000 viewers in February but the average audience eventually dropped to around half that figure. "Some critics didn't like the first series of Filthy Rich but in the end we were all pretty happy with the changes suggested for series 2." Filthy Rich has since been a hit overseas and was snapped up by US streaming giant Hulu, which has an audience of more than 12 million Americans.

Source: New Zealand Herald November 05, 2016 16:13 UTC