Monthly Archives: July 2007 »

Bingo host announced

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Home and Away’s Tim Campbell will host Seven’s new National Bingo Night according to the Sydney Morning Herald. As previously announced, this American format pits single contestants against a studio audience. All of them

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Meet Dr Who

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Sylvestor McCoy, the seventh Doctor Who (1987-1989, 1996), will be making appearances to Australian fans at upcoming sci-fi conventions. McCoy is appearing this Sunday July 29 in Melbourne at the Doctor Who Club of

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Millsy in the Mint

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Rob Mills is one of four presenters Nine has announced for its new late night quiz show, The Mint. He will be joined by Cherie Hausler, Natalie Garonzi and Nathanial Buzolic. Based on a

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The Abbey to air in October

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The ABC has announced its long-awaited ‘observational’ series The Abbey will air in October after delays hit the production last year. In 2006 the ABC set about commencing production with an Abbey in the

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Ratings Week 30

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NB: Ratings will have regular but not daily updates until further notice. Please refer to “vacation” post. Saturday1 Seven News – Sat Seven 1,229,0002 Nine News Sat Nine 1,194,0004 The Dame Edna Treatment Nine

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Mon July 23

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[ABC/8:00pm] Australian Story. Belinda Emmett.[ABC/8:30pm] Four Corners. Should the children of addicts be removed from the family home? Reporter Janine Cohen asks: how many chances should a parent get?[ABC/9:20pm] Media Watch. [ABC/9:35pm] Enough Rope

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Jessica’s Rowe with Seven

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Jessica Rowe will be reading news on Seven and signing for the next Dancing with the Stars according to Media Spy. And in New Idea magazine this week the former host of the Today

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400th Simpsons coming

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TEN will end the current series of new Simpsons episodes with the show’s 400th episode, on Tuesday August 7. In the episode “You Kent Always Say What You Want” Homer buys the 1,000,000th ice-cream

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Every kid wins a prize.

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This week the top three shows were evenly distributed. TEN managed the week’s top show with Thank God You’re Here snaring an impressive 1.84m viewers, just ahead of Seven’s Border Security (1.83m). And Nine

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Shemar denies magazine’s outing

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Shemar Moore, that hot actor in Criminal Minds, denies there’s anything behind a National Enquirer story about him swimming nude on a gay beach. Moore says he was there with two females. “I went

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Australian Idol Watch

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If early publicity pics are anything to go by this should be the seating order of judges on the next Australian Idol. The return of Dicko has created a dilemma for producers, potentially stuck

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First Review: Australia’s Best Backyards

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Next week Durie competes head-on with himself in a curious piece of Aussie network scheduling. Nine, which dropped his programme Backyard Blitz claiming the gardening genre had been exhausted, has been somewhat-embarrasingly attracting good

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