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Airdate: Kid Nation
Remember a little show TV Tonight told you about back in May?Get ready for Lord of the Flies meets Bonanza. Kid Nation is coming to TEN over summer.The reality show puts 40 American kids aged 8 – 15 in an old western town and leaves them to fend for themselves. They have to form a town council, rough it without electricity or running water, sleep on bed rolls on …
Bionic axe looming?
Not even a billion dollar makeover looks like it can save Bionic Woman from the axe.The show has suffered a series of setbacks in the US that spell doom for the NBC series. This week it flatlined at just 5.99m viewers.It was the last episode produced prior to the Writer’s Strike, and the show shut down production in Canada two weeks ago. Reviews have been poor.Creatively it has also been …
Daryl Somers quits Dancing
Daryl Somers has quit Dancing with the Stars.”I’ve had a fabulous time on Dancing with the Stars but I’m ready for a new direction” Daryl said.”To be honest, I have felt somewhat restricted by the tightly structured format and feel if I don’t move on now I’ll regret it. If the Network do another season, and I think they should, I hope they hit the refresh button. It’s been a great …
WGA unfazed with Producers offer
Talks this week between the WGA and Producers have yet to deliver an end to the strike. Both parties appeared to be at a stalemate, likened to a game of the old 1950’s chicken, each waiting for the other car to move first.It appears the producers did. But it hasn’t impressed the WGA.The producers unveiled a sweetened economic proposal that the studios said would “deliver more than $130 million in additional compensation” annually to scribes for …
Dec 1: World AIDS Day
Saturday may be the last day of the 2007 Ratings Year but it is also World AIDS Day. The theme for the 2007 Australian World AIDS Day campaign is HIV/AIDS: Prevention is everybody’s business.In past years, all networks used to commemorate the occasion with specials and concerts, most notably the Red Hot and Blue series and Nelson Mandela concerts. MTV used to have almost 24 hours of specials and concerts highlighting HIV …
Bumped: Cane, Starter Wife
Figures for the premiere of Cane were so disappointing on Wednesday that TEN has been quick to make a switch next week. It only had 648,000 viewers this week.Now, Cane will move to 9:30pm as its regular time, allowing The Starter Wife to ’start’ at 8:30pm.Hallmark’s Starter Wife starring Debra Messing, Judy David and Miranda Otto was shot in Queensland. The miniseries, clocking in at …
Putting the Heart back into Nine
The clouds are parting and Nine is looking to blue skies.Dwarfed by a reinvigorated Channel Nine logo, newly-installed boss David Gyngell last night launched the network’s new programming for 2008 in Melbourne. It followed a similar event in Sydney.”We Heart TV” was the message of the night and becomes the 2008 slogan (note: not ‘We Love TV’ as has been previously reported). It is set to join the final return of Nine’s balls, all …
Walkley winners 2007
SBS, the ABC and Channel Nine all picked up gongs at the 29th Annual Walkley Awards last night.Dateline, Sunday, Four Corners and Foreign Correspondent were all awarded.Tony Jones won the Broadcast Interview award for hosting Lateline. World News Australia reporter Brian Thomson won the Television News Reporting category for his series of reports on East Timor.Craig Hutchison won for his “Drugs in Football” story on …
TEN HD programming mixes old & new
Network TEN has now released details of its new HD programming.The channel operates as a 24 hour mix of analogue and HD programming. The bulk of the schedule mirrors the analogue channel with some specialist HD-only viewing in afternoons and evenings.TEN will return some of its missing favourite shows to TEN HD, some as new episodes and others as repeats, plus movies and documentaries. It also launches some exclusive HD only franchises….
Foxtel launches mobile Remote Record
Foxtel has launched Remote Record, a new mobile phone functionality that allows the option to record TV programmes from phones.The new application most benefits subscribers with an iQ and 3G phone, giving them roaming freedom to control their favourite programmes -perfect if you are running late.Remote Record is initially compatible for iQ subscribers with 25 different 3G phones, with more to follow. The EPG itself can be accessed by any compatible …
Nine 08: ‘We Heart TV’
Lots of news surrounding Nine today.CEO David Gyngell is reported to be drawing a line in the sand following a disastrous handling of Christine Spiteri’s employment.”Gyngell is trying to put an end to all this business of people negotiating their contracts through fear – he’s drawing a line in the sand,” a source told The Daily Telegraph.Gyngell reportedly blasted his news boss John Westacott’s comments that Spiteri should try her luck at …
Drover Damage control
It’s all coming unstuck for Bridie Carter very quickly.On Tuesday night after she won the Dancing with the Stars title, she commented to a newspaper that she wouldn’t be watching the end of McLeod’s Daughters.She said, “I don’t want to mar McLeod’s, but not everything was as it appears. I find it strange that not one of the original cast members is left. Perhaps they should have tried harder …