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Airdate: Vicar of Dibley, Worst Christmas of My Life
Two 2006 Christmas specials of Dawn French’s Vicar of Dibley will air on the ABC in December. The first screens at 8:35pm Wednesday December 12 with another a week later. These were intended as
Read More »Crash helmet voted best invention
Don Morgan of Brisbane has won The New Inventors Grand Final prize with his Cone-Head motorcycle helmet. An emotional Morgan was barely able to thank host James O’Loughlin for the honour. He wins a
Read More »Thank God launching in the UK
ITV is to air a British version of TEN’s Thank God You’re Here. It follows the short-lived US version on NBC earlier this year. TEN is yet to re-sign the Working Dog team to
Read More »Airdate: Moonlight, Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares
Aussie hunk Alex O’Loughlin’s CBS series Moonlight will air over summer on Nine. The supernatural drama, which premiered in America in September, will premiere at 9:30pm Wednesday December 12. O’Loughlin plays “a private investigator
Read More »Returning: ER, 2 & Half Men, Til Death
Put away the defibrilators, ER is back from the dead. Nine is returning the long-running drama to Wednesday nights at 8:30pm from December 12. In New South Wales and Queensland the episode “Heart of
Read More »First Review: High School Musical 2
The opening song of the original High School Musical was snuck under the radar via a karaoke scene. It was as if the producers wanted to gently ease the teenage audience into an unfamilar
Read More »New presenter joins Can We Help?
Perth radio broadcaster Geoff Hutchison will join the panel of the ABC’s Can We Help? for its 2008 season. Supervising Executive Producer Margot Phillipson said, “Geoff brings a high level of journalistic expertise to
Read More »Nine News row with reporter
A row has broken out between Nine News reporter Christine Spiteri and the newsroom over claims she has been sacked while taking maternity leave. She was due to return to work in March next
Read More »First Review: Cane, Journeyman, Psych
Three new US dramas are about to be unveiled by Network TEN. The first of these, Cane, premieres tonight. Jimmy Smits is the head of a sprawling Cuban-American family in the deep south of
Read More »SBS: ‘Put ads on ABC too’
SBS’ Managing Director Shaun Brown says the ABC should be forced to run ads. He has made the claim upon the ABC to The Bulletin magazine. Brown also defends SBS against accusations it has
Read More »First Review: East West 101
Roll up your sleeves Australia, there’s another cop show on the way. But unlike the smooth, designer settings of inner city Melbourne in Seven’s City Homicide, it’s a very gritty blue-collar world in SBS’
Read More »Bridie Carter wins Dancing title
Former McLeod’s Daughters star Bridie Carter has won the seventh season of Seven’s Dancing with the Stars. Season favourite Carter and her partner Craig Monley scored 115 over Anh Do and Luda Kroiter’s 93
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