Monthly Archives: December 2007 »
Aussie assault to tackle strike
More Kyle and Jackie O for TEN, Underbelly and Canal Road at Nine and new Aussie programming from Seven -that’s how the big three commercial networks are addressing the lengthy US writer’s strike. All
Read More »Top hosts front Friday Night Project
David Tennant, Billie Piper, David Walliams, Mel C, Sharon Osbourne, Rupert Everett, Joanna Lumley, Christian Slater -just some of the guest hosts you’ll see on Friday Night Project which starts next week on UKTV.
Read More »TV Tonight Awards: Voting closes soon.
Neighbours’ Jackie Woodburne is one of five contenders silently battling it out for the title of ‘Most Underrated’ in the reader-voted TV Tonight Awards 2007. Voting closes Monday in categories that acknowledge the best
Read More »SBS airs Pakistan documentary
Following yesterday’s assassination of Pakistan’s opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, SBS has made a late amendment to its schedule tonight (Friday) to repeat a 2 part documentary Pakistan Zindabad which looks at the country’s political
Read More »In: BB Uncut. Out: BB UpLate.
As previously rumoured, Big Brother Up Late is being dropped for 2008. Reports had claimed the show is no longer the money-spinner it once was. But there will be other ‘new shows’ for the
Read More »OC star DUI in LA
The OC’s Mischa Barton is the latest Hollywood star to be arrested for drunken driving, on Thursday. Barton was arrested in West Hollywood and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, driving without
Read More »First Review: Nine in 2007
The question that seemed to summarise the year for Nine was “Who Killed Channel Nine?” The book by Gerald Stone pointed fingers everywhere and as the network continued a painful rebirth from the Packer
Read More »Are you ‘avin a last laff?
And here is a racy trailer for the Extras Christmas Special which airs today in the UK. Guests include George Michael, Gordon Ramsay, Clive Owen and David Tennant (clip may offend). The 90min special
Read More »Morrell gave ‘the performance of the year.’
Geoff Morrell as Chris Corrigan in the ABC’s Bastard Boys was ‘the performance of the year’, writes Graeme Blundell. There are lists and summaries of the year falling around us left, right and centre
Read More »Bumped: Men in Trees
This reschedule is a bit like the old shell game. Nine will shift the Anne Heche drama Men in Trees to 10:30pm from next Wednesday. It will be replaced by repeats of RPA Where
Read More »Your NYE TV Survival Guide
Once again, New Year’s Eve is dominated by fireworks and music. Ringing in the 2008 year you have the choice of music from Elton John, The Beatles, The Mamas and the Papas, or video
Read More »First Review: Seven in 2007
However you look at it, 2007 was Seven’s heaven. After nearly 30 years of second fiddle to Nine, Seven was finally, convincingly, The One. Winning 38 of 40 Ratings Weeks has given it the
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