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Airdate: Spirit of Australian Sport: Swimming
Update: Rescheduled to Wed July 30 8:30pm.Thorpedo will host a two hour special on swimming for the History Channel.Ian Thorpe, who has a long affiliation with Foxtel, will present The Spirit of Australian Sport - Swimming on Wed July 30 8:30pm. At one point he was set to front his own youth lifestyle series for the Pay TV network but was forced to …
Gallery: TEN News Melbourne
TEN News Melbourne today unveiled its new look set.No longer dominated by a rich blue, it now has softer tones with a distinct backdrop of city architecture. It also adds more contours than previous flat images. Both Mal Walden and Helen Kapalos are shouldered by light brown cushioning.Steve Quartermain’s sports set is very busy indeed, with at least four elements behind him….
Returning (again): Jericho (again). Bumped: 4400
This is becoming a tad tiresome….On again, off again US drama Jericho will return to TEN HD, as promised in mid July.It is back on Thursday’s sci-fi night from 10:30pm July 17. “AKA” is one of twelve remaining episodes.It will see The 4400 bumped to 11:30pm. This means TEN held over Jericho to play …
NBC says more Kath & Kim, ploise
NBC is understood to have ordered seven more episodes of the Americanised Kath & Kim, after seeing the first episode.That would take its total to 13 half-hours, up from the initial order of six. Ben Silverman must have liked what he saw. That will come as a relief given the show was on-sold to affiliates without any pilot footage. That was enough to make one Canadian broadcaster decline….
Returning: Curb Your Enthusiasm
Larry David fans get enthused, Nine is bringing back the oh so dry comedy of Curb Your Enthusiasm.It’s back at 12am Wednesday July 16 (that’s Tuesday night July 15 if you prefer).Nine will screen double episodes, starting with “The Smoking Jacket” and “The Seder” which aired in the US in November 2005. Nine also has some mid 1990s Seinfeld eps screening …
No Hollywood strike -yet
America’s Screen Actors Guild is talking down concerns of a possible strike as the contract between SAG and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) expires at 12:01 a.m. on Tuesday (US).”We have taken no steps to initiate a strike authorisation vote by the members of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG). Any talk about a strike or a management lockout at this point is simply a distraction,” said SAG …
Airdate: The F Word. Gone: CSI: NY
There’s almost something poetic about the once-saturated CSI being pushed aside by the newly-saturated Gordon Ramsay, but that’s exactly what Nine is doing.The F Word series, which has already aired on the Lifestyle Channel, will replace CSI:NY from next Monday at 9:30pm.Nine had originally planned to screen it on a Friday night in its non-NRL states, but sensibly decided the chef was too popular to waste …
Airdate: 2008 Helpmann Awards
Foxtel will again broadcast the Helpmann Awards, Australia’s gongs for theatre and live performance on Monday July 28. They will air live at 8:30pm on the Bio Channel.Hosted by actor Jonathan Biggins, they will feature the casts of The Phantom of the Opera, Billy Elliot The Musical, The Rocky Horror Show, Guys and Dolls, and My Fair Lady. There will also be appearances by The Australian Ballet, The Umbilical …
Week 27
Saturday:1 Seven News Seven 1.2512 Nine News Nine 1.1763 Australia’s Funniest Home Video Show Nine 1.1274 The Great Outdoors Seven 0.9485 Ten News At Five Sat TEN 0.892ABC News ABC 0.885Stuart Little 2 Nine 0.836The Bill ABC 0.795Saturday Night AFL TEN 0.775Midsomer Murders ABC 0.671Wild At Heart ABC 0.668The Wedding Singer Nine 0.658Seven’s R.U: Aus …
A right to dignity
If ever there was a story ripe for Australian Story to document, it is one written by former TEN newsreader and Sky News presenter Tracy Spicer, struggling to come to terms with her dying mother’s wishes and the subject of euthanasia.”At 3.17am on October 25, 1999, I considered suffocating my mother with a pillow,” she writes in today’s Daily Telegraph.”I didn’t view it as …
And here’s what’s happened to Joey Fatone
No longer fronting Singing Bee (either for Nine or NBC), Joey Fatone is now co-host on the US version of The Singing Office, a Dutch format that appeared locally last year on FOX8.It kicks off today on TLC (The Learning Channel). He’s joined by former Spice Girl Mel B. Both appeared in the US Dancing with the Stars.First song for the show, “She Works Hard for the Money” perhaps?…
Price of BBC shows likely to rise
While the ABC fathoms the impact of the BBC taking over the UKTV Channel, there are concerns the move will push up the price tag of programme acquisitions.”I am absolutely confident that we will still be the major outlet for first-run quality BBC material, but it will have some pricing impact,” Kim Dalton, ABC’s Head of Television told the Sydney Morning Herald.”They now own …