Monthly Archives: July 2008 »
Survey: The Great Current Affairs Inventory
‘Mmmmm….. I think there’s something in that for all of us,’ Mike Moore once said on Frontline. And with that began a great unravelling of current affairs on Australian television. Yet 14 years later
Read More »Airdate: Dog the Bounty Hunter
This bloke is added to Nine’s schedule during the Olympics. It screens at 8:00pm Tuesday August 12 following a repeat of Two and a Half Men. The show chronicles Duane “Dog” Chapman’s operations at
Read More »Returning: Monster House
They always promised it would return (we just assumed they meant summer). Monster House will return during Nine’s Olympic counter-programming, in the low profile timeslot of 10:30pm Tuesday August 12. In what is an
Read More »Tara Brown for Sunday Morning News
Tara Brown will read Nine’s new Sunday Morning News, from 8am August 10, in place of its axed Sunday. The one hour bulletin will feature news, sport and weather with Laurie Oakes on politics.
Read More »Whitney, Kerri-Anne and the lion reunion
Update: So good Today Tonight decided to play the clip tonight (without any actual reporting required). Thanks for watching! This clip of a reunion between lion carers and lion, from a 1970s documentary The
Read More »Nine acquires Flashpoint
Channel Nine is the “unnamed Australian network” I told you about last month that has picked up the Canadian-made drama Flashpoint. Flashpoint follows an elite metropolitan police force called the Strategic Response Unit (SRU)
Read More »Austar: $7m loss, but subscribers up
Regional pay television operator Austar United Communications has posted a first half net loss, but says subscriber numbers have increased and that its outlook is positive. Austar today reported a net loss of $7.603
Read More »Sneak Peek: The Strip
Nine’s new drama series sure looks tempting in this brief trailer. It’s produced by Knapman-Wyld known for their hard-hitting, gritty dramas like East West 101, Wildside and White Collar Blue. They also produced The
Read More »20 flamin years of ‘Alf’
Now here’s a bloke worth hearing from. I never really get why most sopie is directed at the same bunch of people. Sure Kate Ritchie, John Wood and John Howard are legends, but even
Read More »Premature news for GNW
“Good News Week’s season for 2008 comes to end tonight,” read a Channel TEN subscriber newsletter on Monday. “Don’t worry though as you can re-watch every episode from the series for free online.” In
Read More »Airdate: Freezing
Next week ABC introduces us to ‘Matt and Elizabeth’ a mid-life couple who both find themselves without much work and forced to spend too much time together at home. In the BBC comedy Freezing,
Read More »Family man Mike longs to travel
Mike Munro plans to spend some of his “me time” travelling with his wife Lea and 2 children. In fact his first break will come in September when the family enjoys 2 weeks on
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