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Housewives seek another two seasons
Desperate Housewives creator / producer Marc Cherry is in talks about continuing the hit series for another two seasons. Cherry has long maintained he saw the show winding up after its seventh season.
Currently in its fifth season, it is yet to be renewed beyond May, but the “five year leap” has received positive acclaim.
“I started recently talks with (ABC Entertainment president) Steve McPherson and (ABC Studios president) Mark Pedowitz about continuing the show for a ninth season,” Cherry was quoted saying at a cake-cutting ceremony for the show’s 100th episode. “We’re …
Nine channels Karvan’s Spirit
Channel Nine has picked up a new series by actress Claudia Karvan, based on the 1968 series The Ghost and Mrs Muir, entitled Spirit.
Karvan is set to star in the series, her first commercial TV project since The Secret Life of Us.
Source: Daily Telegraph
TAC: Sudden Impact valuable message
TAC boss David Healy has hit back at media comments Nine’s Sudden Impact cost $4m to produce and that the organisation should’nt be involved with a television series. He says the figures are wrong and criticisms misguided.
‘‘Certainly, from our viewpoint, no apologies,” Healy told the Herald Sun. ‘‘The cost is under $1 million in total and my understanding is that the costs are the equivalent to the production of one (TAC) television commercial.
‘‘On that basis, we’re getting four hours of television coverage (for the same price) at a time when …
New boss at Seven Perth
Programming and communications manager for Channel Seven Perth Ray Wardrop is to become its new General Manager.
He replaces current Managing Director, Chris Wharton, yesterday appointed Chief Executive Officer of West Australian Newspapers.
“Ray knows Perth and Western Australia,” CEO David Leckie said. “We’re pleased that our depth in management allows for a smooth transition at our highest-rating television station in Australia.”
Press Release:
The Chief Executive Officer of Seven Media Group, David Leckie, today confirmed the appointment of Ray Wardrop as General Manager of Channel Seven Perth.
Wardrop is currently programming and communications manager for …
‘Perfect blend’ to colour casting
Producer Susan Bowers has commented on criticism that Neighbours has cast “too white.” She plans to introduce more ethnic diversity on the show, but not as a response to the criticism, but as part of a long-term vision she already had in mind.
‘‘I’ll be quite up-front — when I took over the show everyone was very white, including the extras,” Bower told the Herald Sun. ‘‘It was on my agenda (before the UK controversy) to change that.
‘‘I would like it (Neighbours) to reflect Australian society, but I can’t give Libby and Dan a black …
Survivor voted out from Nine?
Survivor: Gabon has been promised by Nine for summer but it won’t be following Survivor: Micronesia.
It would have been the logical place for the show to appear, but Nine will return unaired episodes of Monster House on Monday December 29 and movies on Tuesday December 30.
A week later it’s more of the same.
Any hope that it might be moving to 9HD, given the series is filmed in high definition for the first time, also seems premature.
And while we’re on the subject of Jeff Probst, has he ever done a photo shoot …
Golden Globes 2009: Nominees
Mad Men, 30 Rock, Brothers and Sisters, John Adams and In Treatment feature prominently in the 2009 Golden Globe nominations.
Both the Hollywood Foreign Press and the Writers Guild of America placed Mad Men and Dexter high on their list, with In Treatment and True Blood getting “new series” nods from the latter. In comedy there was more agreement over 30 Rock, Weeds, The Office and Entourage.
Rachel Griffiths will compete for Best supporting actress in a series, miniseries or made-for-television movie, while January Jones, in Australia for the AFI Awards, is up for …
Wall Street Warriors
Ths doco follows the stories of 16 people who battle daily to gain wealth for themselves and their clients. 7:30pm Friday on SBS.
Marian Again
Movie: Madagascar
The Making of Satisfaction
Neighbours
Soundtrack to my Life
Nominees: WGA Awards
Awards season in the US is looming with the Writer’s Guild of American announcing its brightest hopes of the year.
In drama Mad Men will vie with Dexter, Friday Night Lights, Lost and The Wire which had its series finale in March.
30 Rock will take on Entourage, The Office, The Simpsons and Weeds for comedy.
Vying for best new series are Breaking Bad, Fringe, In Treatment (pictured), True Blood and Life on Mars.
DRAMATIC SERIES
Dexter, Written by Scott Buck, Daniel Cerone, Charles H. Eglee, Adam E. Fierro, Lauren Gussis, Clyde Phillips, Scott Reynolds, Melissa …
Gossip Girl
Pretty kids, romantic trysts, sororities, parties and fashion. Is there anything that separates one teen soap from another? Why does 90210 flop in Australia when Gossip Girl gets good buzz?
Based on the novel series by Cecily von Ziegesar (that’s gotta be a pen name, surely?) the second series of Gossip Girl has returned to FOX8, while the first is screening on Channel Nine, who bafflingly sold it to Foxtel in the first place.
Producer Josh Schwartz oversees this adaptation, a man who, after his runaway series The OC, is a challenger to Darren …
Foxtel to air Mardi Gras
Foxtel has signed a broadcast deal for the 2009 Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras parade.
It will screen on the newtork’s pay per view Channel, Main Event, on March 7th.
Brian Walsh, said the organisation was proud to support such an iconic event. “We are thrilled to give people outside of Sydney an opportunity to experience the historic parade and the extravaganza surrounding it.”
Foxtel has previously aired Mardi Gras.
Source: SX
Vale: Robert Prosky
US character actor Robert Prosky, best known for Hill Street Blues and a string of movie roles, has died. He was 77.
Prosky died of complications from a heart procedure but passed peacefully.
He spent three years as a police sergeant on Hill Street Blues. At the time he replaced Michael Conrad, including those famous words, “and remember let’s be careful out there. He also appeared in Veronica’s Closet.
His more than 200 stage credits included Glengarry Glen Ross and Arthur Miller’s A View From The Bridge.
He is survived by his wife, Ida, and …