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The Circuit
Aaron Pedersen returns as city lawyer Drew Ellis looking to find his place in the Kimberley in SBS’ drama, 8:30pm Tuesday.
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Lib Leadership battle on ABC
If you’re interested in Aussie politics, ABC is the place to be tomorrow morning.
6-9am (AEDT) On ABC2 – News Breakfast special edition
Insider’s presenter Barrie Cassidy is in Canberra and joins the ABC News Breakfast team for full coverage as Liberal MPs arrive at Parliament House for the leadership vote.
9am (AEDT)
On ABC1 – ABC News Special: Liberal Leadership Challenge
For the best live television coverage and analysis of the Liberal Leadership challenge, Barrie Cassidy will host this ABC News Special from Parliament House from 9am (AEDT).
He’ll be joined by ABC Online’s new Chief …
Austar promises to monitor MA15+ content
Austar has given an enforceable undertaking to the Australian Communications and Media Authority to ensure that it does not broadcast content rated higher than MA15+.
Earlier this year ACMA ruled that two episodes of Cathouse, an HBO reality series on a Nevada brothel, breached the ASTRA Subscription Television Codes of Practice.
The episodes contained sexual content and nudity deemed higher than the MA15+ classification. Content higher than MA15+ can only be shown on narrowcasting such as the Adult Channel with lockout.
Austar must now review all episodes of Cathouse prior to broadcast, attend …
Second season for Tangle
It’s official.
Showtime has commissioned a second season of Tangle, the acclaimed Australian drama about two generations of families in suburban Melbourne.
Minor Spoiler: Justine Clarke, Catherine McClements, Joel Tobeck, Matt Day and Kat Stewart are all returning. Due to the plotline nature of the season cliffhanger, so far there is no confirmation on a return by actor Ben Mendelsohn.
As revealed by TV Tonight, Don Hany (East West 101, Dirt Game, Underbelly) is also joining the cast.
The second season has been written by original writers Fiona Seres (Love My Way, Dangerous, The …
ACMA slaps News bulletins over Sudanese story
All three commercial News bulletins in Melbourne have been found to have breached the Code of Practice over inaccurate reporting.
The Australia Communications and Media Authority has found that ATV Melbourne, GTV Melbourne and HSV Melbourne all reported incidents concerning Sudanese refugees in October 2007. The segments all included closed circuit television footage of a person being arrested who was not Sudanese.
ACMA found that failing to clarify such crucial information meant viewers would have misconstrued the footage as being Sudanese gang activity.
TEN and Nine were also found to have breached the requirement …
Kasey Chambers on Jail Birds
Heads up fans of Kasey Chambers, she appears in this week’s episode of Jail Birds to help the women from Victoria’s Tarrengower Prison to write a song. And it probably won’t be “On the Inside.”
Kasey will tell the women she sees song writing as a sort of therapy session. She has come prepared with the chorus written around the theme of the choir’s name ‘Voices From The Inside’. Kasey challenges the women to write the verses for the song.
Meanwhile Jonathon Welch sets up the next challenge for the choir -to perform …
ASTRA Conference 2010
Subscription TV will have its 2010 Conference at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre next March.
With the theme The Future is Now, the 2010 program has expanded to include break-out sessions on programming, technology and marketing.
It will commence with the Women in Television Breakfast, with the presentation of the inaugural ASTRA Pioneer Award which will be given to a woman who has made a significant contribution to the subscription television industry.
“The ASTRA conference provides a great opportunity for attendees to look at the …
Wipeout wipes out Fifth Grader
The first shots are fired in Summer Non-Ratings, and they have produced some interesting results indeed…
Whilst OzTAM has again merged digital channels with primary channels (at the very time some are debating the merits of this), Seven Network comfortably won the night.
There were wins with factual shows, news, repeats of Bones, while Nine scored with 20 to 1 repeats, news and TEN’s Melbourne International Comedy Festival special did better business than a first run of Glee. Why?
Look to the lead-in. Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader? US tanked …
Simpsons 20th birthday marathon
FOX8 will be running a Simpsons Marathon of Season 20 from 9am Thursday December 17th.
All 21 episodes will be channel premieres.
20001 Sex, Pies & Idiot Scrapes
20002 Lost Verizon
20003 Double Double Boy in Trouble
20004 Treehouse of Horror XIX
20005 Dangerous Curves
20006 Homer & Lisa Exchange Cross Words
20007 Mypods & Boomsticks
20008 The Burns & The Bees
20009 Lisa the Drama Queen
20010 Take My Life Please
20011 How the Test Was Done
20012 No Loan Again Naturally
20013 Gone Maggie Gone
20014 In the Name of the Grandfather
20015 Wedding for Disaster
20016 Eeny Teeny Maya, Moe
20017 The Good, The Sad …
2009 Ratings: Seven wins the year
The 2009 Ratings year is the most unholy mess of figures since OzTAM Ratings began in 2001.
The introduction of digital multichannels (ONE: April, SBS TWO June, GO! August, 7TWO November) has seen networks issuing results for the year based on different definitions. Only ABC2 was on air all year.
While Nine and TEN are keen to include their digital channels, Seven focusses on excluding them. As many readers would know, OzTAM has traditionally included digital channels.
Either way the results indicate a 2009 win by Seven in Total People. …
Industry questions ABC3 deals
Ahead of the ABC3 launch this Friday there is industry discontent about the way the broadcaster has sewn up its deals for new children’s content.
KidsCo managing director Paul Robinson, who spoke to TV Tonight earlier this month, has criticised the ABC for using public funds to increase bidding rights for children’s content and says the broadcaster should be focussing on programming that differs from the commercial marketplace.
“I think the ABC is acting more aggressively than the BBC. The BBC have always been fairly good at their accountability role. They …