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Tennis slams home Week 5 for Seven
The Australian Open helped Seven to a big win in Week 5, thrashing its competitors.
The Seven Network finished the week with 35.6% to Nine’s 26.3% and TEN’s 16.7%. The ABC had 15.7% and SBS 5.7%.
Seven won every night of the week except Sunday, which fell to Nine. Its Saturday share with the Women’s Final was huge, topping the 40% mark, leaving Nine to plummet to fourth position on 15% -including with GO!
Despite audience criticism last week, the Australian Open netted the week’s biggest audience on Monday night with 1.63m viewers.
Official ratings …
52nd Grammy Awards: Guide
The 52nd Grammy Awards will screen live to Australia on Monday at 12 midday AEDT on Arena and repeated at 8:30pm.
The awards hosted by Tia Carrere and Kurt Elling will be held at the Staples Centre in Los Angeles.
Performers include Beyoncé, the Black Eyed Peas, Elton John, Bon Jovi, the Dave Matthews Band, Green Day, Lady Gaga, Pink, Taylor Swift, Celine Dion, Jennifer Hudson, Smokey Robinson, Carrie Underwood, Eminem and Lil Wayne.
Presenters include Simon Baker, Kristen Bell, Justin Bieber, Jeff Bridges, Jonas Brothers, Stephen Colbert, Alice Cooper, Sheryl Crow, Kaley Cuoco, …
Jodi Gordon set for Cops LAC at Nine
Actress Jodi Gordon has been offered a role in Nine’s newest drama series, Cops LAC.
The news follows stories this week that she would be leaving Home and Away, first reported that she had quit, then followed with another report Seven had let her go.
The Sunday Telegraph reports she first auditioned for a role on Cops LAC two weeks ago, well before contradictory stories emerged.
During the week co-star Lynne McGranger told NEW FM, Jodi was not pushed from Seven.
“I will say that’s absolutely wrong. It was her decision,” she said. …
A Lost leak
The first four minutes of the final season of Lost have been leaked online, embedded in various websites after some fans were given merchandise following a competition.
The footage picks up from the final scene of the last season which saw Juliet slipping into a shaft.
The clip has since been released by ABC Studios on its own website.
Meanwhile, travel website kayak.com bizarrely offers Oceanic Flight 815 as one of its flights from Sydney to Los Angeles. If you search for a one way flight leaving on Sept. 22 (the same day …
7PM Project no longer 11PM Project
TEN has changed plans to repeat The 7PM Project late nights once official ratings resume.
From Monday February 8th, the show will only air once per weeknight at 7pm.
Letterman will resume following TEN News with Sports Tonight at varying start times, between 11:15pm and midnight.
TEN’s summer late night repeats of 7PM were always a part of its strategy to win more followers for the show, and it will be hoping it has picked some up, who can now be channelled into the single broadcast.
The Biggest Loser
Former Olympian Hayley Lewis makes her national debut as host of a Reality TV show, 6:30pm Sunday on TEN.
Australian Open
So You Think You Can Dance Australia
House
Movie: Romulus, My Father
Movie: American Beauty
Nine rolls out Olympic schedule
Channel Nine has scheduled much of its primetime Winter Olympics to begin at 9:30pm weeknights.
Vancouver Gold, the three hour highlights package hosted by Eddie McGuire and Leila McKinnon, will wrap up the top events from each day.
From Mondays to Thursdays it will air from 9:30pm local time across the country. Friday, Saturdays and Sundays the start times vary from as early as 7:30pm to as late as 10pm.
Freeing up the earlier schedule will allow Nine to program other shows, although it is yet to reveal which ones.
The move could give Nine …
Matthew Johns in Seven deal
After lengthy speculation, Matthew Johns will sign a contract with Channel Seven.
The Daily Telegraph notes Johns will appear on Seven while his sports variety program continues in development.
Johns was let go last year by the Nine Network following tumultuous headlines over his participation in a 2002 group sex incident. The story hit the headlines via a Four Corners story, was followed with an interview on A Current Affair and led to his being stood down by David Gyngell.
More recently, Johns formed a production company with ad man John Singleton.
There is every …
Returning: White Collar
Good news for fans of White Collar who were upset that TEN had dropped the show from its upcoming schedule.
It’s back at 10pm Friday 19th February with a new episode, “Hard Sell.”
As this episode only aired last week in the US it would seem TEN needed some time to catch up.
rage
It’s the last retro rage for summer with Adam & The Ants, Kiss, Cougar, Village People, and Cure performing on a Countdown special. 11:55pm Saturday on ABC1.
Australian Open
Movie: Transamerica
Monster Moves
Merlin
Bed of Roses
Shine Australia to produce Junior Masterchef
While MasterChef Australia is produced by FremantleMedia Australia, Junior Masterchef will be produced this year by Shine Australia for Network TEN.
The newly-established production company retains the rights for the MasterChef spin-off from its parent Shine Group, which licensed the rights to the original show to FremantleMedia. The deal did not include FremantleMedia having all spin-off rights.
Shine Group CEO Elisabeth Murdoch launched the new production company in Melbourne today at George Calombaris’, Press Club restaurant. She was joined by her joint Australian CEOs, Mark and Carl Fennessy, formerly of FremantleMedia Australia.
Junior …