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2010 Headlines: January – March

This week TV Tonight looks back over the year and some of the headlines that distinguished 2010 for better or worse.

This week TV Tonight looks back over the year and some of the headlines that distinguished 2010 for better or worse.

JANUARY
Consolidated ratings begin
David Tennant exits Dr. Who in stunning finale
BBC axes Jam & Jerusalem, French & Saunders to part.
Fiancee death hits Tila Tequila
Axed: Three Rivers
Disney confirms Hannah Montana ending

Garth Wood wins Contender Australia
Simon Cowell to exit American Idol
Michael C. Hall in cancer remission
Axed: The Shak
“Pants on the Ground, Pants on the Ground.”
Peter Helliar joins Seven

“Australian network/s” rescue Haitian baby
Seven launches online catch-up, PLUS7
Kevin Rudd joins new look Sunrise
Top Gear’s top gag from SBS to Nine
ACA turns ghostbusters on TT
Conan deal worth $44m
2011 AFI Awards shift to Sydney
Grant Denyer returns to Sunrise
STVDIO to replace Ovation
Todd Lasance pleads guilty, put on good behaviour.
Gary Coleman arrested
Biggest Loser fends off child porn links
Axed: Ugly Betty

Is this the best network promo ever?
TEN promo slammed over mental health concerns

FEBRUARY
Pete Waterman to pen UK Eurovision entry
Ian Roberts joins court action against Footy Show ‘gay skit’
iiNet wins landmark Copyright case

Ooops. Live cross exposure
TEN News stuck on Groundhog Day
Chris Meloni eyes SVU exit
106.5m Super Bowl viewers sets new record
Charlie Sheen charged
2010 Rock Eisteddfod cancelled
Seven may match US premiere dates

Roy Billing: Downloaders steal from artists
Baldwin released from hospital after strange 911 call
Conroy met Stokes before rebate deal
Leckie: Cougar Town is “a s*** show”
Sunday Night backdown as Seven issues retraction to SA Premier
Rebate avoids local content question on digital channels
Gary Coleman storms off US interview
Conviction Kitchen for Oz
Foxtel sticks the blade into Nine
Johnny Weir kisses and makes up with Eddie
Korp family fears telemovie trauma
Ghost Whisperer replaces The White Room
Newman speeding fine dropped
Axed: Til Death
Charlie Sheen headed for rehab
Studios to appeal iiNET copyright ruling
Four Corners probes TV Tennis deals


MARCH
Returning: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
“Defamation” suit against Underbelly
Arts body calls SBS Broadway doco “an error of judgement”
Cancer battle for Dr. John Tickell
When the Today show went to the Wii Olympics

SBS care over Indian story on Swift & Shift Couriers
Inquest hears Charmaine Dragun was a “rising star”
Oscars snub for Farrah Fawcett wasn’t an oversight
ABC bumps My Place, Sleuth 101, ‘reinstates’ Collectors.
Real life drama halts Neighbours shoot
Daryl “surprised” by Gold Logie snub
Skins to recast once more
Bert Newton returns to hosting the Logies

Nine gets its balls back in Perth & Adelaide
Seven denies Johns under pressure
Is Dance patronising the audience?
Plastic surgeon awarded $268,000 for ACA defamation
Gangs of Oz halts ‘Ibrahim episode’
ACA: Sex scandal behind Hey Dad

Hey Dad actors speak out
Bindi jokes under the spotlight
Reg Watson congratulates Neighbours for 25 years
Biting the hand that feeds Wilfred
ABC2 Live opera bombs with viewers
Abused Hey, Dad! child kept silent by powerful man
Veronica & Shadi win My Kitchen Rules
Nine questions ACMA ruling on gay sex scene
Zach Braff: Scrubs axed.
Nine planning Screentime telemovies
ACA to name Hey Dad! man
Hey Dad! man denies abuse as victims come forward

Veronica and Shadi win My Kitchen Rules
Brown: SBS needs to improve multicultural role
Sarah Monahan to make police statement, as Simone Buchanan speaks
Eddie complaint dropped
Axed: The Hills, 24, The Bill
Hotel damage linked to actor
Changes to The Bounce team
Todd Lasance wins drugs appeal

4 Responses

  1. It was axed by Fox in the sense that 24’s season 8’s US ratings tanked pretty badly, as they also did for Seven here also and it would’ve cost them a bundle to have signed Keifer on for a couple more seasons.

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