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UEFA Champions update
The UEFA Champions League heads towards the business end of the competition when the group stage matches get underway Live on SBS this September.
With 32 teams battling it out amongst eight groups, the group stage sees some of football’s biggest names, including Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney and Wesley Sneijder, take to the pitch.
SBS’s coverage begins with the Group C clash between Manchester United and the Glasgow Rangers live on September 15. The day’s other match will see last year’s UEFA Super Cup winners Barcelona take on the winners of the Greek …
Airdate: The Real Hustle
Nine has finally announced a premiere date for The Real Hustle, the “con and scam” series hosted by Gyton Grantley.
It will premiere at 9pm Tuesday September 14th following Top Gear.
The series has been in the pipeline for some time, and is one of the few new locally-produced formats to be delivered by Nine in 2010. Originally promised for 2009, it was even given a free plug on New Year’s Eve when Clare “chk chk boom” Werbeloff appeared in the coverage of the Sydney Harbour fireworks.
The format is based on a BBC …
Beat the Star
The set occasionally looks like Dancing with the Stars. The games are a cross between Minute to Win It and Gladiators. And the host is as slick as can be.
Beat the Star has arrived, with a pumped-up audience and $50,000 ready to give away.
Based on a German format (which was subsequently picked up in the UK), this one hour game show pits an ordinary family against a celebrity in a series of challenges, to see if they can rise to the occasion and win a swag of loot.
Along the way there …
Airdate: Gene Simmons Family Jewels, Punkd
7mate is yet to release its programming schedule from September 25 onwards, but it has released details on two highlights to air following the AFL Grand Final on its launch day.
Gene Simmons Family Jewels and Punk’d will both air from September 25.
Gene Simmons Family Jewels.
6.30pm Saturday September 25
Episode 1, “Happily unmarried ”
Shannon Tweed hates surprises. Gene Simmons loves them. On his way out of town to attend the Grand Opening of the Hooter’s Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, he asks Nick and Tracy Tweed (Shannon’s sister) to plan a surprise …
Insight: Sept 7
An interesting turn of events touches Insight this week….
An episode filmed in July on climate change featured Stanford University scientist Professor Stephen Schneider.
He faced an audience of sceptics at the University of New South Wales, after arriving in Australia to speak at the 2010 Climate Change Adaptation Futures Conference run by CSIRO.
Less than a month later he died suddenly on a flight from Stockholm to London.
Prof. Schneider was a regular visitor to Australia, commenting frequently about Australia’s energy consumption and climate policy. He had a stint as Adelaide Thinker in Residence …
Airdate: October Road
7TWO will air ABC drama October Road later this month.
The series follows Nick Garrett (played by former One Tree Hill star Bryan Greenberg), who after a decade returns to his hometown of Knights Ridge, Massachusetts.
The show had two seasons, totalling 19 episodes, before it was cancelled. The cast also included Tom Berenger.
Popular author Nick Garrett hopes to get over his writer’s block by going back to his small hometown in Knights Ridge, Massachusetts. Once back home on October Road, he must face the people he wrote about unfavorably in his successful …
Airdate: Xtra Factor
The first big live X Factor show rolls out at 7:30pm September 19th, one week after Junior MasterChef launches. Luke Jacobz now hosts the live performances.
There will be 12 contestants remaining at this stage of the competition. The first elimination for the show will take place 7:30pm Monday September 20th.
Xtra Factor premieres on Sunday September 19th at 9:45pm on 7TWO with host Natalie Garonzi.
Dateline: Sept 5
Dateline looks at how the poor in India have been sidelined for the Commonwealth Games , Uganda’s plans to introduce the death penalty for gays and lesbians plus a story on the Brazilian modelling scene.
India is preparing to welcome the world to the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, but behind the show of wealth, at what’s being dubbed the most expensive games in history, Dateline video journalist Yalda Hakim discovers a different story.
Advocates for India’s poor claim the money being spent on building and staging the Games is being taken …
Returning: Glee, House.
TEN is fastracking new seasons of Glee and House.
Both will now air on Wednesdays, beginning September 22nd.
Glee airs at 7:30pm followed by House at 8:30pm -a promotion from its former 9:30pm Sunday timeslot.
TEN’s fastracking of Glee throws down the gauntlet to rival networks -it will air on September 21 in the US. Discounting the dateline, TEN airs the show just hours after the US.
In another fastracking move, House premieres in the US on September 20.
Both shows are expected to be paused during two weeks of the Commonwealth Games coverage, however this …
Junior Masterchef format
Junior MasterChef will screen on Sunday nights for three weeks before breaking for the Commonwealth Games.
The Age reports that when it returns on October 17 with its 50 contestants whittled down to 12 it will run on Sunday, Monday and Friday, with the final episode of the week being a Masterclass.
The winner will receive a $15,000 trust fund, the runner-up will get $10,000 and the third and fourth placegetters will each receive $5000.
Each of the 50 contestants on the show will take home a swag bag of goodies, including a Sunbeam …
Airdate: Matty Johns Controversy Corner
Seven has announced a new Sunday morning NRL show, Matty Johns Controversy Corner, to premiere 10am Sunday September 12th.
‘Controversy Corner’ is currently a segment of The Matty Johns Show.
Matty Johns Controversy Corner serves up a 1 hour feast of finals footy. Throughout the finals join Matty Johns and a regular panel of Steve “Blocker” Roach, Paul Kent and special guests as they review, preview and debate all the finals footy action, and of course Matty will leave his own irreverent mark on the road to the NRL Grand Final.
Meanwhile AFL Game …
Foreign Correspondent: Sept 7
Next Tuesday Foreign Correspondent airs ‘Collision Course’, a detailed and revealing investigation from the BBC’s Panorama team, with never-before-seen video from on-board the Mavi Marmara, part of the Gaza Freedom flotilla.
It includes first-person accounts from both sides, never before heard.
The show promises more about IHH – the Turkish humanitarian group that organised the voyage – and a lot more about Israel’s preparedness and intelligence.
It airs 8pm Tuesday on ABC1.