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Eli Stone to sing on Seven’s summer
Seven will finally premiere Eli Stone in Australia as part of its summer line-up.
The US drama by Greg Berlanti (Brothers and Sisters, Dirty Sexy Money, Everwood) features Johnny Lee Miller as an attorney with an inoperable brain aneurysm -and a bit of a fixation with the catalogue of George Michael. Each episode is named after a Michael song, and the pop star even makes an appearance during one of the fantasy sequences, incorporated as one of Stone’s hallucinations.
Seven will also premiere British crime drama Holby Blue and (gasp) American Gladiators.
Scrubs will …
Airdate: Camp Rock
Non-Jonas Brother fans lookout. We’re about to be hit with their teeny talents, in the dubiously titled telemovie, Camp Rock.
The Disney film is something of a follow-on from the High School Musical juggernaut, but without the same success.
It’s already screened on Pay TV but the Free To Air premiere is set for 7pm Saturday November 29th on Seven.
Apologies to long forgotten fans of The Hansons….
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More than anything, Mitchie Torres wants to spend her summer at a prestigious rock camp, but can only attend if she works in the kitchen as …
24 about to have its Redemption
Channel Seven has confirmed to TV Tonight, 24: Redemption will air in the first week of summer, in the week beginning November 30th.
The two hour telemovie airs in the US on November 23rd, as part of a link to the next season in the US to premiere in January on FOX.
And there are other Seven shows set to continue through summer.
“The week after Prison Break returns on November 26th it will play twice a week at 10:30pm,” says Seven’s Head of Scheduling and Acquisitions, Angus Ross, “to play out the remaining …
Nine’s summer of Gossip
Gossip Girl, Pushing Daisies, Survivor: Gabon, Temptation, Fringe, ER, McLeod’s Daughters -are all coming to Channel Nine over summer.
Gossip Girl, the teen soap set in affluent Manhattan high school circles, has been screening on FOX8 (Pay TV has season two from December) but finally gets a Free to Air screening. Nine, which on-sold the rights to FOX8, will start with Series One. It is the second time the network on-sold a series by writer / producer Josh Schwartz, after it let TEN take The OC.
Also on Nine over summer is …
The Informant
But what does it all meeeeeean?
TEN’s telemovie The Informant is a contemporary drama with a dash of action in which William McInnes plays a suburban father, Richard Button, woven into a world of crime and intelligence.
He tells everyone he is a furniture importer and gives out the outward appearance of being a doting dad and dedicated husband to Christine (Anita Hegh). He appears to have a good life with a sleek, modern home. Except he can’t help but look suspiciously at dubious faces around him. He eventually contacts the Australian Serious …
TEN years of Huey
Ten years on television is an achievement in any genre. But a cooking show? You gotta hand it to the man in the braces.
Next week his long-running Huey’s Cooking Adventures show celebrates ten years on Network TEN.
Iain Hewitson is also remembered for Healthy, Wealthy and Wise and its offshoot A Cook’s Journey.
To mark the occasion TEN will screen two weeks of “best of” episodes.
Monday 17th: Camperdown, Vic.
Tuesday: Yarra Valley
Wednesday: New Zealand
Thursday: Barney Allens, St Kilda (Hewitson’s Diner)
Friday: Bangkok
Monday 24th: Singapore
Tuesday: Collingwood Children’s Farm
Wednesday: Mauritius
Thursday: Bali
Friday: Xmas Special
Huey’s Cooking Adventures airs …
Airdate: Weddings: Where Are They Now?
Just scraping into the television year is a special Nine promised was coming a year ago, Weddings - Where are they Now?
The special, announced as part of Nine’s 2009 programming at its launch twelve months ago, catches up with more than 30 couples who were married on the lifestyle show Weddings over a decade ago. The show was hosted in the late 90’s by Jane Hall.
This special will look back at some of these couples to find out “who has won and who has lost in the game of love.” Bound …
House play for Zeljko
Zeljko Ivanek, who was so outstanding on Damages, will guest star soon on House.
Ivanek also won an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for his performance in the role of Ray Fiske. He has also appeared in 24, Law & Order, Homicide: Life on the Street and Oz.
The episode airs 8:30pm Wednesday November 26th on TEN.
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In a gripping extended episode, House and Thirteen come up against a desperate man with nothing to lose.
Special Guest Star Zeljko Ivanek plays Jason, a frustrated man willing to kill – …
When Oprah met Nicole & Hugh
TEN has wisely rushed its Oprah episode featuring Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman into the schedule, to air in prime time at 7:30pm Thursday November 20th (this kind of late scheduling we like).
It bumps a special on Forbes 20 Under 25: Young, Rich & Famous to a week later November 27th. Care factor…
Getting a plug for Baz Luhrmann’s Australia will be a major coup for the film. It’s targeted right at its key audience by the most influential woman in the land.
As well as hosting a ‘tour of Sydney’ for viewers, …
Searching 4 Sandeep
The video diary that is Searching 4 Sandeep is an essay on several levels. It’s a story of coming out, long distance romance, internet dating and diminishing social options for same-sex singles.
It’s also one of the few occasions lesbians get a bit of prime time coverage, on anything other than SBS.
Poppy Stockell lives in Sydney, but at the age of 28 finds herself single and with few options of meeting prospective beaus (in the heart of a ‘gay capital’, that’s a story in itself, surely?). So she turns to the internet, …
Airdate: GNW Awards
For its finale edition, Good News Week is having a two hour awards show.
Described as “a mix between the Nobel Prize and the Logies” it will look back on the newsmakers, for better or worse, and decide who is worthy of gongs in Entertainment, Religion, Sport, Science, Politics and Photo of the Year.
Viewers can vote in the categories on the GNW website.
The show airs 8:30pm Monday November 24 and returns at the top of the television year in February 2009.
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Monday 24th November 2008 will see the second-most anticipated event …
Back to back to the Futurama
Channel TEN has advised its Futurama episodes tomorrow night will both be new eps.
TEN will screen 2 thirty minute instalments from Beast with a Billion Backs, the second of the four Futurama straight-to-DVD films. It was released in the US on DVD in June and aired on Comedy Central in October.
When TEN aired Bender’s Big Score it split the movie across four weeks, following a new episode with a repeat.
In the latest adventure, Bender gets upset when Fry finds a new girlfriend. But she has four extra boyfriends.
At this stage it …