Welcome to 7TWO

October 24, 2009  Filed Under News, 72 Comments » 

When 7TWO launches at 12 midday on Sunday November 1st it begins with a five minute Welcome to 7TWO greeting. If it’s anything like the  “It’s Time” clip on the Yahoo!7 website, expect a rousing Gough Whitlam-like motivational start-up.

From there it launches into Michael Jackson: His Last Televised Concert followed by Disney movies, the first four eps of Scrubs, and three more movies across Sunday night.

Late nights on 7TWO the channel will screen AFL matches from as far back as 1999. Across Monday November 2nd there are more …

Eli Stone to sing on Seven’s summer

November 14, 2008  Filed Under Programming, 41 Comments » 

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 Jonny 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 …