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So what’s been your summer gem?
The other week a journalist asked me for some quotes on how our TV summer season was faring and I pointed out that historically, the 09 / 10 season has offered an abundance of choice -at least compared to when we had just 5 channels, half of which were stuck on sport.
This year the amount of content has boomed, thanks to our extra digital channels.
But when the article appeared in print, readers hit back saying summer is still a dead zone. I got slammed. Well, it is if you stick with …
Trailer: The Pacific
By the looks of the second trailer for the HBO series The Pacific, we should be in for a mighty series next year -as if there was any doubt.
The WWII drama will screen on Seven. It premieres in the US in March.
Seven programming boss Tim Worner previously told TV Tonight, “It’s extremely powerful. I’ve now seen 3 episodes of that show. You don’t watch that show, you feel that show. It is the last of the great miniseries because of the economic model in the US. There will never be another …
Seven summer update
Seven has updated its first week of summer programming, filling in several TBAs and shuffling a few shows around.
New titles include Stephen Fry in Kingdom as a kindly solicitor who devotes his career to representing the oddball people in the Norfolk town of Market Shipborough, England. Kenneth Brannagh stars as Inspector Kurt Wallander, a brilliant detective who takes each murder case he works on personally and will stop at nothing in his search for the truth. The Take is a UK drama set in the criminal underworld of the East End …
Parks and Recreation for Seven’s summer
Channel Seven has unveiled some of its summer programming, but kept its surprises under wraps.
It will premiere new US comedy Parks and Recreation, the mockumentary that replaced Kath & Kim (US). Written by Greg Daniels and Michael Schur it features Amy Poehler as the deputy director of the Parks and Recreation department in the fictional town of Pawnee, Indiana.
There are new episodes of Band of Brothers, Gary Unmarried, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
In repeat are How I Met Your Mother, 30 Rock, Better Homes and Gardens.
It will air a new episode …
Pacific racks up international sales
Most of us have been anticipating The Pacific to screen on Channel Seven sometime in 2009, but one recent article published on international formats website C21 indicates it won’t air on HBO until 2010.
The Spielberg-Hanks project, a follow-on from the successful Band of Brothers miniseries, has been sold into several major markets, including the UK, Germany, Canada and France.
The 10×60 miniseries has been acquired for channels in Germany, Austria, Holland, Switzerland, Hungary, Belgium and Romania, while TMN, Super Ecran and Movie Central have it in Canada. Belgian networks RTBF, Telenet and …
Airdate: Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
On February 20th Conan O’Brien winds down his Late Night show, in readiness to take over from Jay Leno.
So Jimmy Fallon will take over Conan’s chair and the show will screen in Conan’s place on the Comedy Channel from March 3rd.
Fallon first garnered attention in 1998 when he joined the cast of Saturday Night Live. In 2000 he became the co-anchor of SNL’s signature segment “Weekend Update” alongside Tina Fey.
Fallon also ventured off into other television roles, including Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg’s miniseries Band of Brothers.
He is only the the …