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November 09: Rove, Roscoe, Rafters and 7TWO
November:
7TWO is on the air
Toby quits Idol
A Prime concern: where is 7TWO?
Gone: The Spearman Experiment
‘Junglist’ ready to move on
Austar offers MyStar HD
SBS: Top Gear loss “not the be-all and end-all”
The Rafters Wedding
2.6m stop for the Cup
Community TV wins digital breakthrough
Murphy Brown reunion
Ally McBeal reunion
PJ sings for Don
Matthew Johns’ contract expires
Matt Passmore lands (another) US lead
NZ axes Dancing with the Stars
‘Roscoe’ calls it quits
Merrick and Rosso ending radio gig
Jonathan Holmes: “Pwned!”…
Face the factuals. Seven rules the week.
After five straight losses, an aggressive Seven Network showed it wins on consistent programming and not events or boosts from digital shares. It dominated the week’s top shows, as its factuals continue to underpin the network’s schedule. Seven took 14 of the week’s Top 15 shows.
Seven won the week with 29.0% over Nine’s 26.5% and TEN’s 21.8%. The ABC had 17.1% and SBS 5.5%.
Seven also won two key demos 18-49 and 25-54 while TEN won 16-39.
GO! had 2.4%, ABC2 1.2%, ONE 1.6% and SBS TWO 0.4%.
Seven won Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, …
Sport wins the ratings trophy
If 2009 has been remarkable for one thing, it has been comic tone put under the spotlight. But in a week when our sense of humour was questioned once more, it was sport that ruled the week. The NRL Grand Final topped the week with 2.41m viewers, ahead of Hey Hey the Reunion. Both were Nine properties and gave the network a decisive victory -its fifth successive win.
Nine finished with 31.1% ahead of Seven’s 26.2% and TEN’s 19.6%. The ABC had 17.8% and SBS 5.3%.
Nine won 3 key demos 16-39, 18-49 …
Airdate: Beauty & the Geek Australia
Seven unveils Beauty & the Geek Australia next month.
Bernard Curry hosts the show which sees eight Beauties and eight Geeks sharing a house together and teamed up to compete in a series of challenges to test their brains and charisma.
On offer is a $100,000 prize.
Based on the format from the Ashton Kutcher-produced series, each contestant will need to share their strengths with their partner, and overcome their own weaknesses.
Or just hook up….
During the series the girls study up on anatomy, undertake scientific experiments and re-take Year 4 history. The …
Airdate: Momma’s Boys, Style By Jury. Gone: Boston Legal, 10 Years Younger
Several changes to Seven’s late-night line up from Monday September 28th.
Boston Legal will be replaced by Momma’s Boys, a US reality / dating series co-produced by Ryan Seacrest which centres on 3 mothers who must help choose the perfect woman for their complacent sons from 32 single women. Some of the women have been Playboy models and are made to live in a house with the ‘prospective mothers-in-law.’
Sounds like the perfect warm up to Beauty & the Geek?
It airs 10:30pm Mon Sept 28.
It will be followed at 11:30pm by fashion …
A night with Geeks in the museum
Seven’s Beauty & The Geek will be filming next week at the Australian Museum in Sydney, as its reality contestants are given the task of taking visitors on a tour.
But they could be outsmarted by their guests, who will all be derived from the museum’s membership pool, and looking to upstage them with their own knowledge.
The show will be filming in the Dinosaur exhibition next Thursday after hours (shades of A Night at the Museum anyone?).
The tour groups will comprise singles, families, couples, young and old for the 8 geeks.
The series, …
Last chance for Geeks
Last chance to apply for Seven’s upcoming version of Beauty & The Geek if you live in Adelaide, Brisbane or Melbourne.
Auditions have already taken place in Sydney and Perth.
Both beauties and geeks will live together for the duration of the series and face challenges that test the beauties on academic subjects and the geeks on social skills.
Here’s where to turn up if you’re keen:
Adelaide
Wednesday 22nd July
Stamford Plaza Adelaide
150 North Terrace
Adelaide
Brisbane
Friday 24th July
Hilton Brisbane
190 Elizabeth Street
Brisbane
Melbourne
Saturday 25th July
Novotel Melbourne on Collins
270 Collins Street
Melbourne
Full details are at Beauty & The Geek
Returning: King of the Hill
Seven returns King of the Hill to screen in two weeks time, airing 12am Friday May 15 (Thursday night May 14) in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, 11:30pm Thursday in Sydney and Brisbane.
It’s back with “Grand Theft Arlen” S11 E8 from April 2007.
Seven had planned a new series of Beauty & The Geek for Thursday nights, but that appears to be shelved. The current series concludes next week at 12am Friday.
Gone: Betty, Trinny & Susannah. Returning: Family Guy, American Dad
Poor Betty. She can save the day on screen, but not off…
Seven has pulled Ugly Betty from its schedule again, effective immediately.
Last night the show rated a disappointing 573,000 viewers, beaten by a repeat of Law and Order: SVU (1.08m) and the AFL / NRL Footy Shows (1.02m). The show only returned for one episode after being removed in June. Seven trailed with a 25% evening share to Nine’s 30.4%, TEN was close with 23.6%.
Trinny & Susannah Undress the …