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Extra serve of MKR
Tonight’s 90 minute episode of My Kitchen Rules is now 100 minutes.
Instead of ending at 9pm, it will end at 9:10pm, pushing back the start times for Grey’s Anatomy (9:10pm), Brothers and Sisters (10:10pm), Super Skinny Me (11:10pm) and a repeat of Blue Heelers (12:10am).
Or maybe it’s just Seven scheduling falling into place with what’s been going on anyway. I don’t remember the last time an episode of MKR actually ended at 8:30pm? More like 8:37pm. Still, audiences are obviously liking the show.
The show has its finale next Monday.
Caroline Craig to narrate ICU
Caroline Craig is about to become TV’s busiest Narrator, on both Nine’s Underbelly and Channel Seven’s new factual, ICU: A Matter of Life or Death.
The former Blue Heelers star appeared in the first Underbelly series as fictional young cop, Jacqui James. Her narration linked the second and now the third series.
When ICU launches next week, she will be narrating the medical cases that take place in Melbourne’s Afred Hospital Intensive Care Unit. The hospital is also used for Seven’s other factual, Medical Emergency.
The new Seven series follows patients for days, weeks …
Aussie writer to be honoured by US Publicists
Australian writer and NCIS Executive Producer Shane Brennan will be honoured by America’s ICG Publicists.
Brennan, who also oversees NCIS: Los Angeles will be feted at the publicist society’s 2010 awards in March, receiving a small-screen showmanship award.
“Shane has been described as a whirl of energy, producing, writing and editing episodes of two of television biggest hits,” awards committee chairman Henri Bollinger said. “He also has a keen sense of what will attract an audience. Something we call showmanship.”
Last year’s recipient was Chuck Lorre.
Brennan joined Crawfords Productions as a scriptwriter on Cop …
Vale: Monica Maughan
Respected actress Monica Maughan, best known for her television work in Prisoner, has died in Melbourne.
She also won an AFI and Logie award for her work in The Damnation Of Harvey McHugh, played Nana Scott to a young Graham Kennedy in The King, and appeared in numerous Australian productions including The Librarians, MDA, Blue Heelers, Crackerjack, Halifax FP, The Genie from Down Under, The Gillies Report, The Flying Doctors, Come in Spinner, Coln Carpenter, The Box, Matlock Police and Homicide.
Her performance in Nightmares and Dreamscapes “Crouch End” aired on Wednesday …
Radha Mitchell lands US series
Australia’s Radha Mitchell has landed the lead role in a US crime series for the A&E Network.
In The Quickening, she will play Maggie Bird, an LAPD homicide detective assigned to a desk job after it is discovered that she suffers from a bipolar disorder. Her character faces the dilemma of having to choose between her medication and her profession. She’s a brilliant detective, so long as she doesn’t take the medicine that regulates her bipolar disorder (Tara meets Monk anyone?).
“Her illness makes her brilliant as a detective but makes her …
Airdate: A Model Daughter
TEN’s telemovie A Model Daughter- The Killing of Caroline Byrne will air on Wednesday, November 4 at 8.30pm.
Based on the death of the model in Sydney, 1995, it looks at her father’s battle for justice in proving that his daughter was murdered.
It was Tony Byrne’s belief that his daughter was murdered by her boyfriend Gordon Wood, chauffeur and personal assistant to stockbroker the late Rene Rivkin. His determination to bring his daughter’s killer to justice, coupled with the persistence of several journalists to keep the police investigation open, led to the …
Good Cop, Bad Cop.
“I’ve worked in television very little,” says David Field. “I have such a strange relation with the business, I always have.”
As Detective Superintendent Terry Jarvis on Seven’s City Homicide, this stage and film actor is getting used to the machinations of network television, even where it requires opening up and giving interviews to press.
“There’s always been a certain amount of fear and respect,” he told TV Tonight. “I guess I haven’t played the game with anyone very much. I’ve always tended to be a little bit on the outer, …
Blast from the past
Recognise this face?
It’s actor Mat Stevenson, best known for his years on Home & Away as ‘Adam Cameron’ from 1989 – 1994.
Next week he appears in another Seven show, City Homicide.
Although it’s been some time since he was a regular on our screens, Stevenson has also had guest roles in MDA, Blue Heelers and All Saints.
In Monday night’s show he plays a small role, as a dad, a first step in a renewed return to the industry. He also has a small role in Guy Pearce’s new flick Animal Kingdom.
Wonder if …
Critics agree: All Saints ends an Aussie era
The final shoot for the team at All Saints nears, bringing to a close 12 seasons over 11 years for the Seven medical soap.
In that time it has brought us many memorable actors including Georgie Parker, John Howard, Libby Tanner, Erik Thomson, Christopher Gabardi, Wil Traval, Joelene Anderson, Conrad Coleby, Chris Vance and the late Mark Priestley.
Judith McGrath remains the only cast member to have worked on the show from beginning to end.
Despite still delivering good ratings, the show is a victim of increased production costs, and being one of four …
Sianoa Smit-McPhee: Erinsborough to Hollywood
Another Australian is making a name for themselves in the US, this time former Neighbours actress Sianoa Smit-McPhee (pictured, far left)
Smit-McPhee, who played ‘Bree Timmins’ now has a role as a twin sister in the HBO series, Hung. She plays the daughter of the lead character, the well-endowed Ray (Thomas Jane). The cast includes Anne Heche and Jane Adams.
Her character ‘Darby’ is in the throes of young love and experiencing heartbreak with her on-again, off-again boyfriend Hammer.
Darby’ and twin brother ‘Damon’ would ideally rather live with their father than their mother …
Official: All Saints to end 11 year run
It’s official. All Saints will end its long run on the Seven Network at the end of the year.
Seven has confirmed the end of the show after a stellar 11 year run as the country’s top medical drama, to wrap at episode #493.
Speculation has surrounded the status of the show for some time, triggered by a trimming of episodes to around half its annual slate and word that it had not yet been renewed for 2010.
Seven Director of Programming and Production Tim Worner said: “All Saints is a show which viewers …
Q&A: May 28
Vibrant actor William McInnes will join the Q&A panel this week, the last in the current series.
Although best known for his roles on Blue Heelers, Sea Change, Curtin, Look Both Ways and Unfinished Sky, he is also the author of three books. Earlier this year, McInnes also accepted the role of Chair of the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House.
He will join Kate Ellis, Minister for Youth and Sport, former Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson, businessman Peter Holmes a Court and writer and Miriam Lyons, policy analyst (updated).
It airs live …