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My Kitchen Rules finale
Seven’s new cooking reality show My Kitchen Rules will have its Grand Final on Monday March 22nd.
In the 90 minute finale, one team will win $100,000.
As noted previously, this pushes Desperate Housewives back to 9pm and Brothers and Sisters to 10pm.
The following night Seven will screen Border Security at 7:30pm followed by The Force.
Seven is already on the hunt for new contestants for a second season of MKR.
Meanwhile when The Bounce premieres at 7:30pm Wednesday March 24 in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth, its episodes of RSPCA Animal Rescue and …
All the drama of Sunday
There were two locally produced dramas on television last night: one was the highly-publicised Wicked Love telemovie on Nine, the other was the ABC3 family series My Place which had its first run on ABC1 in a prime Sunday night slot.
Wicked Love: The Maria Korp Story did well with an audience of just under 1.3m winning its timeslot and pushing The Good Wife down to 902,000 on TEN. Seven’s Bones was sandwiched with a respectable 1.23m. Reviews had panned the Nine telemovie but viewers still tuned in to see the sordid …
Generation’s Sunday sacrifice
TEN’s decision to move Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation from Tuesdays to Sundays is proving tricky after its second week well behind 2009 averages.
It took 1.09m viewers, third in its spot behind Border Security / Air Ways (1.27m / 1.26m) and Twenty20 Cricket (1.24m) -but it fared better in the key demos winning all groups. TEN did win the night in its target demos 16-39 and 18-49.
Even with demo wins Your Gen is still a long way behind the figures it used to attract on Tuesdays: between 1.5 – 1.7m. Now the …
Good news for Good Wife
The first day of the 2010 ratings season was good news for TEN and Seven.
The Seven Network won the night with a 30.5% share ahead of its rivals, but News bulletins notwithstanding it was the premiere of The Good Wife that took the biggest audience.
The Julianna Margulies drama took a cool 1.4m viewers for TEN, one of its best audiences in some time. In its new night Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation also performed with 1.32m viewers. Both TEN shows won all key demos.
Seven also scored with Air Ways (1.32m), Bones (1.21m) …
Returning: Sunday Night, Border Security.
No surprises here….
Seven will return Sunday Night to our screens at 6:30pm Sunday February 14th with Mike Munro and Chris Bath. The show will again get a jump start on 60 Minutes for the year, which has to wait until Nine’s cricket commitments conclude.
It will be followed by the season return of Border Security at 7:30pm, which will precede the domestics of Airways at 8pm.
Turbulence on the air
With her extensive background in comedy, Corrine Grant was probably an uncoventional choice to narrate another factual show for Seven. But she happily returns to Airways this Sunday night.
Even more surprisingly, Tiger Airways has agreed to another season of more ‘warts-and-all’ stories of irate travellers, abusive passengers and customer care 101. Somewhere in there too, there are tear-jerker reunions and positive stories for balance.
As Grant tells TV Tonight, it’s a case of what you see is what you get in the budget airline industry.
“It must be working for them because they …
Seven 2010: Drama, factuals, epics and comedy
The Pacific, My Kitchen Rules, Cougar Town, ICU, The Marriage Ref, Damage Control, Hung and Royal Pains -just some of the new shows Seven has unveiled as part of its 2010 programming.
Following some time after announcements by opposition networks, Seven demonstrates another strong local slate, with several big international acquisitions. The titles may not be quite as lengthy as Nine’s promise for the year, but Seven has a good track record in delivering on its shows while some networks float titles that just never seem to eventuate (The Irwin Family’s Australia …
TV Tonight Awards 2009: The year of Shaun Micallef
The votes are in.
Readers have spoken on their best and worst television for 2009 in the third annual TV Tonight Awards.
The winners: Shaun Micallef, MasterChef and Packed to the Rafters.
Over 1000 surveys were completed this year, and there were some definite trends. Some choices were clear decisions, others were tight races.
Several “winners” were also “losers” elsewhere, showing a divided audience, and a number of populist shows proved their mettle by staying ahead of underdogs.
Shaun Micallef won both Favourite Male and Most Underrated Performer, while Talkin’ ‘Bout Your …
Critics’ Choice 2009
With the official TV year at an end TV Tonight has turned to those who know it best, Australian TV critics & journalists, to ask them what worked, what failed, what surprised and what annoyed?
Participating in this survey were:
Melinda Houston (Sunday Age), Richard Clune (Sunday Telegraph), James Manning (Mediaweek), Nicole Brady (The Age), Erin McWhirter (Daily Telegraph), Colin Vickery (Herald Sun) and Andrew Mercado (TV Week).
BEST DRAMA
Tangle was a popular choice: “It was new, nasty and unpredictable.”
“It was another standout from the John Edwards stable and showcased the subtle …
Birth for a nation
The final week of the ratings year is over and it was a Rafters baby that defeated singing Idols, Celebrity Masterchefs, new Apprentices, Geeks and Robbie Williams. Seven enjoyed a clean sweep of Week 48, winning all 7 nights, 3 key demos and all 5 cities -it was almost a microcosm of 2009, but this year Nine has seen to it that it didn’t quite enjoy that triumph.
The Seven Network won Week 48 with 31.3% over Nine’s 26.8% and TEN’s 21.3%. The ABC had 15.2% and SBS 5.4%.
GO! had 3.1% over …
Grant Bowler sinks teeth into True Blood
He’s definitely the new Alan Dale….
Grant Bowler has landed a role in Season 3 of True Blood -but he won’t say as what.
It follows his role in Ugly Betty and Lost.
“Mate, it’s HBO and it’s the King … it’s the chance to work for an Oscar-winner [series creator Allan Ball] and alongside an Oscar-winner [Anna Paquin],” he told the Sunday Telegraph.
“Ugly Betty rolls from deep, one-on-one connected, touching realism to absolute farce to physical comedy and clowning and everything in between – I love it.”
At this rate he’ll have to start …
1.3m for Celebrity MasterChef
Celebrity MasterChef finished on a positive note as the night’s top show with nearly 1.3m viewers last night.
Swimmer Eamon Sullivan took out the title from Kirk Pengilly and Rachael Finch after a two hour cook-off which saw all the former contestants gathered for the final scores. The figure was a long way from the finale of the original MasterChef Australia -in fact it was a long way behind weeknight episodes in the original season’s closing weeks.
But it did improve on the weekly celebrity version and peaked at 1.73m, easily winning its …