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It’s about now I’m missing these guys
Sigh…. is it wrong to remember The Dream and The Ice Dream?
At the end of long-form sessions of Olympics you could always rely on Roy and HG to give us their own skewered-view of the games, with a robust, passionate look at games and the games atmosphere.
I know Greg Pickhaver recently hosted Bush Slam for the ABC, but it’s never quite the same without his partner.
Maybe Senator Conroy needs to add Roy and HG being back on the box as a condition of that $250m Rebate…
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 …
Bush Slam
Public broadcasters continue to upstage commercial Free to Air Networks over summer by providing first-run local content, that is also of a high quality.
Joining the ranks of SBS’ The Circuit and Secrets and Lives comes the ABC’s Bush Slam -a new six part series in which H.G. Nelson plays host to an original poetry contest in regional towns across Australia.
It doesn’t get much more Australian than this. In the first episode, set in Cowra, NSW, we learn about the town’s history during WW II when hundreds of Japanese soldiers broke free …
Online to drive rebranded ABC Arts
ABC TV has revealed its overhaul of Arts programming with the announcement of a slew of new titles, a ‘digital Arts Gateway’ website and the rebranding of Sunday Arts to a half hour format to be known as Art Nation.
The move follows continued speculation the long-running Sunday afternoon show would indeed be trimmed with content shifted online.
The rebranded Art Nation will contain news, reviews, performance, features and interviews and showcase submitted work that has premiered on the Arts Gateway. At 30 minutes instead of its current one hour, the …
Bush poets wax lyrical
HG Nelson hosted a battle of two poets in Cowra last week, as part of the ABC’s upcoming Bush Slam series.
Two guest poets, Joel Ma and Carol Heuchen, had spent three days in Cowra getting a feel for the location before unveiling their takes on the town in poetry.
Each poet gave a presentation of one of their own poems before treating the crowd to their poem based on their experiences of Cowra.
Joel Ma’s poem was written in his modern hip hop style while Carol Heuchen’s was written in a traditional style …
HG Nelson brushes up on the bush
The ABC has announced a new television series, about poetry no less.
To be hosted by HG Nelson, Bush Slam is a 6 x 30 min. series produced by Freehand Productions (Top Gear Australia, Dancing with the Stars, and Missing Persons Unit). No stranger to hosting contests, Nelson has recently been hosting Comedy Slapdown on Foxtel.
The series will be taking two different poets and / or lyricists to six rural towns in Australia to explore the culture, the beauty, the folklore and the humour.
Each poet will be given just three days to …
ABC 2009: a closer look
Now that the fanfare about The Chaser, Andrew Denton, John Safran and new dramas are out of the way, it’s time to look a little closer at the ABC goodies for 2009. There are more documentaries, arts and natural history programmes that didn’t make the headlines yesterday.
Amongst some of the other treats are the comedy series Laurence Leung’s Choose Your Own Adventure and The Urban Monkey starring Sam Simmons “out to draw conclusions on the similarities between the animal and human world.”
There are documentaries on Skippy, Nigerian missionaries, surfing, kayaking, Charles …