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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!”…
July 09: MasterChef triumphs, THIS afternoon, Chaser’s War ends.
July:
Jeff Goldblum watches Today’s obituary
Nine News boss: “We’re back!!”
ABC & WIN combine for giant playout centre
Second chance for Tom, Poh & Justine
Mr Squiggle turns 50!
Mark Ferguson signs with Seven
BBC axes Robin Hood
Seven tops local content list
‘Roscoe’ retirement at year’s end
O’Loughlin admits to bottle battle
New producer takes charge of THIS afternoon
Tim Bailey -rain, hail or hecklers
Twittering with the Stars
Nine expands programming team
Chris Bath: “I am taking over” from Ross
Tahnee named Australia’s Next …
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 …
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 …
Eamon Sullivan named Celebrity MasterChef
Swimmer Eamon Sullivan has won Celebrity MasterChef.
He defeated finalists Rachael Finch and Kirk Pengillyin the TEN reality series.
The two hour finale saw the three finalists competing in several cooking challenges.
Rachael Finch went into the final challenge as the underdog with 22 points. Her final dish netted her 24 points with a total of 46 points.
Kirk Pengilly had 32 points before the final dish with 55 points.
Eamon Sullivan also had 32 points but took 27 points to win with 59 points….
Rafters finale tops 2m
More than two million Australians tuned in for the birth of the Rafters baby last night as Channel Seven’s popular drama closed its second season.
‘Ruby Louise Rafter’ finally arrived after screaming scenes from Julie Rafter (Rebecca Gibney) in a very quintessentially Australian episode full of comedy, drama and heartfelt moments. It capped off an extraordinary run for the drama on Seven this year, regularly attracting figures of around 1.9m.
Along with Unlikely Animal Friends (1.37m) the network romped home with a 34.6% share last night, thrashing its nearest rival, Nine on 25.5%.
The …
Say bye to variety for me
The Noughties will end with a nail in the coffin of variety after Rove McManus announced he was winding down his show last Sunday. It closed a ten year chapter for the genre with a string of Logies, A-List guests and live memories to take home. Without any advance warning it also didn’t pull the kind of figures such a farewell deserved. Both the night and the week went Seven’s way for the second last week of the ratings season.
The Seven Network won Week 47 with a big 30.0% ahead of …
Reminder: Finale week
A reminder to all readers that with at least three finales coming up in the next few days TV Tonight will be logging winner results.
Australian Idol, The Apprentice Australia and Celebrity MasterChef all have finale episodes due.
Readers anywhere other than AEDT may consider holding off visiting if they have not seen episodes air, as per normal protocol at TV Tonight.
Are we there yet?
Are we there yet? Just two weeks to go until the 2009 ratings end, with a baby Rafter, a new Idol, a Celebrity MasterChef, and a first Apprentice all due. Audiences are already showing signs of switch-off as numbers diminish -either from fatigue, daylight saving, multiple entertainment choices or all three. But they are hanging on for Julie Rafter whose motherly condition ensured she was the week’s top show. And Seven again won the week.
Seven Network won with 30.1% over Nine’s 26.3% and TEN’s 19.8%. The ABC had 18.0% and SBS …
On the Orange Carpet
Friday’s Kids’ Choice Awards was a chance to throw a question (and not much more than 1) to some of television’s famous faces.
Here is a random selection answers from questions posed by TV Tonight on the Orange Carpet.
Charlie Pickering on The 7PM Project’s extra time over summer:
“Every day that we do the show we wind up having to drop stuff. So having that extra thirty minutes allows us to stretch our legs and have a bit more fun over summer.
“The other night we had Ben Elton and George Negus …
Programming round-up
A few people have emailled about upcoming shows, many of which I have noted in other posts, but let’s do a round-up as a friendly reminder…
Survivor: Tocantins is now in double episodes on GO! on Tuesdays and triple eps on Fridays. This is to wind up the show before Survivor: Samoa airs on Nine in December. Nine has also corrected its guide to ensure the 2 hr finale will be followed by the Reunion beginning at 8:30pm Friday November 27th.
False Witness this Sunday night on Nine is 3 hours (including ads) …