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Rescue: Special Ops 2 to roll
Nine will begin filming the second season of RESCUE Special Ops on Monday (technically that’s it’s correct spelling).
The series will again film 13 episodes in and around Sydney with all of the major cast returning: Les Hill, Gigi Edgley, Peter Phelps, Libby Tanner, Daniel Amalm, Katherine Hicks and Andrew Lees.
The second season of Nine / Southern Star Entertainment drama will feature a mine collapse, a child abduction, a marina fire, a train wreck, a light plane crash and more.
Chase (Andrew Lees) and Dean Gallagher (Les Hill) are living together, Lara (Gigi …
Jodi Gordon set for Cops LAC at Nine
Actress Jodi Gordon has been offered a role in Nine’s newest drama series, Cops LAC.
The news follows stories this week that she would be leaving Home and Away, first reported that she had quit, then followed with another report Seven had let her go.
The Sunday Telegraph reports she first auditioned for a role on Cops LAC two weeks ago, well before contradictory stories emerged.
During the week co-star Lynne McGranger told NEW FM, Jodi was not pushed from Seven.
“I will say that’s absolutely wrong. It was her decision,” she said. …
Kate Ritchie for Cops LAC
Last November this site scooped the news on Nine’s new police drama Cops LAC (Local Area Command) for 2010.
And it was then that I threw the name Kate Ritchie into the ring as an obvious name for casting.
Today the Daily Telegraph says she has just finalised a contract with Nine to do just that, in a return to acting after concluding her Nova radio gig.
“It was Underbelly’s fault,” she tells Woman’s Day, out today. “It felt so good and comfortable (being on set). It’s nice to be working with …
TV Tonight turns 3!
Today this site notches up its third birthday.
In 2007 when I first started this blog it was to complement the TV commentary I was already doing in various forms on radio, print and online. At the time Australian television sites on the internet were largely confined to messageboards, Guides and fansites. When the site launched there were a handful of visitors who welcomed the news, the updates and answers to TV questions.
Three years on the site has published over 9,700 stories and now pulls in up to one million hits a …
December 09: ABC3, Todd Lasance, Charlie Sheen.
December:
7TWO for Tassie / Darwin, ONE for Mildura.
Seven’s FlashForward “leaked” to US
Three Rivers in cardiac arrest
Secret Millionaire episode held over debt complaints
Seven loses C7 appeal
Nine loses ACA defamation case
Rumour: Logies for Queensland (again)
Animation company in restructure
Hey Hey cast waiting for the call
Nine confirms Cops LAC drama
ABC kisses and makes up over Lambert
ABC3 launch
Government reviews Aussie content on digital channels
Billy wins Channel [V] Presenter Search
Foxtel adds iPhone application
Prank on Rudd at ABC3 launch
Hey Hey inks 20 episode deal
Elliot ends the Rollercoaster ride
Wendell Sailor …
Nine: 2010 Programme Launch
Nine CEO David Gyngell, programmer Michael Healy and sales boss Peter Wiltshire today capped off their East Coast tour to media buyers of the 2010 slate for Channel Nine.
It included a showreel of titles including Underbelly, Winter Olympics, Top Gear, Hey Hey its Saturday, The Real Hustle, V, AFP, Community Wicked Love, and The Politically Incorrect Parenting Show. Nine also talked up the fact it will have four local dramas including Cops LAC, Sea Patrol, and Rescue: Special Ops.
Gyngell said in a statement, “I believe we are going into …
3 year plan for Cops LAC
TV Tonight reveals more on Nine’s new drama for 2010.
Cops. LAC (Local Area Command) is currently its working title.
The drama will be set at ‘Seaview Local Area Command.’
The series is set to shoot from next May as 13 x 1 episodes. Nine’s ambitious plan is to shoot a second series immediately on the back of the first, no doubt to save on costs. Depending on when the episodes air, it could run the risk of not seeing how the market takes to the show. The second series is hoping to increase …
New cop drama for Nine
TV Tonight hears Nine’s next drama in pre-production is a new police show.
Titled Cops. L.A.C. (Local Area Command) the Sydney based drama will return to a traditional local police station.
With 3 uniformed cops and 3 plain-clothed cops it will comprise part of Nine’s 2010 slate.
Nine Programmer Michael Healy recently told TV Tonight, “We’re working on another Australian drama which is in pre-production at the moment and shaping up really well.”
Nine will officially unveil its 2010 programming in early December.
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