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Dateline: March 14
This Sunday night SBS current affairs show Dateline investigates President Obama’s staying power ahead of an Australian visit while reporter David O’Shea returns to Bali for a follow up on a story about mentally ill people being kept in chains.
Aaron Lewis reports that 10% unemployment and a shrinking US economy have taken their toll on Obama’s popularity. In New York, for example, times are tough: one fifth of the population has needed food aid in the past year, while watching their president bail out the banks and pour trillions into stimulating …
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 …
Returning: Dateline, Insight
Two of SBS’ flagship local productions return to screen later this month.
Dateline’s George Negus sits down with Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi, conducting a rare, face-to-face interview for the first episode on Sunday, 21 February at 8.30pm. In recent Gadaffi has sought to build bridges between himself and the West last year signing a declaration, reiterating the importance of countering terrorism in all its forms.
Video journalist David Brill looks at the surreal world of Bagram Air Base, a massive US military compound in Afghanistan, housing 25,000 people. You can see a movie, …
Negus in the war zone
Across his career for 60 Minutes and Dateline, George Negus has reported from any number of battlefronts and warzones.
But his latest cross to The 7PM Project in a rundown alleyway, complete with a boulder and the noisy exhaust of a passing VW looked like one of the most gruelling locations yet.
Welcome to Darwin, George.
Renewals: NCIS: LA, The Good Wife
Good news for TEN with CBS renewing both NCIS: Los Angeles and The Good Wife.
“Two great new series, fronted by talented stars on one big night of television,” said Nina Tassler, president of CBS Entertainment. “We’re proud of these shows and what they’ve accomplished on Tuesday night.”
They will add to TEN’s new slate which has already seen Glee and Modern Family renewed.
Both NCIS: Los Angeles and The Good Wife, featuring Julianna Margulies, have enjoyed healthy ratings in the US.
Meanwhile, NBC has announced its replacements for the early-March, 10pm post-Jay Leno schedule …
October 09: ‘Jackson Jive,’ Don Lane, Letterman, Good Game, All Saints
October:
2.1m as Hey Hey thumps MasterChef
Matt LeBlanc signs for ‘dumbed-down’ sitcom
Top Gear airship mishap
Comedy Channel series slims down to special
Hot Seat beats Deal (for real)
Chris Lilley lands joint ABC, HBO, BBC series
Sunday Arts gravitates to online
Letterman admits affairs with staff
Josh Lawson for US comedy series
Nine pulls Hey Hey repeat
Angry Hey Hey fans call for Nine boycott
GO! has official launch
Sacked WIN boss takes legal action
Nine News crew rattled in Indian report
Nine says Daryl asked to drop repeat
NRL final scores 2.41m
Letterman: “My wife has …
April 09: SuBo, Deal v Hot Seat, IceTV victory, Talia wins Dance
April:
Naylor will cuts son from family estate
Andrew G to front Idol solo
‘Fugly’ creator calls it quits
Minister Conroy for sale on eBay
Guiding Light switching off
Profits tumble at TEN
Dateline scoops coup
Gavin & Stacey star collapses from exhaustion
Girls turn it on for Ladettes auditions
Andre Rieu in Ramsay Street
The very scholarly Kerry O’Brien
Leckie sells network shares
Game on. It’s Eddie v Andrew
Star Trek premieres at Opera House
Fennessy brothers to Shine for Murdoch
TEN backtracks on House promise
Neighbours producer: Lack …
Seven dominates Walkley Awards
The Seven Network has dominated the television awards at the 2009 Walkley Awards, the country’s top prizes in media journalism.
Seven won four awards, including accolades for Seven News and Today Tonight.
The ABC picked up three awards, for Four Corners and Foreign Correspondent.
SBS won two, for Dateline and the Forbidden Lie$ documentary.
Nine’s Tracy Grimshaw won the interviewing award for A Current Affair.
SBS screened an edited and delayed broadcast of the awards last night. The awards for print, radio, television and online media were dominated by wins to stories covering the Black Saturday …
Dateline in Copenhagen
Sunday night’s Dateline will end with George Negus in Copenhagen to ask ‘Can the global climate change summit in Copenhagen save the planet – or will the talkfest become a load of political hot air’
He will interview Connie Hedegaard, Denmark’s Minister for Climate Change and Energy, who will facilitate the summit in a little over two weeks time.
Negus has spent several days on the island of Samso where the locals have reduced their carbon footprint by an astonishing 140%. It now generates enough of its power through wind turbines, bio- mass …
Top Gear loss “not the be-all and end-all”
TV Tonight continues its interviews with key executives in television. Following on from last week’s interviews with Seven, ABC, TEN and Nine, today the spotlight turns to SBS Director of Content Matt Campbell.
The last two weeks have not been without their challenges for Campbell, who learned the fate of Top Gear, a programme he had taken a punt on many years ago when no other network would touch it.
Having spent a lot of time trying to convince the BBC it should be staying at its natural home, he admits the loss …
All the drama of Week 44
In Week 44 viewers bid farewell to All Saints after 12 seasons across 11 years. The 70 minute episode ensured the show departed with its reputation intact and possibly signalled the end of an era of long running weekly dramas. It finished on 1.5m viewers -time will tell if Packed to the Rafters ever comes close to its legacy. Seven, which has been top-heavy in local drama with an embarrassment of riches, won the week and with the introduction of 7TWO today may have ended a winning run by the Nine …
SBS wins United Nations Media Peace Awards
SBS won all 3 television categories at the annual Australian United Nations Media Peace Awards in Melbourne on the weekend.
Yalda Hakim won Best Television News for her series of personal stories on Afghanistan for World News Australia defeating ABC News report ‘The Long March.’
In its 25th year, Dateline Video Journalist David O’Shea (pictured) won the Current Affairs Award for his story “Bali Shame”, an investigation into the treatment of psychiatric patients in Bali. The other SBS finalists in this category, Yaara Bou Melhem and Aaron Thomas, received a special judge’s commendation …