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SBS gets trigger happy with Programming
What’s going on at SBS Programming lately? For a network that normally doesn’t respond to jittery programming like commercial networks, there have been three changes in the last week that are uncharacteristic for the network.
The moves show a more aggressive response to programming. Could it be that the network that appointed a new head for its day to day activities is following commercial programmers too?
East West 101.
Last week SBS issued an amendment which indicated it would not be premiering the second series of its local drama. In the fight between Packed …
Feelgood telly wins the week
Week 35 saw the ABC reinforce its appeal when Midsomer Murders took a cool 1.26m viewers on Sunday night, winning its timeslot without any dancing or singing as a lead-in. For a new Aussie drama like Rescue: Special Ops it was particularly brutal. Meanwhile GO! did well on Sunday with a 2.8% share, allowing Nine to sing its praises before it diminished by the end of the week. TEN had reason to smile over Rush too, but cutting through it all was Seven, taking yet another week in Total People.
Seven took …
Top Gear Australia takes a second test-drive
The second series of Top Gear Australia returned to SBS last night, with new host James Morrison replacing Charlie Cox.
The show managed 689,000 viewers down from the UK version’s Botswana Special the week before of 991,000.
While the figure is lower than that of the UK template, it’s still a strong figure for a local production on SBS. How well it holds, and how well word of mouth travels with the revamp, will be key questions in coming weeks.
Broadly speaking the first series averaged around the 600,000’s for SBS -again about 2/3 …
Airdate: Dave in the Life
Brisbane’s Dave Zwolenski is the star of his own SBS series, Dave in the Life, to air next month.
In the series Dave will discover what it’s really like to go on the campaign trail as a politician, be a struggling pensioner, scream like a one-eyed “shock jock”, live like a homeless person and to become an impotence expert.
He will find out what it would be like to step into someone else’s shoes for a while.
Zwolenski previously appeared in the doco Embedded with Sheik Hilaly which aired in 2008.
The series is desribed …
SBS takes a Squiz at 3 new series
SBS has announced three new locally produced series which will hit our screens in May.
The first is Dave in the Life, a 10 x 30 min series where Dave Zwolenski (“Embedded with Sheik Hilaly”) experiences the life of someone else….a gang member; a sports hero, a bikie, a politician, a pensioner, a radio shock jock. He will live with them, eat with them, go to work with them and genuinely attempt to walk several kilometres in their shoes. The series is described as a comic journey into some great …