Are we there yet?

November 15, 2009  Filed Under News, 11 Comments » 

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 …

Dead Set

November 5, 2009  Filed Under Programming, Reviews, 13 Comments » 

Oh what fun…

Television shakes up the drama genre next week when SBS screens the UK horror series Dead Set.

Set in the actual UK Big Brother house, this is a twisted and tasty story of zombies unleashed on the reality housemates.

Inside the house are a cast of colourful, suitably vacuous housemates, cocky for camera time, alpha-male arguments, and vibrant costumes. All the stereotypes are there: the buff handsome one, the flamboyant gay one, the flirt and more.

Equally, behind the two-sided mirrors there are other stereotypes: an obnoxious producer, the overworked production assistant …

Airdate: Dead Set

October 23, 2009  Filed Under Programming, 20 Comments » 

Ok you’ve been waiting for this one and here it comes:

Dead Set the a BAFTA-nominated, five-part zombie horror thriller created by Charlie Brooker, which takes place on the set of the television show Big Brother is coming in November.

Excitingly, November is also being billed as ‘Zombie Season’ on SBS ONE.

Britain has a big problem. The dead are returning to life and attacking the living. The people they kill get up and kill – and it’s spreading like wildfire. Curiously, there are a few people left in Britain who aren’t worried about …

Dead Set zombies for SBS

March 19, 2009  Filed Under News, 12 Comments » 

SBS has picked up the rights to the horror series Dead Set, a 5×30-minute drama, which tells of a zombie attack on the UK Big Brother house.

The series was shot in HD in the U.K., where it aired on Channel 4 and E4. In Britain, the TV broadcasts were also followed by a nationwide DVD release of a full-length movie version.

Tom Toumazis from the Endemol Group, commented: “Dead Set is clever, thrilling, funny and genuinely scary. Not only is it brilliantly written but it has been cinematically executed and its blackly …