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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 …
Nine: After the Olympics
Nine has released details of its programming for the week of February 28, when the Olympics winds up.
Despite some TBAs, it heralds the return of Domestic Blitz, 60 Minutes, the newly titled Kerri-Anne, Kitchen Nightmares USA, plus returning Cold Case and CSI: NY. The second Whizz Kids Millionaire episode will air, while the Closing Ceremony of the Olympics screens live in the daytime with an evening replay.
Nine will also air the Wicked Love telemovie in this week, likely to be slated in the 8:30pm Sunday slot.
Nine is yet to declare …
Returning: Domestic Blitz
Get out the Kleenex. Domestic Blitz returns to Nine on Sunday, February 28 at 6.30pm with Shelley Craft, Scott Cam, Richard Reid, interior designer Chontelle Samios and landscaper Joel Hurrey.
The first episode featuring the Freeman family of Gosford will also include appearances by cricketer Nathan Bracken and singer, Paulini.
In this emotion-charged episode, the Blitz team travel to Gosford to meet the Freeman family. Childhood sweethearts Hilarie, 42, and Peter Freeman, 45, always dreamed of starting a family but after years of trying to fall pregnant they were still denied their greatest …
Auditions: Domestic Blitz
One show that often attracts a lot of questions when it is on air is how to submit candidates for Nine’s Domestic Blitz.
So while the show is actually calling for nominations, now is the time to act.
Do you know someone who deserves a helping hand? The Domestic Blitz team will be returning in 2010 to bring some well-earned joy to the lives of truly inspirational families.
Domestic Blitz can only consider people who own their home (this includes properties with mortgages).
Most importantly, don’t tell the person you are nominating them! Domestic Blitz …
TV Tonight Awards 2009: The year of Shaun Micallef
The votes are in.
Readers have spoken on their best and worst television for 2009 in the third annual TV Tonight Awards.
The winners: Shaun Micallef, MasterChef and Packed to the Rafters.
Over 1000 surveys were completed this year, and there were some definite trends. Some choices were clear decisions, others were tight races.
Several “winners” were also “losers” elsewhere, showing a divided audience, and a number of populist shows proved their mettle by staying ahead of underdogs.
Shaun Micallef won both Favourite Male and Most Underrated Performer, while Talkin’ ‘Bout Your …
Nine on the case for 2010
Nine CEO David Gyngell and Advertising Sales Director Peter Wiltshire today begin the big sell of the Nine Network to media buyers around the country.
In Brisbane yesterday they unveiled the first of three presentations across three cities. Sydney follows today and Melbourne tomorrow.
Amongst those detailed are the new factual series on the Australian Federal Police, being produced by Denton’s company Zapruder’s Other Films.
“It’s the most incredible access I’ve ever seen to a program. We are there for things that you just can’t imagine we’re there,” said Gyngell.
What about the Godwin …
Nine’s TV survivor
This week TV Tonight has spoken to key figures in Australian television: Tim Worner from Seven, Kim Dalton from the ABC and David Mott from TEN.
Today Nine Programmer Michael Healy sits down for his first interview here, sharing his thoughts on upcoming shows, programming trends, television journalism and hints of new titles.
Foremost in his mind is the recent success in acquiring the Top Gear brand, which will continue to have its local series delivered by Freehand Productions.
“We have a lot of respect for what Freehand did with Top Gear Australia,” he …
Domestic Blitz taking applications
Hard to believe but Nine is inviting people to submit potential candidates for new episodes of Domestic Blitz.
Why hard to believe? Because it would have been inundated with plenty of submissions already. In fact over the course of this year even TV Tonight has had a steady stream of pleas from people who think this site can help make it happen (along with the others that ask to reunite their family, or expose the shonky dealings of their local bank).
But it’s good to see transparency here, so if you have anybody …
September TV loves sport
Sport is surging in September. Two AFL matches roared to over 1.4m giving Seven and TEN some big victories, notably helping the latter save face after an ordinary week. NRL topped 1m at Nine and also helped the network win Sunday. But while audiences fluctuate it was GO! that again got Nine across the line to win Week 38 -the second such glory in a row.
Nine finished with 28.9% ahead of Seven’s 27.5% and TEN’s 20.7%. The ABC had 17.7% and SBS 5.2%.
Nine won all key demos 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54.
GO! …
Nine wins the week
Having two and a half channels proved a winner for Nine in Week 37. Seven’s lack of a digital channel lost it the week by the slimmest of margins to Nine -just 0.2%. The extra share from GO!, which is added to Nine’s primary share, helped it win a week in which its biggest audience was 1.33m, a far cry from figures on Seven.
Nine won with 28.1% over Seven’s 27.9% and TEN’s 20.8%. The ABC had 17.3% and SBS 5.8%.
Nine won all three demo groups 16-39, 18-49 and 25-54. In Total …
Seven steals Sunday
The final of Dancing with the Stars was always going to do well for Seven, but it positively slammed Australian Idol into its own mosh pit last night.
Dancing took 1.57m viewers ahead of Domestic Blitz (1m), 60 Minutes (1.2m) and Rescue: Special Ops on Nine (910,000). Over on TEN Idol slumped to just 810,000 in its first top 12 sing-off and Rove just 777,000. On the ABC The Einstein Factor (585,000), Stephen Fry in America (986,000) and Midsomer Murders (1.17m) were also defeated while SBS had One Day Series on 311,000.
The …
Murder’s hit on commercial networks
Renewed and emerging hits were evident on the box last week as networks prepare to unveil fresh titles upon us once more. The biggest in the bunch was ABC’s Midsomer Murders which increased its lead to 1.48m and showed commercial networks how to win a traditional Sunday audience. Nine appears to have timed it right with Money for Jam nabbing 1.32m and the AFL passed 1.1m for TEN and 1m viewers for Seven.
But in Week 36 once again Seven won Total People with 27.8% just ahead of Nine’s 27.3% and TEN’s …