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Domestic Blitzes the night for Nine
Nine scored a big hit with its Domestic Blitz special last night, grabbing a huge 1.67m viewers. It thrashed both Seven and TEN, and helped the network win Monday night.
The special for Bianca Saez and her family clearly struck a chord with viewers, especially those who had seen her struggle against Tourette’s Syndrome on 60 Minutes. Anyone who saw the family home saw it was indeed falling to pieces (there were walls smashed in, and doors that you could see right through). Now the home is decked out in every modern …
Hooray for Hollywood
Television just lurrrves a good Hollywood correspondent.
Both Today and Sunrise have their resident tinsel town storytellers who dish out all the latest goss in their own inimitable style. Set before the Hollywood sign, Sunset Strip or Grauman’s Chinese Theatre, Richard Reid and Nelson Aspen can be excitable, flamboyant, rambunctious, or bitchy. But has it always been that way, and how much do producers pressure gossip correspondents to extend their personalities for the cameras?
Richard Reid tells TV Tonight what you see is what you get.
“I’m not putting it on, and I don’t …
Airdate: Domestic Blitz special. Bumped: 2.5 Men, Til Death, CSI, Cold Case
Nine will air a 90 minute special of Domestic Blitz on Monday November 10th at 7:30pm. It will feature Tourette’s patient Bianca Saez whose family home on the Sunshine Coast gets a renovation from the Nine team.
The show has been one of Nine’s more popular new programmes attracting figures of over 1.4m on Sunday evenings.
The special means episodes of Two and a Half Men and Til Death will not air, while CSI and Cold Case are pushed back by half an hour each to 9:00pm and 10:00pm. True CSI: Cold Blood …
Auditions: Home Run
Channel Nine is looking for participants for a new home renovation program, Home Run.
The show is seeking participants with two or more bedrooms needing a makeover.
“All you need to do is find a neighbour or family in your street that has a similar sized house that you can battle it out against and then follow the instructions below,” says Nine’s website.
As with many shows in this genre, a team of professionals will “help make their vision come alive, as they compete with another family for big prize money.”
Nine’s most recent …
Gone: Battlefronts
Channel Nine is dropping Battlefronts from its Sunday line-up effective immediately.
It will be replaced by new episodes of 20 to 1.
On Sunday the show rated 857,000 trailing Seven’s Financial Crisis special at 1.44m / Kath & Kim 1.23m viewers and a repeat of Thank God You’re Here on 962,000.
When it last screened two weeks ago, Nine’s show had 963,000 behind The Outdoor Room’s 1.04m and Outback Wildlife Rescue’s 961,000. Thank God You’re Here had 1.04m in the same week -a comparable performance by Nine, really.
Nine’s Domestic Blitz fared much better gaining …
“Light fare” for new digital channels
Channels TEN and Nine have told the Sydney Morning Herald this week they had finalised their programming blueprints for their new secondary digital channels, to begin next year.
Their plans contradict earlier reports the networks might collaborate with complementary programming.
“We have a very clear strategy internally as to where we see multi-channelling going, but we are doing our own thing,” said TEN’s chief programming officer, David Mott. “There are obviously some sensitivities on what we are actually doing, but we are playing our own game.”
Nine’s network director of programming, Michael Healy, …
Seven wins as TEN is taken out
It was the week that Ernie Dingo and Kyle Sandilands had a spat on radio, the ABC renewed its push for a kids’ channel, Access 31 was put on the market, TEN picked up women’s netball from FOX Sports, GTV9 won a Heritage listing, Nine axed its Euro correspondent, Underbelly won the right to start screening in Victoria (sort of), TEN and Seven fought over AFL sponsors and a 17yo reality contestant took a stand on her show’s conduct.
And it was another big win for Seven with 29.9% in Week 37 …
Seven packed with hits
It was the week ASTRA and Seven got into a stoush over AFL, gardening gurus came out fighting, SBS took its funding campaign to the people, Today Tonight apologised to a dating a dating agency and Lateline apologised to the Corbys, WIN TV sacked a news chief, David Koch stumbled over the marvels of “fasttracking v downloading,” we lost a veteran actor with a huge list of credits, and our first gardening celebrity, while actor Mark Priestley was laid to rest.
And it was another win for Seven, with 29.4% in Week …
Backyard biffo
“You don’t have to be sick to get a new garden on my show,” Jamie Durie said of The Outdoor Room.
It was a comment directed at Nine’s Domestic Blitz, which had a special on Lauren Huxley and her family, in the publicity lead up to his own launch. It was probably a throw away line, but it’s enough to have drawn a retort from Nine’s Scott Cam, who worked with Durie for years on Backyard Blitz.
Cam told 2UE’s Steve Price that Durie’s comments were “very misguided and frankly offensive. What I …
Airdate: Battlefronts
As expected Nine will give its newest makeover show, Battlefronts, a 6:30pm Sunday timeslot.
It will premiere on Sunday September 14.
The show features former swimmer Giaan Rooney in a “front yard” makeover between suburban neighbours. Nine says, “Two expert teams have to compete in a one-day challenge to transform two very forgettable front yards into two fabulous ones. The gardens belong to two average Aussie families who have been neighbours for some time and live next door to each other.”
Team one comprises Marc Canavan (builder), Melissa King (horticulturist) and Adam Goodchild (landscaper), …
Nine pilots new entertainment show
Nine is reported to have begun work on that potential new entertainment / chat format previously whispered about in the lead up to its 6pm news bulletins.
Georgie Parker and Richard Reid (Today, Domestic Blitz) were in the studio last weekend hosting a format that uses both live and pre-recorded interviews. Previous speculation on the show even mentioned the idea of a studio audience. At this early stage the pilot has not been approved.
A network spokeswoman told news.com.au, “no decision has been made.”
Nine has long been keen to address …
Hot Tip: Outback Wildlife Rescue
Outback Wildlife Rescue will soon be screening on Seven.
It is the latest factual series from Seven (there are soooo many now), narrated by Ernie Dingo.
Given that The Outdoor Room drops back to 30 minutes after this weekend don’t be surprised if it is joined by this series.
It’s probably just a question of which airs at 6:30pm and which at 7:00pm. Up against Domestic Blitz, Seven might be wiser to lead with its collection of marsupials, reptiles and …