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Producers Guild of America Awards: Winners
Awards, awards, awards….this time it was the Producers’ Guild of America which dished out its prizes in film and television.
The TV winners were:
The Danny Thomas Producer of the Year Award in Episodic Television – Comedy:
30 Rock beat Californication, Entourage, The Office and Weeds.
The Norman Felton Producer of the Year Award in Episodic Television – Drama:
Mad Men beat Breaking Bad, Dexter, Lost and True Blood.
The Producers Guild of America Producer of the Year Award in Non – Fiction Television:
60 Minutes beat Deadliest Catch, Intervention, Kathy Griffin: My Live on the ‘D’ List …
2010: SBS looks beyond Top Gear
Next Monday night SBS bids farewell to Top Gear for the final time.
The show drives off to Nine after a ferocious acquisition battle last year that SBS lost due to being outbid.
But the network is keen to remind us it was just one hour of television a week, and that it still has plenty to bring its “six billion stories” theme to life.
This year SBS has the World Cup exclusive, a third series of East West 101, Eurovision in Oslo, more Mad Men, Skins, Inspector Rex, Entourage and Shameless.
Over summer, the …
Returning: Entourage
Entourage’s sixth season will hit screens in January.
Vince (Adrian Grenier) is back in the fast lane, as he prepares for his driving test and the premiere of Gatsby, his new movie directed by Martin Scorsese. His manager Eric (Kevin Connolly) is looking to expand his management business and move out of the boys’ bachelor pad. Vince’s half-brother, Drama (Kevin Dillon), is still struggling with his own acting career, living in the shadow of Vince’s success and Turtle (Jerry Ferrara), who’s now dating actress Jamie-Lynn Sigler, seeks out Vince’s high-powered aggressive agent …
Returning: Entourage
More Entourage is about to return to SBS ONE.
The guys are back from New York and Ari is already pushing a commercial project, Aquaman, at Vince but he isn’t buying it. Eric has an official title now, but when he has to make a “sex date” with Kristen, his status is questioned. Turtle is cranky about his new job and takes multi-tasking to a new chaotic level.
The second season will screen later on SBS this time, at 10:55pm Mondays from December 14th.
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 …
Foxtel 2010 highlights
Foxtel’s, Brian Walsh outlined a long list of 2010 programming highlights to advertisers at the second annual MCN Upfront last night, which will be of interest to many subscribers:
- FOX8’s The Contender begins on November 2nd.
- The Chaser’s War On Everything, repeat episodes with a special director’s commentary.
- Sky News Active service will debut on channel 600 in November.
- The LifeStyle Channel will have 22 episodes of Come Dine With Me beginning January 15.
- A third series of Selling Houses Australia.
- American Idol with new judge Ellen in January.
- A second …
Variety back on the box
Australian viewers sent a clear message to television executives this week: they want variety back on the box. Over two million viewers cheered for Hey Hey the Reunion on Nine, which demonstrated a remarkable ability to recapture its magic, with many declaring it a return to old-fashioned entertainment. So smooth was the return, it will go down in TV history as one of television’s great reunion specials. Week 40 was a particularly brutal fight in television with a string of new shows launching. By the time the bell rang, Nine had …
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 …
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 …
Where’s my Emmy?
After being the first animated series in nearly 50 years to be nominated for the Emmy’s Most Outstanding Comedy, producers at Family Guy are having a field day with promotional ideas.
They’re releasing six online videos that mock their fellow candidates. Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.
Check out this first one which has a go at The Office.
Warning: gratuitous cartoon violence….
Returning: Skins
The wait for Skins fans will soon be over.
The third series is coming to SBS in late August, complete with its (almost) all new cast.
SBS will launch the show at 10:30pm Monday August 31st, following the free to air premiere of Entourage.
The characters include:
Pandora (Lisa Blackwell), Effy’s naive best friend.
Cook (Jack O’Connell) is the cocksure leader of the guys.
Freddie (Luke Pasqualino), a skateboarding pretty boy.
JJ (Ollie Barbieri), the clever one – and master magician.
Naomi (Lily Loveless) is a feisty gal – passionate, principled and often locking horns with others in the …
Airdate: Entourage
As some readers have noted, Entourage is coming to SBS.
Series One will start on Monday August 31st at 10pm on SBS ONE.
The series has previously aired on pay television and earlier media reports had indicated it would pop up on GO!
In the launch teaser for the new Nine channel its name did not appear.
The HBO series is up for Emmy Awards for Kevin Dillon and in the Most Outstanding Category.