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Pete Waterman to pen UK Eurovision entry
British pop composer Pete Waterman will attempt to craft a UK hit for Eurovision, after Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s song failed to win the 2009 contest.
Waterman, one third of the internationally successful 80s powerhouse Stock, Aitken and Waterman, churned out hits for Kylie Minogue, Bananarama, Rick Astley and Dead Or Alive, and later produced Steps.
“Eurovision is one of those iconic competitions that has stood the test of time and keeps coming up with great acts, great tunes and great performances.
“Life’s full of challenges and I’m relishing the opportunity to put my …
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 …
How Do You Solve a Problem like Maria?
Let’s get one thing straight. This UK reality series took place in 2006. So if you know the winner there isn’t much point going on with this series. If not, then you’re in for a bit of a camp olde tyme….
Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber has been so synonymous with popular entertainment that it really shouldn’t come as much surprise that even he, a pure thespian, should succumb to the lure of Reality Television to cast his next big thing: the role of Maria Von Trapp in The Sound of Music.
ALW of …
May 09: Matthew Johns, Karl after the Logies, Eurovision, Bud Tingwell
May:
WIN loses defamation case
The Chaser: Charges? What charges?
Gold Logie: It’s Rebecca!
Gretel’s Logies flop
Search for an Aussie Jerry Springer
Late News returns to Nine
Sam Newman to be ‘tarred and feathered’
ABC’s Eternity Man wins international award
Media Watch: 20 Years: Stuff Ups, Beat Ups & Barneys
Karl Stefanovic, the morning after
Fawlty Towers stars reunite
MASH’s David Ogden Stiers comes out
Gossip Girl spin-off ‘dead.’
Sam Newman put on ‘ACMA watch’
Rex Hunt guilty of road rage
Kiefer Sutherland charged with assault
Idol dumps Monday …
Junior Eurovision 2009
This weekend contestants from 13 countries will compete in the 7th running of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest in the city of Kyiv, Ukraine.
The Kyiv Palace of Sports, home of the 2005 Eurovision Song Contest, will again take centre stage with up to 6,000 people. It’s been home to concerts for Deep Purple, A-Ha, Jamiroquai, Moby, Muse, Christina Aguilera and Lenny Kravitz.
The 13 competing nations are: Sweden, Russia, Armenia, Romani, Serbia, Georgia, The Netherlands, Cyprus, Malta, Ukraine, Belgium, Belarus, F.Y.R. Macedonia. Looks like the UK gave up on winning that one …
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 …
Screen Music Awards: winners
The Chaser’s Chris Taylor and Andrew Hansen hosted the 2009 Screen Music Awards in Sydney last night.
The annual awards, organised by the Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) and the Australian Guild of Screen Composers (AGSC), recognise music for film and television industry,
In the TV categories, Cameron Giles-Webb / Colin Simkins won Best Television Theme for Satisfaction. The talented Giles-Webb was also a co-composer of the Australian penned entry for Greece in Eurovision 2009.
Alastair Ford won Best Music for a Television Series or Serial for McLeod’s Daughters .
Roger Mason won Best Music …
Public broadcasters, public broadsides.
Why is it our two public broadcasters ABC and SBS can’t seem to get along?
We always seem to be hearing about digs from one side of the fence to the other with about as much regularity as Sydney and Melbourne or Holden and Ford. Is it not clear to both that there is a place on our screens for two networks?
We love the light entertainment on the ABC. We love its news and current affairs. Those British period pieces and crime thrillers are terrific. And on SBS Top Gear is an …
ADbc
I feel woefully inadequate. Like I’ve just been to a dinner party of academics who have all debated the finer points of the art world, politics and philosophy. I just sat there cracking punchlines and flirting with the waiter.
The party of five at ADbc were much smarter than me. SBS’ new panel show is to History what Spicks and Specks is to music, Talkin’ ‘ Bout Your Generation is to pop culture, The Squiz is to sports and… well, you get the drift.
Sam Pang (Eurovision) hosts this new half hour with …
Airdate: ADbc
Here comes ADbc another panel show, this time on SBS with a new history based quiz program.
Hosted by comedian Sam Pang (Eurovision) it will kick off with guest celebs Matt Preston, Tony Martin, Celia Pacquola and historian Emily Booth.
SBS promises the show will be “not too serious and not too worthy, but rather a mix of factual information with intelligent discussion and blatantly silly behaviour.”
Matt Preston wields his historical knowledge as panelists are asked to drink a toast to Emperor Kublai Khan, retrace the growth of the Dutch empire, …
Reminder: MasterChef results
A reminder to all readers, especially those not on the East Coast, RSS feeders and republishing bots:
TV Tonight will be publishing the winner of MasterChef Australia immediately after it has aired on TEN on Sunday night.
This is in keeping with site policy that content aired on Australian television qualifies as news and is no longer a Spoiler. This continues to be the practice for television events such as The Biggest Loser, Australian Idol, Eurovision and Australia’s Next Top Model etc.
This will include the name of the winner in the headline.
Other media, …
Airdate: 2009 Helpmann Awards
She’s done RocKwiz, Eurovision and the AFI Awards, but next big gig for Julia Zemiro is co-hosting the 2009 Helpmann Awards with actor Jonathan Biggins.
The 2 hr event will be broadcast delayed from the Sydney Opera House recognising the best in musical theatre, contemporary music, comedy, opera, classical music, dance and physical theatre.
It will include special performances by the casts of Avenue Q, Candy Man, Chicago, Jerry Springer – The Opera, Shane Warne – The Musical, 7 Fingers and Wicked.
Also taking the stage are The Australian Ballet, Sydney Dance Company and …