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The Inbetweeners
Now this requires a bit of a clarification…
According to the schedule for GO! next Tuesday night The Inbetweeners premieres with S1E1 “The First Day.” The DVD preview I received was actually “The Field Trip,” S2E1.
So I’m not exactly clear what that means…
Suffice to say I really enjoyed what I saw.
This UK comedy penned by two writers from Flight of the Conchords centres around four sixth form students at a public school: Will (Simon Bird) who has relocated following his education at a private school, Simon (Joe Thomas), Jay (James Buckley), and …
B430
I dunno about you, but I always thought of Channel [V] as a music channel.
Apparently it’s a little more youth-based than purely music, as evidenced by replays of Taken Out, Flight of the Conchords, and its interstitial contest Cash Cab.
B430 is another show that broadens its horizons, literally, as a kind of hip version of Getaway. It’s the locally-produced travelogue that takes you to 9 hot spots around the world deemed must-see destinations before you turn 30.
It’s also a show that reminds you TV travel hosts have the best bloody …
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 …
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….
24’s ‘Chloe’ on Flight of the Conchords
Well here’s an unusual piece of casting. Next week Mary Lynn Rajskub, better known as 24’s Chloe, makes a guest appearance on Flight of the Conchords
Brett and Jemaine meet the Prime Minister of New Zealand; and a tribute gig ends with Jemaine getting mixed up with an Art Garfunkel fanatic.
Despite the Art Gunfunkel reference, Raskjub appears in the song Demon Woman, a video parody of Cliff Richard’s Devil Woman.
It airs at 9pm next Monday night on SBS ONE….
2009 Emmy nominees: Toni, Simon & Rose
Toni Collette, Simon Baker and Rose Byrne have all been nominated for acting awards in the 2009 Emmys.
They have been nominated for United States of Tara, The Mentalist and Damages respectively.
Cable television dominates the Outstanding Drama category with Big Love, Breaking Bad, Dexter and Mad Men competing with Damages, House and Lost.
In comedy Entourage, Flight of the Conchords and Weeds take on 30 Rock, How I Met Your Mother, Family Guy and The Office. Family Guy is the first animated series in nearly 50 years to be nominated for Outstanding …
Tara Morice heads up Dance Academy
Strictly Ballroom’s Tara Morice will head up the ABC’s new children’s drama series, Dance Academy, which begins shooting in Sydney today.
Joining her in the 26-part series are Home & Away’s Jordan Rodrigues, AFI Best Young Actor nominee Tom Green, Dena Kaplan (Flight of the Conchords) and Tim Pocock (X-Men Origins: Wolverine).
Newcomer Xenia Goodwin plays 15-year-old, ‘Tara Webster’,who has grown up on a farm in outback Australia and has always dreamt of becoming a dancer. When she makes it into the National Academy of Dance, the best school in the country, …
Three way brawl for ratings week
Week 26 was the tightest ratings race all year.
TEN was riding high on MasterChef, Nine had the State of Origin and Seven… well, Seven really just had another week of regular programming. By Saturday we had ourselves a three way tie.
But a cleverly timed Michael Jackson tribute helped Nine take the final night and all three had to contend with ABC programming too.
Nine won Week 26 with a 26.3% share ahead of TEN’s 25.8% and Seven’s 25.5%. The ABC had 17.6% and SBS 4.8%.
TEN again won key demos 16-39, 18-49 and …
Chaser deal with BBC
The Chaser’s War on Everything returns to the ABC tonight after being suspended for two weeks, and it will also debut on British television.
The Chaser team has concluded a deal that will see a 6 episode compilation of highlights from the 2006 and 2007 seasons air on BBC4 from today.
The comedy will air before Flight of the Conchords.
Executive Producer Julian Morrow said, “The BBC is the most respected broadcaster in the world, or it least it was until it acquired The Chaser’s War on Everything.
“But to be honest, we’re happy to …
Ratings winners upstaged by Nine stoush
Controversy continued to dominate television for the second week in a row, this time as a public stoush between two Nine personalities reached fever pitch. While it saw audiences flock to the coverage, it wasn’t enough to stop Seven from winning the week with a routine week of strong programming. Yet it was TEN that continued significant gains.
Seven won Week 24 with 27.6% ahead of Nine’s 25.5% and TEN’s 24.5%. The ABC had 17.4% and SBS 5.0%.
For the third week in a row TEN won 3 key demo groups 16-39, 18-49 …
Returning: Flight of the Conchords
As previously advised, Flight of the Conchords is heaading back to Australian television, now on SBS from Monday 8th June at 9.00pm.
It had previously aired on Network TEN.
Jemaine Clement, Bret McKenzie, Rhys Darby, Kristen Schaal and Arj Barker return as underdog comic heroes.
“A Good Opportunity” aired in the US in January. With Murray spending all of his time managing the Crazy Dogggz, Bret and Jemaine fire him, and are in turn hired to make an advertisement for women’s toothpaste. Meanwhile Murray’s fortunes reverse after he discovers that the Crazy Dogggz big …
Comedy tonight
Tonight the fourth series of Working Dog’s Thank God You’re Here begins on the Seven Network.
When a deal was done between the production company and network late last year it caught everybody by surprise -not the least of which was Channel TEN, which had been home to the series since its inception. Rumours flew about price tags of $1M per episode, since denied.
In shifting to Seven, the show retains its hallmarks with the same ensemble players, judge, creatives and jovial host, Shane Bourne. Filmed in new studios at Melbourne Showgrounds, the …