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Top Gear drives up 1.68m viewers
Nine’s reputedly big fee in hijacking Top Gear from SBS appears to have paid off with a huge 1.68m viewers tuning in for the new episode last night.
The show was the #1 programme for Tuesday, driving right across My Kitchen Rules (1.21m) and The Biggest Loser / Bondi Rescue (722,000 / 966,000).
With all the advertisements Top Gear fans are questioning whether the episode had been trimmed. The BBC delivers a 52 minute international version to its clients. Nine maintains it didn’t edit the show, but it certainly dumped the credits …
ABC: 2010 returning programs
Following on from the select highlights for ABC 2010, some readers have been asking about returning shows.
As we know The Einstein Factor, Sunday Arts and triple j with the doctor have all ended.
Here is the list of returning Australian-made shows not previously noted for ABC1 and ABC2:
Australian Story (ABC1, ABC2, iView),
News Breakfast (ABC2),
7pm News (ABC1),
The 7:30 Report (ABC1, iView),
Four Corners (ABC1, iView),
Foreign Correspondent (ABC1, iView),
Lateline (ABC1),
Landline (ABC1),
The Midday Report (ABC1),
Insiders (ABC1),
Inside Business (ABC1),
National Press Club (ABC1),
Offsiders (ABC1),
Stateline (ABC1),
Behind the News (ABC1)
Asia Pacific Focus (ABC1),
The Gruen Transfer (ABC1, repeated ABC2, iView),
Hungry …
Seven dominates Walkley Awards
The Seven Network has dominated the television awards at the 2009 Walkley Awards, the country’s top prizes in media journalism.
Seven won four awards, including accolades for Seven News and Today Tonight.
The ABC picked up three awards, for Four Corners and Foreign Correspondent.
SBS won two, for Dateline and the Forbidden Lie$ documentary.
Nine’s Tracy Grimshaw won the interviewing award for A Current Affair.
SBS screened an edited and delayed broadcast of the awards last night. The awards for print, radio, television and online media were dominated by wins to stories covering the Black Saturday …
SBS wins United Nations Media Peace Awards
SBS won all 3 television categories at the annual Australian United Nations Media Peace Awards in Melbourne on the weekend.
Yalda Hakim won Best Television News for her series of personal stories on Afghanistan for World News Australia defeating ABC News report ‘The Long March.’
In its 25th year, Dateline Video Journalist David O’Shea (pictured) won the Current Affairs Award for his story “Bali Shame”, an investigation into the treatment of psychiatric patients in Bali. The other SBS finalists in this category, Yaara Bou Melhem and Aaron Thomas, received a special judge’s commendation …
25 years on the Dateline
“I’ve made a living out of asking ‘Why?’” explains George Negus.
“It’s what differentiates News from Current Affairs. News asks ‘how, when, where, what, who and when.’ But Current Affairs exists entirely, I think it should anyway, on asking the question ‘Why?’
“There’s plenty of sources of information these days that will tell you what’s happening but they won’t always tell you why.”
Dateline, SBS’ flagship Current Affairs programme, has been asking “Why’ for 25 years, as the country’s longest running international Current Affairs show. This week it …
Foreign Correspondent: Sept 22
Apparently we’ve arrived at the anniversary of the global financial crisis. Everybody please hold hands. You’re still here.
So tonight Foreign Correspondent will report on the most bizarre casualty of all – Iceland.
By the first week of October 2008 – just a few weeks into the GFC the country was broke after suffering the biggest banking collapse in history.
Now – one year on – Icelanders are wondering how a nation of fisherman thought it could become the new Wall Street and how they’re going to get themselves out of a diabolical mess.
Eric …
TV’s Best of the Best or missed opportunity?
I’m all for acknowledging great achievements in Aussie TV.
Lord knows we’ve had glorious, inglorious and inexplicable moments on the box, many of which we saw during our 50th year of TV. Nine, Seven and TEN have all put together some memorable clip shows at one stage or another.
But do we really need to go there again so soon, and if so, what are we going to do differently?
If history teaches us we are doomed to repeat our mistakes, then Nine is potentially making a big one with its look back on …
Foreign Correspondent: July 28
China is certainly in the news lately. There’s the issue of Stern Hu’s arrest, and the protests over the inclusion of a film at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
And this week Foreign Correspondent looks at why the Chinese government is flattening vast tracts of the Uighurs cultural capital Kashgar.
As the ABC indicates, there are questions whether it for safety or to secure against separatists and potential terrorism:
Kashgar stands at the very western edge of China – an oasis city that has long provided relief for travellers on the ancient Silk Road.
Parts …
Foreign Correspondent: Orphans of the Storm
Here’s an episode of Foreign Correspondent that sounds like a prime candidate for Logie and Walkley Award nominations.
Following 2008 Cyclone Nargis in Burma, foreign journalists were banned and even local camera crews risked jail filming in the disaster.
Cyclone Nargis brought unparalleled devastation to Burma’s Irrawaddy Delta leaving thousands dead, and millions displaced and homeless. This week the ABC screens the footage of the survivors, with tens of thousands of children alone traumatised and torn from their homes and families. To capture these stories, Burmese camera crews took an extraordinary risk …
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 …
Foreign Correspondent hits a high note
If feelgood, positive television is in vogue at the moment then this week’s Foreign Correspondent should do well.
In Caracas, Venezuela where the streets thump with hip hop, Latin rhythms and violent crime, Eric Campbell introduces us to a remarkable project that’s brought more than a million kids into the world of classical music. The National Youth Orchestra System is designed to steer kids away from a life of drugs and crime.
Genesis da Silva is 13, dedicated to her clarinet, practices five hours a day and dreams of one day playing in …
Challengers cook up ratings winners
Week 22 saw Network TEN and the ABC give the usually dominant Seven and Nine a wake up call. Light entertainment shows continue to soar with viewers and TEN’s latest reality show is by now a bonafide hit.
Still, yet again it was Seven that won the week with a 27.5% share over Nine’s 25.7% and TEN’s 24.2%. The ABC had 17.5% and SBS 5.2%.
Seven won Monday, Wednesday, Friday, TEN won Sunday and Tuesday, leaving Nine with Thursday and Saturday. Impressively ABC was second on Saturday.
Even more impressive was a win by …