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October 09: ‘Jackson Jive,’ Don Lane, Letterman, Good Game, All Saints
October:
2.1m as Hey Hey thumps MasterChef
Matt LeBlanc signs for ‘dumbed-down’ sitcom
Top Gear airship mishap
Comedy Channel series slims down to special
Hot Seat beats Deal (for real)
Chris Lilley lands joint ABC, HBO, BBC series
Sunday Arts gravitates to online
Letterman admits affairs with staff
Josh Lawson for US comedy series
Nine pulls Hey Hey repeat
Angry Hey Hey fans call for Nine boycott
GO! has official launch
Sacked WIN boss takes legal action
Nine News crew rattled in Indian report
Nine says Daryl asked to drop repeat
NRL final scores 2.41m
Letterman: “My wife has …
January 09: Obama, Ajay, McLeod’s & Temptation
TV Tonight begins a look back over 2009, by logging some of the headlines that made 2009 so memorable.
January
Simon Baker mulls US citizenship
Heather Locklear gets probation
Grant Denyer on the comeback to recovery
Matt Smith named eleventh Doctor Who
NRL Footy Show loses “The Chief”
Queensland courts the Logies
Joe O’Brien becomes permanent co-host of ABC2 News Breakfast
Mike Munro signs to Sunday Night
TEN ends Bold & Beautiful 6pm experiment
President Obama Inauguration
Patrick Swayze hospitalised with pneumonia
Peter Overton takes over …
Joan Rivers back as Fashion Police
Joan Rivers is returning to dissect Red Carpet fashions for E! Entertainment Television with her notorious critiques and no-holds-barred commentary in Fashion Police specials across the 2010 US Awards season.
Rivers will be joined by Khloé Kardashian Odom, Giuliana Rancic and Jay Manuel.
The first to appear on E! will be Fashion Police: The 67th Annual Golden Globe Awards, a one hour recap of Red Carpet fashions premiering Wednesday, January 20 at 2:50pm AEDST on E!
The next appearance will be at the SAG Awards with the one-hour special Fashion Police: The 16th Annual …
67th Golden Globes: nominees
Rose Byrne, Simon Baker and Toni Collette were all nominated today in the Golden Globe Awards.
Their three television performances in Damages, The Mentalist and United States of Tara were the only Australian nominations in the film and television accolades chosen by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.
Baker and Collette are both up for Lead Actor / Actress trophies while Byrne is recognised in the Supporting Actress category.
Leading the TV nominations this year is newcomer Glee on four nods. 30 Rock, Big Love, Damages, Dexter, Mad Men, Grey Gardens, Into the Storm and …
Airdate: John Adams
SBS will screen the acclaimed HBO miniseries John Adams next month.
The series on the second US President stars Paul Giamatti, Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson and Rufus Sewell.
It has already screened on Pay Television but now it gets its first Free to Air broadcast in Australia. The lavish 7 part drama had garnered a slew of awards including 13 Emmys, 4 Golden Globes and 3 SAGs.
In an emotionally charged trial John Adams defends the British sentries involved in the Boston Massacre who contend they were provoked into firing on the assembled crowd. …
Returning: Golden Globe Awards
FOX8 will screen the 2010 Golden Globes live to air in January.
Hosted by Ricky Gervais, it follows previous live telecasts of big awards on Foxtel channels.
The event will screen live at midday AEDT Monday, 18th January.
E! will screen both a Countdown to the Red Carpet and Live from the Red Carpet preceding the awards with
Fashion Police: The 2010 Golden Globe Awards two days later.
Please don’t ask about Free to Air telecasts yet, it’s far too early!
Vale: Edward Woodward
British actor Edward Woodward, known for his TV series Callan and The Equalizer and film roles including The Wicker Man and Breaker Morant, has died. He was 79.
He died in a hospital in Cornwall after an illness, said his agent.
His most recent roles were in East Enders and The Bill.
Callan was screened by ITV from 1967 to 1972 as a small screen answer to James Bond. He won a BAFTA Award for best actor for his role and returned to an ongoing role in The Equalizer from 1986 to 1989 as …
Ricky Gervais to host Golden Globes
It was at the Golden Globes in 2004 that most of America sat up and said “Who?” when The Office swept aside its traditional comedies. Now Ricky Gervais is set to give back some love as the host of the 67th Annual Golden Globes Awards.
Set to take place on January 17th, the Globes hasn’t had a host since 1995.
And let’s face it, he was one of the funniest things about the Emmy Awards too, and that was just as presenter.
He has reportedly been offered ‘free reign’ as host. Yay.
“I have resisted …
BBC goes back to Upstairs, Downstairs
The BBC is reviving Upstairs Downstairs, the Edwardian drama that ran on ITV for five series from 1971 to 1975.
Set in 1936, six years after the original series finished, it will return to the same iconic house: 165 Eaton Place in London’s Belgravia. The series will see two new 90 minute scripts penned by writer Heidi Thomas (Cranford, Madame Bovary, Ballet Shoes).
The original series depicted the lives of the servants “downstairs” and their masters “upstairs”. Jean Marsh will reprise her role of Rose, the parlourmaid, returning to the house as housekeeper …
Vale: Henry Gibson
US character actor Henry Gibson, best known for his role in Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In from 1968 to 1973, has died. He was 73.
Gibson died at his home in Malibu after a short battle with cancer, said his son Jon.
Gibson was an original cast member of Laugh-In alongside Ruth Buzzi, Judy Carne, Goldie Hawn, Arte Johnson and Jo Anne Worley. More recently he played the cantankerous Judge Clark Brown on Boston Legal.
George Schlatter, executive producer and creator of Laugh-In, said Gibson, “brought a wonderful warmth and whimsy and a charm to …
Vale: Patrick Swayze
Patrick Swayze, the hunky actor who danced his way into viewers’ hearts with Dirty Dancing and then broke them with Ghost, has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 57.
“Patrick Swayze passed away peacefully today with family at his side after facing the challenges of his illness for the last 20 months,” said a statement released on Monday evening by his publicist. No other details were given.
Fans of the actor were saddened to learn in March 2008 that Swayze was suffering from a particularly deadly form of cancer.
He had …
AFI honours Geoffrey Rush
Actor Geoffrey Rush was awarded the AFI’s Raymond Longford Award, before an industry event of 400 people last night in Melbourne.
He is only the sixth actor to receive the AFI’s highest award since it began 41 years ago.
Rush has devoted most of his career to theatre and film including Shine, Lantana, Harvie Krumpet, Munich and Shakespeare in Love.
He recently became the first Australian to win fthree US acting awards, the Academy Award, a Tony Award and an Emmy Award, all on his first attempt. Among a host of other awards, …