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Returning: Supernatural
TEN has confirmed the return of the Winchester brothers.
Supernatural is back in its traditional timeslot of 9:30pm Mondays from March 29th.
It returns with S5E7 “The Curious Case Of Dean Winchester.”
The move will surely please fans who were furious with the TEN after it was removed in December. It attracted a slew of complaints online, including on TV Tonight, and even triggered a postcard campaign directed at the network (“you blogged, we listened?)
Good News Week will air for 60 minutes on March 29th to accommodate the drama’s return in the first week …
GNW meets WWE
Must be the month for trashing TEN sets.
WWE star Mike “The Miz” Mizanin got a bit carried away when he filmed an episode of Good News Week, which will air on Monday.
In Australia to promote the upcoming WWE Smackdown Live Tour, the dual title-holder turned on a bit of a WWE performance by ‘trashing’ the GNW studio, throwing the chair that he had been siting on across the set. Not to be outdone, host Paul McDermott got into the swing of it, throwing his own chair too.
Apparently …
Charlie puts the Sheen on Mondays
What is it about Melbourne viewers and Two and a Half Men? Last night the new episode hauled 635,000 in that city, rising to a big 1.58m viewers -and very probably assuring its place as the week’s top show. No doubt the end of the long weekend in Melbourne helped as viewers settled in for an early night.
Both the Charlie Sheen comedy and My Kitchen Rules have been battling it out for top place recently. Last night Seven’s cooking contest ina pseudo MasterChef kitchen settled with just under 1.4m viewers, still …
Crime time on Sleuth 101
Good News Week’s Claire Hooper this week takes a determined approach to solving the mystery of the ABC’s Sleuth 101.
As host Cal Wilson told TV Tonight, she was intent on solving the crime “Delete Cache.”
“She was great, picking up on lots of clues whereas other people missed everything –and some still got it right and some were hideously wrong,” said Wilson.
“It was really interesting from my point of view having read the scripts to see what clues people picked up and what people left.
“The thing that is so great is that …
Seven’s Kitchen on the rise
As 2010 audience trends continue to settle, it’s good news for Seven but not so good for TEN on Mondays. And Nine had good news in the morning.
My Kitchen Rules is rising like a soufflé for the network. The reality show took a cool 1.47m last night, as the night’s #1 show. Seven also introduced 5 new teams to the gameplay surprising both contestants and viewers. The show beat Two and a Half Men / The Big Bang Theory (1.32m / 1.08m) and thrashed The Biggest Loser (658,000). TEN’s reality show …
3 new comedies stitch up ABC funding
Three comedy projects that were developed under a Film Victoria/ABC TV comedy initiative STITCH will receive funding from the ABC.
The projects were selected from more than 200 applicants and rewarded with a three-day workshop last year
with comedy writing mentoring from Steve Kaplan (whose graduates have worked on Sex and the City, Ugly Betty, Big Love and The Daily Show) and insight from Andrew Knight (Full Frontal, Tripping Over, SeaChange) and and Mike Bullen (Cold Feet).
The three projects are:
Next of Kin – Josh Thomas (Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation), and Todd Abbott …
Seven’s Kitchen yet to rule
Seven will be reminded today that MasterChef Australia was no breakout hit for TEN, after a soft launch for its new cooking reality show, My Kitchen Rules.
The show managed 1.1m viewers in its premiere, beaten by a new episode of Two and a Half Men on 1.51m which boomed in Melbourne. The Big Bang Theory also bettered it with 1.24m viewers.
Seven’s show, with a format that so far skates dangerously close to Come Dine With Me, will be trying to get viewers to bond more with its personalities with another episode …
TEN unveils early premieres
TEN has revealed its programming for the week of January 31st which, as expected, unveils several of its key titles ahead of official ratings.
It includes The Biggest Loser, So You Think You Can Dance Australia, Good News Week, Burn Notice, House, Medium, and White Collar.
The Biggest Loser with new host Hayley Lewis is stripped at 7:30pm weeknights following The 7PM Project, while the line-up also includes the premiere of Ross Noble’s Australian Trip and the late-night return of Army Wives. Little else changes in the schedule so far, with 9AM Summertime …
TV Tonight Awards 2009: The year of Shaun Micallef
The votes are in.
Readers have spoken on their best and worst television for 2009 in the third annual TV Tonight Awards.
The winners: Shaun Micallef, MasterChef and Packed to the Rafters.
Over 1000 surveys were completed this year, and there were some definite trends. Some choices were clear decisions, others were tight races.
Several “winners” were also “losers” elsewhere, showing a divided audience, and a number of populist shows proved their mettle by staying ahead of underdogs.
Shaun Micallef won both Favourite Male and Most Underrated Performer, while Talkin’ ‘Bout Your …
November 09: Rove, Roscoe, Rafters and 7TWO
November:
7TWO is on the air
Toby quits Idol
A Prime concern: where is 7TWO?
Gone: The Spearman Experiment
‘Junglist’ ready to move on
Austar offers MyStar HD
SBS: Top Gear loss “not the be-all and end-all”
The Rafters Wedding
2.6m stop for the Cup
Community TV wins digital breakthrough
Murphy Brown reunion
Ally McBeal reunion
PJ sings for Don
Matthew Johns’ contract expires
Matt Passmore lands (another) US lead
NZ axes Dancing with the Stars
‘Roscoe’ calls it quits
Merrick and Rosso ending radio gig
Jonathan Holmes: “Pwned!”…
Vale: Su Cruickshank
Entertainer Su Cruickshank passed away on Tuesday night in Newcastle after battling a long illness, aged 63.
Cruickshank was a regular guest on ABC Radio and also featured on television variety shows, including The Midday Show with Ray Martin, The Bert Newton Show and in movies.
Other roles include regular appearances on ABC’s drama G.P. and a stint as the mother of Yahoo Serious in Young Einstein. Two series of her talk programme In Company with Su Cruickshank were screened on ABC and she was a guest panellist on Good News Week.
Cruickshank …
Bumped: Nurse Jackie
Bad news Nurse Jackie fans.
Tonight’s episode has just been pushed back to 11:30pm.
The GNW finale, filmed on Saturday, will run to 10:45pm but instead of Jackie following at 10:30pm TEN has now sandwiched the Late News in between.
Not happy….
Mon Nov 23
8:30pm Good News Week
10:45pm TEN Late News With Sports Tonight
11:30pm Nurse Jackie
12:05am Medium
1:00am The Late Show With David Letterman