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June 09: The Chaser, Ramsay v Grimshaw, Jodi Gordon, Michael Jackson
June:
John Foreman quits Idol
SBS2 channel arrives
The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien launches
Nine refreshes Sydney News set
Anti-Piracy group targets schools
Chaser “Make a Realistic Wish” branded tasteless
Home and Away stars in news controversies
ABC pulls The Chaser for 2 weeks. Team apologises.
Defamation case over Molloy comments
Gyngell admonishes Gordon Ramsay
MasterChef heads to Hong Kong
ABC executive admits Chaser sketch was her call
Tracy Grimshaw’s right of reply
ABC Executive relieved over Chaser “error of judgement”
Ramsay apology: “I am deeply, deeply …
When David meets Ellen
Global superhunk David Beckham will be the first guest on the seventh season premiere of The Ellen DeGeneres Show set to air on Nine at 12 noon Wednesday, September 9th.
Beckham will chat about his 10-year wedding anniversary with Victoria Beckham and their infamous Emporio Armani underwear ad.
Lady Gaga will also apper and perform her hit, Love Game.
Other guests on the show in its premiere week will include Antonio Banderas (The Other Man); Katherine Heigl (The Ugly Truth, Grey’s Anatomy); Kate Beckinsale (Whiteout); Rumer Willis (Sorority Row, 90210); and the cast …
Seven extends Jackson coverage
Networks continue to fall over themselves in the race to cover the Michael Jackson Memorial Service.
Details on programming are changing as the day progresses.
Amongst the latest details is word that Today Tonight reporter Clare Brady has scored one of the 17,500 tickets to the Memorial events in an online ballot.
Tomorrow night Seven News will screen extended one hour reports from 4:30pm and 6pm, with TT airing at 7pm. Thank God You’re Here season finale at 7.30pm.
Seven will also replay the Memorial from 12pm and commercial free from 7pm on 7HD followed …
Henderson inside the box
New Zealander Martin Henderson is the first actor cast in Shonda Rhimes new project, Inside the Box.
The series is set in a Washington network news bureau and centres on Catherine, an ambitious female news producer, and her colleagues pursuing “the story” at all costs while juggling their personal animosities and crises of conscience (apologies to Brooke Vandenburg?).
Like Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice, it is an ensemble built around a professional woman and her on-again-off-again relationship with a handsome male co-worker.
Henderson will play the male heartthrob named Jake, Catherine’s right hand man.
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Grey’s two staying put
Another American rumour gets shot down in flames (or possibly damage control) as Grey’s Anatomy creator Shonda Rhimes says T.R. Knight and Katherine Heigl are not leaving the show.
“That was a very interesting rumor,” Rhimes said Thursday night at the 40th NAACP Image Awards in Los Angeles. “And it’s not true.”
It was cast member James Pickens Jr. who let that one out of the bag. He now says, “When the question was posed to me, I was more trying to congratulate Katie and T.R. on whatever they were going to do. …
Alex O’Loughlin to guest in Criminal Minds
Alex O’Loughlin is returning to CBS in an upcoming episode of Criminal Minds, sources confirm to me exclusively.
To air in the US in April it will track a case from the point of view of a serial killer, played by O’Loughlin.
This is O’Loughlin’s first leap back into TV since Moonlight was laid to rest nine months ago.
Last August the Aussie actor secured a studio deal to star in a new series developed by producer Mark Gordon, whose ABC Studio-based company is behind such series as Grey’s Anatomy, Army Wives and …Criminal …
ABC beats TEN as Seven wins
It was the week that American critics began to knife Kath & Kim (officially), ABC told staff it would cut up to 35 production jobs, Nine denied having a contract with the wife of a convicted crim, an actor lambasted his former soap, Today Tonight announced its next host would be a sports presenter and said its film crew helped -not hounded- an interviewee, Seven ’streamlined’ its Lotto results, buyers eyed a key production company, the Imparja / Nine Darwin deal fell apart, a TV critic died, and suddenly so did …
Bondi Rescue: Bali
With the obvious exclusion of SBS, lack of diversity on screen is always an on-going issue.
Grey’s Anatomy, The Amazing Race, and The Librarians are some rare exceptions. While we’ve all just had our collective, four-yearly Olympic cultural lesson, I have to say I didn’t learn much about what it means to live in China. Meanwhile, one of the highest-rated shows in Australia depicts foreigners as liars, criminals and drug-traffickers. Significantly, Border Security thrived by depicting nasty foreigners around every corner, at a time when the Tampa incident and Schapelle Corby’s case …