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2010 Logies: Who didn’t make the cut already?
Sarah Wilson was Presenter on the highest rating show in 2009 -but it wasn’t enough to land her on the shortlist for 2010 Logie Nominations.
The Masterchef host is now out of the race for Best Presenter and Gold Logie before the race even begins. But she is in good company.
Yesterday’s list of possible contenders published by TV Week again utilised a voting system it has employed in recent years: an individual numerical code for each actor, actress and presenter as a way of facilitating the results. It contrasts with a historical …
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 …
True life crime’s delicate balancing act
In directing A Model Daughter: The Killing of Caroline Byrne, Tony Tilse was mindful of the sensitivity of the story for those who were closest to it. Having directed Joanne Lees: Murder in the Outback, The Postcard Bandit and Underbelly, he is well placed to know the legal and emotional minefield of depicting actual events.
“True crime dramas are always both an interesting and tricky affair,” he tells TV Tonight. “The closer you are to an actual event, you have quite a few legal issues to deal with, so that’s always a …
Airdate: A Model Daughter
TEN’s telemovie A Model Daughter- The Killing of Caroline Byrne will air on Wednesday, November 4 at 8.30pm.
Based on the death of the model in Sydney, 1995, it looks at her father’s battle for justice in proving that his daughter was murdered.
It was Tony Byrne’s belief that his daughter was murdered by her boyfriend Gordon Wood, chauffeur and personal assistant to stockbroker the late Rene Rivkin. His determination to bring his daughter’s killer to justice, coupled with the persistence of several journalists to keep the police investigation open, led to the …
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, …
Logie Awards 2009: Gallery
“It’s good to be here,” said Gretel. “I have never personally won a television award.” Except for running second in a poll of TV’s most annoying host, she joked.
“This is a chance for me to say hello to you at home whom I have not seen in a long time.
“It is a little bit daunting to be back in the spotlight,” she conceded….
A gold year for Rebecca
Last night Julie and Dave Rafter, Australia television’s favourite new mum and dad, decided to keep the baby.
At age 44 ‘Julie Rafter’ faces a number of health challenges that were laid out to her by a doctor, some of which could be life-threatening.
The episode capped off an extraordinary first season for the new Seven drama.
Less seriously, actress Rebecca Gibney, also 44, could be facing a challenge of her own, when the TV Week Logie nominations are announced next week.
Packed to the Rafters was one of the success stories of 2008, arguably …
5 seasons for new look Hi-5
Channel Nine has committed to five new seasons of Hi-5, stretching from 2009 – 2013.
Yesterday it announced three new cast members, Lauren Brant, Tim Maddren and Fely Irvine who join Stevie Nicholson and Casey Burgess (good luck explaining this to the littlies!).
All five also appeared on Mornings With Kerri-Anne yesterday.
Irvine, Maddren and Brant collectively arrive with backrounds in music theatre, WA Academy of Performing Arts, plus roles in Blue Water High, H2O, Mortified and The Starter Wife.
Hi-5 is now Nine / South Star controlled. Martin Hersov and Cathy Payne, Directors of …
Airdate: Elephant Princess
TEN’s newest kid’s series begins soon, Elephant Princess.
The 26 x half hour episodes follow Alex Wilson, played by 19yo Emily Robins (Shortland Street), as a girl who wants to make it in a band, until an exotic young man Kuru played by Miles Szanto (Love My Way) arrives to tell her she’s really a princess from the Kingdom of Manjipoor. He’s also come to bring her home to rule. But the last royal relative Vashan, Neighbours’ Damien Bodie, wants to stop her from claiming her inheritance.
Oh and there’s an elephant …