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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!”…
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 …
April 09: SuBo, Deal v Hot Seat, IceTV victory, Talia wins Dance
April:
Naylor will cuts son from family estate
Andrew G to front Idol solo
‘Fugly’ creator calls it quits
Minister Conroy for sale on eBay
Guiding Light switching off
Profits tumble at TEN
Dateline scoops coup
Gavin & Stacey star collapses from exhaustion
Girls turn it on for Ladettes auditions
Andre Rieu in Ramsay Street
The very scholarly Kerry O’Brien
Leckie sells network shares
Game on. It’s Eddie v Andrew
Star Trek premieres at Opera House
Fennessy brothers to Shine for Murdoch
TEN backtracks on House promise
Neighbours producer: Lack …
March 09: Sound Relief, Home & Away’s ‘gay kiss’, Freeview parody, ONE HD
March:
‘Norman Gentle’ challenges American Idol
AFL plan to push players to media
Axed: Life on Mars
Feud shadows Naylor funeral
TEN cutting staff hours
Mariska Hargitay hospitalised
SBS moves Sydney & Melbourne sales in-house
ITV axes shows, cuts staff
Monkee Peter Tork has cancer
Coleby quits Home and Away
Seinfeld cast re-group for Curb
Music channels sing for Sound Relief
Scrubs set for prime time
TEN orders new 7pm show from Roving Enterprises
Freeview parody pulled from YouTube
Axed: The All in Call
Community TV rallies for Logie invite
Critics knife US Chopping Block
Battlestar Galactica at the UN
Humphrey gets …
Carols by Candlelight: a very Idol xmas
The full line-up for Carols by Candlelight has now been announced.
Lisa Wilkinson and Karl Stefanovic will once again host for Nine. John Foreman is again conducting.
The roll call includes
- Carols by Candlelight ambassador Anthony Callea
- Guy Sebastian
- Ricki-Lee Coulter
- Paulini Curuenavuli
- Carl Riseley
- The Ten Tenors
- Jersey Boys
- Frankie J. Holden
- Wilbur Wilde
- Joe Camilleri
- Ross Wilson
- Glen Shorrock
- Hi-5
- Humphrey B. Bear
- and Santa Claus who will take time out from his busy schedule to make an appearance at the Bowl.
It airs 8pm December 24th on Nine.
Delays on Humphrey’s future
Humphrey B. Bear is still silent on his future. Which is hardly so very surprising….
Or at least his adminstrators are.
It’s been months since the cleaners came in to wind up Banksia Productions in Adelaide, and there are more than 80 interested parties who are keen to give the famous bear a new home.
But Administrator Maris Rudaks said Banksia Productions was not the only party claiming intellectual property rights, according to News Limited.
He refused to identify others.
Some agreements may not be in writing or cannot be found.
That’s leaving some prospective new …
Humphrey closer to license sale
Maris Rudaks, the liquidator of Adelaide-based Banksia Productions, is “getting closer” to being in a position to offer the Humphrey B. Bear licence for sale possibly before the year was out.
The wind-up, which includes the rest of Banksia’s assets, is the result of a $50,102 debt owed to WIN-owned Channel Nine in South Australia, which falls under the ownership of Bruce Gordon.
The Australian notes some of the parties keen to attain the rights to the popular character include Malcolm Harslett, who was a presenter on Here’s Humphrey from 1972 – …
A funny old fellow is back… sorta
He may be in the hands of receivers, but he’s still loved by Channel Nine programming.
Nine is screening repeats of Here’s Humphrey from tomorrow.
He will return at 3:30pm, replacing The Wiggles’ production The Kingdom of Paramithi.
Of course, PBL Media has no direct involvement with the outstanding studio fees owed by Banksia Productions to WIN’s Channel Nine in Adelaide.
So why the immediate switch?
Humphrey had no comment.
Which is hardly so very surprising…
Bid to revive Humphrey
More than 70 buyers are looking at Banksia Productions, owner of TV legend Humphrey B. Bear.
According to The Sunday Mail, documents lodged with the Australian Securities & Investment Commission (ASIC) reveal producer John Lamb owes an estimated $933,000 to creditors, including $115,854 to the Australian Taxation Office, $66,770 to former employees and $38,040 to Channel 9, believed to be for unpaid rent and studio fees.
Banksia’s company’s assets – including Humphrey B. Bear trademarks, past episodes and props – are just $750,000.
Administrator Maris Rudaks is sorting through the company’s financial mire ahead …
Humphrey going homeless
Well it’s official.
Humphrey B. Bear is now homeless, forced to leave his old studio at WIN-based Channel Nine in Adelaide where Banksia Productions had run up debts of more than $50,000.
Finding a new home for Humphrey has been delayed as the liquidator of Banksia, which held the licence to the Here’s Humphrey series, sifts through rights agreements to determine just what of Humphrey’s possessions can be sold.
Banksia Productions was put into liquidation by the Supreme Court last month over a debt of $50,102 to Channel Nine South Australia.
Banksia’s website indicates …
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….
Creator: “Save Humphrey!”
Rex Heading, the creator of Humphrey B. Bear, says the Australian television icon that has entertained generations of children should not be axed from the small screen after Banksia Productions went into liquidation last week.
Banksia, which owns the licence to the Here’s Humphrey series, was ordered to wind up by the Supreme Court over an alleged debt of $50,102 to WIN-owned Nine South Australia.
Heading created Humphrey in 1965 when he was program director at Channel Nine in Adelaide. He said it was “bloody terrible” Humphrey was now in the hands of …