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7TWO to launch on Prime
Regional Prime viewers will finally get 7TWO on their television sets from 9am tomorrow morning.
The digital channel arrives more than 6 weeks after it aired to metropolitan viewers, and three weeks after its Tasmanian launch.
It will end a long and frustrating wait for regional viewers who have been angered that they have missed out on the extra shows, and never getting any clarity on when the channel would air.
The launch will push the channel into regional homes in NSW, ACT, Victoria and the Gold Coast.
“Over the last few weeks, Prime has …
7TWO to launch November 1st
Channel Seven has unveiled its free-to-air digital channel 7TWO, a broad entertainment channel set to launch on Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 12noon on Channel 72.
Channel Seven’s Director of Programming and Production Tim Worner said, “I am pleased to announce that 7TWO will be the new home for premiere episodes of our international hits including J.J Abrams’ Lost, Ugly Betty, Heroes and 24,” said Worner.
“We’ve been strategic in putting together a program schedule for 7TWO that allows us to grow our audience between our two channels, without sacrificing one for …
Airdate: Sunday Night, Triple Zero Heroes, Gangs of Oz.
The Seven Network has now confirmed key dates of its remaining big guns for its ratings launch.
As widely expected, Sunday Night premieres 6:30pm Sunday February 8th. Hosted by Mike Munro Chris Bath and with reports by Ross Coulhart (pictured) it is followed by the return of Border Security and the premiere of Triple Zero Heroes. At 8:30pm City Homicide begins its new night.
The surprise is the shift of 24 to 9:30pm Sunday February 8 in double episodes -it begins with a two hour premiere 9:30pm next Wednesday, a slot few expected …
Gone: Britannia High. Bumped: Dance Machine, Holby Blue.
Seven’s flirt with Britannia High has been short-lived. The UK music-drama has removed from schedule effective immediately and replaced with a movie, Cadet Kelly.
That also pushes Dance Machine out, to now will air at 3pm each weekday from Monday 22nd December.
Another UK drama, Holby Blue, is also to be replaced with a movie, Someone Like You.
Holby Blue moves to 10:30pm this Sunday.
Seven summer guide
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Seven’s first week of summer viewing is in, and as previously reported, it includes the premiere of Eli Stone, Holby Blue, the return of Ugly Betty, Dirty Sexy Money, Kath & Kim (US), Las Vegas, Dance Machine. The 24: Redemption telemovie will also air.
Both Ugly Betty and Eli Stone air twice weekly.
Seven also continues Heroes, Prison Break, The Amazing Race, The Rich List, The Unit, repeats of How I Met Your Mother, A Touch of Frost and Bones.
Both Dirty Sexy Money and Eli Stone have just been all but axed …
Eli Stone to sing on Seven’s summer
Seven will finally premiere Eli Stone in Australia as part of its summer line-up.
The US drama by Greg Berlanti (Brothers and Sisters, Dirty Sexy Money, Everwood) features Jonny Lee Miller as an attorney with an inoperable brain aneurysm -and a bit of a fixation with the catalogue of George Michael. Each episode is named after a Michael song, and the pop star even makes an appearance during one of the fantasy sequences, incorporated as one of Stone’s hallucinations.
Seven will also premiere British crime drama Holby Blue and (gasp) American Gladiators.
Scrubs will …