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Rumour: McFadden for I’m A Celebrity?
Brian McFadden is rumoured to be joining the next UK series of I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here.
Delta’s other half always seems to pop up on rather strange choices… hosting two series of Foxtel’s Football Superstar, a judging stint on Australian Idol, developing projects with his mate Kyle Sandilands….
Former pop star and page three girl Samantha Fox is a confirmation for the next batch of reality episodes, which will be filmed in Australia.
Confirmed alongside Fox is snooker player Jimmy White while also rumoured to join are cricketer Freddie Flintoff, …
Secret Men’s Business
In television a second series is invariably much stronger than the first. Everybody knows what it is they’re making, the writers, the actors, the network and the audience. Roger Monk, who co-created and co-created ABC’s East of Everything with Deb Cox, knew when he was watching the first series on air that the scripts he had commenced for the second season had to be thrown out and started from scratch.
“The first series ran really smoothly but we didn’t really know what we were up against,” he told TV Tonight. “We had …
ITV axes shows, cuts staff
ITV is preparing to slash prime-time drama, cut stars’ salaries, show more repeats and axe 600 jobs in the biggest wave of cutbacks in the channel’s history.
Executive chairman Michael Grade blamed the ’short-term horrors’ of the economic downturn for the company’s worst-ever annual results. ITV posted pre-tax losses of £2.73billion. The equivalent of $300 million AU will be slashed from the programming budget by 2011 in the biggest cuts in the broadcaster’s 54-year history.
Amongst confirmed casualties, there will be no new episodes of popular crime drama Wire in …
TEN eyeing more factuals
It’s only early days on this news, but Network TEN is believed to be on the hunt for more light factual entertainment shows that can be stripped across its earlier primetime slots.
TEN execs are at MIPCOM in Cannes to look at new products for its 2009 slate.
As we know, Seven has built a formidable programming platform based around factual series on early weeknights. Shows like Border Security, The Force, RSPCA Animal Rescue and Medical Emergency have given the network a stronghold, that leads into 8:30 dramas.
Now TEN is understood to be …