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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!”…
Airdate: The Middle
New sitcom The Middle begins next Monday night on Nine, created by Eileen Heisler (Murphy Brown, How I Met Your Mother, Lipstick Jungle).
The show features Patricia Heaton (Everybody Loves Raymond, Back to You) as Frankie Heck, a middle-class, Midwestern mother of three, married to Mike Heck (Neil Flynn).
Mother of three, Frankie has a job selling cars at the town’s only surviving car dealership while her husband is a manager at the local quarry. In between juggling shifts and picking up fast food dinners eaten in front of the TV, Frankie …
7TWO for Tassie / Darwin, ONE for Mildura.
7TWO launches on Southern Cross Television today in both Tasmania and Darwin today.
In Tasmania it can be found on Channel 62.
Southern Cross Television’s Group General Manager, Craig Davies has previously said, “We are particularly excited that 7TWO will be the new home for premiere episodes of international hit series including J.J Abrams’ Lost, Ugly Betty, Heroes and 24. Iconic programs including mob hit The Sopranos, much loved drama Six Feet Under and comedy, Murphy Brown will screen on the new channel alongside new primetime episodes of The Jay Leno Show.”
But launching …
Murphy Brown reunion
The former cast of Murphy Brown, Candice Bergen, Charles Kimbrough, Faith Ford, Joe Regalbuto and Grant Shaud recently sat down to chat with Harry Smith from CBS’ The Early Show.
The five reminisced about the hit sitcom which ran for ten years and 247 episodes.
Bergen says she wasn’t first choice for the series, which was Heather Locklear, but creator Diane English went in to bat for her.
Faith Ford remembers reams of dialogue the cast had to memorise. “They don’t do that anymore,” she says.
They also recall the moment the show commented on …
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 …
111 Hits to join Austar
Austar subscribers will be pleased to hear that 111 Hits is to join the channel line-up from March 1st.
Since the channel launched on November 1st regional viewers have been none too happy that they have missed out on the channel, which screens mostly “classic television” including Alf, Alias, Ally McBeal, Baywatch, Dharma & Greg, ER, Murphy Brown, Northern Exposure, Suddenly Susan, The Wonder Years, Veronica’s Closet and Without a Trace.
Viewers were particularly incensed over confusing promotions for the channel which led them to believe they would see the channel from …
111 Hits will target 24-54’s.
111 HITS, which launches on November 1st will be aimed squarely at the lucrative advertiser-friendly 25-54 demographic, as a move to compete with the new standard definition digital channels by commercial networks.
It will program US hits primarily from the Warner Bros, Disney and 20th Century Fox studios, including Friends, Will & Grace, Ally McBeal, The Wonder Years, That 70s Show, ER, Murphy Brown, Alf, Lost, 24 and Baywatch.
The schedule from 6.30pm each weeknight begins with Murphy Brown, The King of Queens, That 70s Show, Dharma & Greg, Friends and Will & …