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Charlie puts the Sheen on Mondays
What is it about Melbourne viewers and Two and a Half Men? Last night the new episode hauled 635,000 in that city, rising to a big 1.58m viewers -and very probably assuring its place as the week’s top show. No doubt the end of the long weekend in Melbourne helped as viewers settled in for an early night.
Both the Charlie Sheen comedy and My Kitchen Rules have been battling it out for top place recently. Last night Seven’s cooking contest ina pseudo MasterChef kitchen settled with just under 1.4m viewers, still …
Nine apology after identifying fire victims
Nine News Melbourne on Wednesday breached a suppression order on the names and identities of nine people who perished at Kinglake in the Black Saturday bushfires.
“Last night we identified victims of the Victorian Bushfires,” presenter Peter Hitchener told viewers.
“The Nine Network sincerely apologises to the families of those victims for the impact that broadcast may have had on them. It was certainly not our intention to cause distress to those involved.”
A spokesperson from Nine told TV Tonight that human error had caused the identification.
Nine News has also apologised to …
Cooking pips cars on Tuesday
Nine might have to rethink its advertisements for Top Gear touting it as Australia’s new #1 show after last night it was pipped by My Kitchen Rules.
It was a line ball tussle but Seven’s cook-off pulled 1.4m viewers ahead of Nine’s first-run roadtest on 1.38m -well down on its season premiere. Both left Bondi Rescue / The Biggest Loser in their wake (934,000 / 774,000).
Nine’s second episode of Top Gear, which had already aired on SBS, slipped to 1.15m behind NCIS on 1.36m but bettered Grey’s Anatomy on 1.04m.
Other networks battles …
Deal or no Deal in new ratings tussle
With all the attention given to evening schedules, and the ratings war at breakfast, one could be forgiven for overlooking the game show war that leads into the News for Seven and Nine.
Between Deal or No Deal and Hot Seat, 2010 has not started so well for Seven.
The Andrew O’Keefe game show has taken a drop in ratings this year, allowing Nine’s Eddie McGuire show to snatch several winning nights.
Last week Deal’s best figure was 558,000 viewers. Hot Seat reached 620,000. Of the four nights they were head to head, each …
Airdate: Nine News: Remembering Black Saturday
This Saturday, Nine News in Melbourne will broadcast a one-hour special commemorating the devastating Black Saturday bushfires which took 173 lives last year.
Live from Kinglake, the program features never before seen footage and interviews.
Reporter Tony Jones, long-time friend and colleague of Brian Naylor who lost his life along with wife Moiree, speaks to his children and grandchildren.
Nine promises “his family break their silence for the very first time” in a series of compelling interviews. A family feud following the death of of the legendary news anchor spilled into the …
Nine rolls out Olympic schedule
Channel Nine has scheduled much of its primetime Winter Olympics to begin at 9:30pm weeknights.
Vancouver Gold, the three hour highlights package hosted by Eddie McGuire and Leila McKinnon, will wrap up the top events from each day.
From Mondays to Thursdays it will air from 9:30pm local time across the country. Friday, Saturdays and Sundays the start times vary from as early as 7:30pm to as late as 10pm.
Freeing up the earlier schedule will allow Nine to program other shows, although it is yet to reveal which ones.
The move could give Nine …
“Australian network/s” rescue Haitian baby
Even in the tragedy of Haiti, Australian news crews are racing for stories.
According to The Australian, both Seven and Nine witnessed the rescue a child from the rubble …and some media would suggest helped in her rescue too.
Both news crews were on site when a local interpreter, Deiby Celestino, pulled the baby girl from the crushed building after she had endured days in the dark, surrounded by dead bodies.
Celestino is the local “fixer” for Nine News -who assists crews in access, transport, languages etc.
When she emerged, Seven’s Mike Amor reached …
Airdate: Nine News Special: Dokkoon’s Baby
Adelaide has its pandas, and now Melbourne has a baby elephant.
Thai elephant Dokkoon (finally) gave birth to a female calf on Saturday after a 22-month pregnancy. Yikes.
The baby weighed in at more than 100kg and staff were delighted to see she was walking within 8 minutes of her birth.
It is the first elephant born to Royal Melbourne Zoo in its 147 year history. The newest member of the zoo is yet to be named.
Nine News Melbourne will air a special on this event this Thursday night at 7pm, presented by Jo …
Kelly Nestor “shell-shocked” by Adelaide axe
Nine’s former Adelaide newsreader Kelly Nestor has spoken about her axing, describing it as having a “shell-shocked” impact on her.
Nestor was dropped by WIN-managed Nine in late November, just a day after local editions of A Current Affair were axed in Adelaide and Perth. She continued at the station until December 18th.
Out of contract from January 1st, she was free to speak about the decision which she said came completely from left-field. It belied her work rebuilding ratings against Seven.
“When I started reading on my own, the ratings started climbing …
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!”…
October 09: ‘Jackson Jive,’ Don Lane, Letterman, Good Game, All Saints
October:
2.1m as Hey Hey thumps MasterChef
Matt LeBlanc signs for ‘dumbed-down’ sitcom
Top Gear airship mishap
Comedy Channel series slims down to special
Hot Seat beats Deal (for real)
Chris Lilley lands joint ABC, HBO, BBC series
Sunday Arts gravitates to online
Letterman admits affairs with staff
Josh Lawson for US comedy series
Nine pulls Hey Hey repeat
Angry Hey Hey fans call for Nine boycott
GO! has official launch
Sacked WIN boss takes legal action
Nine News crew rattled in Indian report
Nine says Daryl asked to drop repeat
NRL final scores 2.41m
Letterman: “My wife has …
August 09: Kyle dumped, Double Take & City Homicide apology, GO! arrives
August:
Lebanese TV passes ACMA scrutiny
Futurama cast on board
David Leckie, back after this break.
Top ABC executive quits
Australian Idol axes Sandilands
US critics praise Battlestar
Sea Patrol loses 3 cast members
TEN to raise $138m
News boss returning in consultancy role
Paula Abdul quits American Idol
Southern Star boss quits
True Blood stars engaged
Actors strike on overseas ads
‘Squatter’ to face trial over TT assault
Talia dances on US Dance finale
Multiview to track Pay TV
Philadelphia given cold shoulder by Cold Case
Australia gets to GO!…