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Nurse Jackie, holy shift.
How cool is this poster for the second season of Nurse Jackie?
Season Two starts in the US this month.
Nurse Jackie: Behind the scenes
Spoilers: Nurse Jackie returns to the US in March and by the looks of this juicy Behind the Scenes promo there are some big moves ahead even if some were dropped into the official trailer.
You have been warned.
No airdate for Australia yet, let alone an improved timeslot….
Trailer: Nurse Jackie
Showtime has released the trailer for Season Two of Nurse Jackie, describing her simply as “Somewhere between Florence Nightingale and Nurse Ratched.”
No word on when TEN will screen this series.
But can we please have a decent bloody timeslot?
Thankyou.
WGA Awards 2009 / AFI Most Outstanding
Awards season is certainly hotting up in the US.
The Writer’s Guild of America has announced the best of the bunch in television writing for 2009.
Mad Men, 30 Rock and The Office are multiple nominees while Modern Family and Glee are both up for Comedy and New Series awards.
Amongst the other New Series contenders are Nurse Jackie, Hung and The Good Wife –totalling four of five shows to air in Australia on TEN.
In Animation it is a five horse race between writers of The Simpsons.
Amongst the television nominees are:
DRAMA SERIES
Breaking Bad – …
Critics’ Choice 2009
With the official TV year at an end TV Tonight has turned to those who know it best, Australian TV critics & journalists, to ask them what worked, what failed, what surprised and what annoyed?
Participating in this survey were:
Melinda Houston (Sunday Age), Richard Clune (Sunday Telegraph), James Manning (Mediaweek), Nicole Brady (The Age), Erin McWhirter (Daily Telegraph), Colin Vickery (Herald Sun) and Andrew Mercado (TV Week).
BEST DRAMA
Tangle was a popular choice: “It was new, nasty and unpredictable.”
“It was another standout from the John Edwards stable and showcased the subtle …
Bumped: Nurse Jackie
Bad news Nurse Jackie fans.
Tonight’s episode has just been pushed back to 11:30pm.
The GNW finale, filmed on Saturday, will run to 10:45pm but instead of Jackie following at 10:30pm TEN has now sandwiched the Late News in between.
Not happy….
Mon Nov 23
8:30pm Good News Week
10:45pm TEN Late News With Sports Tonight
11:30pm Nurse Jackie
12:05am Medium
1:00am The Late Show With David Letterman
Hung
This year we’ve seen several US cable series that are short run, quality pieces that remind us all the good stuff is not coming out of network television. United States of Tara, Nurse Jackie, and although it’s longer, True Blood.
Hung is about to join their ranks.
The HBO series depicts Ray Drecker (Thomas Jane), a down and out Detroit high school basketball coach, divorced from his wife, trying to keep his family of two kids together and not doing a very good job of it.
It opens with metaphorical images of a decaying …
Digital channels not quite Made in Australia
During his speech to the SPAA Conference yesterday, Senator Stephen Conroy indicated he wasn’t about to set quota limits on multichannelling.
The government’s view at this stage is that it’s better to get the channels on their feet.
“I know many of you are concerned that, as we move to digital-only television, the level of Australian content on free-to-air television might not be protected,” he told producers.
“So far, the digital multi-channels have not been subject to the Australian Content Standard, and I know many of you are concerned to see them launch with …
Letterman upgraded
You blogged. They listened… Â (we’re gonna have to drop the overuse of that one soon).
TEN has seen sense on Letterman.
It’s now moved it back to follow on from the late night run of The 7PM Project.
From Monday November 30 the rule of thumb will now be:
TEN Late News with Sports Tonight
The 7PM Project rpt
The Late Show with David Letterman.
Those replays of show like Medium, Numb3rs, Law & Order: CI etc will now follow Letterman. The downside is Nurse Jackie geta a 1:00am slot. Can’t have it all I guess…
There are …
In defence of Two and a Half Men
It seems even in America there are those who just don’t get Two and a Half Men. Despite the fact it is the country’s #1 comedy, it is frowned upon by many critics and “TV snobs.”
In Australia it’s not much different. The show continues to pull a surprisingly big audience, despite Nine’s best attempts to run it into the ground. Yet it’s hard to find much love for it amongst reviewers (I’d certainly fall into that grouping too).
Save for Chuck Lorre’s output, the traditional 3-cam live-audience show is bit of a …
Flashforward by seven days, what did you seen again?
A week on from their launches and most of last Monday’s new shows took a tumble. It’s just a question of how far.
Last week FlashForward took 1.78m. Last night it was 1.47m.
Mercy slipped from 1.07m to 828,000.
The Apprentice Australia fell from 692,000 to 657,000.
Meanwhile The Mentalist rose from 988,000 to 1.08m.
Seven won the night again thanks to other shows including Highway Patrol (1.29m) and Destroyed in Seconds (1.22m). But Seven has already slated a replay of both FlashForward eps: 9:30pm Wednesday in place of Criminal Minds.
And SBS had a good …
Variety back on the box
Australian viewers sent a clear message to television executives this week: they want variety back on the box. Over two million viewers cheered for Hey Hey the Reunion on Nine, which demonstrated a remarkable ability to recapture its magic, with many declaring it a return to old-fashioned entertainment. So smooth was the return, it will go down in TV history as one of television’s great reunion specials. Week 40 was a particularly brutal fight in television with a string of new shows launching. By the time the bell rang, Nine had …