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Q & A: March 15
Tonight’s Q & A will see the battle of the columnists, as conservative columnist Miranda Devine and outspoken writer / performer (and former TV critic) Catherine Deveny join the panel.
Also on the panel are:
Waleed Aly, politics lecturer;
Bill Shorten, Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Children’s Services; and
Peter Dutton, Shadow Minister for Health and Ageing.
Hosted by Tony Jones, it airs at 9:35pm tonight on ABC1.
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 …
Q & A: March 8
Monday night’s Q&A will feature prominent atheist and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins on the panel.
Joining in the discussion will be:
Patrick McGorry, one of Australian’s leading mental health experts and current Australian of the Year;
Catholic nun Sister Veronica Brady; (now out)
Tony Burke, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Agriculture; and
Deputy Leader of the Opposition, Julie Bishop.
It airs 9:35pm Monday on ABC1
Q & A: March 1
Minister under fire, Peter Garrett will be one of the guests on Monday night’s Q & A -bound to make this episode juicy viewing.
To be filmed live (AEDT) from the Spiegeltent at Adelaide Arts Festival, there will be six guests instead of five.
Joining host Tony Jones are:
Christopher Pyne, Opposition Education spokesman;
Rhoda Roberts, actor and director;
Eddie Perfect, comedian and musician;
Jin Xing, Chinese choreographer and former colonel in the People’s Liberation Army who underwent a sex-change 15 years ago; and
Paul Grabowsky, Artistic Director, 2010 Adelaide Festival.
It airs Monday 1 March at 9.30pm on …
Good News PM
The Prime Minister for Television Appearances will pop up tonight on Good News Week after he paid a visit to their last record.
It follows recent appearances on Sunrise, Q & A, Julia Gillard on Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader? and Today.
The Opposition’s Joe Hockey was recently a guest on Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Generation and Meet the Press.
Rudd’s appearance will go up against Malcolm Turnbull’s appearance on Q & A tonight.
While the political shows are understandable, some are questioning the growing TV appearances by the Government in the …
Q & A: Feb 22
Former Liberal leader Malcom Turnbull will join the Q&A panel next week in his first major media appearance since losing the leadership.
Host Tony Jones will also be joined by:
Tanya Plibersek, Minister for Housing and the Status of Women,
Mungo McCallum, political commentator,
John Roskam, conservative commentator, and
Jane Caro, social commentator.
It airs live 9:35pm Monday on ABC1.
Q & A: Feb 15
Monday night’s Q & A will have a focus on the economy with both the Minister for Finance Lindsay Tanner and the Shadow Minister for Finance Barnaby Joyce joining host Tony Jones on the panel.
Also joining are:
Satyajit Das, former banker;
Melinda Tankard Reist, social commentator; and
Rebecca Huntley, author.
Q & A airs 9:30pm Monday on ABC1.
“1. Didn’t know 2. OK 3. Half-Right”
So how did the PM fare on his first Sunrise segment last Friday?
On Twitter the PM posted twice saying, “Did my first Question Time on Seven Sunrise yesterday morning. 3 questions. Didn’t know the answer to the first. KRudd / OK on second on timing of hospitals reform. Got the third half right on child care. Will add to answers next friday. KRudd”
And on a scale of Boring to Mildly Interesting, TV Tonight gives Rudd’s first spot a score of: Boring.
If his stint on Q & A is this dull …
Returning: Q & A
Q&A returns in early February in its new regular timeslot, 9:35pm Mondays on ABC1.
The show, hosted by Tony Jones, has been rewarded with a mammoth 40 week run by the ABC, beginning Monday 8th February.
It kicks off the year with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and over 200 young Australians in a live broadcast (AEDT) from Old Parliament House, now known as the new Museum of Australian Democracy.
Rudd will be questioned by an audience of 16 to 24 year olds from the House of Representatives chamber.
To join the audience or ask a …
TV Tonight Awards 2009: The year of Shaun Micallef
The votes are in.
Readers have spoken on their best and worst television for 2009 in the third annual TV Tonight Awards.
The winners: Shaun Micallef, MasterChef and Packed to the Rafters.
Over 1000 surveys were completed this year, and there were some definite trends. Some choices were clear decisions, others were tight races.
Several “winners” were also “losers” elsewhere, showing a divided audience, and a number of populist shows proved their mettle by staying ahead of underdogs.
Shaun Micallef won both Favourite Male and Most Underrated Performer, while Talkin’ ‘Bout Your …
ABC: 2010 returning programs
Following on from the select highlights for ABC 2010, some readers have been asking about returning shows.
As we know The Einstein Factor, Sunday Arts and triple j with the doctor have all ended.
Here is the list of returning Australian-made shows not previously noted for ABC1 and ABC2:
Australian Story (ABC1, ABC2, iView),
News Breakfast (ABC2),
7pm News (ABC1),
The 7:30 Report (ABC1, iView),
Four Corners (ABC1, iView),
Foreign Correspondent (ABC1, iView),
Lateline (ABC1),
Landline (ABC1),
The Midday Report (ABC1),
Insiders (ABC1),
Inside Business (ABC1),
National Press Club (ABC1),
Offsiders (ABC1),
Stateline (ABC1),
Behind the News (ABC1)
Asia Pacific Focus (ABC1),
The Gruen Transfer (ABC1, repeated ABC2, iView),
Hungry …
Race that tops the nation
Week 45 saw Seven launch its new digital channel 7TWO with a mix of broad entertainment offering. It addressed the Nine / GO! combo that had upstaged it in the last few months. In sheer audience figures the 2009 Melbourne Cup’s record 2.67m viewers was the week’s top story. It was even Seven’s biggest audience all year. But the real news of the week was actually a lot more humble: the government’s lifeline to Community Television. After a lengthy campaign it will begin to dual-cast on analogue and digital some time …