All Stories FeedPay TV Archive:
Austar promises to monitor MA15+ content
Austar has given an enforceable undertaking to the Australian Communications and Media Authority to ensure that it does not broadcast content rated higher than MA15+.
Earlier this year ACMA ruled that two episodes of Cathouse, an HBO reality series on a Nevada brothel, breached the ASTRA Subscription Television Codes of Practice.
The episodes contained sexual content and nudity deemed higher than the MA15+ classification. Content higher than MA15+ can only be shown on narrowcasting such as the Adult Channel with lockout.
Austar must now review all episodes of Cathouse prior to broadcast, attend …
Gordon Ramsay gets even more animated
He’s always been very animated, but now Gordon Ramsay will be literally animated when Canadian animators Cuppa Coffee Studios puts the outspoken chef in his own stop-motion series.
The Toronto-based company, which also produced Rick & Steve and Celebrity Deathmatch, says Gordon Ramsay, At Your Service promises “a unique take on Ramsay’s larger than life personality with an animated action-comedy spin that will not only appeal to Ramsay’s existing fan base, but will also reach out to new audiences.”
Cuppa Coffee President and Executive Producer Adam Shaheen,said, “Gordon Ramsay has established himself …
Rude TV in firing line again
The Christian lobby is apparently in the warpath against television it claims has ramped up sex and violence content.
The Australian Christian Lobby has launched the “Tame the Tube” campaign to combat what it says are industry attempts to weaken TV standards (Mary Whitehouse’s “Clean Up TV” campaign anyone?).
“Sex, violence and foul language are normal fare these days as TV networks push the boundaries,” ACL managing director Jim Wallace told the Daily Telegraph.
The group has also called for tighter restrictions on the promotion of M, MA and AV programs at times when …
Ramsay to visit Gold Coast
Gordon Ramsay will be visiting the Gold Coast in June as part of Sanctuary Cove’s 21st birthday celebrations.
Sanctuary Cove CEO, Geoff Grady, said having Ramsay visit the resort was a major coup and would be part of a number of festivities planned to celebrate the anniversary.
Ramsay will host three lunches and three dinners over the weekend of June 12-14, 2009 at the Hyatt Regency.
No doubt his visit will provide more interviews and promotional opportunities for Nine. Last year the Kitchen Nightmares chef said he planned to open a new restaurant in …
Nine’s “first quarter” in ‘09
Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities, Wipeout Australia, Aussie Ladette to Lady, Sea Patrol, Flashpoint, Crusoe (pictured) and Local Heroes are some of the shows Nine intends to air in the ‘first quarter’ of 2009.
Also due early in the new television year are the Jules Lund-hosted For Richer For Poorer, which seeks to find the perfectly wedded couple. Amongst the contestants on this show are a gay male couple.
What’s Good For You is back, now with new host Dr Andrew Rochford (The Waiting Room).
Also in the first quarter Nine will also screen …
2008: International hits
The Nine Network has topped the list of television’s most popular international shows in 2008.
While Seven is riding on its Aussie programming, Nine has seven of the top ten overseas shows this year, led by Charlie Sheen and Gordon Ramsay.
Averaging out the various shows and timeslots indicates Two and a Half Men led with the highest series average, of 1.503m viewers this year. It was closely followed by Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares at 1.501m viewers.
Significantly, both were ‘hits by accident’, trialled by Nine over summer and left long enough on air to …
Final week (almost) a Seven sweep
It was the last week of ratings for 2008, and the week all the free to air broadcasters bonded (temporarily) for Freeview with 4 of 5 metro CEOs there for the party, Nine scrambled to refinance its loans, an Australian actress was trapped in international terror, Seven sacked a reporter, former Sunday journos won the Gold Walkley, Nine let go another network celebrity, ACMA slapped Nine three times for A Current Affair, Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares and Spiderman, TEN dumped 90210 and rearranged its summer schedule again, a gangster’s wife was at …
Ramsay to open Melbourne restaurant
Gordon Ramsay will open a restaurant at Crown Casino in Melbourne in 2010, Maze.
Other Maze Restaurants, located in London, New York and Prague, offer French-based cuisine with Asian influences and small tasting plates.
“This is our first step in bringing the Gordon Ramsay brand to Australia and after having seen the way Crown operates feel that this is an exciting and challenging opportunity,” Ramsay said in a statement issued earlier today.
Nine had previously indicated an interest in an Australian made Ramsay series to be produced in conjunction with a local development.
Source: …
Ramsay to cut back swearing
Love him or loathe him, it just wouldn’t be the same. Gordon Ramsay says he will try to play nicer.
The famously foul-mouthed TV chef wants to be known for his cooking instead, reports The Mirror.
A source told the newspaper that he has become tired of people asking him to sign books ‘F*** off, Gordon Ramsay’.
“He’s aware of the current criticism and complaints about too much swearing and wants to tone things down in keeping with the attitude of the public,” the source said.
“There is not much chance of him presenting entire …