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COPS L.A.C. casting
A number of actors have been confirmed for COPS L.A.C., Nine’s new police drama.
In addition to Kate Ritchie, the cast now includes:
- Martin Dingle-Wall (Rescue: Special Ops, Underbelly, Satisfaction, Home and Away, All Saints)
- Graeme Squires (Home and Away)
- Kelly Paterniti (Packed to the Rafters, Stormworld, Wormwood)
- Tom O’Sullivan (Wolverine, Happy Feet, Rainshadow, Home and Away, Streetsmartz)
- Ria Vandervis (pictured -Underbelly, Packed to the Rafters, Rescue: Special Ops, The Cut).
The series begins filming in May in Sydney and screens later this year.
Other roles are yet to be confirmed.
Source: TV Week
Rescue: Special Ops 2 to roll
Nine will begin filming the second season of RESCUE Special Ops on Monday (technically that’s it’s correct spelling).
The series will again film 13 episodes in and around Sydney with all of the major cast returning: Les Hill, Gigi Edgley, Peter Phelps, Libby Tanner, Daniel Amalm, Katherine Hicks and Andrew Lees.
The second season of Nine / Southern Star Entertainment drama will feature a mine collapse, a child abduction, a marina fire, a train wreck, a light plane crash and more.
Chase (Andrew Lees) and Dean Gallagher (Les Hill) are living together, Lara (Gigi …
East West 101 wins third series
Recent funding approvals at Screen Australia indicate a third series for East West 101 will bring the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to the streets of Sydney.
Director Peter Andrikidis is once again on board, as well as being one of the directors for a second season of Rescue: Special Ops for Nine -the action series has won financing from the government body (despite Nine declaring a second season in an on-air announcement at the season finale).
Richard Roxburgh is a co-producer, and presumably star, of a new drama called Rake, in which …
Nine: 2010 Programme Launch
Nine CEO David Gyngell, programmer Michael Healy and sales boss Peter Wiltshire today capped off their East Coast tour to media buyers of the 2010 slate for Channel Nine.
It included a showreel of titles including Underbelly, Winter Olympics, Top Gear, Hey Hey its Saturday, The Real Hustle, V, AFP, Community Wicked Love, and The Politically Incorrect Parenting Show. Nine also talked up the fact it will have four local dramas including Cops LAC, Sea Patrol, and Rescue: Special Ops.
Gyngell said in a statement, “I believe we are going into …
Primetime Survivor on Nine’s summer
Primetime Survivor, the return of Cold Case, Flashpoint, Motorway Patrol, Wipeout, CSI: New York, the premiere of Crusoe and continuing ER, Getaway are some of the offerings in Nine’s first week of summer.
Nine will also repeat Rescue: Special Ops, David Attenborough’s Life in Cold Blood, Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory, and will strip Australia’s Funniest Home Videos in a 7pm half hour version after watching the idea perform on GO!
It will premiere Burying Brian, a NZ dramedy about a woman who wants to kill her hubby, but …
2008-09 Production Report
Screen Australia has released the findings of its annual Production Report on the state of film and television.
Never wanting to paint a bleak picture, it manages to find optimism with a healthy state of production, if boosted by the big investment of George Miller’s Happy Feet 2 and the $100m Hollywood animation Guardians of Ga’Hoole in Sydney.
TV Tonight has taken a look at the television sector separately, and the results are still very good. While series / serials were down, mini-series (which also includes telemovies) were up.
The …
Gyngell talks up 2010
A defensive Nine CEO has brushed aside criticism that the network is lagging behind Seven and TEN with its programming plans for 2010.
“They haven’t seen us yet,” David Gyngell told the Sydney Morning Herald. “I am very confident about Nine for next year. I’m more confident about Nine [in 2010] than the last two years and I’m looking forward to telling the market about that at the end of the month. Seven is going to come off next year, TEN is going to come off, and we will go …
All the drama of Week 44
In Week 44 viewers bid farewell to All Saints after 12 seasons across 11 years. The 70 minute episode ensured the show departed with its reputation intact and possibly signalled the end of an era of long running weekly dramas. It finished on 1.5m viewers -time will tell if Packed to the Rafters ever comes close to its legacy. Seven, which has been top-heavy in local drama with an embarrassment of riches, won the week and with the introduction of 7TWO today may have ended a winning run by the Nine …
Just another Sunday
It was just another Sunday, and another week with 60 Minutes and Australian Idol having to to settle for a million viewers.
Seven’s factual double The Force and Border Security were again the winners on 1.43m and 1.34m on a fairly unremarkable night.
The final episode of Rescue: Special Ops ended on 1.05m with a voice-over promising its return in 2010 -they declined to indicate whether it would be lucky enough to have a new night too. Rove’s 60 guests in 60 minutes provided a bit of fun, finishing with 852,000.
Who Do You …
Von Ryan’s success
The final scenes of All Saints for actress Judith McGrath weren’t quite followed by an ensemble celebration.
Her final day as ‘Von’ Ryan took place several days after actor John Howard had finished. And television being what it is, they were also filmed out of sequence from those that conclude the episode. Her actual last scene involved attending to a young patient about to give birth. Just another emotive day on set, as she explained to TV Tonight.
“Tammy (McIntosh) naturally burst into tears. I didn’t because everybody was sort of asking ‘How …
Brokeback Mountain on GO!
This Friday night GO! features the Free to Air premiere of Brokeback Mountain, the Academy Award winning film by director Ang Lee.
Nine had previously slated the film last Boxing Day but it was withdrawn from schedule.
With its dazzling performances by Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal it will air at 8:30pm on Friday night with an M rating.
Shame it isn’t in high definition.
Meanwhile a miniseries with no awards and not much buzz XIII: The Conspiracy, screens on Sunday night on Nine in place of Rescue: Special Ops.
Starring Val Kilmer, USA Today …
Where to for Rescue: Special Ops?
Nine’s newest drama Rescue: Special Ops will have its season finale on Sunday October 25th.
As well as its weekly incident to resolve, it will also see a wedding placed in jeopardy for one of the central characters.
But for Nine the stakes are much greater as it faces decisions about the future of the show.
On Sunday night the show pulled 1.02m viewers, slightly less than some of its best figures of around 1.1m. The drama, produced by Southern Star, doesn’t come cheap. Reviews have been middling, word of mouth for the …